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by mft_ 2y ago
> I'd expect the original agreements that were put in place--both the ones with the subcontractors as well as the purchase agreements--are quite strict on what you can do with the plane. Trying to reverse engineer software (the poli
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by mft_ 2y ago
> If UA goes down, then EU goes down, because RU will attack before EU is ready. Do you have any numbers or analysis to back this up, please? A few counterpoints: - Russia failed to 'take' a relatively unprepared Ukraine, and a
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by mft_ 2y ago
A couple of counterpoints: 1) Trump might be alienating his traditional allies and cosying up to Russia, but he still apparently sees China as a problem or adversary. 2) Thinking purely transactionally, the US is very dependent on Tiawan du
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by mft_ 2y ago
I assume this is relates to the posts in recent days suggesting Reddit is now penalising users for interacting with some posts about Luigi Mangione. As we’ve seen previously, Reddit will continue to slowly evolve in a direction that suits i
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by mft_ 2y ago
Maybe you should edit your original post?
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by mft_ 2y ago
I appreciate this logic might work for Ikea, but it doesn't make sense for most local shops: I'm not visiting them at all unless I'm >90% sure they have something I need.
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by mft_ 2y ago
I guess you just have more patience with internet search (I find hunting down a specific product on a variety of 3rd party sites far slower and more frustrating than Amazon's search), expensive and slow shipping, and the frustration of
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by mft_ 2y ago
It covers why relying only on cowboys might be a problem in the context of a startup that is scaling in the penultimate paragraph; that's it. But this concept is too broad (and interesting) to only apply to a scaling startup. So I w
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by mft_ 2y ago
I’d like be able to uninstall Edge which, as of earlier today, isn’t possible without fairly focussed time consuming effort.
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by mft_ 2y ago
I’d be interested in your recommendations; the Reacher series is the only thing I can quickly think of that’s Prime-exclusive and good?
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by mft_ 2y ago
Prime in Germany is excellent - just suuuuuper-reliable. I’d actually like to use it a lot less, but: 1) My experience of shopping in either our small town or the major city nearby is that finding anything remotely out of the mainstream (eg
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by mft_ 2y ago
As a self-identified cowboy, I must point out that the article doesn’t cover the downsides of cowboys. For example: - a cowboy trying to disrupt an established system (for the best of motives) may cause a big bubble of additional work, str
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by mft_ 2y ago
…or improve underlying work processes, presumably? It’s possible that someone could be doing a perfectly adequate job which is either unimpressive to an observer, or doesn’t take up all of their time, while doing exactly what is asked of th
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by mft_ 2y ago
That was a concern in the early days of development of anti PD(L)-1 agents - that chemo and even steroids would harm the T-cells you’re trying to activate. Yet there are settings where a deliberate combination of anti PD-1 with chemotherapy
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by mft_ 2y ago
The artist that springs to mind right now is Amy Goodchild. www.amygoodchild.com
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by mft_ 2y ago
I totally get your underlying point, but sometimes it comes down to pragmatism. If one’s goal is for the world to work as efficiently and with as little friction as possible, then things like a single common language make a lot of sense. Fo
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by mft_ 2y ago
A technique I use regularly (mostly for decision-making in meetings) and successfully is the five finger approach. Essentially, people have to hold up a number of fingers showing how strongly they feel about the decision that is proposed. I
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by mft_ 2y ago
It’s a long time ago now so my recollection is likely very flawed, but with HL I didn’t like the feeling of a created path that must be followed, irrespective how of the interleaving of different aspects. There are lots of modern games like
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by mft_ 2y ago
Fair point. :) Although I'd propose to optimise the concept to something like "shareholder value, inasmuch as it influences the rewards of the current leadership team, within their likely period of employment" .
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by mft_ 2y ago
You're right that torrent clients typically share during downloading, although one might limit this by limiting the upload bandwidth. However, while we have no idea the lengths that Meta went to (or not), I suspect they have the engine
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by mft_ 2y ago
Really? a) Meta are (so far) releasing their models for free. b) There's nothing stopping non-mega-corps from doing the same, especially if this precedent was established. (Training is of course expensive but this is a challenge, not
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by mft_ 2y ago
Not sure if this is just misinformed, or anti-Germany/EU propaganda? Either way, not true. In Germany, if you torrent something without protection of a VPN, you may receive a letter from a blood-sucking legal firm within a week or two
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by mft_ 2y ago
Misaligned incentives. The people who thought this up are clearly not aiming to provide the best-possible customer service. Likely, their goal is cost-saving, with delivery of a minimum-acceptable level of customer service. Let's be
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by mft_ 2y ago
Oh, this looks really grea... oh, it's another $20/m subscription...
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by mft_ 2y ago
It's getting to the point where we need a tool (a website?) that tracks the user-unfriendly features in different cars of different model years, so that we can make informed choices at buying time.
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by mft_ 2y ago
What would interest me more is innovation at the airport end of things. Much faster travel links, much faster security. Or are airport perversely incentivised to not do this to sell overpriced food and trinkets?
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by mft_ 2y ago
Yes. I suspect that many people who run online shops don’t think about this issue and, mostly, don’t even know there is an issue.
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by mft_ 2y ago
You misunderstood; the previous poster was talking about in-screen fingerprint sensors, not those found in older and SE iPhones.
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by mft_ 2y ago
Eh, I knew someone was going to nit-pick this point, which was why I wrote "first meaningful fully-reusable first stage rocket" but obviously this wasn't enough. :)
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by mft_ 2y ago
I'm not following you. The previous poster was basically supportive of SpaceX, talked about innovation, and didn't mention explosions at all. You wrote "If your metric of innovation is the amount of rockets exploded at debu

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