losteric

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by losteric 6y ago
I think that's one of the ideas behind the Tesla power packs - acting as a power reserve over time.
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by losteric 6y ago
However, if CA is capable of delivering one should view them as more than “just“ a business... Perhaps CA’s owners found more value in not helping Cruz win?
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by losteric 6y ago
If humans are innately short-sighted and tribal/selfish creatures, any system of organization that assumes otherwise is problematic. That seems to be the case with capitalism. A society with a strong education system that perpetuates c
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by losteric 6y ago
some* - the demographic is not a block, no more than married guys. I'm a deeply introverted single guy, but personally I'm done with this. I don't like video games or TV, and virtual meet ups are so two dimensional... my pets
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by losteric 6y ago
The first isn't really a critique of OOP. It's a critique of ORMs that doesn't recognize ORMs are not OOP despite the name - they initialize state that languages refer to as "objects", but those do not offer true
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by losteric 6y ago
> People who really though it through, and tried different approaches are the ones that hate it and are vocal about it. They see through the folly. They can tell how core principles of OOP are bad ideas. How encapsulation at object level
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by losteric 6y ago
Why is that worth noting? I feel like you're being intentionally ambiguous by leaving unstated implications. Do you believe public operation had an impact on safety? Better or worse, and based on what evidence? If neither, how is your
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by losteric 6y ago
Amazon does not trawl customer data. However, metrics like AMI popularity is Amazon's data... and that definitely informs first-class AWS product development. Once the company identifies a business opportunity, different teams often
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by losteric 6y ago
Different Dixie, dolls not confederate states... Anyway, I wish people paid attention to the corporate practices and ownership behind brand names. Spoiler alert: Dixie cups are a subsidiary of Koch Industries (via Georgia Pacific).
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by losteric 6y ago
I felt his book was more arguing against racist notions of developmental inequality by painting a picture of how systemic and environmental factors influence societal evolution. We've learned more but the central thesis holds.. That s
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by losteric 6y ago
Affordable, yes, but require more time and skill to cook a meal that hits the same reward centers as the edible junk sold in cheap restaurant chains... often both short in supply among those on food stamps.
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by losteric 6y ago
Well, I blame this administration generally seeking appointments that will bend the knee over science. Plenty of prior administrations appointment science-bound officials that held the line.
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by losteric 6y ago
I think the public is simply unaware of how bad the "regular" flu can be... it's a long tail but every year otherwise apparently young healthy people die of the flu. Not to mention confounding factors of latent conditions and
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by losteric 6y ago
THIS, so much this ... for years people said bottom-up stimulus plans would inevitably cause inflation. Injecting the money on top changes little, now it's just trickle-down inflation. (and if this doesn't hold, I would love to un
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by losteric 6y ago
Why not? In that hypothetical, ramming every overturned truck while avoiding all other accidents would be a massive improvement in safety. What about the truck scenario makes it so bad as to outweigh avoiding the other accidents?
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by losteric 6y ago
If there was an autopilot that nailed every scenario in any weather condition except clearly overturned trucks in good weather, should that system be approved for general public use?
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by losteric 6y ago
I also want to see the data that "autopilot" was actually on.
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by losteric 6y ago
Does the value you create for the company depend on location? I don't think it's fair for businesses to extract more profit from me because I live in a cheaper area than my coworkers
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by losteric 6y ago
Huh, yeah - it's almost like society is made up of millions of people with different pain points and priorities.
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by losteric 6y ago
Global markets should price in externalities, and leave the moral questions up to each nation. Cultural imperialism is so last century.
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by losteric 6y ago
Any of them? Including groups that want to oppress others?
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by losteric 6y ago
huh, I really like that statement, though engagement might be more precise
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by losteric 7y ago
For some people, I think it's away of dealing with feeling isolated and alone... hurting others makes them feel better, less alone, in their unhappiness. Also probably scratches an itch for ignorant/powerless sociopaths.
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by losteric 7y ago
I think the point was startups shouldn't have non-essential expenses, full stop... if the churn of the nuclear option works out, you really need to ask how so much waste accumulated in the first place.
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by losteric 7y ago
Monitoring CO2 levels? Personally, I want a discrete meter for monitoring levels in meetings... especially large design/product discussions. I suspect some of our meeting rooms have poor ventilation and CO2 build up contributes to incr
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by losteric 7y ago
Yes, this says a lot about Boeing's engineering culture... excessive bean counting... but nothing new given the MAX fiasco.
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by losteric 7y ago
If regular maintenance does not including rebooting the computer, this is news-worthy. If the maintenance schedule does document system reboots, this is boring and business as expected... no different than periodically reinflating tires o
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by losteric 7y ago
Lyft/Uber could batch the deliveries, deliver within an hour specified by the customer... those companies already have data on ratings, they can pull the best drivers on-demand and offer premium pay that's still substantially less
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by losteric 7y ago
Yes, I'd assume home owners modify their house... but that doesn't really answer the question.
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by losteric 7y ago
How many people does your situation apply to? Personally, I prefer having a landlord take care of appliances over the freedom to make my own changes.

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