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by namdnay 5y ago
Southwest are better than most NA carriers in this regard, they switched to Amadeus a few years ago. Which is "only" 10-30 years old (depending on the components).
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by namdnay 5y ago
If the employees had options they weren’t shareholders (yet)
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by namdnay 5y ago
I don’t think it’s due to conservatism or liberalism really, more that the roots of the Green movement (at least in Europe) are in the anti-nuclear weapon movements of the 70s. They were never able to shake off the general aversion to anyth
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by namdnay 5y ago
Fukushima was hardly an accident, it was a tsunami that killed a thousand times more people than the ensuing nuclear power plant leak ever did
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by namdnay 5y ago
Long term storage represents less than 1% of total waste, the rest is reprocessed. I can’t remember the exact figure, but the “dangerous” waste for the whole of France is something like 10 tons a year - not a big logistical issue
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by namdnay 5y ago
well that's drywall no? the sheets of plaster between the wall and the wallpaper
937.
by namdnay 5y ago
wow I've only ever seen that in very old houses before renovation
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by namdnay 5y ago
Completely agree for renting - especially since you're going to have to fill those holes up again and paint the wall etc after you leave :(
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by namdnay 5y ago
So raw concrete inside? and they painted directly on it? o_O
940.
by namdnay 5y ago
Honestly, with a good rotary hammer (and good drill bits!) you go through reinforced concrete like butter. I swear by my Hilti, but an Einhell or Lidl will do a fine job too
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by namdnay 5y ago
I second this. Honestly if you own a house there's no reason not to invest in a good cordless rotary hammer
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by namdnay 5y ago
I've only lived in stone or concrete houses, there has always been enough of a gap between the drywall and the house walls to expand mollies into. That air helps noise and heat insulation, as well as being useful for passing heating wa
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by namdnay 5y ago
> The construction cost of the house follows that of the land. Cheap land, cheap construction (relatively). Japan would be the counterexample to this theory. Very expensive land, yet houses are built ultra-cheaply
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by namdnay 5y ago
I really really wouldn’t take France as an example of how to deal with corrupt politicians. There’s an astounding complacency around corruption here, a politician in the US or UK wouldn’t have been able to get away with 1% of what Chirac or
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by namdnay 5y ago
You tax it when they take the money out to spend it on themselves
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by namdnay 5y ago
I agree with you on the first sentence, but I don’t think it’s necessarily bread and circuses. Just peace and prosperity. Pax Capitalisma if you will Bread and circuses was politicians getting into debt or Emperors dilapidating the treasury
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by namdnay 5y ago
Having a CEO-level salary didn’t stop Ghosn from cheating
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by namdnay 5y ago
They mean that the citizens of Venezuela are not innocent victims in all this, they have a share of responsibility as they elected the idiots who drove the country into the ground
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by namdnay 5y ago
Chavism worked when oil was well above 100usd. 80 is still very low relatively to the rest of the 21st century
950.
by namdnay 5y ago
That certain leader is the one who sent them downhill: Chavism was a recipe for disaster from the start. It’s only because the price of oil was so high in 2000-2008 that the rot wasn’t immediately apparent. Chavez is the one who replaced co
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by namdnay 5y ago
come on... https://www.agilest.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/scaled-ag... how dysfunctional must an organisation be for that to be an improvement? And in what way is that agile?
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by namdnay 5y ago
Judging by the number of SAFe consultants (complete with that video of a guy drawing comic-book style diagrams about spotify, cute the first time but infuriating after the 10th) I'd have to say that if our SAFe was bastardised maybe SA
953.
by namdnay 5y ago
SAFe is beautiful in that it is the ultimate expression of Enterprise Agile Cargoculting: all pretenses of agility are lost, there are ten different levels of decision making, and all responsibility is diffused in a confused mess of worker
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by namdnay 5y ago
But he isn’t paid to influence people to do anything. He’s paid to bring in eyeballs . If he’s an influencer, then anyone working in an ad-supported business is an influencer. In which case of what use is the term? Ok great, anyone supporte
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by namdnay 5y ago
I think it was sarcasm
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by namdnay 5y ago
Wouldn’t Bloomberg have teams dedicated to selling adspace? I don’t see why Matt would spend his time doing that
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by namdnay 5y ago
In what way is Matt Levine an influencer? He’s a salaried columnist for a news organization. Newspapers having adverts doesn’t suddenly make every journalist an influencer
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by namdnay 5y ago
But people want to buy self-driving cars. And nobody wants self—limiting cars. So it’s not really a case of leapfrogging anything It’s not like manufacturers are waiting on the government to let them sell limited cars
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by namdnay 5y ago
But isn’t lightning proprietary? The others wouldn’t have been able to align themselves on it
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by namdnay 5y ago
Ah did they swithc? Mine is from last year and it's still USB-A

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