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by ra1n85 10y ago
I don't. Amazon is successful because of its fast moving, demanding culture. No product is ever left to coast - everyone is pushed to be bigger, faster, cheaper, etc. Amazon realizes this, and does a lot to reinforce its culture inte
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I don't think that logic applies, or results in too shallow an observation. If you reverse it, say for men and the profession of dental hygienists, could you say the field has fewer men because of discrimination? There are likely many
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by ra1n85 10y ago
Do you have data that indicates the number of females in STEM fields is due to discrimination?
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by ra1n85 10y ago
I'd be curious as to how much of this is a product of culture and parenting. I'm willing to bet, given my experience, that parents in India are far more pragmatic than those in the West when it comes to advising their children re
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by ra1n85 10y ago
How can you say that? When an arbitrary law creates artificial markets and restricts the choices of consumers, you really think that prices aren't affected?
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by ra1n85 10y ago
Great insights - never considered this. I can't imagine that insurance not being available for purchase across state lines is helping here, either.
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by ra1n85 10y ago
I'd worry about phytoestrogens as well. There are compounds in plant based foods that must be consumed in moderation (as all things). A vegetarian diet is superior in many ways to the modern western diet, but not without its own risk
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by ra1n85 10y ago
>And why would any positives matter, if there weren't actual people and their lives, and suffering inflicted or avoided That's implied. You're either missing the point or not arguing in good faith. Have a good day.
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by ra1n85 10y ago
Not seeing what you're trying to argue. Lots of appeal to emotion here. I'll make it simple for you: 1. Me: High levels of defense spending has easily identifiable consequences. But we need to be careful that we also take time
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Here: http://federal-budget.insidegov.com/l/120/2017-Estimate Mandatory: 2.56T Discretionary: 1.08T
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It doesn't. Defense spending is not 60% of the "budget". Further, it's not a large component of the total federal budget.
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I'll ignore the ad hominem. Minus SS, it's still less than 21% of total federal spending.
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I think this is a good point, and I'm not sure why it's been downvoted. It's important to consider the sometimes positive externalities of the current levels of defense spending. Even more so, it's important to consider
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And? Mandatory spending is more than twice that of discretionary. Of discretionary, defense makes up less than 50%.
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It's not. Defense comes in at 15% of federal spending. Social security and medicare combined come in at 4x that amount. Source: http://federal-budget.insidegov.com/l/120/2017-Estimate
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by ra1n85 10y ago
Point very well made. While Iran hasn't been bombed by the US, but the US did help to sabotage communications between control software and Siemens PLCs that manage enrichment centrifuges in Iranian facilities.
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by ra1n85 10y ago
I didn't look at that tool, but just reading this suggests that you're being shaped/policed more aggressively on egress (in the direction of your provider) than you are on ingress. Shaping and policing (typically) both use t
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by ra1n85 10y ago
You're correct, most applications do. QoS/CoS services are best when clearly spelled out in service agreements. Providers may clear markings, but likely because either they don't want to have a free for all when it comes to
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by ra1n85 10y ago
Bufferbloat is a side affect of congestion or microbursts, and not the primary cause of poor voice calls. Either packets get dropped (shallow buffer) or queued (enough buffer), and in both cases the quality of the call will suffer. Mitigat
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by ra1n85 10y ago
It's not. I'll clarify, to help. The reason not to trust polling data presented today is that the probabilities presented in the past were not accurate.
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Yes :) Semantics at this point. I'll rephrase your comment with consistent terms: If polling couldn't determine what the odds really were, the odds , which showed it was well within the realm of possibility that trump would win,
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by ra1n85 10y ago
Nope. Polling was incapable of accurately determining what the odds really were. If that die was six-side, but I told you there was a consistent 10% chance of rolling a 1, then I'm providing you with a bad probability. The media and
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by ra1n85 10y ago
Sorry you're confused. Point was pretty clear: US polling data was not found to correlate strongly with reality, so treat it with some suspicion. Can't really break it down further than that.
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How is this relevant to the discussion? It's almost as if you seek to undermine his argument by pointing out that he has an addiction. Why would you do that? Are you scared of what he thinks and says?
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by ra1n85 10y ago
>Trump at the moment has a very low approval rating - maybe not everyone got what they read into him? Polls also predicted him to have less than a 10% chance of winning the election. Not all data is good data.
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What's with the uptick in "grenade attacks"? Seems like there's been more in 2016 than in the four year period leading up to 2012? Really curious as to how this is a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by ra1n85 10y ago
So cool. Love the following engineering problem and fix: "The newer models pipe their exhaust along the bottom to cool it before venting it, making the boat even less susceptible to infrared detection"
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by ra1n85 10y ago
Excellent book. Also, TCP/IP Illustrated is another good one by him.
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>But I think people will enjoy driving for the same reason they enjoy tube amps, it's not perfect, but it has a warmth and human element of imperfection to it and people might just like that. Agreed. I enjoy the feel of a combustio
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by ra1n85 10y ago
Not including the FCS, which is another 4 bytes. Or, in many cases the VLAN, which is...another 4 bytes. Hence the 1522B interface MTU (22 + 1500 of L3 MTU).

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