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by quartesixte 2y ago
Discords and Group Chats are slowly making their way back into being the default social media for friend groups and acquaintances. New apps like Partiful have been trying to move the last bastion of Facebook (events invites) out and in my o
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Yeah the Revolution gets hyped a lot but if you take a step back it was “anddd they taxed us too much time to take up arms.” Which to the colonies was tantamount to tyranny but the world hadn’t yet seen tyranny the way it would see it post
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Unfortunately, humans are tribal creatures and having certain tribe markers still makes your life a helluva lot easier. I went to a T20 school in the USA with name brand recognition. I often hang out with close friends who did not. Let me t
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Yeah that last bit is important. Businesses are operated by a certain class of people. How you speak, act, make connections, socialize -- if you want to work white-collar, professional jobs (or Grey-Collar ones managing blue-collar ones),
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by quartesixte 2y ago
This. This guy operations and processes. This was beautiful and the corporate bureaucrat in me salutes you.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
>See the previous point. No one would use Etsy if they had to make a whole video and go through an automated process for an item that might sell once per year. I am not entirely sure of this claim. My own experience with artisnal craftsp
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by quartesixte 2y ago
True, but I think when creating marketplaces, you want a little bit more friction on the sell side. Sellers undertake risk + labor to bring products to market. In exchange, they are rewarded via profit. Buyers take no risk + labor in exchan
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Sometimes they have nice designs or pretty pictures. Circling an important date takes very little effort. No opportunity for distractions. That whole "flip through the months to think through future schedules" is actually a pretty
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by quartesixte 2y ago
>Additionally on the education front, admissions to the state's flagship schools is guaranteed for students in the top 10% of their high school. This is also technically true for the University of California. Top 9% of your local sc
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Despite the great number of views that the enormously long tail of YouTube can garner, the general public still gravitates towards more general content. THR is reporting on the general phenomena most of the general public will see. While al
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by quartesixte 2y ago
MrBeast is a fascinating case because he has almost become too big. There is a podcast of him where he says a lot of brand deals do not come close to his minimum requirements now, even AAA blue-chip deals. YouTube could maybe be losing mone
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Yeah people pine for the old EU canon (Legends, as it's now called?) but the content that placed itself way after RoTJ got really bizarre. Not happy with the Sequel Trilogy's handling of the universe either, but I don't know
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by quartesixte 2y ago
3750 for committing serious crimes seems so low, one can only imagine the desperation or lack of value understanding involved with participants. Or coercion.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
My initial reaction was the opposite — “wow they are kind of late to the hydraulic press channel hype. That’s odd.” For a company that has always prided itself on having strong marketing chops, this felt out of character. And perhaps a sign
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Yeah an unpopular and maybe socially inconvenient thing to say at parties, but the more I manage operational teams, the more I find this true. Bureaucracy stoops down to the lowest common denominator of the group. Smart people capable of se
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by quartesixte 2y ago
You are assuming these kids have parents (or other trustworthy, responsible adults) to go home to. Which, in large areas of the USA, they do not.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
I had a senior engineer chastise me once for NOT using the lookup tables. "How do you know your memory was infallible at that moment? Would you stake other people's lives on that memory?" So what you did on that phone intervi
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by quartesixte 2y ago
I am going to go out on a wild limb here, and conjecture that one of the US's biggest weakness is how they handle teachers. 1. Above average talent in any subject field do not join the talent pool for teachers in the USA. Industry pays
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by quartesixte 2y ago
The lifetime requirements for a lot of components even with crewed capsules and human-rated launch vehicles is an order of magnitude lower than aircraft. “An airliner has to survive 13 hours in the air. A rocket only has to survive 13 minut
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by quartesixte 2y ago
I will say, some of the techniques that live in the brains of machinists/welders/technicians is borderline alchemy, and sometimes highly specific to the worker themselves. Can’t really scale that. And good luck doing corporate esp
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by quartesixte 2y ago
SpaceX’s key insight was that the hardest part about building rockets was components manufacturing and attacked that problem aggressively, bringing in as much in-house as possible vs. outsourcing to a nationwide supply chain. And there is n
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by quartesixte 2y ago
The refurbishment did present a problem for SpaceX, iirc. It’s just that Elon seems to have a knack for managing Manufacturing Engineers and got Merlin production and refurb down to not just science, but magic.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
The contents of these particular emails is actually not very sensitive, and the courts do allow for redactions of more sensitive things (e.g. the actual numbers involved). Things that should not be discussed in writing happen in person. Mee
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by quartesixte 2y ago
To add to this: that "tell/sell/give to a foreigner" portion applies universally anywhere, and (the way I was taught), it can happen by proxy/passively. Example: You put up on a whiteboard in a conference room an en
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Yup ITAR/EAR follows the specific item/technology. You can get in major trouble even if you never interacted with a US counterpart at any point in the supply chain in this way. It might seem draconic, but it's to plug a very
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by quartesixte 2y ago
We need landlords to be people, period. Local people, who gained the property through other business means and have decided to make a little bit of extra profit while providing a necessary service to the community. Ideally, they would live
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Oh and as an additional comment: Propulsion Engineers are a niche, specialized branch of mechanical engineers. They are the ones who usually design engines. The writer probably was referring to the fact that he was just a regular mechanical
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by quartesixte 2y ago
I can also have: Just the right amount of cats Just the right amount of internet points Just the right amount of chutzpah
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Seems like from the blogpost that the writer and the founder were part of the same cohort at SpaceX. I would hazard a guess that they became friends, and had planned to do this together, and he joined ("hired") as soon as feasible
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by quartesixte 2y ago
The rocket equation would like to have a word with you. The wall thicknesses required to create rockets with enough thrust to get to orbit on pressure-fed would render the rocket physically impossible. There is also a lot of control that go

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