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by greedo 4y ago
I don't think Ford has particularly struggled to stay profitable making the MachE and Lightning truck. Neither has Volvo (Tesla's biggest competition in the Semi market).
842.
by greedo 4y ago
Wouldn't Amazon just cancel your account?
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by greedo 4y ago
That doesn't protect you since Amazon commingles merchandise.
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by greedo 4y ago
In multiple cases, these were not parents, or didn't even have kids in the schools they were protesting. This was an organized, coordinated movement to disrupt board meetings and intimidate board members.
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by greedo 4y ago
These groups are already organized and coordinated. They mobbed/brigaded school board meetings in a coordinated fashion. They know who their allies are, and are now starting to act out in more violent fashion. Sunlight is the best disi
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by greedo 4y ago
Netflix pays reduced percentages to Apple. Been this way for a long time from what I recall. Other big companies negotiate the percentage as well.
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by greedo 4y ago
The car industry already has subscription services; Volvo, Porsche, Jaguar/Land Rover, Genesis, Nissan, all have subscription plans. Don't like those? Go down to most car dealers and you can get a short term subscription called a
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by greedo 4y ago
They don't do residential delivery, they just supply the grocery stores.
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by greedo 4y ago
There's a dairy that delivers in parts of the midwest that uses glass bottles for their milk products. They charge a $2 deposit when you buy the milk. Pretty good milk in my opinion, though more expensive than the bulk milk, but I like
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by greedo 4y ago
Kind of generalizing an entire workforce I think. How are you measuring lazy? You say that people are nice and relaxed with a shorter work week. But it seems you expect that a team that isn't as relaxed will be more effective? Who are
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by greedo 4y ago
Same with the employment of firearms. Most serviceman would be brought before a courts martial if they used the same tactics and justification common in US police departments.
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by greedo 4y ago
On call isn't about fixing the problem yourself, it's knowing who the right person is to contact when an issue arises.
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by greedo 4y ago
I had just started fencing in college in the Fall of 1982, and the gear we had was definitely not safe in hindsight. Our coach was scrupulous about safety, but how can you cope with a blade break from carbon steel? Kevlar etc wasn't a
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by greedo 4y ago
How's that working for you? As a hedge against inflation, Bitcoin seems a remarkable failure.
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by greedo 4y ago
And there's also inherent bias in terms of who the hiring manager was for each employee. Our team had a director change a few years ago, and everyone he has hired has been treated far better than the original crew, regardless of work o
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by greedo 4y ago
If you knew anything about Pournelle (his books are good, especially his collaborations with Niven), you'd realize he'd be the last to espouse communism. This is someone who arguably came up with the SDI during the Reagan administ
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by greedo 4y ago
People love paying for things that used to be free. It's baked into our DNA... /sarcasm
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by greedo 4y ago
In the same vein, look at how Plenty of Fish has a huge customer base, and runs on very skimpy hardware. Back in 2006 it had 45M visitors a month, served up over 1B page views a month, all running off three database servers and two load bal
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by greedo 4y ago
Does Musk value developers? Considering his "code review" the first week, and how poorly FSD at Tesla functions, (I know it's an extremely difficult, if not insurmountable problem) I think he has a very simplistic idea of how
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by greedo 4y ago
I'm sure he's expecting growth in both ARPU and total users.
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by greedo 4y ago
I live in the midwest, in a house that's appraised around $350K. Every time I visit family on the West coast, I look at similar house prices, and they're all at least 3x or 4x. No way could I afford that; and I sure wouldn't
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by greedo 4y ago
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by greedo 4y ago
Zero crew maintenance will never be effective. You'll just be doing what the Soviets are doing in Ukraine; abandoning $25M tanks when they throw a track. Or you'll be dooming maintenance crews to a quick death. And you can't
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by greedo 4y ago
It's comparing like for like. You think tanks are obsolete for reasons XYZ, that all apply to all AFVs. Yes, the West has been slowly supplying vehicles[1], but most of the St. Javelin success was early during the assault on Kiev where
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by greedo 4y ago
This was the thinking behind the Leopard 1. It had really thin armor compared to peers because it didn't think it mattered. Later upgrades added spaced armor etc to help with ATGMs, and the Leo 2 had Chobbham so it was kind of a reject
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by greedo 4y ago
I'm just pointing out that IFVs have the exact same vulnerabilities as tanks, but no one seems to be saying get rid of them. Both are better than being WW1 foot soldiers. Countering ATGM teams (whether crewed vehicles or dismounts) rel
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by greedo 4y ago
Actually, (comparing an M1 vs an M2 Bradley), IFVs are often equal or larger than tanks. Israeli IFVs are often built from Merkava chassis (into Namer). And in this day and age of surveillance, both vehicles are easily spotted by UAVs etc.
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by greedo 4y ago
So when an AFV gets smacked by a Stugna/Javelin etc, the entire squad is killed? The reason the Russians are getting sandbagged is because they aren't doing combined arms; In some areas they have tanks, and infantry, but no artill
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by greedo 4y ago
Yeah, I was more comparing an 11B with binoculars versus a TC using all his sensors. When you add in the difference in communication suites, networking (is Blue Force Tracker still a thing?) the infantryman is at a serious disadvantage.
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by greedo 4y ago
Tanks (I'm mostly speaking of Western tanks) generally have excellent optics with thermal imaging that is so good you can use it in the day time. The ability to see a couple miles away is better than an infantryman would be able to do.

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