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by ip26 4y ago
In support of your point, the worship is mostly directed at people who made money themselves. Maybe a small inheritance helped bootstrap them, but they have clearly accomplished something. By contrast, can you even name the heirs of the Roc
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by ip26 4y ago
There’s plenty of mismanagement and failing up that goes on at the expense of the workers, but the rationale is like this: In the general case, from the company perspective, the layoffs have to happen to keep the company healthy. Regardless
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by ip26 4y ago
If they lower your wage you will notice immediately. Also, the games they can play with wages are more limited due to tight regulation. One of the “features” of equity is lower regulation.
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by ip26 4y ago
Trouble is, as far as I can tell, at 5G frequencies you need micro stations all over the place. If your suburban street has 10 houses and needs 5 stations (with fiber runs to each) to offer mmWave to everyone, it’s basically just the same t
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by ip26 4y ago
Good moderation & ranking is nearly invisible, like good email spam filtering. We forget (or never even knew) just how much we depend on it.
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by ip26 4y ago
Vignette is a useful and appealing effect. That doesn’t mean a lens with vignette is superior. The images straight out of the camera may be more appealing. Yet on the other hand, with a low vignette lens, you can add exactly as much or litt
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by ip26 4y ago
I disagree, my experience as a photographer has been that almost everything is “perfectly exposed” in my visual experience, but committed to a photo it is suddenly a mess. This isn’t really because the camera is bad; our brain creates a vis
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by ip26 4y ago
So all cinema and all producers are targeting precisely the same level of impressionism? None desire any more or less realism?
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The former always seemed more like gloom than night to me. Which can be compelling, but it isn’t a replacement for night.
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On the other hand, many of steps that can be taken for this problem are incredibly simple.
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by ip26 4y ago
Code is just as important as ever, but a two star general doesn’t carry a rifle either.
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by ip26 4y ago
Now I am consumed with curiosity over this unnamed key contributor. It sounds like they underpin an entire industry.
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Increasing entropy in a system can be avoided with an external energy source.
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It can also help with the exceptionalism.
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Some outdoors professionals might summit the same mountain 100+ times a year. Their breath is not taken each time. Watching them, it's more like the mountain is their office. An office with plenty of nature & exercise, but the magi
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by ip26 4y ago
They might not be miserable, but I hear things like limited opportunity, a young man's game, poor schools, compassion fatigue, and the emotional drag of living in a superficial tourist hotspot. Overemphasis on machismo & bravado, a
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by ip26 4y ago
Here’s an interesting question- do they need to sell off EV’s after only 25,000 miles? Does simple maintenance reduce the turnover rate & associated costs?
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The classic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qew09gao3S8 In short, the whole brake assembly catches fire- and continues to operate.
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by ip26 4y ago
It sounds good, but I’ve been trying to figure it out myself for years… easier said than done.
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The argument for doing it is usually to process your thoughts (and possibly develop your voice) rather than as useful records.
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But what counts as well spent? That’s always my biggest stumbling block with this topic.
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by ip26 4y ago
The basic social structure would have to be completely rethought. A good model might exist, we just don’t know what it is yet.
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by ip26 4y ago
Or, perhaps only our ability to locate good novel ideas.
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by ip26 4y ago
sidebar, have a question about an older comment of yours that can't be replied to. would you reach out via email (in profile)?
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I've always assumed it was earnest enough, but steeped deeply in the academic culture of " OK, we've done the hard part; implementation is left as an exercise for the reader "
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She was young and assumed it was the mountain climbers who were at risk. Is that her own fault? Yes. Would it still be tragic if youthful hubris & ignorance took her life in a senseless accident? Also yes.
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by ip26 4y ago
In many incidents, people are completely misinformed on the degree of risk, or woefully unprepared, which does strike me as tragic. E.g. happy family who takes a pleasant hike a few miles from the car, except they weren’t thinking about the
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by ip26 4y ago
There are dozens of us! (It's nice to know I'm not alone)
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by ip26 4y ago
The AP exam is uncoupled from the course and belongs to a different organization. If you fail the school course you probably won’t pass the exam.
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by ip26 4y ago
Sensors are not that far from fundamental limits for their size. The "standard" DSLR sensor is 1.7" on the diagonal. (A quarter is less than 1")

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