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by ethbr0 4y ago
Name and shame!
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Good politicians deliver the end goal people want (e.g. cheap and clean electricity), in the best way scientifically possible, then convince their base their method was the right decision. Bad politicians ask people how they should do a
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This doesn't surprise me. My observation with Google product teams partnering is that they start from the assumption that the price of working with them is whatever data they want. Pushback = "Fine, we won't do a deal" F
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What are some good alternatives? More visibility!
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The difference should be that users pay Spotify for a subscription. Raise the prices if they need to, but don't try and have a subscription + "whatever ad bucks we can make" model.
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UML is dead! Long live UML!
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Thanks for the detailed and informative writeup!! I love learning about different experiences than my own, especially if they're specific to a time/world that doesn't really exist anymore. Know the past to better prepare for
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Out of curiosity, when there are a limited number of choices, did people still have favorites? And argue that "theirs" was better? Or were they so segmented or different that competition was not a thing?
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You'd use the SM-3 (USN) launched from Aegis platforms. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-161_Standard_Missile_3 Threats like this are why Japan and South Korea are the only countries outside the US to field it.
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The cubicle walls are virtual.
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+1. It is important to put it in context. Meta can be shitty to its employees... but tech in general (including Meta) can also still be better than other jobs. On the other hand, the value of stability (aka "every two weeks") appe
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Fair point! On the one hand, I'd say developed countries are much farther along in digitizing (as part of efficiency optimization) their processes. Mostly by virtue that their companies are essentially management/orchestration pro
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If you've got a choice, sail your ship on a rising tide! And if you can spread the risk over multiple rising tides, so much the better! My dad told me a quip once: "It's amazing how much luckier well prepared people are.&quot
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And a big moat is going to be safety... and specifically configuration of safety. Wouldn't be surprised at all if the major API-based vendors start leaning in on making their safety config proprietary. If a business has already sunk XX
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This is a repeat of the early GPU era. It's not the software or hardware that will "win" the race, it's who delivers the packaged end user capability (or centralizes and grabs most of the value along the chain). And end
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The real limiting factor of AGI is not going to be AGI -- it's going to be everything else. Digitization of the last mile (instrumentation, feedback), local networking, local compute, business familiarity with technology, standardized
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Like some sort of computer? Insane!
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It takes a lot of energy to create matter...
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by ethbr0 4y ago
You're conflating a ton of unrelated issues. Florida has more than enough budget to perform serious mitigation work if they want to. If I did my math right, Florida has a budget of $112b against a population of 22m and an area of 170,0
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Be that as it may, Florida has a pretty large budget relative to other states. Not California, but it's definitely not poor either.
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Florida's electrical mix pre-dates the current governor. As near as I can tell, they've historically shunned capital-intensive plant innovation, and just kept building natural gas. They're starting to get some solar now, at l
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/248932/us-state-governme... Sales and real estate tax ads up quickly when you're a tourist economy.
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As a temporary citizen of Florida, the politics down here are pretty atavistic: I'm pretty sure half the people in office occupy half their time with graft, and that's the standard. But The state really does seem to take the env
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I've always thought that if it gets to the point where a consultant and company are arguing over line items and it didn't go so badly as to preclude future work , then just meet in the middle, call it a poorly run project, and tr
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On the consulting side of the audit firms that you're talking about, I think people misunderstand why companies hire big consultancies. It is not for performance. It's for minimizing risk . And not "risk that the project w
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> "we seek explanation” requests A big portion of diplomacy is signalling what a country is aware of, how it feels about the transgression, and consequences it claims it'll implement if nothing changes. The intent of grey act
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Early 2000s WEP key recovery with cantennas.
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Modern computing has definitely lost the "computer is whatever you have the time / skill to make it" default understanding. For all its faults, IMHO that's the greatest strength of Unix-alike philosophy: making small hac
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The irony is that central planning would be more possible now than ever. Previously, there was a data collection, storage, and processing limitation. Manual collection, entry, and early computers simply couldn't process quickly enough
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I looked that up before posting, out of curiosity. Seems Biden only became a millionaire after his stint as VP, from book sales and speaking engagements. Being in Congress doesn't pay much.

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