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by mdorazio 6y ago
As a counterpoint and to reiterate the parent comment's point, masks are a stark visual reminder that you need to practice other measures like social distancing and going out less. I'd be willing to bet that masks increase likeli
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by mdorazio 6y ago
In case you're unaware, Wonder Woman came out of Marston's repressed S&M fantasies and belief in feminine superiority. The costumes and weapons (a lasso/rope...) reflect that specifically.
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by mdorazio 6y ago
That was the purpose of universities when the student populations were smaller, wealthier, and more focused on actually learning about the world. But decades ago the US culture shifted to "everyone must go to college as a prerequisi
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Somewhat related to this, I really enjoyed playing the (computer) game "We Were Here Together" with a friend while we're in Covid quarantine/social distancing. I'd love to hear recommendations from others on simila
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by mdorazio 6y ago
I don't agree the problems are comparable at all. The original Merlin engines were modern iterations of proven technology and vertical landing rockets were already proven technology dating back many decades to the DC-X [1] and Apollo
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Consultant for well over a decade now. I've worked with quite a few MBB kids over the years as well as with clients who previously hired them. I'd say it's fairly uncommon for clients to actually yell at the analysts on the
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by mdorazio 6y ago
I respect your perspective, but it's one I mostly see in younger people. It's basically that personal achievement and being able to single-handedly deliver things are the most meaningful outcomes of work. The perspective that I&
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by mdorazio 6y ago
For myself and most people in my circle of friends it's roughly: actively advancing the level of humanity. That means different things to different people - for some it's working on autonomous vehicles, for others it's space
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Counterpoint: exceedingly few tech entrepreneurship companies are doing anything at all that is really new and "radically different". Most are doing rather small and unimaginative things that make money by doing some equivalent o
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by mdorazio 6y ago
This shouldn't be all that newsworthy, except that it's Tesla this time. NHTSA investigations happen fairly frequently for all kinds of issues - you can see them at [1]. [1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/search/safet
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Kitchen fires are very common, as is cancer (not to mention the slew of other issues that require medical attention). Being in a situation where having a concealed gun in public will help anything is not. You haven't addressed any pa
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by mdorazio 6y ago
You never know... what? I'm a 2A supporter and a hunter, but I simply don't understand this kind of reasoning for why you need to concealed carry. The chance of you ever being in a position where having a firearm on you in publi
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Traditional pricing, including value-based, only works in an actual competitive market where customers have more than two realistic options. In the case of the app market, it's basically cartel pricing where both providers charge the
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Valve's strategy is actually the norm for the business world in general. The more business you do with a supplier/platform, the cheaper your unit costs get. If you're a small business buying 100 widgets, the price per widge
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Does it still nag you repeatedly about your device settings being insecure as well after you enable it to load from non-Play sources? It's been a while since I was on Android, but remember that being immensely unfriendly to the whole
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Worth noting is our own rather poor showing in elite politics in the US. Around 25% women in congress. And if you look at only Republicans it's under 9%. Yes, you read that correctly.
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by mdorazio 6y ago
> Doordash built a $25 billion business powered by a combination of regulatory and labor arbitrage. This is an excellent encapsulation of most of the gig economy in one sentence and explains why I hate the entire thing. It's only a
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Desperate people tend to be in favor of things that let them keep their jobs, regardless of how exploitative and shitty. This is not a good argument in support of anything.
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Horizontal speed =/= level. The average wingsuit with a forward velocity component of 62mph is still dropping in altitude quite fast.
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by mdorazio 6y ago
I also work in consulting and think it's a bad comparison. At the top levels of consulting most of your job and a good portion of your comp are tied up in sales/profitability, and client/account management with a pretty crap
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by mdorazio 6y ago
I think this is a great idea and aligns well with what the general public wants. However, I'm afraid it might lead to injuries or even deaths of health responders if the encounters turn violent due to mental illness, drug abuse, or ge
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by mdorazio 6y ago
This is basically "the decline of America, in charts" and it's pretty depressing to read. A lot of the information here confirms that things started broadly going south at the end of the 1970s and never really recovered. A
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by mdorazio 6y ago
That's not really the core of the argument here. Epic is arguing that Apple's terms themselves (taking a cut of the revenue that's a direct result of Epic's team's efforts with zero options to do anything else) are
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Really impressive. I was skeptical from just the Apple-released info, but it seems like ditching x86 for ARM really does mean that much performance increase per watt. I'm excited to see how this plays out in both the processor and OS
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Marriage actually has nothing to do with religion at all, at least in the US. It's a legal contract and done via the local government. The wedding aspect is ancillary and not required at all. Note that this legal contract does have
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Same thought exactly. "We crowdsourced 200k in investment capital with 6k in a blog sponsorship" is the actual sequence here.
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by mdorazio 6y ago
A laser cutter is not at all the same as a laser transmitter. The beam focus, wavelength, emission pulse, etc. are all different to the point where comparing power outputs is not a good idea.
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by mdorazio 6y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that. See [1]. [1] https://towardsdatascience.com/does-technical-analysis-work-...
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by mdorazio 6y ago
I genuinely don't understand how this is supposed to work in a real-world environment. Let's say someone near a fan is infected with Covid and sneezes. The airflow from the fan would then immediately push covid-containing partic
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by mdorazio 6y ago
No, the resolution isn't even close to good enough to get that kind of detail at distance. You would need a much more expensive (and larger) device or perhaps some approach using photogrammetry and proper lighting. To your first ques

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