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by jpollock 6y ago
Although, a good 12hrs lets you do follow-the-sun support without having to be woken up in the middle of the night! :)
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by jpollock 6y ago
If you can move to a cheaper location and perform your job, your job can be exported to a cheaper country and performed there. It is possible to outsource jobs overseas, but the additional friction in communication will frequently overwhelm
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by jpollock 6y ago
I kept waiting for how coppicing would fit into modern lumber and energy production, it never showed up in the article. I guess they could use the sticks to produce bamboo like plywood? Maybe chipboard - except that's typically produce
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by jpollock 6y ago
Code reuse can result in failures. Sometimes those failures are big and loud. The Ariane 5 failure also happened in 1996, which is quite funny. :) https://www.bugsnag.com/blog/bug-day-ariane-5-disaster https:/&#x
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by jpollock 6y ago
The incumbents own the poles, which means they set the price and determine who gets access. That prevents new entrants.
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by jpollock 6y ago
Which would be a huge indication that Fortnite is a key feature. However, it seems bubble colour is important. "Why'd You Push That Button - Why do iPhone users judge people with green text bubbles?" https://www.th
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by jpollock 6y ago
~25% (straight line) of their customer base churns to a new iPhone every year [1]. Those customers will no longer be able to download Fortnite. [1] https://9to5mac.com/2019/02/08/four-year-smartphone-upgrades.
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by jpollock 6y ago
It's about the money flow. If the money flows from the User to the Developer, Apple wants a cut as a middleman. The argument is that the store owner brought the customer to the seller, so they should get a cut - and it shouldn't b
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by jpollock 6y ago
Perhaps the ability to submit a patch in the required format is a fizzbuzz?
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by jpollock 6y ago
NZD $0.30 = USD$0.20 However, even that can't be compared, because in NZ, electricity charges include all distribution costs. Americans typically only look at the generator charge per kwh, ignoring transmission, lines and any daily cha
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by jpollock 6y ago
You can use a lot of cheap, refillable energy to get the missile up to altitude. Otherwise, you need a bigger rocket on the back of every missile.
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by jpollock 6y ago
Why it's anachronistic is interesting. The bastion was dropped because attackers soon learned they could get artillery fire into the bastion, and ricochet shot in there. Newer fort designs seem to be about accepting that explosions wil
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by jpollock 6y ago
This will have interesting impacts on all marketplaces. Ebay, Walmart, NewEgg, all the app stores on every platform - if a game is malware (or trashes your machine with a bug), is that Steam's responsibility? It's delivered from t
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by jpollock 6y ago
The number of grey market installs of this where people will use _any_ available US address to get the equipment and then take it back to wherever they are? Wow. This isn't just rural USA, this is rural Canada, Europe, South America, A
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by jpollock 6y ago
Here are some reasons I can come up with (3 is weak): 1) Fancy updaters with bindiff and compression take time and money. As a first step, you need repeatable builds. 2) A broken fancy updater results in a reinstall, support calls and refun
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by jpollock 6y ago
Society of Creative Anachronism. www.sca.org
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by jpollock 6y ago
The problem is that not all bits are the same, even in the last mile. There is still significant improvement in last mile delivery, where different technologies enable different layouts and possibly different cost structures. There isn&#x27
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by jpollock 6y ago
That would be an interesting research paper, particularly if it was able to quantify the effect of various blows to a companies reputation. "The effect of corporate reputation on staffing costs"? A quick googling implies "yes
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by jpollock 6y ago
Yes it has an effect. In a tight labour market, any restriction on the number of people who are willing to do your work will increase your costs. Eventually, you might start to ask "why" and change some things to bring the costs b
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by jpollock 6y ago
Will this create a new copyright license? Will I be able to pay a license fee and reprint news stories? That could be really cool.
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by jpollock 6y ago
Motorola's documentation says that firmware updates to _my_ modem are pushed by the ISP, with the rollout managed by the ISP. It may be CPE, but I purchased it retail and it is not linked to any particular ISP. https://motor
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by jpollock 6y ago
Build systems are tools just the same as an editor. In the same way that editors are opinionated about keymappings, build systems are opinionated about things like timestamps vs hashing. If you're using a tool, you really should know h
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by jpollock 6y ago
It's because cable modems are standardized with a set of upstream management protocols. They have a looong history of fleet management [1]. If you have cable internet, try going to 192.168.100.1. [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia
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by jpollock 6y ago
It all depends on where the downlinks are. I would expect the US government will require all US customer traffic to be handed off to the public Internet in the USA. Then it's subject to standard legal intercept. There was an equivalent
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by jpollock 6y ago
This year's H1-Bs don't start until October 1st, and they can't enter the US "early". https://redbus2us.com/h1b-visa-petition-filing-deadline-is-i... .
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by jpollock 6y ago
It's fixed line length, and results in a large portion of the comment being hidden off the right hand side on a mobile device.
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by jpollock 6y ago
Relevant information could have been a weather report. If the pricing on insurance isn't dynamic, and gets within the weather window, you can use a 3-day prediction to place a high-likelihood bet that the flight will be cancelled. Part
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by jpollock 6y ago
Many states have laws saying at what age a child can be left home alone. Massachusetts doesn't have a specific legislated age, but they will charge you with neglect if you get it wrong. https://www.mass.gov/info-details
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by jpollock 6y ago
The price gaps depend on currency exchange rates, and the exchange rates can change rapidly. I worked in NZ, and I was paid in NZD, but the company sold their products in USD. This meant the profit fluctuated. Dramatically. The exchange rat
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by jpollock 6y ago
Chickenpox is another one, it can re-erupt as shingles when older. My googling also turns up herpes, Epstein-Barr, measles(!), HPV, Hep-B [1]... It looks like there are many diseases which can find a host reservoir in our body to hide out f

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