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by jordanb 1y ago
It's a form of bundling.
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by jordanb 1y ago
CSX and BNSF will basically be forced to merge to have any hope of competing against the mega-UPNS
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by jordanb 1y ago
This merger will actually make interchange harder because this coast-to-coast mega-railroad will probably start refusing interchange from the other Class Is.
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by jordanb 1y ago
"Interchange" means the train going from one company's tracks to another. It does not involve changing trains. It involves a phone call. Additionally, it probably still wouldn't be possible for most origins and destinati
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by jordanb 1y ago
This is absurd and easily and trivially disputed. Having a nationwide network absolutely lets you compete with networks that are more regional "If you want to use our western routes you have to use us in the east too." > larger
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by jordanb 1y ago
The "gift" from Qatar is structured as a loan to the USAF that will be automatically recalled followed by a permanent gift to the "Trump library" the moment he is no longer president.
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by jordanb 1y ago
"Meet your mission objectives on the first try" is a pretty reasonable - if low-bar - definition of "works".
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by jordanb 1y ago
While it's hard to get the truth out of SpaceX but there's reliable evidence that the block one starship wasn't anywhere near its mass to orbit projections which is why they rushed the block two design which stopped their pro
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by jordanb 1y ago
> SLS is the elephant in the room and is a complete disaster SLS isn't great but it does.. you know.. work.
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by jordanb 1y ago
Inconsistent heat is never good for cooking.
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by jordanb 1y ago
FWIW I always travel with soft backpacks instead of hard-shell roller bags. I've never gotten the "you should gate check that". Soft bags fit much better in the overhead and can be squeezed to make room, so the airline employ
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by jordanb 1y ago
Either the tax treatment has an effect or it doesn't. If the market doesn't get better we can at the very least say that the whole tax thing was overstated.
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by jordanb 1y ago
And this is the marketing pitch from the people selling this stuff. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
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by jordanb 1y ago
Well it happens on both my laptop and my phone, both of which are firefox with a lot of the fingerprinting stuff like useragent knocked out, as well as adblock, etc.
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by jordanb 1y ago
Nothing special just Firefox and the normal privacy plugins.
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I'm considering it a good thing at this point that I'm getting captcha-walled with increasing frequency. It means that my setup and behavior looks more like the billions of anonymous bots flooding the web rather than a lucrative m
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by jordanb 1y ago
The solution to this is to form a Health Group that combines insurance with a whole bunch of provider services. Then approve those claims that result in you paying yourself.
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by jordanb 1y ago
Google could have cut down on this if they wanted. And in general they did until they fired Matt Cutts. The reality is, every time someone's search is satisfied by an organic result is lost revenue for Google.
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by jordanb 1y ago
Between all the talk of "alignment" and the parallel obsession with humanoid robots should make it obvious they want slaves.
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by jordanb 1y ago
Whenever I take the train at night I always sit in the front car because that's where the operator is and it's safer. Having trains with no MTA emlpoyees at all is not a way to have a safe and reliable transit system.
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by jordanb 1y ago
When Chicago got rid of the conductors, trains got slower and less reliable. If you've ever had to wait on the train while the operator has to come out of the cab to help a disabled person, respond to a door fault or call button, you&#
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by jordanb 1y ago
I knew a guy who got a job with Intel's wearable division. Everything was chaotic, everyone was toxic, and Intel one day lost interest and fired the whole division. The sad thing is they acquired the basis smartwatch and destroyed it,
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by jordanb 1y ago
Really takes a special guy to read a fantasy novel and identify with the villain.
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Unfortunately in many cases those "other people" are, for instance, California's teachers.
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Another thing is that working on a large codebase is not even mostly about writing code it's about verifying the change. There are a lot of tickets in our backlog that I could roll through "fixing" by just joyriding my IDE th
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by jordanb 1y ago
Many people committed perjury. Many barristers advised their clients to perjure themselves. Many executives within the post office and at Fujitsu conspired to deceive the courts. Many prosecutors submitted evidence to the courts they knew t
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I don't mean to let the leadership off the hook. What they did was profoundly wrong and they have blood on their hands. There were two phases though: the initial rollout, and sometime later the coverup. If they had asked very reasonabl
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by jordanb 1y ago
1) The franchise actually does represent a decent amount of stability and financial security for the franchisee. Well-run locations typically could clear a modest profit for the owner. These were not money losing franchises for the most par
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by jordanb 1y ago
Yes at some point it turned into CYA. When the leadership started realizing that there were problems with the software they started doubling down, getting even more aggressive with prosecutions, because they were trying to hide their own fu
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My entry-point was listening to this podcast, it's pretty long but it goes into the fact that the purpose of horizon was to detect fraud and reduce shrinkage, that the leadership and their consultants were coming up with outsized estim

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