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by greedo 3y ago
McDonalds exerts controls to protect its reputation, and does this through its franchise agreements with franchisees. This makes a lot of sense for both parties and customers. I remember when Jack In The box had outbreaks of E.coli in their
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by greedo 3y ago
This is the predominant tactic used by Russian fighters near Ukraine. They don't want to get targeted by SAMs, so they do long range missile shots against Ukrainian aircraft.
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by greedo 3y ago
History would argue that you're wrong about innovation. Witness Nazi Germany. They were able to develop weapons far advanced over their opponents during a total war. I agree with everything else you've said however.
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by greedo 3y ago
Funds affect everything; from design, tooling, to sustainment and continual improvement. If you don't think so, look at the US military circa 1989 and circa 1999. While there were qualitative improvements in those 10 years, the 1999 US
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by greedo 3y ago
"Contracts were signed but Western machine tools and other technology were never supplied due to sanctions (the same story has now unfolded with Russia’s moribund automotive industry facing an uncertain future with the departure of Wes
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by greedo 3y ago
This is ridiculous. The A-10 was designed to fight the Soviets in Germany. And like the AH-1 Cobras, it was expected to have a short life span fighting anywhere near Soviet air defenses. Do you know what A-10s have done for the majority of
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by greedo 3y ago
Two things are affecting their production capacity; sanctions and $$. Even before they invaded Ukraine in 2014, they had limited funds for anything. Their economy is just too small to support their goals. Most of their design bureaus depend
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by greedo 3y ago
They can't manufacture them in quantity, but qualitatively they have surpassed 80's era weaponry. From ICBMs to cruise missiles and SAMs, they are a step above what they had before. Tanks are improved as well. The Su-57 appears to
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by greedo 3y ago
"My opinion is that US is up for rude awakening on ineffectiveness of US army when/if real fighting starts." Possibly. Though units that fought in both Afghanistan and Iraq during those time periods would argue with you about
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by greedo 3y ago
I'm not sure that they will survive the price hikes they'll need to keep imposing. Which is really sad since they offered pretty good service and performance. I've already cut my home usage down from four Macs to one. I'
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by greedo 3y ago
Ugh. 2019 Backblaze increases monthly prices 20%. 2021 Backblaze increases monthly prices 17%. 2023 Backblaze increases monthly prices 29%. Boiling frog scenario for sure. And I recommend BB to all my friends and family, but at $108/ye
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by greedo 3y ago
Reductio ad absurdum, and a straw man as well. Of course if you eliminated all punishment for crimes, crime would skyrocket. I think that long sentences are counterproductive and expensive, both in terms of societal expense and in how we tr
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by greedo 3y ago
My opposition to the DP is based on my distrust in our justice system and the fact that a wrongly applied DP is irrevocable. Life w/o Parole lets you amend failures in our legal system.
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by greedo 3y ago
Deterrence? I don't think that long sentences deter any crime. If the ultimate sentence (DP) doesn't deter murder, then why would lesser sentences deter lesser crimes?
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by greedo 3y ago
SSO is great in a monoculture environment, but falls down in heterogenous systems. We have Azure SSO, Ping Federate, and a couple of others we're getting rid of. I think it adds unnecessary complexity, and fails too often. Our internal
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by greedo 3y ago
Read The White Plague by Frank Herbert. Scared the heck out of me as a teen. Considering how humanity still hasn't escaped tribalism even after two hundred millennia, just the thought of genealogically targeted viruses are a wonderful
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by greedo 3y ago
I'm sure that'll work well in a polytheistic world. Oh wait, we've already tried that.
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by greedo 3y ago
Also as a former fencer, I've realized that fencing has so little to do with most "blade" warfare, whether in real life or in the movies. Epee might be the closest to reality for parts of Europe with duels etc, but I think al
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by greedo 3y ago
The point I was trying to make about that is that most businesses don't have the financial resources to absorb the cost of "security" as it's being practiced now. Yet it's continually being foisted upon them as a ne
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by greedo 3y ago
Exactly. Anyone working in a moderately large company (500+ employees) or in a regulated industry is familiar with this issue. Just as no politician wants to be seen as soft on crime, no CISO want's to be blamed for a security breach.
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Report on Anti-Gay Slur Could Put Local News Site Out of Business(nytimes.com)
3 points by greedo 3y ago|1 comments
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by greedo 3y ago
The problem with achieving this is that business has consolidated too much in the last 20 years. Around me, I have a bunch of small offices (mostly dental/chiropractors, etc) a few gas stations, and then mega stores like Walmart/L
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See Inside a Ghost Town of Abandoned Mansions in China(architecturaldigest.com)
3 points by greedo 3y ago|0 comments
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by greedo 3y ago
I usually despise airline service, but on my recent vacation, one of our checked bags got left behind at a connecting airport. I was ready to have a ruined vacation, but the baggage clerk was extremely nice and professional. She found our b
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Who are the worlds biggest landowners(madisontrust.com)
95 points by greedo 3y ago|136 comments
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by greedo 3y ago
I'm not quite as cynical about Inheritance Machining. Yes the quality is superb, both in video production values and subjects, but I think we're at a point where it's not that hard to create quality visual content if one care
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by greedo 3y ago
I've had fraudulent charges on my Apple card multiple times. They were almost always detected by Goldman Sachs. I was issued new cards (and virtual cards) immediately, and nothing happened to my Apple ID. I think there's far more
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by greedo 3y ago
Current completion rates for doctoral program hovers around 56%. And that's with a huge gating process filtering out unqualified candidates. The idea that this will become a norm is just not realistic. A Bachelor's degree is avera
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by greedo 3y ago
Expecting everyone to get a PhD is ridiculous. Even granting people enough time and enough Universities to manage this, there's a limit to half the world's intelligence. Unless you dumb down the meaning of a PhD, this isn't a
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by greedo 3y ago
So people should just find false meaning in bullshit jobs?

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