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by jobu 7y ago
Yeah, not only is this a once in 100years event, it's also staggered in such a way that the Chinese manufacturing will likely be caught up by the time the European and North American economies are coming back to life.
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by jobu 7y ago
The big difference I see is vision and timelines. Elon Musk wants to live on Mars and he's been very public about it. Everything he's done has been to further technology to make that possible within his lifetime. He's working
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by jobu 7y ago
NPR's Planet Money Podcast did a fantastic 3-part series on Antitrust in America: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/20/704426033/anti... Here's an excerpt that starts to ans
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by jobu 7y ago
I'm not an expert, and every kid is different, but when I talked with my oldest (now in her first year of college) these were the things that seemed to help her pick a direction in life: 1) The Ideal Job Venn Diagram by David Hamil ( h
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by jobu 7y ago
My company does a good job of recruiting college students as interns, and then converting them to junior engineers when they graduate. Unfortunately they all leave within a couple years and generally double their salaries when they do. This
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by jobu 7y ago
> The problem is the process of going for the lowest bidder, or one of the lowest. As a homeowner I usually try to get three bids on a project and then take the middle. In my experience the lowest bidder usually doesn't understand w
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by jobu 7y ago
From the NYTimes article: > In the 2017 fiscal year, FedEx owed more than $1.5 billion in taxes. The next year, it owed nothing. > Its financial filings show it owed no taxes in the 2018 fiscal year overall. Company officials said
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by jobu 7y ago
My personal Macbook Pro is from 2014 and I actually like it better than my 2015 for work. Apple switched from NVIDIA to AMD graphics cards in 2015 and it seems to have had a huge thermal impact. The fans on my work machine run at full speed
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by jobu 7y ago
I found an article from April 2016 that talks about an electrolyte breakthrough with zinc and manganese batteries: > the test battery was able to reach a storage capacity of 285 milliAmpere-hours per gram of manganese oxide over 5,000 c
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by jobu 7y ago
> Customers regularly report cost savings of 90% by switching from Oracle to AWS. How the hell is Oracle still able to charge so much? Earlier this year we were looking to spin up a temporary development instance of Oracle DB for a pro
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by jobu 7y ago
There has to be a balance. Electronic fuel injection (EFI) is far more reliable and adaptable than even the best carburetors. Electronic safety systems may have reduced some of the longevity of a vehicle, but the alternative is higher cha
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by jobu 7y ago
He was absolutely instrumental to the early success. In some places they were actively breaking the law just to operate there, and Kalanick was able disrupt the system and make Uber important enough to change the laws. However, that doesn&#
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by jobu 7y ago
That article made no sense to me, so here's a much better version on People: https://people.com/tv/stranger-things-fans-photography-darkr... This is the StackExchange question that went viral: https://m
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by jobu 7y ago
DirecTV, Comcast, and Netflix are all losing customers. Are there winners in this space or are people finding other things to do with their time?
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by jobu 7y ago
It's ridiculous that iPhone didn't switch to USB-C when they dropped the headphone jack. Apple used to be so good about consistency and compatibility between products.
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by jobu 8y ago
He clarified this point it a bit in the second paragraph: "Mr. Beecher advised young men to get in debt if they could to a small amount in the purchase of land, in the country districts. “If a young man,” he says, “will only get in de
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by jobu 8y ago
On any popular video or channel the comments have always been a cesspool of hate and evil. I am glad that YouTube is finally trying to do _something_ about it, but it also seems really shitty that it took pedophiles to instigate an advertis
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by jobu 8y ago
> nickel is toxic as hell, and many people are allergic to it Unfortunately that doesn't stop companies from making loads of cheap jewelry and eyeglasses out of nickel alloys. And there are lots of applications where a nickel allerg
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by jobu 8y ago
Stealing trade secrets and technology has historically been very common among developing nations (the US included). https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-18/us-complains-other-na...
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by jobu 8y ago
> Part of the return the public is supposed to see for granting legal protection to IP is that the IP is then made widely available (as well as eventually entering the public domain) and can be built upon for personal use, commentated u
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by jobu 8y ago
That's just a shitty pharmacy. Walgreens tried to do the same thing to me and that's why refuse to do any business there. The local chain I use now is pretty good about helping me find the cheapest option for prescriptions (someti
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by jobu 8y ago
Didn't Apple change the rules about external accounts and subscriptions a couple years back? I thought you could create an app that required an external account (and external purchases) as long as there was no links to the external sit
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by jobu 8y ago
Years ago there was a "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!" episode on recycling that did a decent job of looking into the psychology and economics of recycling. What I remember is that most people feel bad about throwing stuff away, so
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by jobu 8y ago
Growing timber like Weyerhaeuser does should probably be counted as cropland. They grow mono-culture trees the same way most farmers grow corn, but instead of harvesting every year it's every couple decades. The very last line is what
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by jobu 8y ago
This reminds me a bit of the science of nanoinformatics as described in one of the Expanse novellas (The Vital Abyss): " A thought experiment from my first course in the program: Take a bar of metal and put a single notch in it. The tw
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by jobu 8y ago
> Just be real. This works pretty well in smaller companies or startups, but corporate culture is usually political enough that it would be a disaster for your career. > Then just ask how they want to deal with it. Disagree. Anytime y
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by jobu 8y ago
> Be prepared with details, but if he/she doesn't ask for them, don't provide any. Also be prepared with solutions. Any decent manager or product owner is going to ask things like: "What's a realistic timeline?&q
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by jobu 8y ago
Thanks! That was more interesting than the Ars Technica article.
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by jobu 8y ago
While I agree with most of your points, this one seems arguable: > Microsoft Excel remains the default lingua franca of business. Google Docs and Spreadsheets has not replaced Office. Google Docs, Sheets and Slides have taken over the
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by jobu 8y ago
For me it was very similar to the early stages of a bad flu. Tired, headaches, body aches, irritable, and mild nausea for about 5 days. I've heard that MCT oil can ease the transition a bit, but be careful because too much can cause s

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