eej71

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   by eej71 1y ago

   I can only say that this direclty matches the experience of my two college graduates. First kid gradudated end of 2023, and I played an active role in helping him finding jobs to apply for. Applied to easily 200+ roles. Many of them seemed
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   by eej71 1y ago

   I'm old. I instantly recognized your username.
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   by eej71 1y ago

   I think your argument hinges on the implied idea that whoever makes up these entities (the FDA or otherwise) are intrinsically made of finer clay that the rest of us mere mortals.
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   by eej71 1y ago

   I hear ya. I suppose the equivalent would be - last time the Chicago Cubs won the world series.
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   by eej71 1y ago

   No. Lower energy costs saves lives. Energy is the life blood of civilization.
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   by eej71 1y ago

   Do you say that because you think the majority of HN readers are sympathetic to the Trump administration? Or do you say that because you think those with the power to flag this kind of submission are secret MAGA hat wearing loyalists? Or is
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   by eej71 1y ago

   On OpenVMS, DCL (the shell and main scripting language of choice) had this as an exit code. $ exit 2928 %SYSTEM-W-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels
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   by eej71 1y ago

   I got lucky - I got the Hagia Sophia twice.
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   by eej71 1y ago

   I think this is a misunderstanding of the underlying issue. It isn't about protection from straying from some level of orthodoxy. It's about people who are incredibly brilliant in one area of their life - and yet be incredibly dum
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    by eej71 1y ago

    _Rollerball_ a movie from 1975 (not the 2002 remake) is an interesting take on this. A futuristic society that promotes an increasingly violent game to entertain and misdirect the masses.
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    by eej71 1y ago

    I know the book exists as I'm very familiar with the kinds of claims that get repeated in threads like this. To me - these claims seem to fuel a conspiracy like mind set about why certain efforts or movements fail. "Because the bi
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    by eej71 1y ago

    I am guessing that in your mind that if a private corporation bids on a contract it should only break even? Is that it? Or perhaps - for you - even better would be - the whole thing would be done by the government. There is no private corpo
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    by eej71 1y ago

    I'm sure a similar book could be written where the political stripes are all changed. Instead of Koch, we have Soros. Instead of Musk, it would be Gates. Instead of whoever owns Sinclair Media, its Carlos Slim or Lauren Powell Jobs.
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    by eej71 1y ago

    I think that's an incredibly simplistic and naive view of why large public projects gobble up colossal sums of money and don't have much to show for it.
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    by eej71 1y ago

    The Free Press recently did an interview with him. https://www.thefp.com/p/google-memo-james-damore-vindication... Basically he has kept a very low profile.
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    by eej71 1y ago

    If you enjoy stuff like this - do read up on 4am's incredible efforts to preserve Apple ][ software. Just amazing. https://paleotronic.com/2024/01/28/confessions-of-a-disk-cra...
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    by eej71 1y ago

    You could be thinking of gorgon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_(video_game)
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    by eej71 1y ago

    I think the popularity of pressure cookers predate the 70s since it gets a comical reference in this old cartoon that you might remember. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Tomorrow_(1949_fi...
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    by eej71 1y ago

    There will be a new aristocracy. The aristocracy of pull. #iykyk
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    by eej71 1y ago

    Unfortunately that's the direction we are likely headed in. However, I suspect that in this case, the contracts were overpriced and faced an endless series of delays and extensions. Of course, the next set of contracts will probably ha
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    by eej71 1y ago

    You might enjoy Charlie Rose interviews Charlie Rose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFE2CCfAP1o
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    by eej71 1y ago

    I'm glad to see someone else describe their experience this way too. bazel has arrived at $WORK and it has been a non-trivial amount of work for even the passionate advocates of bazel. I know it was written by the Very Smart People at
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    by eej71 2y ago

    The Wright Brothers biography by David McCullough does a great job of covering the details here.
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    by eej71 2y ago

    While Jefferson is an understandably venerated figure in the foundation of America, he was not active in the creation of the constitution. He of course wrote The Declaration of Independence and while having misgivings about the strength of
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    by eej71 2y ago

    I think that's only generally true for the period of time where the new tool has yet to achieve full functional parity with what it replaced. As that functionality gap is closed, the performance increase usually declines too.
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    by eej71 2y ago

    Well I think if you have a moral claim over someone else - their failure to fullfill that claim is going to be an issue that has to get resolved with or without their consent. My attempts to describe what I think is the logical consequence
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    by eej71 2y ago

    I have a prescription for "office glasses" which have been great.
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    by eej71 2y ago

    I think the key difference between these two views on rights could be summed up as. One side sees rights as a moral sanction to an action in a social context. The other side sees a right as a moral claim to be fullfilled by someone.
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    by eej71 2y ago

    I think the intent of highlighting that sentence ('The models will be developed within Europe's robust regulatory framework') was to draw attention to the fact that the sponsors will not move fast nor achieve anything of note
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    by eej71 2y ago

    Something something lesser monster in the backrooms vibe is what I feel now when I see that picture.