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by mulmen 2y ago
Have you considered that government employees accept less pay because they are passionate?
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by mulmen 2y ago
> “If you're competent we won't fire you; our pockets are infinitely deep and we don't need to save money" I don’t believe this is an accurate description of how the government operates. It’s commonly repeated but it
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by mulmen 2y ago
It’s a combination of people who literally want to own everything even if the only things left are smoking ruins and the useful idiots they have recruited to do the work. I’m not even sure it’s a deliberate conspiracy. It’s more like Bryan
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by mulmen 2y ago
I largely agree with your take here but it still seems to assume that government spending is wasteful. From what I can see government spending is actually pretty efficient and held to a very high standard of accountability. On the other ha
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by mulmen 2y ago
You are missing: The technological edge is unknown against a near peer. Any edge has a non-zero maintenance cost. Adversaries are not going to stop improving their capabilities so any advantage naturally decays. The US Military directly emp
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by mulmen 2y ago
22.4% of the US Military budget goes to salaries of military personnel. Civilian contractors are part of the separate operations budget but I can’t find the breakout of their salaries. So there’s a lot of consumer spending and economic ac
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by mulmen 2y ago
You hope ? Wishful thinking is not a great decision making methodology.
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by mulmen 2y ago
How can you be so certain the consumer experience would remain the same when the marketing incentives change entirely? They’re literally called super markets .
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by mulmen 2y ago
Really? I definitely learned about Send Cut Send and PCBWay from advertising. I had no idea that kind of custom manufacturing was even possible let alone affordable.
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by mulmen 2y ago
How do grocery stores work in this model?
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by mulmen 2y ago
There’s no perfectly safe energy storage. The danger comes from the concentration of energy. Water can cause flooding or you can drown in it. Flywheels can disintegrate into shrapnel. It’s always risk management.
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by mulmen 2y ago
> Say, you have an operator working in london, and the director in new york, you want to give them the highest quality picture possible. This is exactly the insight I was hoping for. Thank you.
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by mulmen 2y ago
Why can’t you just run a longer cable into a temperature/noise controlled room nearby?
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by mulmen 2y ago
The judiciary only gets involved with the first amendment if the executive or congress overstep their bounds. If a private music venue asks someone to leave that is not a first amendment issue.
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by mulmen 2y ago
Between GitHub, VS Code, and TypeScript it is hard to make the case Microsoft doesn’t focus on developers as a segment.
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by mulmen 2y ago
Microsoft also created the Xbox and every developer I know runs a Macbook.
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by mulmen 2y ago
> It is protection by the state. It absolutely is not. In fact it is a restriction on the state. The rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights are inherent . They are not derived from the government. We have them by nature of existin
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by mulmen 2y ago
> The intent of 1A is to protect the freedom of speech from those in power. The entire First Amendment is one sentence: > Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
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by mulmen 2y ago
Yes that’s the problem. If inputs get more expensive it is harder to build domestically because nobody will build things when the inputs cost more than the output.
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by mulmen 2y ago
Only if we have domestic supply of all the inputs, which we don’t. Domestic manufacturing still relies on imported materials.
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by mulmen 2y ago
I think “they will pay the tariffs” is an incorrect explanation of tariffs in the sense that it’s exactly the opposite of how tariffs work. We have always had tariffs. Who is making the argument they are always bad?
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by mulmen 2y ago
It’s not just laziness or cost. Dishwashers use less water than manual washing. Clean water is a scarce resource.
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by mulmen 2y ago
Thanks for the reply. Did you suspect you had ADHD before the diagnosis?
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by mulmen 2y ago
> FBI investigated and declined to bring charges Does the FBI make this determination? Wouldn’t that be the Attorney General’s call?
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by mulmen 2y ago
With the BMW system a low fuel warning with a destination set puts a prompt on the nav screen that says “do you want to add this stop?” With directions to the nearest gas station. You push the nav control button (not a screen!) once to acc
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by mulmen 2y ago
How did the diagnosis help you cope? Did you seek some kind of treatment as a result? Did it help you change your behavior? You are describing a lot of what I experience but having someone say "me too" doesn't help me pers
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by mulmen 2y ago
> If true, wouldn't it make sense to monitor them? My point is that there's no reason to believe criminal tendencies are genetic in nature. If they are or aren't it is still easy to identify correlation. To even embark o
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by mulmen 2y ago
> what we would call SWaP today This in a new term to me. I believe it means Size, Weight, and Power. Specifically as an optimization problem. The modern version includes cost as well which was probably less of a concern with the Wrig
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by mulmen 2y ago
Exactly. Ford didn't actually invent anything. Kinda like Jobs and Woz didn't invent the IC or CPU or even PC. Ford was in tune with the innovations of the time and composed them in a novel and appealing way. His success cam
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by mulmen 2y ago
I have only used Carplay in rental cars so not much experience. How well does it integrate with the car? Like if I am low on fuel/charge will it automatically suggest an addition to the route? Can I search on route for rest stops?

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