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by jordanb 2y ago
Chicago doesn't allow 5 over 1s. All those new 3-5 story buildings in Chicago are masonry (CMU) or steel frame curtain wall. I've watched some of them get built. Building out of CMU is cost effective and they can be combined with
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by jordanb 2y ago
No the dominant deformation on earth is that it is flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator. This is because of axial momentum and makes the earth an oblate spheroid. If you stand at sea level at a pole you are much closer to the ce
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by jordanb 2y ago
That doesn't seem plausible given that "scientific management" is quite a bit older and one of its main concepts comes from an experiment in surveillance from 1927. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne
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by jordanb 2y ago
Improper alloying, improper heat treating, improper rolling/forming. Trying to back out what you actually have (if you don't trust the supply chain) can be expensive metallurgical analysis involving destructive testing, spectromet
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by jordanb 2y ago
These cars are notorious for detonating engines between a problem with sand being left in the block from the casting to direct-only injection causing premature valve failure because egr crud doesn't get cleaned off.
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by jordanb 2y ago
I once went to a talk by an SOM architect (SOM is the firm that does the engineering work on nearly all supertalls). He said that on a cost of construction versus land value basis, even in the most expensive markets, it makes no sense to go
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by jordanb 2y ago
> Stunning lack of empathy Which is very typical of HN and the tech community in general. Maybe the downturn will reset tech people's humility a bit.
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by jordanb 2y ago
At&t did not reduce rates under the consent decree, regulators did. But the specific complaint that led to antitrust action had more to do with the control at&t was exerting over the network preventing the adoption of new technology
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by jordanb 2y ago
They absolutely test every component individually.
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by jordanb 2y ago
FWIU talking to people in hospitality the advantage of the QR menu is it could be changed rapidly with no printing costs. In the wake of the pandemic that meant increasing prices.
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by jordanb 2y ago
I am beginning to think that a huge part of medicalizing psycological probelms is really about getting people to accept a life that has been imposed on them that leaves them profoundly unhappy, hopeless and unfulfilled. A stark example: my
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by jordanb 2y ago
Laura Chambers is a former McKinsey consultant.
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by jordanb 2y ago
If you are interested in how this all worked there is a book called 'Destructive Creation'. Here is an interview with the author: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gdbjVMxdnpQ
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by jordanb 2y ago
What were the people of Alang doing before shipbreaking? Were they starving? We know from the history of enclosure that the starvation was an intentional strategy to compel people into wage work. There were guides to how to do enclosure tha
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by jordanb 2y ago
Just like with every previous AI boom/winter cycle 1) you get an amazing demo that blows everybody's nips off after working in obscurity for many years. 2) everyone thinks that, because they just learned about the current state of
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by jordanb 2y ago
Most aircraft are not built on assembly lines. They're moved to a station where a lot of sub assembly work is done and then moved to a different station. All the assembly work is done by hand. You can see that these planes are all at v
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by jordanb 2y ago
I'm hopeful for this silicon valley downturn because while I think you're right that most software business plans are capital-light and could be bootstrapped, the problem with the boom times is that if you try to bootstrap and val
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by jordanb 2y ago
SBF was able to fit the image of the boy genius that the partners at the VCs (who mostly were probably not boomers) were looking for, while still coming off as "one of them." They thought that the crazy hair and the video game stu
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by jordanb 2y ago
As a class VC is a lousy investment. Warren Buffett has described PE as a horrible investment class populated entirely by grifters who lock up your money for 10 years and fuck around with it, producing awful returns. The way he describes it
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by jordanb 2y ago
I'm wondering what the effect would be if we had astronauts on the moon, or on the way to mars.
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by jordanb 3y ago
Our whole economy is feeling increasingly Soviet. Somehow our business leaders have decided that the best business is one that does not serve its customers, and that providing a good or service efficiently and effectively is poor management
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by jordanb 3y ago
I strongly suspect that weaseling their way into government agencies and then using that to launder influence over the bureaucracy is a key selling point for management consultants. Regulatory capture as a service.
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by jordanb 3y ago
McKinsey's MO is to have consultants work for a few years and then become "Alumni" who work for real companies and/or become secretaries of transportation where they can hire McKinsey to screw more things up. This is the
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by jordanb 3y ago
Nah at this point, if you are willing to sign on with a company like McKinsey it suggests you have absolutely no moral compass. What they do is very well understood.
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by jordanb 3y ago
Fasteners are very expensive from a production perspective because they take a long time to install. This is why products these days are designed to be assemble with conformal, friction, or snap fit as much as possible. Deciding to sub in f
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by jordanb 3y ago
My experience with Finance/PE people is that they don't really care about any details. They want all decks to be like three slides. If you can't represent something on a spreadsheet it doesn't count. And they're ext
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by jordanb 3y ago
The US effectively had legalized opiates during the Oxycontin era. Many people were addicted to these drugs under order of their doctor. Then their supply was cutoff and they started seeing illicit sources. Enter: Fentanyl.
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by jordanb 3y ago
This is my thought too. Whenever I see one of these "crazy ways criminals give themselves away" stories I'm now thinking I'm probably looking at a parallel construction. During the Floyd protests a woman was recorded on
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by jordanb 3y ago
Are we talking about this Jack Welch? https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Broke-Capitalism-America_and/...
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by jordanb 3y ago
He went from being basically a failed founder of a YC company to running YC. Then rumors are that he was fired from YC and then somehow went into AI stuff from there. He's one of those guys like Kevin Rose who seems to be able to fail

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