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by mandevil 7y ago
Not the OP, but I presume Software Engineer.
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by mandevil 7y ago
The MKZT-79221 that is the basis for both the Yars and Topol-M TEL is rated for driving off-road, and both TELs are even considered capable of launching off-road. About half of the Russian mobile ICBM force are based in the Volga plain, and
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by mandevil 7y ago
Russia's strategic submarine fleet is not the same as the US FBM force. USN boomers are deploying constantly , to the point where they have literally two different crews (Blue and Gold) to minimize the time the actual hulls stay in po
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by mandevil 7y ago
Counterpoint: I've worked at SV unicorns that were not public, and did not intend to go public in the near term. And they had a similar "damn the torpedoes! full speed ahead!" attitude. So I think it is more pervasive than ju
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by mandevil 7y ago
Google News for top articles on Palantir shows many about some sort of IPO/fundraising round, but also: https://www.businessinsider.com/activist-group-targets-palan... https://www.forbes.com/sites/
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by mandevil 7y ago
I found this article to be fascinating. I loved how the big bad bogeymen we all know (Palantir, Facebook) are mentioned a few times (Google is never even mentioned), but the anonymous organizations that many of us would never give a second
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by mandevil 7y ago
By US law (GINA, passed in 2008), health insurance companies and employers are barred from discriminating on the basis of genetic results. Life insurance companies are allowed to, as is housing and schooling, interestingly enough.
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by mandevil 7y ago
I've always thought it was wealth. Around the world, wealthy people tended to have fairly similar diets with lots of meat (even in Asian areas, with exceptions for Jains and others who had religious objections). It's poor regions
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by mandevil 7y ago
One good answer to why Chinese and Japanese-Americans specifically, but generalizing to all Asians "got less fucked in today's society" is the excellent book _Color of Success: Asian-Americans and the Origins of the Model Min
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by mandevil 7y ago
Thomas Cook was not a classic American-style travel agency, separate from the airlines; their specialty was all-in-one package trips, largely on chartered aircraft and with leased hotel rooms, etc. So, for the American context, think of wha
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by mandevil 7y ago
Been hit by that with Uber as well, due to traffic. 'You were so late you missed the first act of the show AND we charged you twice as much as we said we would!' was a fun night.
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by mandevil 7y ago
I have been in companies that open-sourced small bits like this. Basically, it worked like this: someone came up with a cool tool that helped them (in this particular case, likely finding NPE's in their Android app). Then others heard
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by mandevil 7y ago
Food prices in general tend to follow hydrocarbon prices. Not just because of the tractors and trucks, but also because of fertilizer. The Haber process is essentially a method of turning natural gas into corn and wheat (and then beef, pork
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by mandevil 7y ago
"WeWork used [a sensor network that tracked everyone throughout the building combined with machine learning] to learn that people drink coffee in the morning so they should hire a barista." Source: https://twitter.com&#
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by mandevil 7y ago
A contemporary (to the exit) account certainly thought Trello underperformed, business model wise (was very complimentary of the tech stack, though)[1]. I've never worked in the B2C space so I can't comment on whether freemium was
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by mandevil 7y ago
As I said in my comment, because he makes two references to the private SO offering known as Teams, and none to the Jobs monetization. [1] Therefore, it isn't something that the current CEO thinks the next CEO should focus on, therefo
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by mandevil 7y ago
"WeWork used [a sensor network that tracked everyone throughout the building combined with machine learning] to learn that people drink coffee in the morning so they should hire a barista." Source: https://twitter.com&#
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by mandevil 7y ago
I suspect (based on nothing so take it for what that's worth) that the FogCreek Illuminati feel burned by the Trello experience: there they carefully tended, had high organic growth, spun it out to its own company after three years, an
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by mandevil 7y ago
The SAT II Math exam is administered 6 times during the 2019-2020 school year. To be used 100 times, it would have to last over 15 years. For IB/AP Calc it's even worse, that is literally given on one day to the entire country (mo
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by mandevil 7y ago
While in my younger days I would probably have agreed with this, now I think that it's more defeatist and nihilist than is warranted. The Civil War example I cited above shows why: all of the areas of focus really happened. Soldiers di
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by mandevil 7y ago
>Same with history, studying history by studying primary sources has fallen out of favor because most primary sources don't align with our world views. I can definitely see this for individuals. But are you seriously claiming that a
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by mandevil 7y ago
The issue is no one goes back to the primary sources enough? Because life is short and death is forever, we don't have the time to master all the primary sources on all possible topics. So we have to rely on secondary sources for most
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by mandevil 7y ago
I think its much more complex than just "the facts don't change." We change, all the time, and are interested in different things and so pay attention to different things and choose to tell different stories. To use the histo
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by mandevil 7y ago
So called "Off-Label" usage is totally legal in the US right now, for free. Drug companies get in trouble for advertising off-label use (that is totally verboten, the FDA regulates drug company advertising and so it can only be
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by mandevil 7y ago
There is definitely a bias towards chronic rather than acute illness, which I think is what the GP is discussing. This is why there is more research on high blood pressure than into antibiotics. On the other hand, something like Solvadi (an
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by mandevil 7y ago
At a $previousJob I had some tangential contact with professionals who track child pornography, trying to identify and free the kids (people involved in catching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Paul_Neil ). Th
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by mandevil 7y ago
The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr went to jail 29 times in his life for committing a crime. He definitely committed crimes and was willing to face the consequences of them. And just as an observation, the comparison of the way that
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by mandevil 7y ago
MS-13 was literally founded in the US, in Los Angeles. Their rise to prominence (from small street gang to transnational one) was under the control of a man named Ernesto Deras, who had been trained by US Army Green Berets in Panama while s
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by mandevil 7y ago
0dium's actual prices are likely a publicity stunt, but it says quite clearly, citing several different, independent sources, that attacks against a fully patched Android system are now worth more than the equivalent attack against a f
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by mandevil 7y ago
This is not what Zerodium says[1]. They claim, and are backing it up with millions of dollars, that current Android exploits are more valuable than current iOS, because of a large supply of iOS issues. [1]: https://www.wired.com&

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