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by ralph84 11mo ago
The idea it came from a mystery animal species that despite six years of intense searching hasn’t been identified is the conspiracy theory.
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by ralph84 11mo ago
At this point there aren’t any trijet designs like that being built, and it’s unlikely we’ll ever see a new trijet design. It served a role in the transition from four engines to two, but now with ETOPS-370 there’s no commercially viable ro
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by ralph84 11mo ago
Wouldn’t leaks from underground pipes end up back in the aquifer and not really be a net water loss in the long term?
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by ralph84 11mo ago
That’s simply not true. The WSJ started reporting on it in 2011 [0]. Berkshire didn’t fully exit their position until 11 years later in 2022 [1]. [0] https://archive.ph/Gc88k [1] https://www.cnn.com/2022/
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by ralph84 11mo ago
Yeah he’s not quite Jack Welch level of dissonance between reality and his fanboys, but he’s hardly some superhero for profiting from the great financialization of the US economy. He made sure his book got bailed out during the GFC. He chee
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by ralph84 11mo ago
Because H1B was never about shortages, it is about wage suppression and having an exploitable underclass.
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by ralph84 11mo ago
I don’t want to be a doctor, I just want to fix what ails me. You don’t need an MD to research symptoms.
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by ralph84 11mo ago
Even if they prove our universe can’t be simulated in a computer built the way we build them, how can they prove there aren’t other ways to build computers?
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by ralph84 1y ago
They oversize because customers who have an oversized system generally don’t complain but customers who have an undersized system definitely will complain when it can’t get to and hold their desired temperature.
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by ralph84 1y ago
No flights were departing their gates in SEA so presumably it was turned around to avoid gridlock at SEA due to no gates available.
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by ralph84 1y ago
Yes of course. Ask weev how the “it was publicly accessible” defense worked out.
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by ralph84 1y ago
The automakers that got bailed out had large unionized workforces and franchised dealer networks, both of which are very politically active and neither of which Tesla has.
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by ralph84 1y ago
Replacing it isn’t the problem, buying it is. Yes I’m sure you can find showerheads with illegal flow rates available online, but reputable stores won’t sell anything over 2.5 gpm anywhere in the US, and over 2.0 or 1.8 in the states that h
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by ralph84 1y ago
The track bed, rails, and ties will have been replaced many times by now. But the really expensive work was clearing the right of way and the associated bridges, tunnels, etc.
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by ralph84 1y ago
Jack Welch probably did more damage to the United States than any other single person in history. Most bad executives just destroy their own company, but Welch used (GE-owned) CNBC as his propaganda arm to fawn over him and portray him as a
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by ralph84 1y ago
How does 1 person, 1 app do anything to fix body shops flooding the zone by submitting apps for all of their employees knowing that most won’t win the lottery but whoever does they’ll ship to the US to subcontract out. All of the large Indi
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by ralph84 1y ago
If this is what tips the scales for someone in deciding between being a founder and taking a 9-5 job, they don’t have the level of commitment needed to be a successful founder.
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by ralph84 1y ago
The network value of knowing a rich person far exceeds the network value of knowing a smart person.
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by ralph84 1y ago
Microsoft laid off tens of thousands in the last few years. Clearly there’s no “talent shortage”.
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by ralph84 1y ago
Friday afternoon traffic is people leaving the Bay Area for weekend trips. The Bay Area is effectively completely surrounded by mountains so there are a very limited number routes out of the Bay Area relative to the number of people.
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by ralph84 1y ago
The etymology of patch predates software by hundreds of years.
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by ralph84 1y ago
Right, because in China universities can totally run afoul of the central government with no impact to their funding.
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by ralph84 1y ago
It’s called Mercer and Equifax. All large companies use them to collude on compensation.
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by ralph84 1y ago
It’s not a tax thing, it’s a power thing. PBCs transfer power from shareholders to management as long as management can say they were acting for a public benefit.
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by ralph84 1y ago
Lol, his important counsel was “bail out my portfolio plz.” Saving businesses that deserved to fail using free money printed by the fed isn’t a virtue. He was also a big cheerleader for the frauds at Wells Fargo.
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by ralph84 1y ago
Seems like a paid ad for GitGuardian. It even quotes their chief marketing officer.
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by ralph84 1y ago
I imagine they had to introduce variable comp for sales because they weren’t able to hire even a single good enterprise sales rep for a flat $200k. It’s not a culture thing, it’s just the market rate for the role. If they paid a flat $500k
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by ralph84 1y ago
Good for them. Now let’s see what they do about the tens of thousands of US military personnel in Germany. I’m sure the US is able to gather much more intelligence using their presence in the country than from theoretical Windows backdoors.
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by ralph84 2y ago
The cost of the pilot will always be less than the cost of the plane. So why provide the capability to eject in the first place? Presumably you get better pilots when they know a problem with the plane doesn’t mean death for them or their c
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by ralph84 2y ago
Many DCFC chargers these days have liquid-cooled cables. Not sure how that’d work with a portable cable.

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