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by mmcconnell1618 2y ago
Virtual video sound is rarely full duplex meaning the first person to speak blocks others and you have these really awkward pauses and latency that interrupt natural communication. Then, add in the lack of body language cues that are diffic
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by mmcconnell1618 2y ago
This museum, just outside of DC, is worth the visit if you enjoy encryption and learning about code breaking. They even have a pair of enigma machines that let you encode a message on one and decode on the other. It is small but packed with
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by mmcconnell1618 2y ago
The comment about "running legacy applications in the cloud was not any cheaper" stood out to me. Just moving the same legacy design into the cloud is not the optimal way to gain cost and availability improvements. If you have eve
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by mmcconnell1618 2y ago
As an approved medical device I wonder if you can buy airpods with a HSA now?
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by mmcconnell1618 2y ago
Open office plans have data that shows it costs less than individual offices but it is sold as "fostering communication" and "team culture." The cost per office is easier to count than the lost productivity of a distract
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by mmcconnell1618 2y ago
The dynamic, airline-style, pricing model that Amtrak adopted took away one of their significant advantages. It used to be that you could roll up to Union Station in DC and pay a reasonable price for "the next train to NYC." You d
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by mmcconnell1618 2y ago
Both Amazon and Google are in their post-founder CEO phases. Microsoft went through the Balmer phase and found footing with Satya Nadella. Balmer probably set the stage for Nadella to succeed but sometimes changing the face is enough to res
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by mmcconnell1618 2y ago
Large companies consolidate industries and have the asymmetric advantage of more resources than individuals. They can leverage AI and other economic models to extract more and more from individuals. As we saw recently with Justice Departmen
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by mmcconnell1618 2y ago
It wasn't always this way. Milton Friedman introduced the idea in the 1970s that businesses could ignore their workers and communities because if they focused on profit, that would benefit everyone. Shareholder Theory elevates the stoc
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by mmcconnell1618 2y ago
I think a key here is that the employee was a Software Development Manager. This makes it more likely that they had the ability to install arbitrary software and likely had elevated local privileges on their work machine. Non-software devel
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by mmcconnell1618 2y ago
You can't really tell the scale of the craters because each time you get closer, more craters appear. I can imagine that even with stereoscopic eyes, a human could easily misjudge distance and scale too. We're not used to operatin
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by mmcconnell1618 2y ago
Do you differentiate between a full time recruiter employed by the hiring company and 3rd party recruiting firms? A recruiter on the payroll can be a useful first screen and usually has good knowledge about what the company is seeking.
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by mmcconnell1618 2y ago
Physical stores to make it easier for people to sell on eBay were a thing for many years. Most people didn't know how to take a decent photo or post a listing or just didn't want to deal with it. Those stores never had enough marg
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by mmcconnell1618 3y ago
Japan makes incredible bidet toilets that got some traction during the pandemic. The jokes write themselves but a smart toilet that had health tracking features liked to the rest of the Apple fitness eco-system could be interesting. The sec
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by mmcconnell1618 3y ago
Car manufacturers have ISO standards for symbols/icons on controls: https://cdn.standards.iteh.ai/samples/68409/6480e873c14b4e56... One of the pain points that CarPlay and Android Auto solve for is that any c
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by mmcconnell1618 3y ago
The backlash to the Oxy abuse in the US has caused doctors to swing to the other direction where they don't want to prescribe stronger pain killers or narcotics to anyone for fear of being labeled as a drug dealer. The consequences are
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by mmcconnell1618 3y ago
I wonder if Apple has been secretly acquiring land or negotiating leases for a charging network. That would be a significant chunk of infrastructure to add to their services segment. Apple One -> Now includes charging your vehicle at no
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by mmcconnell1618 3y ago
I've always considered JetBlue to be a value leader vs. low cost leader. They have nicer seats, in seat entertainment in all classes and have a pricing/refund/exchange policy that is more customer friendly than competitors. S
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by mmcconnell1618 3y ago
Is this relevant to the Fermi paradox? If 1% of observed systems are estimated to still be in resonance, that means that 99% are not and have had some kind of significant event to knock them out of resonance.
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by mmcconnell1618 3y ago
Amazon typically offers cash bonuses during the first 2 years that bring total comp up to a similar amount in the years where 40% of stock vests. They manage towards a target compensation number. The stock vest schedule just changes the mix
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by mmcconnell1618 3y ago
At up to 10,000 feet I imagine the pressurization system could keep pace with the differential from the missing windows. If they had gone much higher, it might not have been able to keep pace. If the cabin loses pressure at higher altitude,
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by mmcconnell1618 3y ago
This is a direct outgrowth of the Shareholder Primacy theory which is what many MBA students are taught. A business has many stakeholders and obligations and at some points in the past, employees and community were valued in balance with sh
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by mmcconnell1618 3y ago
Virginia bought a segment of track from CSX back in 2021 to update and improve availability of passenger service up towards DC: https://www.npr.org/local/305/2021/03/31/983044429/virginia-...
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by mmcconnell1618 3y ago
There are about 125 million households in the US. I'm making the assumption that most households are filing a single tax return even if there are two or more incomes. Statistica reports that about 60% of households owe Federal taxes. S
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by mmcconnell1618 3y ago
I've witnessed this far too often in sales. First, a team lands a giant deal that is far above plan and celebrates with Club status and a trip to a tropical Island. The next year the algorithm decides they need to get that deal + 30% m
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by mmcconnell1618 3y ago
It's interesting that in the context of a pirate map, X, marks the spot of the treasure to be found while in another context, X, means close the window or "incorrect." I wonder which one will be most accurate for Twitter&#x27
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by mmcconnell1618 3y ago
I recently visited Disney Sea and found it very strange that food carts (10+ popcorn flavors each in different carts) never sold drinks. They were 1 item only. Popcorn or ice cream or nuts but only that 1 item. Drinks were only available at
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by mmcconnell1618 3y ago
If you haven't tried to purchase a stock photo recently, it is incredibly difficult. I can order same day delivery of physical goods from Amazon much faster than trying to buy a single stock photo. All of the services are subscriptions
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by mmcconnell1618 3y ago
In Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock, a character has trained raptors to take down drones and he crafted 3D printed sleeves to protect their claws from damage during attacks: https://www.nealstephenson.com/termination
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by mmcconnell1618 3y ago
Dividends should be a sign that a company has excess cash and can't find a good place to invest it. Paying a dividend while asking workers to take a pay freeze signals they don't believe the workers are returning enough value to j

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