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by donw 5y ago
I've taken an interest in learning more about both the history of logistics, as well as modern practices. Any more links (books or otherwise) you could share?
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by donw 5y ago
The Kindle browser is designed to encourage you to give up on the Web and read more books.
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by donw 5y ago
Oh, god, this. Specifically simple appliances that are designed to be repaired .
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by donw 5y ago
Taiwan does an excellent job of enforcing sales taxes with almost no enforcement cost: https://abovethelaw.com/2019/10/in-some-countries-your-recei...
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by donw 5y ago
Both false and irrelevant. The most violent people I observed were the ones that flipped from "you don't need a mask, and you're too stupid to wear one anyway: they're complex medical equipment that requires training&quo
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by donw 5y ago
Tribalism was certainly a significant factor, but I would wager that inconsistency played a bigger role: - Major political figures publicly flaunted their own mask mandates and lockdown rules, with zero consequences. "The rules are for
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by donw 5y ago
Maybe. But Google has sacrificed trust. Look at the comments under "YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube"[1]. And this is on Hacker News, probably one of the more Google-friendl
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by donw 5y ago
I am curious if direct revenue shares are a sustainable model. E.g., I pay some money -- $10/month. I can choose to pay more. A fraction of that is divided evenly amongst all the videos I've watched. Creators get a check at the en
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by donw 5y ago
“Different” is superfluous.
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by donw 5y ago
You’re more correct than you realize. If I get on a Boeing aircraft, I am indeed engaging in an act of faith: that it was built properly, maintained well, and all the rest. When that faith is violated, say by the control systems having the
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by donw 6y ago
Exactly.
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by donw 6y ago
Yes and no. Peleton should redesign the treadmill. It is needlessly hazardous, and a few small changes could easily remedy the problem without compromising the envelope of functionality for the device. But: I absolutely hate modern applianc
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by donw 6y ago
> Startup employees going home at 5 and fighting unreasonable schedules? Absolutely. First, overwork doesn't lead to more productivity for knowledge workers. You get to pay that piper one way or another in the end. Second, back in t
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by donw 6y ago
And here's a bit of why: https://www.ksat.com/sa-live/2021/03/12/tips-from-the-pit-pi...
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by donw 6y ago
My god, they’re disrupting disruption itself !
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by donw 6y ago
I'm not sure that's specific to scarcity, though. Imagine two rooms, each with a caged bear. The bear is not happy being in a cage. A rich man, and a poor man, are ushered into their respective rooms, and told that the lock on the
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by donw 6y ago
Isn't childhood amnesia -- having very few memories before the age of eight or so -- common to all children, regardless of trauma?
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by donw 6y ago
Over a thousand words, and I still have no idea what she is trying to say. Nor what the headline actually means.
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by donw 6y ago
Because the Enlightenment was a complex social phenomenon with multiple prerequisites...?
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by donw 6y ago
What's to prevent the people that deploy and maintain that software from modifying it slightly to exclude themselves from the cap, and diverting those sitting coins to their own accounts?
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by donw 6y ago
> The wealthiest [Romans] were land owners taking in the profits of slave labor Not exactly. Crassus amassed his fortune first through conquest, and then through real estate speculation. Caesar and Pompey's fortunes were a mixture o
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by donw 6y ago
> What kind of technology enabled wealth gap in feudal society? In short: Weapons. On the pre-gunpowder battlefield, the mounted, armored knight was roughly equivalent to the modern light tank. It is incredibly hard to take out an armore
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by donw 6y ago
Yes, but what does slavery have to do with technology...? I don't understand the connection to the parent post.
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Rome was an incredibly advanced society with a great deal of technology, though.
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by donw 6y ago
I have actually used this to test remote pair-programming tools, as remote pairing really hinges on latency.
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by donw 6y ago
> One of the great myths of nature is that predators have some sort of instinct to screw over their social group at every opportunity. Speaking of humans: Their social group, no. Other social groups, absolutely. We know this as "ing
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Also the number one rule of Comcast.
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by donw 6y ago
Not only that, but the current streaming services have done a great job of killing the quality of their content. The Expanse under Sci-Fi was stunning . Under Amazon, it's a meh at best. I was incredibly excited for Season Four, watch
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by donw 6y ago
That's an unwarranted assumption. Phones, games, apps, and social media are, quite literally, engineered to be addictive. Addiction is powerful . There are plenty of cases of star athletes ending up as homeless junkies, and this isn&#
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by donw 6y ago
Switzerland and Singapore are both on that list, and fit the bill for "lower taxes, fewer public services".

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