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by mmt 8y ago
> Employers have no option here. Considering employers hold the vast majority of the power in the relationship, that's a rather extreme conclusion. As other commenters have pointed out, it's easily within the employers'
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by mmt 8y ago
> Everyone starts out at a relatively low level, rises to a max and then decline as they age > While your boss might not be able to precisely measure your productivity they will likely have a pretty good idea. You've repeatedly a
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by mmt 8y ago
Keep in mind that's for light rail, only 1/4 of what the commenter claimed for HSR. With 3 occupants per vehicle, 4 freeway lanes could carry 25k, not as outlandish-sounding as 25.
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by mmt 8y ago
> It was ABSOLUTELY about the money! FTA: Many called Masuoka greedy at the time. He was unfazed by the critics. "Money is not the issue," Masuoka said. "I just want to continue with research and development. Japane
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by mmt 8y ago
That is, to start with, a very big "if". It seems safe to say that, even at the time, the number of insurers was nowhere near sufficient (in any given geographic area). That number is even lower today, something feared by the law&
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by mmt 8y ago
I agree that's what stock options are for , but I disagree that, in practice, they have that effect. I think it's important to differentiate between a "meanginful" share of the company and stock options in general. For
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by mmt 8y ago
> Those who are satisfied with doing the absolute minimum to keep a 9-5 job are not suddenly turned into great inventors if offered more money. That may be true, but that doesn't mean the converse isn't true, which is what&#x27
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by mmt 8y ago
> which would be better for everyone. I agree that the spacing would be, overall, better, but that, by no means, guarantees that the monopoly would be better. We have plenty of historical evidence to the contrary. It's important t
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by mmt 8y ago
There's also the Null Hypothesis: that it isn't what was (seen to be) "working". I went so far as to use quotes, because, how do we even know what "not working" would have looked like? If the Null Hypothesis
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by mmt 8y ago
I'm not sure we're so much a dying breed as that we were always a small minority to begin with. We just have to hold out hope for the even rarer manager that recognizes such objective value and can transform it into subjective val
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by mmt 8y ago
Not done. That's only, what, 240 miles? Which means it's not exactly high speed, is it? It could probably reach the 25k/hr that my sibling commentor is asking for, but not the 100k claimed for HSR. Additionally, if it's
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by mmt 8y ago
Don't be so sure people aren't going elsewhere. Besides craigslist, there's also the not-Internet option, which I think many of us on here forget, possibly largely because it's so seemingly difficult to measure (in our
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by mmt 8y ago
> Plus, it’s widely and popularly disputed that open plans are actually cheaper, e.g. even in pop articles like this: It is now , but when did that start? I vaguely recall when it was still actually controversial (perhaps due to lack of
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by mmt 8y ago
> space that would be otherwise needed for a fast growing employee base I'm not sure what "otherwise" is supposed to mean here. Isn't the whole point of the "space" in the first place to enable the "emp
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by mmt 8y ago
> Trains in the rush hour Especially given the picture you provide, I think you're talking about intra-urban rail (subway, metro, even suburban commuter). That's a far cry from a 350-mile, 3-hour inter-city link. Show me the pi
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by mmt 8y ago
Umm.. I'd say that merely looking , especially by a non-expert, is more than just a little naive. A famous civil engineer, no less than William Mulholland, had his career ended by the geology of those hills.
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by mmt 8y ago
I don't have any primary sources offhand, but the closest thing I last looked at was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_rail which has a number of 25k/h for light rail (pretty low speed, single-deck, presuma
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by mmt 8y ago
> It will triple the capacity of our north-south transportation system at a fraction of the cost of equivalent airport capacity. > This is something that people don't understand You may be confusing a lack of understanding with s
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by mmt 8y ago
You're implying that there's a direct equivalence, but that's not really true. Although the parent comment said "rail line", since TFA is, specifically, about HSR, that's a unique rail line in an existing syste
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by mmt 8y ago
> the typical margins Are you implying that they're particularly high? Reference please :) I wouldn't be surprised if full list price for "brand name" vendors like IBM, HP, and maybe even Dell (presumably Oracle, too)
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by mmt 8y ago
Nah.. Just time to relearn it all with StorCLI instead.
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by mmt 8y ago
Yes, that is, indeed, a degenerate case, as I suspected. Is it safe to say that such situations are often found with embedded or otherwise specialized hardware?
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by mmt 8y ago
Keep in mind, though, that I mentioned incremental value, though maybe what I meant was marginal? I do agree that NF's business model can't really be compared to that of a gym, with a goal of maximizing subscribers that (eventu
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by mmt 8y ago
> Netflix has user-by-user, viewer-by-viewer ratings. (Minor nit: They don't necessarily know how many viewers are watching a screen) But maybe that's because they don't care, since, does it really matter? If they're
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Tesla's Musk bashes media, proposes credibility check(reuters.com)
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by mmt 8y ago
> According to Comcast, median Xfinity data usage in 2H 2017 was 131 GB Given their recent push for data caps (and make money off of overages), I'm sceptical of their numbers. They have a pretty obvious incentive to misrepresent (if
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by mmt 8y ago
Well do notice I did say the penalty "can be" not "always is" far greater. That's primarily because I'm aware of the variability that random access injects into spinning disk performance and that 10GE is now co
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by mmt 8y ago
> I suppose it'd be better to frame it as what you can run on a $1k workstation vs. a $10k rackmount server, or something along those lines. That's probably better, since it'll scale a bit better with technological improv
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But what is getting personal? Other than the use of the word "person", there is no actual reference to anyone's person. The personal aspect would be bad, except it doesn't exist. The tropiness of the phrase I'll
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by mmt 8y ago
Good question. At a theoretical level, as a sysadmin, I learned the theoretical capabities by reading datasheets for CPUs, motherboards (historically, also chipsets, bridge boards, and the like, but those are much less irrelevant), and stor

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