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by ic0n0cl4st 5y ago
It seems to quire naive to give unions all the credit while failing to America’s declining quality compared to Japan and failure to listen to loud market trends. GM ignoring Deming’s TQM while Japan wholeheartedly embraced this philosophy
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Turkey is the same way. The government says 99.8% of the population are Muslim by default but it’s probably closer to 60%. Until a few years ago religion was listed on government identification cards. When you’re born your parenrs must stat
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Or maybe we give more thought to the feasibility of space colonization and give people the ability to opt out of paying for this kind of adventurism? I work really hard and would rather my taxes go to helping out those living today, not may
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Seems like a potentially great way to transfer a lot of wealth from taxpayers to the aerospace industry for a very long time with little oversight or roi.
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
England is cold and grey, and the food sucks. Every mediterranean country is littered with Brits, especially retirees / pensioners.
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Even public prisons are primarily run and populates through the formiddable lobbying power of police and prison guard unions. Their influence is far more insidiuous than that of the comparably small for-profit prison industry. Also an oppor
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Madoff would have been less likely to go to jail had he made off with poor peoples’ money instead of that of rich people.
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
> They’re also not entitled to that. In a democracy the many decide. We did decide, and continue to do so in supervisor meetings and in the ballot box. You might want to read up on federalism.
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
It’s quite rude for you to say my home is not remarkable or worth preserving. You’ve never even seen it. You know nothing of my tightknit, diverse community which cares about things of more importance than ipos and user engagement. “Droid
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
> Well that's just inefficiency or graft. The rest of the world is able to achieve far more for far less cost. Citation? > Who's our? Generally voters tend to be older, wealthier and landowners. The large pile of younger, le
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
3x as dense??????? We are already 17,000 per square mile. New York is 28,000 per m^2. You seriously think San Francisco would be livable at 51,000 pe m^2? It would literally cost $500bn in infrastructure investment to make that possible jus
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Sure, but we don’t want that. There is an incredible amount of space in the bay area which could be turned into droid housing and office buildings. ALL of those places have cheaper real estate, fewer homeless people (the #2 complaint of eve
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
> The cost of upgrading infrastructure in a busy city is enormously expensive. San Francisco is on a peninsula with no room at all to expand outward. The only solution is to build up and that’s a real problem in an area prone to earthqua
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
It should be noted that San Francisco is surrounded by bay and ocean on 3 sides and also contains a significant amount of land which is not really seismically sound, and 50% of which is protected parkland. Those other 3 cities have signific
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
San Francisco is a small city, only 49 square miles, 1/2 of which is parkland and a significant portion is landfill which liquifies in a serious earthquake. It’s also surrounded by water on 3 sides I don’t understand why so many HN com
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Seems like a great reason to invest in kinetic energy storage like this pumped hydroelectric reservoir in Wales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ffestiniog_Power_Station?wprov...
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
> Out of curiosity, what can go badly? They offer a counter and then fire you a couple months later, after they've found a more "loyal" (or just cheaper) replacement? Definitely they question loyalty. In general all compan
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Quite simply an e-mail to my manager and HR stating my last day will be in two weeks and that we should start the knowledge transfer process.
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On Google Podcasts, a Buffet of Hate(nytimes.com)
20 points by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago|2 comments
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
This reminds me a lot of an immersive art installation I saw in Turkey 6 years ago of an imagined future where an oil tanker got stuck in the Bosphorous and permanently changed local society. https://worldarchitecture.org/ar
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Looking at pictures of highways from before caralytic converters and you notice that each lane had a pure black stripe from the exhaust.
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
For The last 7 years of working and traveling 50% of the time my setup has been two iPhones and a Macbook Air. I have about 30 sim cards now. In Europe I mostly use tmobile. Hotel lobbies usually have free wifi, as do cafes, hostels and ba
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
So basically Austin is experiencing today what we San Franciscans have been suffering through since the web 2.0 boom began in 2008. I remember when they built yuppy condos next to the DNA lounge and the new tenants immediately joined the “W
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
I always thought of America as the Harkonnens, but now that you said it I realize that we are the Imperium, OPEC is CHOAM and Saudi Arabia are the Harkonnens.
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Judging from our failure to invade, embargoe or sanction saudi arabia or the bin laden family, it is clear that the USA and the west will aways back the terrorist regime of the kingdom of saudi arabia. It isn’t even about their oil, it’s ab
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
You will know Tayipp has given up when he appoints Bilal to this position.
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The Untold Truth of Gizmondo, One of the Biggest Console Failures Ever(looper.com)
2 points by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago|0 comments
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
Oh hey I know you, didn’t know you stayed so long. I think of you every time I hear the phrase “fractured fricitive”. I remember the Amazon thing .. differently. Also some pretty shady marketing tricks, and you know, failing to protect a fe
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
I think every traveler has this idea, explores it, realizes it is illegal and moves on.
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by ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
It’s been 10 years, but I would find it hard to say a good word about the founders. My experiences there taught me that no good deed goes unpunished. I dropped out of the startup world and become a “fuck you, pay me” consultant.

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