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I always viewed bus/rail transit centers as a place outside of downtown where all the bus traffic meets up to catch the train. Fewer stops for your train, and you are only sending the full trains downtown. At the downtown hub there are
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+ rescue plane couldn't communicate with nearby ships
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Top heavy teams also mean that your few 'doers' spend more time defending themselves and their schedule.
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You can't just build a skyscraper because you decide you want to. There are a crazy amount of rules/laws/zoning/permits that surround high density construction. "40% of the buildings in Manhattan could not be built
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Boeing complained that Bombardier received government subsidies? That's like Bernie Madoff complaining that he didn't get the right amount of change when buying coffee.
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RFCs point both ways. Documenting decisions is a positive management trait. Otherwise you can easily end up with a mess that no one takes responsibility for. Management decisions and associated rules will happen regardless of documentatio
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A chargeback (reg E claim) is paid by the vendor not the CC company. The vendor absorbs the risk of fraud.
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Technology almost never advances directly. Predicting the future would be easy if things simply improved by 1% per year across the board. Tech advances are always a series of lateral moves. Where the last innovation allows for the next new
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Mirror other comments in that you should probably get checked out by a medical professional. If it's at the point where you are asking HN, you should probably also be telling a Doctor. Specific to your stated concerns: 1. Family Commit
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"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." - Picasso
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Failure to focus on the logistics surrounding the team, while relentlessly pushing out carrots and sticks for more productivity. If you have the right skills, training, tools, and processes; things get done well. When there are gaps in thes
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Being outside the tech bubble is hardly a desolate wasteland. Certainly many of you have friends and family outside of tech circles, and already know this. Tech is certainly a nice field filled with opportunity, more than many other profess
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We have a mandated bible study program covering the ten commandments. Oh that alienates you? So you want to murder people and steal stuff? We are going to fire/blacklist you now as a thief.
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The problem isn't what this person's views are. The problem is that you aren't allowed to have a nonconformist view. Precisely what diversity and tolerance are supposed to bring. "We have people from all backgrounds prov
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I am betting somone saw a boxed evap cooler and assumed it was an AC unit when they felt the cool air.
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They included industrial energy consumption and Texas is home to more oil refining than any other state.
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Gamut: Image Based Industrial Parts Database(gamut.com)
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Rapid driving: how ignoring red lights makes the iCar so fast.
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Yes the meme of the "coal powered car". TBF, I wouldn't mind that at all. That means we could be domestically self sufficient with our energy needs. Not to mention it's a lot easier/cheaper to have one big coal plan
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Mechanization has always obviated mental labor as well. Turning the same screw on an assembly line 100 times as day is vastly less mental labor than building a car as an artisan. Advances in technology and business processes are often made
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Yes in many cases they got out of tech. One of the nice things about tech careers is that your floor is most other people's ceiling. Having tech skills in the early 2000s created a large gap between you and other office workers. Imagin
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By 2000 everyone knew there was going to be a big correction. Few accurately imagined how big. It was like going to the doctors because you knew something was 'a little off' and finding out that you were going to die in three mont
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Large number of comments here acting like A/C is some wasteful extravagance, or that people who live in warm climates should just move or 'get used to the heat'. I don't mean to spoil the moralizing fun here, but cooling
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Here's the test. Reverse the situation. Off-duty cop is buying a car and random good neighbor black person sees all the same "suspicious behaviors" and begins an armed confrontation with the person they believe to be stealing
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The biggest difference is how much car you buy rather than new vs used. Commonly I see people buying used to 'save money'. But the car they buy to commute to work is a three row luxury SUV. Much higher cost than a new hatchback. S
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Calories in/out is true. As in it is an accurate statement. The problem is that common examinations of diet focus on this math rather than what motivates humans to eat. It is like saying 'the problem with traffic is too many cars.
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Wouldn't Robespierre be a better example than Guillotin?
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After code is written it goes through a compilation step that makes it easier for machines to read and harder for humans to understand. Think of the index of a reference book. Where every pertinent word is listed along with a page number. I
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You're too focused on the technology aspect, when that is only the linchpin. There are a number of contributing factors here, but I will summarize. 1. CPUs are diminishing in importance. They aren't the bottleneck for most applica
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That was Intel as a powerful incumbent pushing out one major competitor in the same market. AMD made better chips for years, but couldn't displace Intel due to Intel's entrenched advantages (Market share/Legal etc...). Now th

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