bell-cot

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811.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
I'd view it as cargo cult competence. If we can just repeat the buzzwords and phrases enough times, with enough zeal, then everything will work out great.
812.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
Reminds me of stories about Germany's State Justice Office for Nazi War Criminals recently starting going after 100-year-old, bottom-tier "criminals". Who the Justice Office has known everything about for 6+ decades. But ne
813.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
If only this attitude was more common. All security is, ultimately, multi-ply Swiss cheese and unknown unknowns. In that environment, patching holes in your cheese layers is a critical part of statistical quality control.
814.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
Start by just attending a some meetings of your local school board, city council, etc. Sit, watch, and maybe take notes. Compare the reality with local press coverage (if any) of it. Try analyzing the social dynamics. Talk to other ordi
815.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
Talk to someone in consumer sales about customer priorities. A bit-cheaper computer? Or one which which is, in theory, more resilient against some rare random sort of problem which customers do not see as affecting them.
816.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
> ...bought the rights to their potential tariff refunds for 20% of the value... So - with umpteen $billion on the line, and all the big-shot lobbyists and Washington insiders and experts that all those huge companies had on payroll to a
817.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
Is there an automotive engineer in the house? It seems hard to imagine such severe vibrations being overlooked when Honda had prototypes on the test stand.
818.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Upton Sinclair "People want to believe in Santa Claus. Your job is to make that easy for them to do."
819.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
> Editor’s note: This article is a translation of a German article by PC-Welt. It does not meet PCWorld’s standards and should not have been published. The first version did not include any source links or attributions and was written in
820.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
90 points and 90 comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252838
821.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
> Built for extended missions, the ship should operate at ranges up to 2,000 nautical miles (3,704 kilometers/2,302 miles), maintain speeds of 12 knots (22 kilometers/13.8 miles per hour), and navigate rough seas and tight wate
822.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
's/in 1994/in 1984/', perhaps?
823.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
From Very Unfortunate Experience, I'd suggest requiring that all the HOA's records - financial and otherwise - be preserved.
824.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
If I was an engineering manager in an org which actually valued getting sh*t done - vs. bragging rights, head counts, and PHB politics - then I'd notice within a month that Engineer A (who the article has shipping in a couple days) got
825.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
Last that I paid attention, filing a trademark was a 4-figure (US$) move, and defending it internationally could easily be 5-figures.
826.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
IANAL, but those facts could support "fired", or "resigned", or "short-term contract not renewed", or probably other stuff.
827.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
Not a Brit - but I've been seeing "times get even worse for UK pubs, with yet more closing" stories for years now. And the BBC seems torn between lambasting a corporation for screwing the little guys...and admitting that the
828.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
Sadly enough, yes. But not reporting "minor" deaths is SOP in the kill biz.
829.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
Who is this "he" you are describing? Because your "he" bears minimal resemblance to the (extensively documented) Lord Acton.
830.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
Disagree about the first part. Israeli intel agencies have very deep roots in Iran, and could very quickly be humiliated if Khamenei popped up with a jeering rebuttal to their claim.
831.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
More relevant is who'll take his place, and whether they're better or worse. Note that regime collapse, in a major petrostate with a population of 92 million and in the middle of a critical yet volatile region, can be worse than &
832.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
> ...would be happy if Iran falls. Literally, perhaps true...at least initially. But: - Take a look at how poorly the fall of the Iraqi gov't in 2003 actually worked out for the U.S. and its regional friends. - Iran has 92 million
833.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
Based both on family history (farmers both sides) and experts such as https://acoup.blog/2025/07/11/collections-life-work-death-an... - I have grave doubts as to the downsides of having many small plots of la
834.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
From divorces among family & friends - yes, those concerns exist. But they are also worst-case scenarios, and there are many "friendlier" divorces. Or divorces after the kids grow up - where none of the paternity, left-to-ra
835.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
Yes-ish? I'm not a CPA or MBA (ditto most folks here) but looked at a few online dictionaries for "capital". From cases like gold in a hunter-gatherer society - a status-signaling luxury and trade good, but you probably can
836.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
Not an anthropologist - but instead of "How farming promotes inequality", I'd frame it as "How resource-producing capital promotes inequality". It could be livestock in a migratory herding society, or boats and net
837.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." - unknown
838.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
Does it seem plausible that the scammers got the conference attendees' email addresses by scraping the conference web site? Or is the organizers' registration data compromised? This is a separate issue from the Doc-U-Scam.con le
839.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
Britain's young men leaving (many to die) in WWI and WWII would be far closer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emigration - not immigration. English has many similar-looking words with very different meanings.
840.
by bell-cot 8mo ago
Sounds pretty mild, compared to the obvious benchmark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge#Purge_of_the_army_...

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