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by maxxxxx 8y ago
A lot of people here try solve problems by starting companies or creating technology. So instead of solving the "problem" of serving more ads like a lot of the best tech people do at Google and Facebook I am happy that the people
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
In what way are these guys different from mob guys running a protection racket? They seem to operate exactly like thugs that come to a restaurant, ask for money for "protection" and then often walk away with 10% or less of what th
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
There is no real negotiation or defined process. . You have to be willing to play hardball and outright refuse to pay. Also be willing to call every day or get a lawyer that writes nasty letters. Also be willing to deal with collection agen
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
The feedback loops are very long so it can be very frustrating to keep trying and failing. It’s also not easy to tell whether something is working or not.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
this is a tricky one if you are lacking in self-confidence or social skills. When I was younger I tried to be pleasant (or my interpretation of what I thought is pleasant) and came across as boring or a pushover. So I went the other way and
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
"I've seen more than once employees try to argue loudly for their job back, threaten violence, leave bomb threats, stalker exes, etc. all at a single company. " What kind of place was this? I have never seen such a thing.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
This makes sense to me from my experience. When I was around 18 a lot of people told stories of all the drinking (and sex) they did. I felt quite some pressure to drink more because of that. Later I found out that a lot of these stories wer
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
Agreed. Rust is another step in the right direction but I don't think it invented a new paradigm.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
Why Rust? Strongly typed languages had this capability for a long time.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
I would love a hand wind watch but those cost even more :).
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
So a person is fine until the moment they give notice and immediately become a risk after handing it in? When I saw someone walked out it felt like a show of power by a police state that signaled “we can take anybody anytime and the only th
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
I am also not sure if they actually want to promote American craftsmanship or just want to sell cheap stuff while taking advantage of ”made in America”.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
I don’t get the whole being walked out by security thing. It seems just an unnecessary show of force or humiliation without any benefit. If a person had wanted to do danger then they could have done that easily before putting in notice. It
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
That’s a nice looking watch. If it had an automatic movement I may seriously consider getting one.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
They also have very good profit margins. Would they spend less on R&D if their margins got reduced? I am not talking about reducing profit to zero or below.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
It would be pretty bad if the only phone options were iPhones or Pixels. For broad society we need cheap phones. Same for drugs or other medical treatments. First we need cheap options for all before we should worry about luxury treatments.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
Isn’t that’s what’s happening? ITER is a tokamak, Germany has built a stellarator. Other countries have smaller experiments. Right now nobody has a clear path to a commercial plant so they all try things and see which one works best in rea
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
Perfect line of reasoning. Very convincing. Let’s also stop negotiating any other government procurement. We will get some real cool fighter jets.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
How do you know all that stuff?
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
Maybe it was phrased a little awkwardly but it’s pretty easy to figure out what was probay meant.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
How do you know that the higher drug prices in the US lead to more research instead of making executives and shareholders richer? You seem to imply that. Everything aside at a minimum the US needs more transparency about pricing. The whole
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
Are you saying that all the people working on this this stuff are either idiots or liars? My impression is that there are a ton of problems but they believe they can be solved.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
"There was, and is, no intention ever to actually use tokamaks as an electrical-energy source." I thought that's what DEMO which is planned to come after ITER is for. I have listened to quite a few people working on fusion (I
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
"I can't see a reason why we don't have at least 10 of those projects being concurrently funded in the US, Europe and China. " I think it's the same reason why scaling up a dev team by 10x doesn't produce much
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
"oppression in the name of a more just society" That's how a lot of the worst dictatorships started.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
"It will be nice when the religious old generation with their ideology die off. " the new generations are already hard at work building their own oppressive ideologies.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
Special projects also often get handed to a consulting company and not to in-house staff
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
There may be something to this but objectively humans will be a hindrance in airplanes soon. They are too slow, can't multitask, need life-support systems, can't handle acceleration. A self-flying plane or even remote controlled p
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
"if everything will be automated by then and pilots will have gone the way of lighthouse keepers" I would expect so. The areas where humans do better will get smaller and smaller.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
I am not talking about ballsy moves. I am talking about middle managers blocking things because they don’t understand them or they want to keep their own pet project relevant.

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