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by mandevil 4y ago
I think that at this point, taking something Elon Musk says- especially about Twitter!- as having any sort of relationship to truth is the thing that's absurd.
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by mandevil 4y ago
Most Meta employees are heavily compensated in stock. RSU's and options are what made the top-end of (US) software development so rich, and therefore pulled up the compensation of everyone else at every other level of that market. What
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by mandevil 4y ago
This is one of the things that reading D.K. Brown's pentology on design of RN ships (_Before the Ironclad_, _Warrior to Dreadnought_, _Grand Fleet_, _Nelson to Vanguard_, and _Rebuilding the Royal Navy_) drives home: in the pre-WWI era
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by mandevil 4y ago
You can really see the results of the ebbs and flows of generations in this genealogy. The massive post-war three part economic, technological, and population booms just jumps out of this data. Ph.D's granted in this genalogy, per dec
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by mandevil 4y ago
Arecibo had an active capability: radar mapping Venus most famously, that really can't be substituted with synthetic approaches. You can use aperture synthesis (from VLBA all the way to IVS) for greater resolving power, but they don&#x
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by mandevil 4y ago
What is the biggest Gen-IV design ever built, in MW terms? Is it the 200MW Pebble Bed reactors in China that just started powering lights at the very end of last year? Given how difficult it has been to build the much more well-understood P
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by mandevil 4y ago
It wasn't Boeing that was trying to save money themselves- it was Boeing trying to save airlines money. There are hundreds of thousands of people today who can fly a 737, and mechanics who can fix a 737, etc. The airlines wanted to get
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While we are definitely back to the core question of "Great Man or inevitable progress of history" that characterizes the entirety of this discipline, I think that there are some key differences between what the Wright's were
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A great example of this is the Sagnac Effect. In 1913, French Physicist Georges Sagnac built a circular interferomter and found interference bands. He thought that this disproved Relativity and showed that an aether existed, but it turned o
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by mandevil 4y ago
This is true not just for science, but for engineering. The Wright Brothers did some fabulous engineering work and documented their work thoroughly, and none of the other claimants to first flying are nearly as well documented, but let&#x27
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by mandevil 4y ago
Reading your cite, Norvig's law is different. He credits Todd Proebsting with that observation. (Peter Norvig's law is that something that is at 50% adoption will never double again.)
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by mandevil 4y ago
When you buy a plane for 1 pound/franc, and don't have to worry about paying any development or manufacturing costs, you should be able to make money. If you can't, it's a serious problem! And I'm not sure that Air
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by mandevil 4y ago
I suspect its because of the way that COBRA works: COBRA would start for them on October 1st (their active employee insurance would cover them until Sep 30), so they are getting three months. I have never seen a health insurance that suppor
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by mandevil 4y ago
His entire beat is based on untrustworthy sources. What makes him special is that he is hanging out on Russian language carder forums and the like, monitoring the gossip and identifying new threats and patterns of behavior. That is the va
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by mandevil 4y ago
I've been thinking about the 'success' of the Marshall Plan relative to the massive failures of the various attempts to repeat it that spent significantly more money (off the top of my head: Vietnam, Balkans, Afghanistan, Ira
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by mandevil 4y ago
If you RtFA, you would see that she considers resellers, and points out that most clothes that are fashionable- especially for women, who are always judged more harshly in this sort of situation- don't hold up to wear and washing very
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by mandevil 4y ago
Colonial? (This definitely happened at my school, wondering how common this was.)
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The USN was the largest navy in the world (technically tied for it with the RN) for the entirety of the Washington Naval Treaty system. When the naval arms limitation treaties broke down, circa 1936, their spending ramped up at about the sa
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by mandevil 4y ago
Just wanted to clarify that singling out Boeing and Intel specifically was not my intention: I really meant commercial aircraft and semiconductors industries as a whole, using those two companies as a syndoche, because of the massive invest
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by mandevil 4y ago
The key 737 Max decisions were made circa 2011-2013, while James McNerney was the CEO (2005-2015). That was when the design objective of no simulator training required was set for the plane (and Boeing released marketing information promisi
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by mandevil 4y ago
In general I don't believe that being an engineer is necessary to run a technology business (some of my best leaders were not), but I have come around to believing that Intel and Boeing are exceptions: the nature of their business requ
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by mandevil 4y ago
Not OP, but someone who has gotten paid to write Java for several years. I would say that isn't that Java's semantics are that verbose, it's that the way Java is traditionally written, with every line actually 3 lines on your
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by mandevil 4y ago
Because Romans complaining about how decadent the current generations are, and how they were weaker than their ancestors, goes back at least as far as Roman literature does, a generation or two before the Battle of Zama and the end of the S
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by mandevil 4y ago
Almost certainly the is the OTHER half of ICE: ICE is two organizations, Enforcement and Removal Operations (what is widely thought of as ICE, they focus on civil deportations) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). HSI is targeting ac
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by mandevil 4y ago
Our (now healthy, five year old) son was definitely killing his mother from the womb; her liver was about to shut down due to HELLP syndrome when we did an induction. 50 years earlier and she and my child would be dead. This does actually k
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by mandevil 4y ago
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/had-enough-eh Less than a week ago ANOTHER amyloid hypothesis drug failed a Phase III, this from Roche. There are at least three more drugs based on that in Phase III righ
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by mandevil 4y ago
The importance of logistics to modern warfare.
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The Return of Industrial Warfare(rusi.org)
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by mandevil 4y ago
I never called BSA and SBC cults, but I don't think that firing people because they are part of a cult, absent any other evidence of any wrong-doing, is a good idea: it seems like it would only feed into their isolation, sense of perse
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by mandevil 4y ago
First of all, plenty of people did come forward, in the Nassar case, the Penn State case, the Catholic Church cases, the SBC, they were just basically ignored. The FBI has done multiple investigations of how they f'd up the Nassar case

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