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by jordanb 2y ago
The thing that saved the computer industry after the dot bomb was: 1) Broadband. A lot of the 90s business models that didn't work out at the time did work out a few years later as people got faster internet and 2) A little bit later t
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That doesn't make sense because a lawyer's pedigree is valuable to the firm. They want to tell their clients that "we have Harvard lawyers working on your case." Nobody really cares about the pedgree of a computer progra
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by jordanb 2y ago
> 737 Max MCAS? Layers upon layers of incompetent people / deadline chasers. It wasn't s software issue, it was a software design issue that should have been caught by the designers, engineers, quality assurance, inspectors. No
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Nimitz wanted to embargo Japan and starve them out. The big problem that McArthur and others pointed out is that all the Japanese forces on the Asian mainland and left behind in the Island Hopping campaign through the Pacific were unlikely
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by jordanb 2y ago
My opinion there are five things going on: 1) Tech hasn't really innovated since the smart phone era. VR and web3 didn't work out. All the covid B2C subscription stuff didn't work out. Big data and SaaS only partially worked
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by jordanb 2y ago
Crew/passengers on a small sailboat will use less fresh water in a day than a cruise ship passenger uses to flush the toilet once. They will know exactly how much water they used down to the quart, same with diesel. They will have very
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by jordanb 2y ago
> Is it better than having all those people fly to Longyearbyen by plane, and wander around on guided tours in the wilderness? Definitively. Don't see how you can make that determination. All those people are flying to Tromso or wha
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Sailing in a sailboat and being in a floating hotel are so diametrically opposed experiences that it's not even worth comparing. It's like the difference between back-country camping and going to Animal Kingdom.
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The patsies are the amazon marketplace sellers. The public and regulars have to play wack-a-mole on the thousands of disposable marketplace sellers and Amazon can act shocked shocked every time any particular marketplace seller is found t
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This seems very consistent with "uncharted territory."
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Interestingly the market for Aerospace engineers is really small. For many of those guys, they could only go work at Airbus or Embraer. Some could potentially get jobs in military with Lockheed or something. Very few may be able to find wor
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by jordanb 2y ago
Finance people prefer finance people. MD's bean counter management were seen as being more responsible and "hard nosed" than the Boeing management who were focused on things that "didn't drive the bottom line"
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Reportedly, Ukraine also recently flew a Russian drone over a German power plant. Why does Ukraine continue with these proactive acts?
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by jordanb 2y ago
Biggest problem for MSC is leave. You are supposed to be hitched to a ship for, say, 6 months. But then they can't find your relief, so you have to stay. You can imagine someone who was supposed to be onboard for 6 months being forced
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by jordanb 2y ago
This is a problem with Military Sealift Command, which operates these vessels with civilian mariners (CIVMAR). MSC has had recruitment and retainment problems for a long time. These problems compound because, for instance, mariners are deni
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by jordanb 2y ago
> Or maybe these are just products we don't need? Silicon valley needs a product that will make us spend even more time online than our phones, in order to sell more ad inventory and make the line go up. This is pretty much what&#x2
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Whenever anyone points out that what LLMs are doing is definitely not how a brain works the AI people respond with "maybe it's going to be better!"
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> It’s getting harder to find people who think that avoiding all sun exposure is a good idea. Not in Asia.
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People want maps and spotify in their cars. They don't want to go into a menu to open the glove box. Customers don't get the option to have all the manual controls they would have had in the 2000s plus maps and phone integration.
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> following a review to streamline the unit’s operations Sounds like they hired the Bobs.
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by jordanb 2y ago
Funny that pretty much describes the company I work for. People would work their asses off. Pull all-nighters, work through holidays, etc. Then the rounds of layoffs started happening and now nobody cares at all about the company. Everyone
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This is basically what FedNow is. You've probably heard a lot of really bad things about it. The people who say these things probably are incentivized to do so.
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Is that how they secured their rights to residuals?
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by jordanb 2y ago
Google torrent lawsuits. Tens of thousands of people have had their lives ruined due to torrent use. Claiming that there's anything illegal about adblockers is a real stretch, although I can definitely believe that they will eventually
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by jordanb 2y ago
Another component here is that, even if nothing useful comes out of this AI boom, none of the principles of any of the companies expect to be held personally responsible for the decisions they take. The statutory penalties in copyright law
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How do you figure? SpaceX needs about a billion dollars of new capital injection every 18 months or so..
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In a lot of US jurisdictions there are rules that you have 21 days to review a severance agreement. My guess is that a "you have three days to agree" type notice may run foul of that.
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This made me go search the wikipedia page. From what I can tell they had a dvd-by-mail service introduced in 2004 via Blockbuster.com. And between 2005-2010 they had a phony "no late fees" policy that got them sued for deceptive a
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> Blockbuster stores were so ubiquitous and I never thought streaming would be a thing considering the state of the internet Netflix started drinking Blockbuster's milkshake in the DVDs-by-mail day, because you didn't have to w
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by jordanb 2y ago
Network installers are still used to this day on big network buildouts, simply because office IT departments aren't staffed for that kind of work regardless of how easy the software is. But it's not like Schmidt had any strategy t

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