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by mandevil 5y ago
Two different people with differently spelled last names: General William DePuy (who was MACV C-o-S, BigRedOne-Six and then ran TRADOC after the war, and is considered the architect of the rebuilding of the Army after Vietnam) is unrelated
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by mandevil 5y ago
The Nth Country Experiment, in 1964, took three freshly minted Physics Ph.D's without any security clearances of any kind, gave them access to a reasonably sized unclassified physics library, and asked them to design an implosion weapo
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by mandevil 5y ago
http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2011/11/08/the-mysterious-des... Especially take note of Carey Sublette's comment on the design history in the blog comments: Mr. Sublette is definitely a name to be reckon
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by mandevil 5y ago
I've been at multiple companies with formalized postmortem processes that involved final documents that were widely available within the company. And at each of them, I spent a few hours one afternoon reading down the last 30 or so. An
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by mandevil 5y ago
I think a lot of this is that ships have gotten massively larger quite recently. Just to focus on the Evergreen Marine fleet ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_Marine_Corporation ) you can see that until 2013 the
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by mandevil 5y ago
The channel is not closed: in fact what happened is that she was supposed to turn tightly into the channel and ... didn't. So she continued on ahead, burying herself an entire boat length into the sandbar. This is why she is stuck so t
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by mandevil 5y ago
Fred Brooks' other famous bit (besides the "mythical man month"): "You should plan to throw one away. You will anyway."
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by mandevil 5y ago
One thing about his hours comparisons: it is not clear that British and American yards counted hours the same. This matters for office work like accounting, materials received, etc.- was that counted or not? Which of them was counted, for w
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by mandevil 5y ago
Yeah, that's a terrible justification: that just means that people who are connected and friends get better pay, and those who are outsiders and less connected get worse pay: because they don't know what to ask for they'll li
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by mandevil 5y ago
General Motors, the car company that owns Cruise, has a Chief Executive Officer, Mary Barra.
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by mandevil 5y ago
If your employees find out that there is a 50% difference in their salary's for the same official job title I suspect that they are going to be very upset, unless you've been open and clear with them up front. Shrink your salary b
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by mandevil 5y ago
Tyler Cowen's ethnic food dining guide: https://tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com/ Suggests that, in the US at least, the ethnic enclave suburbs (not the richer ones or the exurbs) are often better choices for food than
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by mandevil 5y ago
https://archive.is/uh9K4 is a Seattle area account of this. Most of the money is being returned, no criminal charges are being filed against either a Nelson or Kirschner. ("The investigation hasn't led to criminal
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by mandevil 5y ago
Different issue were Google is being sued. This is related to NLRB rulings on the four union organizers Google fired back in 2019- they sued for illegally being fired for union organizing work. Under the previous administration the behavior
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by mandevil 5y ago
I think you have a serious misunderstanding of the DES story: the NSA made changes to the S-box without explanation in the 1970's, and everyone was suspicious at the time, but then 15 years later two researchers "discovered"
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by mandevil 5y ago
Is the value of the degree the knowledge and experience (and connections) you made along the way, or is it just the signalling that this institution vouches for your ability to clear a bar? Interesting philosophical discussion point. If the
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by mandevil 5y ago
The ACA (Obamcare) revamped student loans such that banks no longer got government guarantees for loans they originated. (The GOP unanimously opposed this "Government Takeover" of the student loan system.) This has created a syste
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by mandevil 5y ago
In the 1970's a couple of doctors declared bankruptcy while they were residents (and thus getting paid peanuts) because of how large their school debts were and how small their income were at that moment . Since the law didn't in
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by mandevil 5y ago
15 years ago, Circuit City laid off their highest paid retail employees, to be replaced by new hires: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna17837882 That is, management was declaring that there was no value in experience what
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by mandevil 5y ago
So one factor here is the actually computers: 50 years ago, store clerk was a medium prestige job, that had medium pay and growth prospects- there are plenty of stories of people who started a clerk and ended up in a senior position. But th
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by mandevil 5y ago
Walking my kid to his second favorite playground on the Upper East Side, there was a sign opposing the shadows from the Blood Center Tower ( https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/nyregion/new-york-blood-c...
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by mandevil 5y ago
As someone who started working for pay before SO and GH (damnit I'm old) what I remember is that syntax errors took longer to figure out (and more trial and error), but the biggest difference to me is honestly that it is so much easier
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by mandevil 5y ago
It is really hard to predict when research will become valuable- the most valuable US Government grant ever just might turn out to be the NSF/DARPA grants for information science management that funded Brin and Page in their initial wo
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by mandevil 5y ago
The issuing banks have teams of people who are very smart, have extremely accurate data down to the individual transaction, access to the computers to crunch that data appropriately, and spend their (working) lives on this topic. You are a
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by mandevil 5y ago
Counterpoint: the HTC First (aka the Facebook Phone) was >$1 USD less than a month after it debuted, and still was a gigantic flop. Facebook Portal has sold ~1 million units. Oculus has sold ~8 million units or so (all numbers based on q
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Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company(vice.com)
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by mandevil 5y ago
Taxing the B-A gains when they are sold, even after death, is what people mean by "eliminating the stepped-up basis" as the original poster suggested doing. At present, when a heir inherits at B they pay estate tax at B, but then
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by mandevil 5y ago
Why don't we tax the dead? Seriously, they aren't going to object! Why shouldn't we? Who we tax, and what way, is entirely a choice made by a society. I routinely pay sales tax out of the income that I paid income tax on, and
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by mandevil 5y ago
I buy stock at price A and sell, it later, at price B. Assuming B > A, (if it isn't this is a whole different thing) then I am taxed on the gain the stock made, I pay tax on the value of (B-A). On the other hand, I do have all of th
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by mandevil 5y ago
From the 1960's to the present, the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System radars have been broadcasting enormous amounts of coherent power on specific, non-natural frequencies into outer space: if we were to detect a signal like that

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