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by netjiro 5y ago
The Swedes also "almost" developed a small fast business jet from a military airplane. The SAAB 105 "SK 60" military trainer had a development branch for a five seat civilian model [1]. I recall hearing it got cut someti
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by netjiro 5y ago
"Best Practices" strongly persists trailing 20y behind. About the time it takes to generationally change collective training and dogma.
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by netjiro 5y ago
You can buy heat exchangers with very high efficiency and good moisture reclamation or suppression for a slightly higher cost. The problem is usually that the customer does not look into the details and the construction company can increase
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by netjiro 5y ago
Some guidelines for better, healthier, low energy, low cost house construction: Understand basic physics. Avoid the architecture-of-the-week construction trends. Set your targets: Size vs cost? How long do you expect to live there? Price o
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by netjiro 5y ago
Concur. Once you get rid of annoying disruptions and bloat a modern magic tile is actually useful and can even be a net positive. Disable all notifications. Don't publish your phone numbers. Be careful who you give out your contact inf
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by netjiro 5y ago
Anecdata: on a couple of projects our metrics have told us that do things differently will not get us to target, forcing hard choices to go do different things to get there. But it is usually an uncomfortable fight to get the boat turne
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by netjiro 5y ago
Variability and luck are huge factors. The hard _employment_ offers I've declined since early 2015 fall in the range kEUR[40,500] total effective annual gross, globally. >10x! Rising trend, but mostly scattershot. The really interes
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by netjiro 5y ago
The gp observation is anecdotal, right? In 2019 Germans made more international tourism trips than americans, despite having only a quarter of the population. But the observations depend on where you travel and see other travellers, right?
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by netjiro 5y ago
I very rarely discuss this. People often get uncomfortable and angry, and I have effectively lost touch with friends that way. My way: 1) calculate your footprint 2) find options to reduce it 3) find ways to offset the remainder 4) execute
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by netjiro 5y ago
> Why is the Dreamliner acceptable and the MAX is not? I remember [1?] hearing that Emirates threatened refusing 777s & 787s from one of Boeing's plants due to repeated quality control issues. Have not tracked the issue. > 18
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by netjiro 5y ago
These umbrella sales / networking / socialising organisations are fun. I've tried a few. But 15-20% is highly inefficient. My overhead for cold-finding new clients is <5% (against those projects), and I'm not a good s
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by netjiro 5y ago
These days I've become a bit picky, with a couple of absolute deal breakers: Today I run an older xps13 which is quite close. My next will probably be a framework (immediately) when they get a matte screen option. !: matte screen, >
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by netjiro 5y ago
> holds a position that software developers should not be paid a lot more than other employees I've seen this first hand. Was trying to help a Swedish company recruit for a new customer request. They would not budge their fixed mind
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by netjiro 5y ago
> best practices immunizes I see this all the time when digging down into why. "It's ok to shut off my brain and just do X, regardless of whether it's situationally even useful." Just as bad as "Policy". It&
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by netjiro 5y ago
Many biocides have negative effects on amphibians that go far beyond food supply.
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by netjiro 5y ago
I generally enjoyed my time in both Konstanz and München, but not quite enough. It was quick and easy to find fun people. Great active social life. München has horrendous housing shortage and traffic and is a bit too large for my taste. The
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by netjiro 5y ago
Meh. The Scandi-Nordics are functionally similar enough that the local region matters more than which country it sits in. The everyday life experience in the industrial tech centers are more similar across the countries than compared with m
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by netjiro 5y ago
Don't want to be incendiary here. Anecdote to illustrate that racism/anti-immigration can be individual and come with highly diverse flavour. I was having a beer with friends in a bar in western Austria a while back. A middle aged
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by netjiro 5y ago
Just my opinions. Grew up in Sweden (Gothenburg). Started moving around on my own in my late teens for work, studies, research, love, etc. Have lived in quite a few places over the years. Moving to a new place is not difficult. Just don&#x2
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by netjiro 5y ago
> Income taxes in most areas (at least in relatively wealthy countries) far exceed any VAT/sales/consumption taxes. Don't be so sure about this. Link? E.g: Sweden 2020, income taxes 31% vs VAT 22% of total tax revenue. Nom
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by netjiro 5y ago
> And simply based on length of stay, a nomad is more likely to consume expensive services like medical care. Unlikely. Age distribution of tourists is significantly older than nomads. Younger people require significantly less medical ex
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by netjiro 5y ago
answering myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19125540 https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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by netjiro 5y ago
? What is the site guideline on duplicate postings ? Searching on the article link gives a thread less than a week old. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28684544 It has two posts and is still open for discussion. Just c
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by netjiro 5y ago
It really does not. Conservative sketch: assume 10k ppl, avg cost $50k/y, process/procedure/policy overhead 30%, is 150M/y. For that to make sense you'd need 15x $10M fraudulent or single point stupidity errors per
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by netjiro 5y ago
Distractions and cultural mythologies cost us way more than what we can save by optimising the minute to minute task scheduling. 1) Get rid of tasks. A huge amount of "work" done today is nonsense. Common culprits are meetings, co
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by netjiro 5y ago
> when they die naturally. For many (most?) animals, predation or starvation is the "natural" way to die before actual old age would be an issue. Many suffer horribly towards actual old age death. I think this is a children&#x2
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by netjiro 5y ago
One benefit is reduced risk of extinction by the various nasty ways the grand cosmos might annihilate a local-only civilisation. Let's consider extinction mitigation as a luxury? I posit that sooner or later, as technology improves, th
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by netjiro 5y ago
The fact that this is constantly debated is sad. I've run numerous tests across various organisations. When measured it becomes evident that 10x is nothing strange. Set some real world useful target. Give the task to individuals or sma
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by netjiro 5y ago
I agree that 2012 is too old for solar and wind. I've seen that summary. I'm sceptical: Their references (2007,2016) do exclude some significant accidents and do not account well for total accumulated deaths. I have not researched
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by netjiro 5y ago
Nuclear is by far the safest energy source globally. E.g: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/rates-for-each-energy-so... https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-safest-source-energy... https:/

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