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by pknomad 2y ago
> you can say that the weapons are too specialized I understand what you're trying to say... but there's too much extrapolation going on here. Are the weapons are too specialized for a country that is smaller than its adversary
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by pknomad 2y ago
Author and publication bias aside… I don’t find the author persuasive at all. It’s saying misused equipment and poorly supported logistics result in subpar performance. That’s like… any weapons systems. Look how the Russian tanks got decima
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by pknomad 2y ago
Not a doctor fwiw, but elevated ALT and AST levels often comes with being overweight and that could be seen as liver damage. I'm willing to give MS the benefit of the doubt on this claim.
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by pknomad 2y ago
> iPhone captured all of the "sheep" consumers (the ones that just want what everyone else has) successfully (and still owns them somehow), This is not a good take. Android was a highly fractured ecosystem that didn't real
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by pknomad 2y ago
You have to consider the fact that most airports were built pre-9/11. The architectural constraints of the airport means long lines are unavoidable if you need to scan people and carry-on luggages for things like metal and sharp objec
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by pknomad 2y ago
As a frequent traveler (80 flights alone last year), I feel like this bill is rather useless. First, Clear is not present at all airports. Sometimes it's not even available at all terminals of the same airport (see JFK terminal 7 2 yea
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by pknomad 3y ago
Thanks for the cordial dialogue. >I mean ideally the idea of price and school for the first 2 or 4 years wasn't even a conversation, but clearly we are not ready for that What do you mean by this? I don't think I quite follow.
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by pknomad 3y ago
I should clarify. When I say "rewarding bad behavior" I mean it further incentivizes the universities to keep raising prices, faster. There are myriad of reasons why college costs goes up but the biggest driver is the inelasticity
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by pknomad 3y ago
Incremental solution is absolutely fine. The problem is that is genuinely 1 step forward, 2 steps backwards. It provides immediate relief for the cohort who qualify but others who don't have to pay for them and rewards bad behavior fro
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by pknomad 3y ago
I'm all for making education more accessible but this isn't it. It only keeps kicking the can down the road and signals to lenders that borrowers have higher capacity to borrow and thus will inflate the prices of higher education.
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by pknomad 3y ago
My condolences. It's crazy how much the dollar will take you in Japan. I'm getting meals at Co Co Ichibanya that would run me $30 in Koreantown LA for $6 here.
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by pknomad 3y ago
Currently in Nagoya and this is my fourth trip to Japan. Can also recommend.
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by pknomad 3y ago
Do you mean never use your phone number as 2FA if other 2FA options are not available? Most major retail banks (BofA, Chase, Citi, etc) all offer mobile as the only, if not primary, 2FA option.
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by pknomad 3y ago
Irony aside… doesn’t that validate the premise?
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by pknomad 3y ago
This bit rings true for me: "What I learnt from my personal experience is this: when you push back, people respect you more, not less." It also reminds me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD6uMxnYE9s
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by pknomad 3y ago
I am not an economist but I do follow economic policies, usually in the form of blogs written by economists such as Noah Smith, Greg Mankiw, et al. I will leave this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comm
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by pknomad 3y ago
No citation available because it's an anecdote/sample data from 2 subreddit communities...
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by pknomad 3y ago
> Some (not all) of the strongest employees I’ve worked with had no degrees (often “not completed” rather than “never started”) and my own degree is in Mechanical Engineering, despite only ever having worked with computers. There's
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by pknomad 3y ago
How though? They're explicitly tying academic performance in relation to one's socioeconomic background. I find their claim of "doing more with less being more impressive than doing more with more" reasonable. The only w
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by pknomad 3y ago
woops, thanks for pointing it out.
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by pknomad 3y ago
Perhaps she's from California? UC Berkeley, UCLA, USC, UC Davis UC Irvine have insane freshmen profile and it's possible that she went to school that might not be nationally ranked but is a good school on its own right (i.e. Cal P
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by pknomad 3y ago
I think it would be unlikely as: 1. Restarting the production line is costly and expensive. Last unit was produced in 2024 - 20 years ago. I don't even know if Boeing still maintains the parts and the know-how to ramp up production. 2
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by pknomad 3y ago
The information is not new but then there's actually internalizing that information and changing your views.
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by pknomad 3y ago
I'm not saying I support how the 737 MAX program was executed but at least you have a plane that is potentially flying versus not having one at all.
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by pknomad 3y ago
Fortunately, no. I work as a DoE contractor and that means my job is pretty much stable unless I intentionally try to get fired or if the federal government is insolvent (in which case we have a much bigger problem than just 1 random dude n
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by pknomad 3y ago
> I think this is an unfortunate conflation of free Gmail/etc. I would also say that this is a byproduct of how google treats its customers, even on paid platforms. I used to manage Google Workspace few years ago (2016 -> 2020) a
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by pknomad 3y ago
I worked as a CPE before moving onto SRE and this is spot on. Jamf and others like Kandji are excellent tools for deploying, configuring, and erasing the device at scale and same thing for InTune for windows. There’s no equivalent for Linux
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by pknomad 3y ago
Let’s also not forget that congressmen/women also work for consulting/law firms afterwards. Chris Dodd is an example I can think of top of my head. Point is - it’s common for people in public service to get gigs in private sector
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by pknomad 3y ago
I don't either. Part of what makes a school "elite" is admissions selectivity, research output, and academic reputation. Making undergraduate tuition free for public colleges will still make private target schools still elite
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by pknomad 3y ago
I've done that stint in NYC and Tokyo. It's not a bad lifestyle if you're working long hours in your 20's and just need a place to sleep and want to minimize spending. Eventually though you do want some space for yoursel

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