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by dv_dt 3y ago
To be a bit glib there is no competitive market to give me an emergency surgery if my appendix has burst. But in a sense I think we have some agreement that it’s much more interesting to discuss a set of characteristics than can make market
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by dv_dt 3y ago
I'll add a separate comment, because I don't feel I specifically addressed your observation that Boeing can go bankrupt, split, etc. Boeing is today, the conglomeration of previous companies that did become distressed enough to be
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by dv_dt 3y ago
I know that private medicare advantage plans are coming to be worse than gov't medicare plans and the private healthcare fights many improvements in medicare administration. Including wierd lobbied divisions between what the private pl
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Private enterprise in our current system stands in the way of government being more efficient. It's a prime example of administrators (in the form of capitol holders) standing in the way of better functioning. Intuit / Turbo Tax s
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Monopolies and regulatory capture sustains insolvent organizations.. see Boeing. This really isn't a private enterprise vs govt split. It's the system in place of how decisions get made, how resources are allocated. Our current sy
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Addl note on the phase change: administration might also be thought of as capital ownership in a economic or capitalist context where an inefficiency is protection or "administration" of large pools of existing wealth and profits
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Almost all the examples discussed are government or social institutions, but it really applies more widely. Large corporations should be included, and even whole economies. A more general word instead might be "systems". If you lo
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by dv_dt 3y ago
I think the telecom issue playbook is significantly different than the SaaS playbook. Not sure if that’s just cultural or if there are other drivers - maybe paying customer telecom interfaces are simpler and more closed than typical SaaS?
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Soldier fly leaks from farms are more palatable than Roach leaks?
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Also the non plant parts of it could be fairly efficient too. e.g see black soldier fly farming for fish feed. Not that that is a 100% answer for all feed for seafood farming, but interesting options abound. Personally though, Octopi are to
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Better than competition on who can get away with burdening their customers with the slowest transaction.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Is there a good reference for how fraud is handled in this kind of EU transfer context? Or even recommended general reading resources for EU transfer standards?
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by dv_dt 3y ago
So the business model missed the inequality of the commons problem. Seems like a widescale problem.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
After Mulally left, Boeing went all in (to an extreme imho) on outsourcing. I don’t know enough to say if he would have done the same. But imho spinning off fundamental items like fuselages is a big source of inefficiency and risk right now
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by dv_dt 3y ago
For products/services tied to real engineering, that idea that you can maximize profits without leadership that understands it at a deep level is wrong. If you want to maximize profits in that kind of company, you'd better be able
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by dv_dt 3y ago
An office less than a 15 min commute away - preferably on foot or bike.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
This is the guy that Boeing should have made CEO https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Mulally who has a much deeper background on the civil aviation side of things. Turned down for the Boeing CEO position, went to Ford
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Not a whole answer, but maybe worth mentioning that Polars is implemented in rust and you can directly use it via it's Rust crate. https://docs.rs/polars/latest/polars/
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Do you all want to go out to dinner somewhere and talk some more?
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by dv_dt 3y ago
See Sturgeons law, and discussion about Rudyard Kipling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law
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by dv_dt 3y ago
You must mean in very cold conditions, where gas vehicles also often have engine block heaters plugged in so you can start them?
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by dv_dt 3y ago
(d) Billions of dollars per year of climate change induced damages and rising.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
If one can bind it, I wonder if that can be used as a generalized (75%) early test indicator for cancer.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
I don’t think that’s clear at all. All I’ve seen is many small fabs closing down were close enough to bleeding edge wasn’t sustainable. Intel is only surviving its last (and current?) fumble because of their past lead. Though maybe I’m just
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by dv_dt 3y ago
It could be a part of the push for right to repair. Farmers have pushed similar interface needs for maintaining advanced farming equipment. This seems very similar.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Another type of repetition in pop music that may not be surfaced with this analysis is the structural variation in the lyrics. Maybe it's because pop songs that are entirely 1-3 syllable lines personally irk me.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
The original GE sold off the GE appliance brand to a Chinese industrial company many years ago.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Look at comparable profit margins before and after. A lot of these layoffs are coming to companies that are still maintaining a healthy margin. The layoffs might prop up the margin in the short term, but I think there becomes long term last
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by dv_dt 3y ago
The company that first applied that strategy, GE, ran themselves into all sorts of problems with that approach. Microsoft’s era of doing fairly poorly was also at a timeframe when they were doing rank and cut strongly.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Iirc Stallman knew because it was already happening with printer drivers and operating systems first.

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