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by dba7dba 9y ago
> I think Canada is well poised to be the next big super power, replacing the USA. With all due respect, I think that is a very far fetched assumption. Canada is not one of the premier auto manufacturing nations like US, Germany, Japan,
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by dba7dba 9y ago
US has had a good grasp on mental health and it's not stigmatized as much as it is in Japan. But guess what, US has highest death rate from illegal/dangerous drugs, which to me is almost like suicide.
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by dba7dba 9y ago
My buddy told me a story of what he saw at his company. It was an interaction between a CFO and a new lead developer at a small tech/startup company that actually had been around quite a while. It went something like this. Dev: Can we
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by dba7dba 9y ago
During Iraq/Afg conflict, US army started investing in solar systems because they realized every fuel (alot used for generators) convoy that doesn't have to make runs to outposts means less exposure to attacks by enemy. Solar syst
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by dba7dba 9y ago
Trying to be helpful. Here are the excerpts from the article. > I realized she was taking a photo. Later, when I asked her why she had done that, she said she didn’t get what was going on. Being photographed in that situation by someone
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by dba7dba 9y ago
The article clearly states the photo is the moment he's forcibly holding the woman's hand against her will.
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by dba7dba 9y ago
I go about automation in even less efficient way. I spend many months doing repetitive tasks. And than I realize I should automate them, and proceed to spend hours coming up with scripts/tools to automate them. Happens way too often...
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by dba7dba 9y ago
This is very true in corporate America. They are NOT really interested in improving your work performance. They are simply starting the process of letting you go while building up the necessary paper trail to show employment lawyers (in cas
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by dba7dba 9y ago
Samsung and Vizio are completely separate entities.
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by dba7dba 9y ago
I'd like to suggest that if you are still interested in learning more about what happened, you should look for a video from "VASAviation" on youtube. I'm sure his subscribers have asked him already for analysis and he&#x
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by dba7dba 9y ago
When the Asiana flight 214 crash landed in SFO in 2013, there was a blog post from a pilot who claimed to be a Lufthansa Air pilot. He wrote that because of city of San Francisco's unusually stringent noise mitigation rule for airliner
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by dba7dba 9y ago
> we see $50,000/yr swings in annual salary I heard a coworker basically boast about making $300,000 a year coding in python. Thing is afaik, he didn't have a college degree. He knows how to code in python and was able to put i
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by dba7dba 9y ago
I stopped reading 'articles' long ago. When I click on an article, I go straight to the comments section, knowing I will get more facts and balanced opinions from both sides of the story there, rather than the article itself.
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by dba7dba 9y ago
In Hawaii, the city bus system isn't disgusting. Someone I know told me so. But yeah everywhere else in US, public transportation is disgusting and inconvenient.
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by dba7dba 9y ago
Hardest-charging--gotta-make-it-big--screw-the-rules guys are not heading to Wall Street or Hollywood, but to the Valley. That's where all the money and action is. So this sorta doesn't surprise me.
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by dba7dba 9y ago
To me, this article explains it all. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/13/1-in-5-ceos-are-p... Many 'successful' people who make it to ceo are more likely to be a psychopath according to
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by dba7dba 9y ago
Notice USS Port Royal wouldn't have grounded even with all those failures/issues of inexperienced crew, sleep deprived captain, misred equipment, if they they just didn't get close to the shore at evening time. And the USS Po
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by dba7dba 9y ago
Subway system in Seoul also has glass partition between the platform and the tracks. This offers 2 distinct improvements for passengers. 1. noise/dust mitigation: One can sweep the platform floors all you want, but dust from the track
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by dba7dba 9y ago
I never served in any navy but I've learned a lot of USN through my readings of history and other topics. In USN, the captain is ultimately responsible for everything that happens to the ship and on the ship. I admire this trait in USN
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by dba7dba 9y ago
Obviously not interested in having hom back, especially considering how easy it was to vote yes. All it took was a click, something one does hundreds of times a day.
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by dba7dba 9y ago
Note to self, "leave doors/trunks open UNTIL I am positive all my luggages are out of the car."
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by dba7dba 9y ago
Capitalism did indeed force Kalanick to resign.
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by dba7dba 9y ago
>I think Apple has the best idea for this. Their work pods at the new campus have all glass walls facing the hallway, sliding doors to maximize room in the office, and built in storage. There looks to be plenty of room for a couple of co
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by dba7dba 9y ago
I surely hope you are correct for the sake of the workers of WF, but... If you work for AWS, you are either software engineer or linux/network admin. And that means you bring high value to Amazon. So yes, Amazon would treat you well. B
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by dba7dba 9y ago
This is terrible. All the more because the chips are incredibly important, both for the manufacturers and us consumers. Same goes with Solar panels. An acquaintance with chemical engineering degree worked in the industry and he said it&#x27
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by dba7dba 9y ago
I don't mean to sound flippant but they don't care. It is their 'job', but they don't care.
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by dba7dba 9y ago
Even though I live in very warm/mild weather area, I ALWAYS try to keep a jacket handy if I know I will be going into an enclosed place to be sitting still, like theaters, restaurant, etc. It's really silly that we have the techno
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by dba7dba 9y ago
I went to one of the better University of California campuses like 20 years ago. And my friend majoring in CS told me a CS professor caught about a third of his class cheating in their take-home programming assignments. This was in a lower
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by dba7dba 9y ago
Haha. I survived using vim JUST knowing Esc and :ws for years~. I was in a hurry to learn Linux and knowing vim was you know required. So I just learned the most basic in vim. I don't want to think about how much time of my life I was
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by dba7dba 9y ago
> This was during World War I, when transporting military equipment by rail was vital to national security. President Woodrow Wilson, desperate to get the trains moving, asked congress to write an eight-hour railroad work day into law Th

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