mandevil

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by mandevil 9y ago
The problem is that extractive industries drive Dutch Disease. A Sovereign Wealth Fund can fight it, but Dutch Disease will have an effect. (The other thing that can be done is to have the entire country save more, by running a budget surpl
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by mandevil 9y ago
Seems a reasonable text symbol for sarcastic air quotes.
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by mandevil 9y ago
Oh God, it gets worse: he interrupted the only female board member to make this ?joke?. His apology has already been emailed to the entire company. This isn't quite a defenestratable offense, but does illustrate the scale of the chal
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by mandevil 9y ago
Thanks! Fixed.
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by mandevil 9y ago
According to https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/06/13... One of the Uber board members made a misogynist joke during the company-wide meeting explaining how Uber was going to fi
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by mandevil 9y ago
Excuse me, sir or madam. You seem to have accidentally included sexual harassment in the category of "minor things." I presume that you are not such an awful human being that you actually believe this, so I would suggest choosing
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by mandevil 9y ago
Send an email to the people who manage the options. Say that you are trying to figure out your finances, and would like to know how many options are outstanding. Note that there are complicated ways that that more options might appear, depe
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by mandevil 9y ago
Gah, this brings me back to the glory days of slashdot. The software monoculture exists because of USERS. The vast majority of users don't want to have to learn three different OS, look+feel, GUI rules, etc. They just want the goddamn
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by mandevil 10y ago
>So he should give up his 5th amendment right to fend off an accusation? I don't think so, that doesn't sound like justice to me. Note that this is really complicated because this is a civil trial, with a different standard of
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by mandevil 10y ago
Nope, worse than that. Uber did have its butt kicked in China and surrendered last summer, having it's China operations purchased by Didi (the company that applied the foot to Uber's posterior). But the problem was everywhere: Ube
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by mandevil 10y ago
This is one the few times I've felt actually disappointed in Thompson. He is exactly right that Google (and basically every other company in SV) is totally implicated with the same problem. But saying that Kalanick should get another c
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by mandevil 10y ago
Everyone is talking about why she didn't sue. Given the way the courts have ruled recently on binding arbitration, is it possible that she has no recourse to actual courts, just to arbiters? (She never says if such a clause was include
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by mandevil 10y ago
Well, for certain values of "hidden" that include 40 minute long demos of product on Youtube, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f86VKjFSMJE Look around in their 293 videos on that channel and I'm sure you&
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by mandevil 10y ago
The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 (to disestablish the CAB) was passed during the Carter administration, not Reagan. Also, while the 2001 recession meant that the airline industry lost more money then they had made in profit from the Wri
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by mandevil 10y ago
I've seen people make this sort of argument all the time. First of all, the United Nations did warn Japan to surrender. The Potsdam declaration promised that if the Japanese didn't surrender, "the alternative for Japan is pro
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by mandevil 10y ago
And at what frequency would it save the payload? In 85-95% of cases, payload is safely delivered to space, so the dummy just slows things down. In most of the remaining cases the payload is lost on it's actual ride into space (e.g. the
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by mandevil 10y ago
Mocking a six ton payload is actually fairly expensive, to get the cg, vibration etc. right. A lot more difficult than payload = mock(satellite); NASA did it for the Hubble but so the ground crew could practice operations and not drop the
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by mandevil 10y ago
There were no self-destruct systems on the shuttle orbiter, though there were on the solid rocket boosters and external fuel tank. They were used only once, on the Space Shuttle Challenger after the orbiter broke up, but the SRB's were
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by mandevil 10y ago
Okay, it might not necessarily be illegal in the general case, but in the specific case described by the OP, asking that question, getting an answer, and then saying "See you later <eom>" makes it clear that that was discrim
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by mandevil 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that in the US that question is illegal to ask an interviewee. It might have been beneficial in your case, but is still totally illegal because it is one of the ways the sexual discrimination in hiring propagates.
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by mandevil 10y ago
LIDAR puts pretty severe limits on top speed. Basically, LIDAR has range limitations which means it can't detect anything further than <mumble mumble> away reliably (I last worked on a driving robot project a decade ago, forgot t
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by mandevil 10y ago
Well yes. Total domestic US car production was two orders of magnitude greater than Tesla's was last year. Ford produced 40% more cars in 1911 than Tesla did last year. Just due to scale, no other company could manage this level of res
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by mandevil 10y ago
What on earth would the government do with a stake in a privately held company? Buy and hold investment? How would they use the voting power?
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by mandevil 10y ago
In a trial over medical fraud (as the case in question is), patient records are the key evidence! Depending on the type of fraud alleged (haven't looked into this case in particular) either the argument is that the treatments were unne