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601.
by rdl 8y ago
This seems absurd and unreasonable once you look at it more closely. If any group of people say they want to go live apart from others (white, gay, men, linux users, whatever), I'm fine with that. I wouldn't want to live in a rac
602.
by rdl 8y ago
Makes sense. I'm only familiar with the paranoid VTR SCIFs and the plywood-and-tent SCIFs (downrange), not so much with how contractors handle C/S/TS in CONUS.
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by rdl 8y ago
M4 barrels are 1:7. Civ rifles seem to be 1:7 to 1:9. (civ are more likely to use 55gr still; military is 62gr, and there are people using 77gr...) I hate the forward assist, but not enough to delete it. I mostly use an X95 SBR (13")
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by rdl 8y ago
Curious where a cubicle wall would be considered necessary and sufficient isolation, even assuming people cleared to the sufficient level and on the same project. Seems like you'd either say ntk exists or not, so either shared workspa
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by rdl 8y ago
I'm fine with open offices with tiny teams all working on exactly the same task. Once that ceases to be the case, they become hell. My ideal office is essentially private regular office space, and then big conference rooms which can b
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by rdl 8y ago
Kind of awesome that you can get it in SFBA (Berkeley) at Tokyo Fish Market for $80/pound (which is expensive, but you don't use that much . Grown in Half Moon Bay. Other US growing locations are Oregon and Washington State.
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by rdl 8y ago
I hate essentially all of San Francisco (so I am biased), but Adam’s Point, Rockridge, Jack London, and a few other neighborhoods are ok in Oakland. Berkeley is the really underrated place, IMO. Somehow they went from being the city with th
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by rdl 8y ago
It's still pretty rare to have a private jet which can do transpacific flights -- particularly since it's usually to/from specific gateway cities, too. CX, SQ, JL, QR, EK F is more comfortable than a fractional-ownership G65
609.
by rdl 8y ago
Wow. That thing looks amazing! I'd probably rather have something like the Surefly (hybrid electric octocopter, largely autonomous) for boring commuting, but this looks like an amazingly fun vehicle for recreational riding.
610.
by rdl 8y ago
Wow, I actually didn't know they were different. (I assumed scheduled air cargo would be the same rules as scheduled pax). I see Congress tried to harmonize back in 2012/2013 but it didn't happen. I guess it makes sense for
611.
by rdl 8y ago
Getting rid of selective service registration seems like the best outcome. In the case of need for the draft again, we could implement it without the SSS. There's also the weird problem that a truly existential war which would otherw
612.
by rdl 8y ago
There are pretty good rules around crew rest and sleep requirements. Too early to rule anything out, but it wouldn't be terribly high on my list as a sole factor. Generally aviation accidents require a multiple serious problems (whic
613.
by rdl 8y ago
Near-peer is essentially {Russia, China}. New funding is generally "counter the rise of China", especially in maritime spending, but land force "reset from the counterinsurgency back to fighting a near-peer adversary" i
614.
by rdl 8y ago
The correct response is generous severance to the employees who sign this letter. If a US company doesn’t participate in the defense of the US, it is going to be basically unsustainable to get any immigration permitted for technology employ
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by rdl 8y ago
I wonder if one could claim autism or ASD as a way to get a decent private office with a door as an ADA/EOE thing. (I've done something right in my life that one of our office buildings was built with not-soundproof-enough walls o
616.
by rdl 8y ago
We absolutely should make extensive use of robotics on their own and as preparation for manned missions. Stuff like sending ships and fuel factories in advance of people, to place fully-fueled ships for return missions, habitations, etc. f
617.
by rdl 8y ago
It will be interesting to go visit this in person in 10-20 years.
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by rdl 8y ago
They are probably better than a lot of their neighbors. It is a consideration though.
619.
by rdl 8y ago
I'd recommend Qatar. Qatari government would probably be willing to cover costs/admin and potentially deep discounts on QR flights. You might even be able to do it all airside at Doha Airport, otherwise they'd do hotel + me
620.
by rdl 8y ago
If Switzerland (Zurich) would work, I'd be happy to provide meeting space and potentially housing for YC/interviewees.
621.
by rdl 8y ago
Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Democracy, The God That Failed. I believed democracy was the "ideal" (basically the secular religion of the USA), and just flawed in implementation. This book does an excellent job of presenting the argument
622.
by rdl 8y ago
Would joining FB as a Privacy Czar or whatever be a job one should rightly wish on a highly competent privacy person, or is it a new form of torture in Hades alongside Sisyphus and others?
623.
by rdl 8y ago
I can think of ways for them to essentially use crypto as a negotiable bond (high rates due to uncertainty about politics and stability, although Iran itself is a good long-term growth bet in ways other than politics). Issue the CBDC in a
624.
by rdl 8y ago
If there are zero trust atomic swaps to some more broadly used currency, and this one has privacy-protecting features, it would actually have a chance.
625.
by rdl 8y ago
I've heard many Germans say that, and it seems pretty obvious from visiting and working with German products. (They love engineering things, but are slow to change once something works, is probably the best description. This leads to
626.
by rdl 8y ago
Yeah, you have two choices -- either a high-end international-clientele hotel which also has security, or something relatively anonymous. The other two quadrants (high profile international hotel with no security, or a low-profile guesthou
627.
by rdl 8y ago
I'm pretty comfortable with the security of the Kaba evolo (they have a range of levels of "smart", I like the less-smart ones). The best systems are currently (for non-safes), the combination strong mechanical (Abloy, etc.)
628.
by rdl 8y ago
I'd argue for paying at least pro-rata signing bonus in the event of a not-for-cause termination like a layoff. Probably for letting the employee keep the entire signing bonus in this case. (More likely yes if it's a lower level
629.
by rdl 8y ago
I'd be totally fine with this for m2m. Also, iridium covers polar areas, not an option from GEO, and there aren't (any?) other commercial constellation services with south-polar coverage. Admittedly a small market.
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by rdl 8y ago
Better leverage would probably be demand side -- get a couple of major buyers (maybe for systems which can safely use older tech, like industrial or government or finance) to demand a baseline which requires open source/verifiable hard

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