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901.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
In general I agree with you but there are plenty of people who will pay big money to be trained by a gold medalist not because it makes sense but just for the title. The gold medalist then has to give the same advice every other trainer wou
902.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
It definitely feels to me that the medical system is not really about "health" but about fixing things. A lot of doctors don't live particularly healthy lifestyles, hospitals feed junk food and so on. I am not saying they can
903.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
We tried it for a little and concluded that it made nothing really better but a lot of things worse. We just should accept that a tester needs to learn writing code. I wish it were different but Cucumber is not a solution.
904.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
You just have to look for 10 minutes at Cucumber and what's needed to make it work and you'll see that it's simply a bad idea. It's the same nonsense as generating code from UML or visual coding. Looks good to the non pr
905.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
Buildings like this are under permanent renovation so Paris should be used to it and the expertise should be available too. I have been to Paris quite a few times and as far as I remember there're was some scaffolding going on every ti
906.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
There are also buildings where they stopped in the middle so a church has only one tower instead of the planned to.
907.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
I guess the fines will have to be much higher so the dividend is not just slightly lower. If employees knew their job is at stake they may also be less wiling to play along. I work in medical and we sometimes get pressure to cut corners but
908.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
I think they just want to see what’s in fashion.
909.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
Back then ads had often a lot of information because they were often the only way to learn something about the product. Today’s ads have almost no information but are designed to arouse emotions.
910.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
There is a gravity wave project that wants to detect gravity waves though satellites. Probably a similar idea. I think the name is “LISA”.
911.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
We have a manager who seems to think that the only way to get good performance is to set impossible deadlines. There are no consequences for missing but it’s pretty unpleasant and stressful to have to deal with this.
912.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
My number is 5. Maybe my estimates tend to be a little optimistic :-). But in general I can look at something for a few minutes, make a quick estimate (maybe ask somebody else), multiply by 5 and be pretty close to the eventual time it will
913.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
in medical devices it usually takes five times as long to really finish the project vs. finishing development.
914.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
I'm on a project right now and I am telling people "I don't know how long it will take because nobody here has ever done anything like this. The only thing I can tell you is that nobody is wasting time and we are solving prob
915.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
I think it would be good for a lot of us to get away from the "normal" way of life to discover who we really are.
916.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
I'd agree that NASA is stagnating but without them there would probably be no private companies building rockets right now. They have done a lot of trial and error figuring out how rockets should work and now private companies are comm
917.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
"The difficulty with taxation is not calculating tax rates, that's simple, the difficulty is determining what is taxable income/profit." Exactly! Flat tax is just another trick to reduce top tax rates while not solving a
918.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
True. they seem pretty solid. Do they do price matching?
919.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
I never thought it would get that way but I feel more comfortable now buying from ebay from a seller with good feedback. Amazon is such a cesspool of weird sellers. For example I looked for flashes of Godox brand. Listings had "Godox&q
920.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
There is always a tendency to make wars against the wrong people like the war on drugs going against drug users or the war on poverty going against poor people.
921.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
"immense societal consensus." Wasn't it more that some kings or bishops got a big ego trip and the peasants had to do the work and got taxed?
922.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
"I'm tasked to listen to what the experts are saying and ask questions until a solution presents itself." This may be a role if 1) you actually listen very carefully and 2)things are not already on fire. There is a time for t
923.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
Fire retardant doesn't put out a fire. It just prevents a fire from spreading. And even that only to some degree.
924.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
It scares me that Trump may perform his daily tasks with the same amount of thought he applied to this recommendation or when he talked about the CA fires. Can't the guy either shut up or at least think for a second before he puts some
925.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
I bet there are other smartasses in high position in France who also give "advice" or are asking questions and they may be more difficult to ignore. Some managers have the courage to tell these people to f... off but a lot of them
926.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
I don't know. Ask an expert or do some research yourself.
927.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
Agree about the executives but if the shareholders and employees feel enough pain they may actually do something. Right now the "punishment" doesn't cause anybody enough pain.
928.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
If the WTC fire hadn't been a government conspiracy it could easily have been stopped if they just had asked a few internet forums or Twitter users, right?
929.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
Trump gave the same advice. After being involved in projects where we had to put out some fires it annoys the hell out of me when people who never have thought about the problem give some "advice" or say "why don't you j
930.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
It has been shown repeatedly that boards won't do much and repeated fines are more and more just another cost of business. Either the fines need to be raised to a level where the company loses profit for one or more years or we need to

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