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by mdorazio 2y ago
What's the advantage of this over a 3018 or 3030 machine? With some basic upgrades (you mentioned needing to diy anyway) you can easily cut aluminum on those for $500 or less.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Apple was at junk bond status and very close to bankruptcy in 1996 before Steve Jobs came back and turned the whole company around. Most other success stories involve first going bankrupt (ex. GM, Delta).
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by mdorazio 2y ago
> Going forward, we will be focused on fundamentally changing the culture, stabilizing the business, and improving program execution, This is corporate speak for “I don’t have a real plan and probably won’t gut leadership and start over
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by mdorazio 2y ago
I use a Boox reader, but pretty close to the same experience. For me, I either buy the book from one of the many places that lets you download epub, or buy it on the Kindle store and download it from Libgen. It's really a non-issue. I&
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by mdorazio 2y ago
The parent post was clearly asking how to fight back against a culture of exclusionism against non-Indians, which leads to racism.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Not sure if your car example was meant to be general or specific, but Lemon Laws are extremely common across the states and are very easy to take advantage of without needing to retain a lawyer. For example, in Texas you fill out a form, pa
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by mdorazio 2y ago
How did you incentivize people to do what was best for the company rather than only for themselves? What percentage of it did they own? Why should they ignore their own self-interest in favor of your company's long-term success? Th
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Does anyone know how the KCM barcodes differ from employee IDs? Seems like TSA is indexing pretty heavily on those.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
How are you calculating that? The national debt itself currently has an average interest rate higher than 3%.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Not just military training videos, older ones in general are often superior to what gets made today. My favorite is probably this one on vehicle differentials: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Ah yes, got my P plates mixed up. Thanks.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
I’d love to know, too. If it was me I’d use a small piezo plate on the side of the balloon to do it the same way hot air balloons do. Heat the gas in the balloon = go up, reverse the polarity to cool it = go down. That would be pretty energ
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Not at all. Look at the growth in human buildings in the most at-risk areas and you’ll see why that number is so big now. It’s only slightly due to an increase in severe weather event frequency / severity.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
For those wondering, a quick image search shows that all of the paintings Licia He is producing this way fall into the abstract / modern art category. They look pretty decent to me, but preferences may vary.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Nope. The experiment is to see if it's possible to run down an animal completely unaided, then capture or kill it. It sounded like they want to duplicate a pre-tool use scenario but I'm personally in the same camp as you - seems
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by mdorazio 2y ago
For those who don’t want to sit through the listen, they’re never able to do it. From the interspersed stories, the “run an animal to exhaustion” theory only works if it’s 1) not an antelope (ex. A deer), 2) the runner is good at tracking,
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by mdorazio 2y ago
The challenge with this is how far back you have to go. A lot of the damages that ultimately led to the 737 MAX and now this space boondoggle started under James McNerney, who was CEO from 2005 to 2016 and is now 74 years old.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Exactly zero of that is AI. You've described an extremely basic control loop with a few simple sensors, a lookup table, and some if-then statements.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
The "good" ones I know of tend to be smaller deals where the PE firm is pursuing a buy-and-hold approach in a sector where it has some knowledge and advantage. For example, Summa Equity bought Norsk Gjenvinning in Norway (a recycl
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Personally, I love Costco and find their product quality and employees to be better than Walmart / Sam's Club. The number of Costco members keeps increasing year over year so clearly they're doing something right [1]. [1] ht
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by mdorazio 2y ago
The obvious counterpoint to this argument is what happened in Hong Kong. A diplomatic resolution seems unlikely to have a net-positive outcome for Taiwan under the current CCP regime.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
I love what they're doing, but these are reasons that don't hold up to scrutiny. gluing flexible panels to the deck would solve the windage problem and the boat is over 16,000 pounds laden... adding another ~80 pounds (less if LiF
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by mdorazio 2y ago
A quick search is showing me new machines in the $7k range. You could probably pick up a used one for a few thousand less. This is cheaper than I would have thought, honestly - a decent full MIG rig is not exactly cheap.
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by mdorazio 2y ago
For those who just want a summary, the conclusion is... it's complicated. From the paper: "Rent controls appear to be quite effective in terms of slowing the growth of rents paid for dwellings subject to control. However, this pol
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Your linked paper still didn't answer the "why" for me. This one posits a clearer answer: microbial respiration in sediment as it dries out is the leading cause of CO2 flux [1]. If I understand the process, exposed lakebed le
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Fun fact: Starbucks baristas do get RSUs [1]. It was a core principle of the company under Howard Schultz and one of the big things he credits for Starbucks's success specifically because owning even a small part of the company incre
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by mdorazio 2y ago
Link to the preliminary study results from OpenResearch: https://www.openresearchlab.org/studies/unconditional-cash-s... Note that this was a time-limited study where participants knew they would only receive money for
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Sam Altman's basic-income study is out. Here's what it found(businessinsider.com)
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by mdorazio 2y ago
As much as I dislike Elon these days, this is basically how all his recent companies have been setup. Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and arguably even Boring are all moonshots, the latter 3 being so anti-shareholder that they aren't even pu
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by mdorazio 2y ago
I would personally love to see someone put out an “Essential guide to electronics NOT in Shenzhen” for those of us who want to keep things more local or at least avoid outsourcing entire hardware builds to China. Does such a thing exist?

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