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by dba7dba 7y ago
Couldn't agree more. MBA grads in place of power have done so much damage to social fabric of US.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Yes. THAAD was the reason.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Fun fact: Many many South Korean college students who actively agitated for democracy around that era were specifically sent to the very front area of the DMZ or tougher assignments. So Moon did not volunteer for the special forces, but was
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Kim Il Sung, ruler of N. Korea at the time, formally apologized and sent letter saying so. Only time he did so in fact. All because of the show of force. There was a MASSIVE show of force because of the killing.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
South Korea rotated over 320,000 ground combat troops through Vietnam over 11+ year period, maintaining 2 Army Divisions and 1 Marine Brigade, to help US and South Vietnam. edit: 320,000 is not a typo. Well over a quarter of a million S. Ko
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by dba7dba 7y ago
All of Hawaii does not allow any outdoor advertising. And I think it is wonderful. City Of Los Angeles has regulations on different aspects billboards. BUT, city has no idea idea how many even exist.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
I believe it is Trump who wants to buy it, not US government.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
>>> more and more people may be opting away from home ownership I don't think people are opting away from home ownership but rather forced away from home ownership due to high down payment requirement and lack of enough jobs
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Full bodycam video of the interaction is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7j-Ijo2TYw&t=1295s Courtesy of 'PoliceActivity' channel. I am not related to teh channel in any way, just a subscriber.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
One code word I heard that is as plain as it can be is "Point Luck" used in Midway Battle.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Having grown up in South Korea in the 70s and 80s, I would not describe the social conditions of modern South Korea dreadful. Yes there are issues, but it is heaven compared to the times of 70s and 80s. And let's not forget that S Kore
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by dba7dba 7y ago
One of my favorite youtube channel by 'Indy Neidell' on WW2 has been demonetized. He and his team cover WW2 week by week, one video with historical analysis/story for every week. They recently completed a series for WW1 and i
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by dba7dba 7y ago
I agree with your points. It's like no company wants to train anyone (internal nor external candidate) and expect you to start working on their production system/code almost immediately. Self training and really outstanding portfo
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by dba7dba 7y ago
But amazon DID go around announcing plans for HQ2 and making a big deal about it, to get tax breaks etc.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
I've seen more than a few posts at here where candidate for jobs in Silicon Valley is given an offer but turns it down because they don't want to move to Silicon Valley/San Francisco for various reasons.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
From the article ----------- Boeing says that it can again fix the software to avoid the problem the FAA just found. It is doubtful that this will be possible. The software load is already right at the border, if not above the physical cap
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Right as GigaFactory was being planned/announced, there was much speculation/rumors on internet that Tesla was having talks with Samsung about possibly working together to build the gigafactory. I wonder what happened to it...
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by dba7dba 7y ago
One thing I learned while reading on HN is that there is never ever any kind of job posting from battery companies. There is much much secrecy about what the battery companies are doing (for obvious reasons). Due to this, they contact Maste
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Why worry about meddling of elections by Russians when large American companies that make life/death products and one of the pillars of US economy goes around doing stuff like this, effectively committing a corporate seppuku. I used to
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by dba7dba 7y ago
I don't even want them in or near the prison. I just want the salary/bonus they made while employed by Boeing, making the decisions that led to this. And give them to the family of the victims, ON TOP of whatever punitive damage B
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by dba7dba 7y ago
I am so tired of software engineers that, patch that software, etc etc. Ultimately it all comes down to $, $ that executives thought they could save for the company AND make that yearend bonus. It's not engineer that or this. It is MB
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Intern is another term often used to prevent older, experienced workers from applying.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
I remember watching 'lost wallet test' videos on youtube while back. Vloggers test leaving expensive stuff and/or wallet in cafe/subway and see if it gets taken by strangers. In some nations, stuff just wasn't touch
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by dba7dba 7y ago
I used to work at a kinda old, small startup shop. The office had 'filtered' water dispenser. BUT the filters had not been replaced for awhile and one day I noticed the water tasted filthy. The CEO's office was right next to
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Going to costco near closing time seems to help avoid crowd.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Of all the countries in OECE listed, I think ONLY US has crazy expensive medical cost problem. Just wanted to throw that out there...
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by dba7dba 7y ago
>> And they're doing nothing to the repair shop - they're just appealing the case to a higher Norwegian court which is their right. That in no way is harassment. If harass is not the right term here, what would you call it?
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Ahh. I was told by a CS student in 2005 or so that knowing just some Unix commands would get me a good job. I even took an introductory class based on this. But I never pursued it that diligently. And now 20 years later, I am learning Linux
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by dba7dba 7y ago
ONLY a kiddo would say something like > If you hire a young person they might be 100x or 10x or 1x in a couple years. 100x?
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by dba7dba 7y ago
So sorry to hear about your mother. But it seems to be a rule of life. Rich get richer. Top performers get more/better offers. Poor get poorer. Non-top performers get less/worse offers. I remember reading something where Paul Grah

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