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by kec 6y ago
The US president is the single most powerful person in the world. If he says "Hey $literally_any_media_outlet, I'd like to make a statement, want to swing by the rose garden in 20?" The media will fall over themselves to do s
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by kec 6y ago
Police helicopters don’t regularly kill dozens of people. The helicopter is more akin to a cop walking around with a sidearm. Still not great, but less overtly threatening.
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by kec 6y ago
Pointing a gun at someone is a threat even if you say it's unloaded. The US government should not be threatening its citizens. > The government could in theory drive a ballistic missile launcher hidden in an 18-wheeler into any majo
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by kec 6y ago
Predator drones can carry multiple air to ground missiles and guided bombs. This is the same model of drone which is used for drone strikes in the Middle East. There is no reasonable reason for a domestic civilian agency to own or use these
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by kec 6y ago
Better (and simpler), there needs to be a fine or other punishment for fraudulent copyright claims. Even better if that fine can be proportional to income of the claimant.
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by kec 6y ago
If you don't occasionally go back to appreciate what you've built, you're probably not taking enough pride in your work. If you don't occasionally go back and become horribly embarrassed at what you've done you&#x27
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by kec 6y ago
Funding doesn’t matter much if your customer base either doesn’t exist anymore (eg b2b sass companies trying to build a foothold via other startups) or has drastically shrunk (b2c companies targeting consumers with reduced buying power).
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by kec 6y ago
I’m guessing things aren’t quite so clear cut as you think they are. Trivially, Apple has an engineering presence in various European countries, it wouldn’t make sense to have this clause in their employment contract if it wasn’t applicable
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by kec 6y ago
Apple is a software company which produces operating systems, programming languages and applications. How are you supposed to prove that you aren’t using knowledge gleaned from Apple in your OSS side hustle? Given the breadth of Apples offe
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by kec 6y ago
If this is a serious question: People wanted the Federal government to act as a single purchaser to source and transparently distribute material to the states, leveraging efficiencies of scale and a view of the whole situation. No one was a
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by kec 7y ago
"mild" means "you probably have pneumonia, just not bad enough that it could suddenly kill you, so you don't need to be in the hospital (yet?)"
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by kec 7y ago
How do those graphs support this claim?
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by kec 7y ago
It certainly is, compare Vietnam to Iraq. If LBJ and Nixon had predator drones we never would have left.
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by kec 7y ago
I didn't, I was trying to point out that the unintended and inevitable outcome of making war cheaper to wage (either in dollars or lives of your own soldiers) is more war.
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by kec 7y ago
The end result of your stance is essentially arguing that the only problem with American intervention in the Middle East is that it isn't efficient enough.
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by kec 7y ago
I would interpret that data precisely the opposite: designing and manufacturing a new car is hard, swapping out the power plant is much easier. Thousands of Ford and Toyota engineers are doing something and it isn't redesigning an IC
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by kec 7y ago
I don’t think automotive or manufacturing engineering have changed all that much in the last 10 years compared to the previous 100.... ICE manufacturers make a platform and use it for years, sometimes decades, with only relatively minor twe
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by kec 7y ago
Is this actually true, or just tech hubris? It took Tesla 5 years to essentially just swap the powertrain + rebadge a Lotus Elise, another 5 and millions in investment before their first in house design.
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by kec 7y ago
Consumers can be assholes as well. I was harassed by one of my neighbors and the police because their ring camera caught me walking through the parking lot in front of my building on the same afternoon this neighbors car was broken into.
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by kec 7y ago
I believe he meant they changed the scale of their test equipment display to more clearly reveal high frequency noise, not that they clocked their circuit higher.
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by kec 7y ago
Never said they did, but it makes shopping Costco online not really worth it.
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by kec 7y ago
As far as I can tell, Costco.com doesn’t give you the same price as in warehouse, even if you’re a member.
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by kec 7y ago
There are only so many $10-15/month services one can sign up for before you’re paying just as much as you would for cable, but now the UX is splintered and shit.
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by kec 7y ago
The parts of California which don’t have a housing problem are, broadly speaking, the parts of California which aren’t attractive to a ton of people as places to live. The root cause is prop 13 disincentivizes moving around keeping the supp
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by kec 7y ago
All that plus an extra 20ms of input lag on top of whatever your tv already gives you because speed of light is a thing....
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by kec 7y ago
"oh no, this asset appreciated too much, woe is me! Now I'll have to sell and become a homeless millionaire"
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by kec 7y ago
And Tesla has announced a "roadster" with a hardtop roof and two rows of seats....
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by kec 7y ago
Aside from Unicode strings, what changes actually required breaking backwards compatibility. For that matter, why did the switch to unicode strings require breaking backwards compatibility? I don't understand why we couldn't just
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by kec 7y ago
> The really sad part about it was as we were leaving, they were establishing a training program for junior H1-B’s with liberal arts degrees to learn programming. I have no idea how they got the visa licenses for those folks H1b places n
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by kec 7y ago
>The only way right now to ensure repairability is to legalize how phones should be assembled and basic architecture. The same way eu did with the charging port - although they didn't went after apple for some reason. > On the ot

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