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by pytester 7y ago
22 million people do indeed visit Jurassic coast but the wind farm would have been invisible from there. Note the weasel wording in the wikipedia article. It was far enough that it would have been faintly visible from Bournemouth beach. I s
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by pytester 7y ago
Local property developments. The expenses scandal was a good litmus test of who in parliament was honest and who wasn't though.
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by pytester 7y ago
My local constituency was going to achieve this honour but unfortunately the local MP Robert Syms (known to be somewhat corrupt) killed the project on utterly bullshit grounds (it would barely have affected the view): https://en.
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Boeing to pay bereaved 737 families $144,500 each(bbc.com)
3 points by pytester 7y ago|1 comments
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by pytester 7y ago
Yes, I'm surprised that more shareholders and more of Congress haven't been calling both for Dennis Muilenburg's head and the end to self certification.
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by pytester 7y ago
This reads like yet another PR attempt by Boeing execs to shift the blame for the deaths away from their chronic mismanagement to pilot error.
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by pytester 7y ago
IME the most common cause for waterfall sneaking back into agile is when agile experiences some kind of failure - like the project delivered late and over budget. The response to this is often to revert to waterfall methods and means. This
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by pytester 7y ago
I don't think that's true. It's better to ramp up the exposure to risk gradually once the project has proven itself in lower risk environments.
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by pytester 7y ago
>Out of curiosity what kind of projects are that small? A lot of open source projects with a tight focus which solve a specific problem very well. >I guess I have hobby projects that are that small, but all my professional work is lar
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by pytester 7y ago
>Note that you're basically saying that we should all pay more for cars just so that those workers can keep their jobs. You're assuming that the higher costs will necessarily all be passed along to the consumer rather than come
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by pytester 7y ago
In terms of equalizing bargaining power, not having unions maybe makes sense if there 3,000 highly competitive companies in the auto sector instead of only three.
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by pytester 7y ago
Conflict is inherently inefficient. That doesn't mean surrender to the opposing party is the best option.
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by pytester 7y ago
>In 2005 when the company lost $10 billion or in 2007 when they lost $38 billion the union workers didn't get bills in the mail instead of checks. And you're saying that shareholders did get bills in the mail?
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by pytester 7y ago
>This oversimplified "regulation is good" idea is pushed by a lot of think tanks (e.g. Brookings, center for american progress, The Commonwealth Institute) set up by the Soros and Clintons. It's not though. They make a cas
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by pytester 7y ago
This oversimplified "regulation is bad" idea is pushed by a lot of think tanks (e.g. CATO, americans for prosperity, freedomworks, heritage foundation) set up by the Koch brothers. They have close links with the media, which is wh
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by pytester 7y ago
...in 2019, yes. This all happened a long time ago when you got a LOT more bang for your lobby buck.
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by pytester 7y ago
Microsoft's donation of $4.3 million to both parties as well as think tanks like Cato and Americans for Tax Reform might also have had something to do with the weak ass settlement.
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by pytester 7y ago
I actually wrote a testing framework with the idea that specification, tests and documentation should all be the derived from the same source: https://hitchdev.com/hitchstory/using/alpha/generate-documen... T
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by pytester 7y ago
* Examples. Realistic, complete, useful examples that demonstrate the software being used in the manner it is intended. * Glossary for any special terminology that can't just be googled - especially project specific terminology that ma
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by pytester 7y ago
They yield positive results they're just politically too easy to kill. The issue of climate change needs to be hit at by as many angles as possible - subsidies, investment programs, etc. We can't put all our faith in one tax.
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by pytester 7y ago
This is essentially the idea behind alienation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
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by pytester 7y ago
If you give driving jobs to a series of remote workers you'll end up creating a lot of new jobs. EMTs, doctors, ambulance truck assembly, etc.
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by pytester 7y ago
It appears the automation/AI revolution that was going to render millions jobless was smoke and mirrors after all.
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by pytester 7y ago
If Paul parasitically extracted wealth from Peter (e.g. by charging sky high rents on the san francisco flat he inherited) then taking some of it back wouldn't be the worst thing ever.
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by pytester 7y ago
>There aren't enough billionaires to take all the money from The top 1% own 40% of all wealth in America. There's not only enough money, this is by far the fairest way to square this circle. The vast majority of that wealth is
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by pytester 7y ago
This mismanagement was somewhat inevitable as yields decreased. There's too much cash (because of wealth inequality) chasing too few yield bearing assets. Assumptions that were made about the level of yield that could be achieved safel
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by pytester 7y ago
The Fed set interest rates low in 2008 in order to provide a stealth bailout to the banks that had lent too much and were sitting on collateral that was less than the money which was owed. The low interest rates raised asset values to the p
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by pytester 7y ago
>And the obsolescence, things are moving so fast in JavaScript, Android, even in QT, Clojure etc, many answers including accepted ones are obsolete, and misleading. This is the absolute worst aspect of the site to me. Some answers are ve
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by pytester 7y ago
GE has a 12 MW turbine: https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy/offshore-wind...
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by pytester 7y ago
>It's not absolutely great. All those pension funds that are going to support decidedly unwealthy retirees (teachers, police, other public servants) are going to be in dire straits. >And it's not just wealthy people who worr

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