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by corrral 4y ago
Shit, Jaws would probably be regarded as "too political" these days, by some folks. It could easily be read as an anti-Covid-denier allegory, after all....
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I think people's opinions on this are largely divided over whether they think the current ~75 years of peace (more or less—cold war's not a hot war, and limited proxy wars aren't world wars) between major powers is likely to
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Oh, well then, seems fine. Weird.
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Is the bridge not in use? If it is in use, seems ridiculous to remove access, even temporarily, to a public resource, just because one rich guy is bad at planning and/or extremely arrogant.
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Tougher to do if you're not at war yet, but the countries pulling your (well, their) cargo ships away are.
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It's not even necessary that the shipyard be destroyed, just that the countries they're based in need shipyard output more than they need to honor their agreements with us. Sourcing foreign ships for domestic use may be a good ide
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I do think it likely there's a big difference in ability to respond to a crisis between "we have some capacity and expertise, but need more" and "we have no capacity or expertise, and need more", but admittedly I
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This is a pretty extreme position. That some inefficiency is necessary for national security reasons is about as close to settled as anything gets in economics/political-economy, though there's plenty of room to disagree over how
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To expand, so there's more material on this page: "Gasoline, meat, and clothing were tightly rationed. Most families were allocated 3 US gallons (11 l; 2.5 imp gal) of gasoline a week, which sharply curtailed driving for any purpo
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It's a sign that... national security is at odds with market efficiency. Of course doing things less efficiently costs money, and if you don't spend that money, it doesn't get done. [EDIT] To be clear, I don't have a str
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It reads to me like it did OK until we cut the funding that made it work.
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I believe the poster was addressing your "we wouldn't be able to build enough ships anyway", not whether the Jones Act affected our ability to rapidly increase our manufacturing capacity during WWII.
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> Indeed, even when forced to use SVN, I would simply check out the SVN trunk, create a Mercurial repository in that "working" directory, and then clone from their whenever I did any development (one clone per feature). I would
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> The Jones Act is one section of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920. During the early 20th century, Americans found the British and German ships they depended on for international commerce had ditched them to wage war. Congress decided to
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If this attitude is common, maybe it's why our tools are so consistently half-broken garbage. You'd think developers could at least make the stuff they have to use decent. But no.
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If they also made you do all the calculations the program would, by hand, and record the output, then penalized you if you made any errors on that... it'd be math class.
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Free trade—if it results in greater reliance on foreign suppliers, which it pretty much always does—comes at some national security risk, since you're depending on sources beyond your control for the supply of more goods and resources.
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We can't because our system of government is broken. If the courts are going to stick to stricter interpretations of the constitution, the US is more likely to rapidly decline or fall apart completely than to fix its problems via legis
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> This is why they are being careful to say only Bitcoin isn't a security now. That speech in 2018, centerpiece of the lawsuit, said Ethereum also was not a security. If that speech is found a legally binding statement, it's re
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I recently read a near-future sci-fi story (linked somewhere on here, I think) about an AI breaking out of its contained environment and taking over the world before we could figure out what happened and stop it (took a couple weeks, IIRC).
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I think the idea is you work two jobs that pay for 40 hours but only require 10-15 hours each, not to be noticeably worse than average.
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Saying "lose weight" doesn't work. Ask some doctors—once their eyes stop rolling, they'll tell you how rarely counseling patients about weight loss has any effect. Further, it certainly won't help much when you&#x27
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I've assumed it's a FAANGism. This is the only place I see the term used.
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Ask to join a standup, ideally with the team you'd be on, if they do them. If there are five teams working on unrelated projects all in the same standup and everyone's checked out and they're all clearly only talking to the
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Why... might the answer to that depend on the applicant at all? I don't know what you're getting at. Is this to find out how much time is spent on Mandatory Fun and other such garbage?
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Yes, of course it lets stores increase the rate of checkout, because their workforce is every customer so they're only limited by the number of machines they have, instead of being employee-limited. That's still not automation.
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I usually try to drill syntax for about 30 minutes before an interview, for this reason—I'll forget it a few hours later, but that's fine, since it doesn't actually matter—but it's hardly ever been turned out to be a fac
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> If you don't know your language's standard library implementation of common collections, you're not advanced. Heh. I've written production code—and lots of it—in... god, eleven or twelve languages? Not counting tran
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Sure, but nothing's freer than being able to handle a great deal of the travel you need on your own two legs, or maybe with a $20 bike you got at a garage sale. Engineering society such that even city-dwellers need a car in order not
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As another poster pointed out, self-scan checkout isn't automation, it just changes who does the work from paid employees to unpaid customers. The amount of human labor required remains similar to traditional cashier-staffed checkout.

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