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by nieksand 5y ago
Honest question... why not kill it off instead and push legacy users into the digital world? The USPS claims to have 230,000 vehicles. How much of that environmental footprint could be eradicated? https://facts.usps.com/po
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by nieksand 5y ago
1. At their best unions protect members from managerial malfeasance, but unions also go out of their way to protect incompetents who should be fired. That is soul crushing as a coworker, bad for the company, and possibly harmful to custome
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by nieksand 5y ago
Maybe it's hidden behind the paywall, but does anybody have a link to the actual challenge document from Blue Origin? I was not able to find it on the GAO website.
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by nieksand 6y ago
From the article: "The size of the Supreme Court, which has fluctuated since it was established in 1789, has remained at nine since 1869."
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by nieksand 6y ago
Golly. I wonder how Republicans would respond the next time they're in power?
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Why does the Psyche spacecraft look like that?(medium.com)
2 points by nieksand 6y ago|0 comments
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by nieksand 6y ago
One parent can watch multiple kids and give the other a break.
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by nieksand 6y ago
Dangerous questions! This is the world Americans now live in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_McNeil_Jr.#Dismissal_fr...
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by nieksand 6y ago
Though this is really a tug rather than propellant transfer: https://www.space.com/private-satellites-docking-success-nor... But not so sci-fi.
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by nieksand 6y ago
The article points out that vaccine developers and health care providers are shielded from liability, but I don't see anything about employers. The Wikipedia page does not clarify either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by nieksand 6y ago
Is the employer then liable if negative side effects occur from the vaccine?
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by nieksand 6y ago
You might find this interesting too: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtuali... It shows how various subsystems improved as virtualization evolved at AWS.
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by nieksand 6y ago
An addendum to the "progress" section.... SpaceX has been flying cargo to the International Space System for some time using their Dragon capsule. A few days ago they completed their first manned mission on the Crew Dragon. Three
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by nieksand 6y ago
SpaceX as a company is trying to solve the "transportation problem" of becoming a spacefaring civilization. Specifically, how do you reduce the cost of access by multiple orders of magnitude? There are three big targets they need
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by nieksand 6y ago
SpaceX Starlink. We already have low latency, high bandwidth internet available in big urban areas. Starlink offers a real solution for the rest of the world (rural communities, boats, vacation homes, isolated industrial facilities, etc).
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by nieksand 6y ago
You'll still have to pay NY state taxes if you're a telecommuter, even if you do not set foot in the state.
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by nieksand 6y ago
No. You are free to criticize the government all you want. You can also advocate for independence without fear of imprisonment. Both California and Texas have supporters of succession. You aren't free to blow up police cars though. F
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by nieksand 6y ago
Advocating for Hong Kong independence can also earn you a life sentence: "Crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces are punishable by a maximum sentence of life in prison" I'm not sure if cr
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by nieksand 6y ago
This article lists some key provisions from the Chinese Communist Party's security law: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52765838
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by nieksand 6y ago
Compensation data from companies like Radford comes with three challenges 1. Your internal leveling scheme for SDEs needs to have been sorted out. External titles like "senior" are pretty meaningless, so one reasonable solution i
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by nieksand 6y ago
This looks like it was copy/pasted from https://stratechery.com/2015/venture-capital-and-the-interne...
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by nieksand 6y ago
This shows a blank page for almost 8 seconds in Firefox before it renders anything. Crazy.
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by nieksand 7y ago
Correct. But that congenial/mediocre developer is still taking up a headcount that could hold a congenial/high-performing developer instead. There is also a separate issue where mediocrity discourages high-performers.
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by nieksand 7y ago
As much as our industry sucks at interviewing, it sucks at performance management even more. A congenial but mediocre developer can stick around forever in most places once they're in. This performance management weakness also makes me
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by nieksand 7y ago
Are the weird edge cases easily fixable through some conntrack source patches? Or will they require major surgery to address?
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by nieksand 7y ago
Kernighan's "UNIX: A History and a Memoir" is a fun read.
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by nieksand 7y ago
Correct, and I never claimed otherwise. Whether you have a credential becomes less important the more experience you have. There will always be silly companies that do a hard-filter on degree, but you can have a perfectly happy and success
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by nieksand 7y ago
In the coming months, you are likely to face the ugliest labor market in living memory. A lack of degree and real world experience means you're looking at even more difficulties. Given that you have a scholarship, you'd be unwise
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by nieksand 7y ago
It looks legit. It could also be a scam. Is there a link from amazon.com to this site somewhere?
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by nieksand 7y ago
Which EU countries? I have not heard this before.

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