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by mandevil 8y ago
They (mostly) can, just the various companies involved have no incentive to actually do the work necessary to do it. Treble is supposed to make upgrades easier, but as the article points out, most people don't have Treble, and the carr
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by mandevil 8y ago
The Washington DC MSA is, by population, the 6th largest MSA in the United States[1]. It also the 2nd most highly educated MSA in the US, by some measures[2]. The top three- and four of the top 6- richest counties in the country are part of
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by mandevil 8y ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_by_populat... Tokyo and Seoul (not on the top five Uber list but have Uber presence) are both larger than any city on Uber's top 5 list. Sao Paulo (on
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by mandevil 8y ago
The difference, as so often, is scale. If you poll 500 people in a congressional district and ask them what their reaction to Candidate X's drinking problem is, that's an information gathering poll, not one intended to sway a sign
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by mandevil 8y ago
Most control systems are not airgapped, because most people don't think of themselves as targets of that level of attack. Stuxnet was targeting national security infrastructure, which is much more likely to be airgapped, but your local
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by mandevil 8y ago
Quite honestly, most things that receivers call "push polls" are not push polls. They are honest attempts to figure out which lines of attack will resonate better with the public at large. So you try several different attacks on a
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Lyft is now the most expensive US stock to short(bloomberg.com)
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by mandevil 8y ago
As I understand it, you can short an IPO on day 1, but it probably won't work out very well for you, because the underwriting banks have agreed to buy shares at a specific price if the price falls. So if you try and short it you are ge
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by mandevil 8y ago
One of the most interesting discoveries in US medicine is that there is essentially no relationship between cost and outcomes- even within the US. The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care has shown that there are wide price disparities within the
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by mandevil 8y ago
I think you and GP are discussing different A-12's. GP is referring to the Lockheed A-12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_A-12 and you are referring to the McDonnell-Douglas A-12 https://en.wikipe
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by mandevil 8y ago
The Jones Act says that a ship has to stop at a non-US port in between US ports, UNLESS THAT SHIP IS US FLAGGED (meaning it complies with all US labor, environmental, etc. regulations)[1]. These days, very few merchant ships are US flagged:
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by mandevil 8y ago
Amazon figured this out already and took steps to prevent a backlash while the packages were being put together. This was why Amazon required NDA's from every single bid team, to prevent anyone outside from knowing what the package loo
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by mandevil 8y ago
It famously applies to sportsball players as well: if you are an NBA player you pay Canadian taxes on the game check for all games in Toronto, and California taxes on your games in LA/SAC/OAK (and there are extra jock taxes and th
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by mandevil 8y ago
And employees who count on stock options in their financial plans will not be happy.
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by mandevil 8y ago
While I totally agree that the Wright Brothers work was amazing and ground breaking, their engine was not. It weighed ~180 lbs. (was the heaviest single thing on the airplane, heavier than either of the brothers- if you look carefully you w
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by mandevil 8y ago
She's actually accused of fraud, for (allegedly) lying to US companies that what they were doing would not be in violation of any US embargo. The legal theory here is that when she made materially untrue statements that caused US organ
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by mandevil 8y ago
This probably helps but is not the sole solution. The state of Maryland has done this for 40 years and they have some of the highest Medicare hospital prices in the country. The problem seems to be consolidation: Johns Hopkins has gobbled u
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by mandevil 8y ago
Don't think it's just the US. I once worked with an otherwise lovely Swedish software engineer, who was constantly spouting anti-Danish "jokes" and insults. It was disconcerting. I wasn't sure whether to stand up f
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by mandevil 8y ago
Facebook has released a statement[1] that accuses Six4Three of "cherrypicked" document dump, that is mostly just denials with no supporting evidence. If only they hadn't undermined their own trustworthiness by, a few weeks ag
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by mandevil 8y ago
There is no quota on EpiPen production, that is just for highly restricted drugs. (Did you know that cocaine has some medical uses and is almost certainly stocked in the hospital near you? That is the kind of drug that has a quota.)
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by mandevil 8y ago
You don't just have to live in the Bay Area to get those emails, at the very least anywhere in the US you will get them. Source: have never lived in the Bay Area. Have a large number of those emails in my gmail.
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by mandevil 8y ago
The difference is in scale. English Armies in the 80 Years War rarely got above 10k, and even the largest armies of the Napoleonic Wars would be 200k, and the British maxed out at roughly 100k. The BEF had an average strength of 2 million m
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by mandevil 8y ago
Also, what effect does "we are evil" have on employee morale? What effect does a 20% decline in stock price (for a company where the RSU's and options were a significant hiring advantage) have on their ability to hire and ret
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by mandevil 8y ago
So bombing with HE is very different than bombing with incendiaries. Incendiaries want to be spread out across an area, so having everyone drop individually within a specified area is preferred. But that's not necessarily the right cho
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by mandevil 8y ago
I disagree. Mosquitoes could be very effective flown by highly skilled pilots and navigators given great latitude to use those skills effectively. But one problem with the war was that it tended to kill those highly skilled pilots and navig
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by mandevil 8y ago
If you are a paying customer, they don't (source: am a subscriber, never seen this). If you don't pay for a subscription, they need to monetize you in some other way- like by showing you more valuable ads. You can get a very cheap
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by mandevil 8y ago
Number of tests South Africa conducted[1]: 0 Number of levitated pits that South Africa tested: 0 I don't know why you think this comment was disagreeing with what I said. [1]: Like most observers today, I think that the Vela Incident
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by mandevil 8y ago
North Korea is not dropping it's nuclear weapons. No country that has ever tested 1 weapon- leave alone 6, and gotten to quite sophisticated designs- has ever given them up, and North Korea will not be the first. Also, the embargoes ar
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by mandevil 8y ago
South Africa dismantled their program because the ruling white minority- watching de Klerk negotiate with Mandela to end Apartheid- didn't trust the ANC (read: Nelson Mandela) to have nuclear weapons. Absent that political handover, I&
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by mandevil 8y ago
Well, what was Apple's response to the PRISM revelations? Apple: "We have never heard of PRISM. We do not provide any government agency direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer data must get a co

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