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by jjk166 1y ago
Luckily people are capable of learning skills. Being so addicted to Gen-Z slang and internal acronyms that you are unable to effectively convey information to your colleagues isn't a disability to be accommodated.
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And people work for businesses for their own self interest. A more successful business can afford to pay its employees more. Employees get more satisfaction from completing accomplishments. Tasks which make employees lives easier are more l
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by jjk166 1y ago
One aspect not covered by the article is fictitious economies of scale. Designing a new ship class, like any other such large project, is an expensive undertaking. To try and make this number more palatable, it is typically proposed to buil
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by jjk166 1y ago
EMP weapons are directional, and thus aren't affected by the inverse square law. Further, the power that a ship can output can exceed what a drone could tolerate by many orders of magnitude. EMP weapons do not require an explosion.
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by jjk166 1y ago
How much does a swarm of extremely long range jet ski robots with hardened military electronics and large explosives packages cost? Getting enough of anything that can do serious damage to a ship to overwhelm the defenses is going to be an
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by jjk166 1y ago
Houses built in 1945 are still on the market for comparable prices to those built in 2025
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"This may help in unexpected and unforeseeable ways" doesn't sound like the most convincing argument for taking time from your job to learn a new skill. All the same, you are choosing to learn something new, not to automate s
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by jjk166 1y ago
XKCD's comic is a very simple graphic that tells you whether your automation efforts will reduce the total amount of time for a task. If your goal is not to reduce time spent, why would you be looking at a chart to determine how much t
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by jjk166 1y ago
I'm not going to say discipline isn't an overloaded term, but it really ought to include resisting instinct and desire to do what needs to be done so as to accomplish goals. I would certainly not describe what I'm referring t
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Routs happened. Indeed they were common. If social pressure could not prevent people running from battle, dooming their comrades and also greatly increasing their own risk of death, don't tell me no one looked for cover when being shot
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Pakistan didn't even have nuclear weapons 35 years ago. What part of the situation I described is no longer true?
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Well if Y years is less than the expected time for PE firms to lose their customers, then it's a non issue. If Y is longer, then the PE firm is overpaying for their acquisition and will presumably be acquired and gutted by a more effic
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by jjk166 1y ago
The methods of killing cephalopods for commercial fishing aren't exactly what I would consider humane. Generally they are asphyxiated, thrown into freezing brine, or simply clubbed to death. There is a also a process called "rever
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It would likely be better to describe that as an observation than a communication. Even if someone were deliberately trying to convey they were bored via finger drumming, that communication only works in a social framework where we've
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by jjk166 1y ago
Well data needs to be conveyed, as in there has to actually be a message. If one person yawns and that causes you to yawn, that is not evidence of communication - the first person was almost certainly not trying to send any information and
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The market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Yes eventually customers will go to better firms who will beat out the short sighted competition, but that could take years and there's no guarantee your firm will surv
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Policies can be changed, or ignored. The question is would Pakistan trust its neighbor, with whom it has decades of animosity and in this scenario is currently at war, to stick to such a policy? While I personally doubt this particular inst
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What the author does not really discuss here is the discipline of troops. While some armies were highly disciplined and would not be deterred by a hail of arrows with a single digit probability of being killed or disabled, I imagine it woul
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by jjk166 1y ago
I don't think the article is arguing there would not be a starting point to archer fire. One would expect commanders to make some decision about when their forces would engage, and even without explicit command most soldiers would prob
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by jjk166 2y ago
Who do these teams report to? Either someone at a higher level instituted guidelines which allowed for inconsistent stacks, or someone at a lower level made the decision to disregard these guidelines and upper management took no action at t
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by jjk166 2y ago
Bad take, bad article. Using tools at your disposal to produce things of comparable quality to what you would produce without the tools is not bad etiquette, complaining about other people not putting more time and effort into something the
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The effort is not the point. Communicating is the point. Up until very recently, there was no alternative way to send a letter without writing a letter. There was no need to prove work was done. Cultural changes are much slower than technol
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Prime is a whole different beast. That's about maximizing their ecommerce profit through market manipulation.
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I mean most town squares have no restriction on using a megaphone, and yet town squares have not been drowned out and rendered useless by megaphones. Even if that did happen, it would be a very poor analogue to generic advertising which can
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by jjk166 2y ago
The problem is the harder you try to imagine it, the less it looks like a better world. Letting people communicate freely is a good thing in its own right, and fundamental to so many other good things we enjoy. Getting rid of a billboard fo
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I take some issue with the notion that we shouldn't blame the individual who does a bad job because of the system that incentivizes them to do a bad job.' Let's say you have someone working a cash register. It is rare for a m
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Some people don't ignore the fraud, the terrible working conditions, the anti-competitive business practices, the unfulfilled promises, the stock price manipulation, and the cult of personality of a highly controversial leader just bec
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Those tend to invest in armaments and instruments of torture though
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Tritium isn't the concern. Fusion reactors consume deuterium and lithium. The sun doesn't have much of either. If you consumed all the Deuterium and Tritium in the solar system, you'd only get the equivalent of a few thousand
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A Dyson Swarm is far more mass efficient than building fusion reactors to generate equivalent power. Remember that a dyson swarm is simply the radiator for a fusion reactor. Further, the sun is not a fuel source for artificial fusion reacto

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