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by mkempe 11y ago
Say you're Tim, the new leader of Apple. Your greatest contribution to the company has been to solve logistics and operations problems, to the point where the company is vastly more profitable than all of its competitors. Do you attemp
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by mkempe 11y ago
Apple has indeed started down the path of iPhone leasing.
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by mkempe 11y ago
Here's one way to look at it: Tim Cook's deep expertise is in logistics, exclusive supplies, and large-scale production runs. What industry has been stagnating, is hence most ripe for re-invention, and heavily involves problems in
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by mkempe 11y ago
Apart from changes in sea level, sometimes the land is moving up, sometimes down. See for instance the still ongoing rebound of Scandinavia, taking place since the start of the current interglacial period (11,700 years). https://
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by mkempe 11y ago
Ignoring accumulated customer complaints is not good customer service, regardless of what you imagine their misconceptions may be.
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Climate and Human Civilization over the last 18,000 years, updated(andymaypetrophysicist.com)
1 points by mkempe 11y ago|0 comments
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by mkempe 11y ago
Much more significant than nationalism is the fact that SpaceX is a private enterprise. Private space ventures are our only hope for purposeful success, sustained expansion, and the conquest of space.
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by mkempe 11y ago
The problem in the USA is not violent crime. The problem is that there are too many arbitrary laws that are applied capriciously by prosecutors who don't care whether people are innocent or guilty, that these same prosecutors don'
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by mkempe 11y ago
Connecting your statement with the dominating use of "plea deals" one sees that these "courtroom safeguards" mean pretty much nothing.
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by mkempe 11y ago
For context, people danced and celebrated in the streets of Lebanon and various other Arab countries when the towers were destroyed in NYC.
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by mkempe 11y ago
Tim Cook is not a visionary.
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by mkempe 11y ago
Incidentally, I fondly remember learning the word "cras" in latin class.
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by mkempe 11y ago
Bookmarked, I'll read that later.
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by mkempe 11y ago
Indeed. It is dishonest to present this data without the known facts about huge changes in the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#Ov...
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by mkempe 11y ago
That's what covered Northern Europe until 12,000 years ago. Sea levels were much lower than today.
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by mkempe 11y ago
Or: Obama loves power. Total domestic surveillance at home and drone wars abroad are but two facets of the same Leviathan.
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by mkempe 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record "uncharted"
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by mkempe 11y ago
Maybe by now the question is: who doesn't?
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by mkempe 11y ago
What is prehistory?
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by mkempe 11y ago
What's the difference between history and "recorded history"?
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by mkempe 11y ago
Or, more charitably, the reviewer thinks knowledge is power! ("or enable others to do so")
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by mkempe 11y ago
OT: what brought you to Huysmans?
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by mkempe 11y ago
In checklist mode, yellow text on white background is hard to read.
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by mkempe 11y ago
Power corrupts.
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by mkempe 11y ago
On the one hand, it makes sense to have registries of vehicles passing through public spaces, for the sake of contract law and liability; on the other hand, is there any human activity that the US government will not want to monitor, contro
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Do Educational Standards Work?(lisavandamme.com)
15 points by mkempe 11y ago|3 comments
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by mkempe 11y ago
Volvo has it.
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by mkempe 11y ago
is PySide2 also getting that new system?
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by mkempe 11y ago
brew install
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by mkempe 11y ago
Qt uses slots and signals to control messaging between threads (e.g. the UI and the workers). The Python binding to Qt is good, but it is auto-generated (from C++) and some of it shows up as non-Pythonic mechanisms or conventions.

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