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by nvm0n2 3y ago
That's the wrong way around, I don't think any conventional analysis of voting systems concludes that. FPTP forces parties to the center, because they have to be pre-formed coalitions before going to the polls. Single issue partie
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
How is it wrong?
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> excessive financialization exerting pressure on the engineering process. This is a quasi-Marxist analysis. All of Boeing and Tesla's competitors are exposed to the same "financialization", whatever that is, yet it&#x27
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
So you argue it's not a cause but an effect. Fine, whatever. It's still a major problem, isn't it. But: the MDD merger was 25 years ago. Boeing wasn't considered to be in dire quality straits until the MCAS disaster, whi
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
The problem at Boeing is a sort of cultural decay in which safety and quality have been lost. Musk isn't wrong that changing their promotion criteria from safety/quality to safety/quality/climate/diversity is going
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Climate academics are on record as saying they manipulate peer review to reject valid science if it would weaken their "message", so that's not a good idea.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Although I'm not a Starmer fan, the actual reason he doesn't want to publicly re-open the topic is that he's smart enough to realize that it would be a disaster for the pro-EU left. Right now the Brexit debate in the UK is fr
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> "Khan, a member of the opposition Labour Party, which voted against Brexit in a 2016 referendum, based his statement on a report he commissioned from economic consultants Cambridge Econometrics, who estimated how fast the economy
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
It's not trading less with the EU. This is a myth. Trade ratios between EU and RoW haven't shifted after Brexit. British GDP is lower now because of lockdowns. Brexit itself appears to have made no difference. The governments own
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> Capitalism at its core relies on exponential growth, since every investor wants ROI No it doesn't. You can have capitalism in a world where growth is zero or negative, nothing much happens except the world getting slightly worse
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
And yet the food supply is fine, so when exactly do you predict this "loan" will come due exactly, and what separates you from all the other people who discredited themselves with such predictions in the past? > countless othe
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Well then you'll just have to believe Crockford, who has written many books and research papers about polar bears, and who has also been interviewed in the media as a polar bear expert many times.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Actual warming in the past 20 years has been at a trivial speed, bordering on undetectable unless you use very well sited stations and very accurately calibrated instruments: barely a fraction of a degree per decade. You can't even see
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
The Google interview process at that time was definitely not tuned for selecting the charismatic lol. I was there at the time and I can't recall anyone from DoubleClick management surviving, only engineers. It was a bloodbath.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Countries get over it, historically, but yeah it's pretty unpleasant for those affected.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
It's not uncommon for lightly trafficked sites to have 90% or more of their resources taken up by bots of various kinds. Remember Google isn't the only search engine and there are many crawlers that aren't search engines at a
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Sometimes they're put there by the hosting provider. The blog author doesn't get the money, it all goes towards hosting costs. Which are, you know, real. Running a blog costs continuous money even if you don't have many visit
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Cookie banners aren't designed to optimize engagement, they're forced on websites by the EU. Paywalls aren't designed to optimize engagement, they kill it! Paywalls slaughter almost all your traffic and kill social media vira
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
There is no level of compensation you can give someone to compensate for the risk of sudden execution because they tried, but didn't succeed.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Lol nothing to fear except the death penalty if employees you never heard of 5 reporting lines below you screw up badly enough? Where do people come up with this stuff. If you want a mass exodus from airline management and sudden collapse
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Are these particular ecosystems all that sensitive? The places where you find nodules are mostly just empty "deserts", right? The seabed isn't continuous brightly colored coral reef.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
VCs weren't behind SpaceX. Musk invested his own money.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> Missiles in turn were much more effective than shells in WWII. They were? I thought missiles were only really developed by the Germans towards the end of WW2 and were basically ineffective due to bad targeting caused by the British t
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Interesting then that the article challenges conventional wisdom, arguing for more armor on slower ships.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Bankers?! Surely the one class of people least relevant to US Navy funding! The article is pretty clear that commercial shipyards crush the Navy in efficiency and management competence.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Yes H100s are very expensive (think ~$40k per unit), and very hard to obtain. For this reason they're basically all sent to cloud operators who can sign large bulk deals up front and then rent them out. At that point rubber really hits
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
This kind of lawmaking seems obvious insane to logical programmer types, but it happens regularly in government. They don't have to implement anything in code, right? Another example is anti-money laundering laws. They drew a cutline a
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Centrally planned economies don't suffer too badly in Strategic Industries, especially not when trying to catch up to the free countries, as long as there's at least some level of capitalism involved. The goals are very clear and
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Airbus? The death penalty would apply to them too, presumably.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Not a good example. Google reinterviewed every DoubleClick employee and fired half of them.

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