rsj_hn

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by rsj_hn 3y ago
I didn't realize that air dominance prevented enemy missiles from hitting surface ships. That's a rather unique definition of air dominance. If your enemy has access to satellites, long range sensors, submarines that can fire hype
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
The data you cite does not say what you think it does. In fact, it makes the very mistake I was pointing out in my original post -- failing to control for rates of prostitution and other risky behavior and simply comparing rates of violenc
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
There is no increased risk of being a victim of violence for being transgender that is not fully accounted for by the increased risk of engaging in prostitution. It is just that transgender people tend to have higher rates of prostitution.
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
> I'm seeing a lot of claims here that DEI initiatives are about actively hiring under-qualified under-represented candidates to change the demographics of the company. This is exactly what DEI is, and I guarantee you that your ow
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
This is hacker news, so they are going to be focusing on tech layoffs, but really there are layoffs happening in all industries, and tech is about the middle of the pack. In terms of complaining about growth companies being too aggressive i
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Parenting strategies, like war plans, rarely survive first contact with the enemy.
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Last time I was in the housing market in San Francisco, earthquake insurance was not mandated. Can you point me to the law mandating it now? Perhaps you mean it's mandated by your bank when taking out a mortgage? That's a private
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
1989 was, what, 34 years ago? This is a 5-10X generation event to you, I guess. I can't even begin to unwind all the innumerate assumptions, but motivated reasoning is powerful I guess. There are fewer places where it is more reckless
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
By the same logic, all the houses built in the earthquake zones of San Francisco and LA should also be raised. I've noticed that there has been mass hysteria in some California-centric websites that flood insurance must be provided by
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
I don't think this is due to illegal aliens, without which our construction industry would be in even worse shape, but rather that there have been massive declines in the competence of domestic workers across the board, and this has be
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
> This narrative that the market forced them to do layoffs feels flimsy when they have so much money, doesn't it? They had other options. The options they have is to abandon positioning themselves as a growth stock and say "we
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
The "payment" can be taken in the form of higher share price, share buybacks, dividends, future dividends, etc. It does not have take one specific form or another. Despite the fact that Google doesn't pay dividends, it's
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
I will assume you are asking in good faith, so here goes. What you think of as "profit" -- e.g. just some random, arbitrary, completely free bonus that Google should be grateful to have at all -- is actually the cost of capital
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
It depends on whether the tech is itself inherently sensitive or whether it will just be used for defense among other uses. A lot of defense stuff falls in the latter category in which case you can start by needing to hire some sales engine
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Imagine you are running a restaurant and normally you get 100 people a night and you service that with 10 staff, and you know for the next year you will get 200 people a night and can support that business with 20 staff and then after it wi
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
But were you actually denied boarding, or just worried about it? The restrictions may affect what kind of credit you get for missing a flight, but you will never be banned from flying the airline - that's absurd.
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Back in reality, people miss flights all the time. Not only are you not banned from flying the airline, you often get a credit that you can apply for your next flight.
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
The idea is you get the content for free if you also get the ads. Why do you think publishers don't expose an API client that serves their content for free? The issue is why can't Twitter charge for tweets via their API, but offer
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Or an audience desperate for some diversion, especially a risk-seeking audience. But no reason the machines can't just pay out 100% and so offer risk to people who want to buy it in small doses without making money off the troops in ag
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
I gave multiple examples related to energy, education, environmental policy, crime, etc, and urged you to learn how to use a search engine to look up surveys. You fixated maniacally on not liking that the word "wall st" appeared i
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
There are many surveys out there. California generally competes with Illinois and New Jersey as the most hated state and the most dysfunctional state. For example, https://www.cagrocers.com/california-repeats-worst-run-state
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Nothing hurts some Californians' feelings than the simple fact that the rest of the nation no longer looks to them for guidance. Yes, California is still big. But it's no longer a leader. The idea "but California did this&quo
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Scroll down to the part where something was actually enacted as opposed to being promised to be enacted long after the legislators leave office. These "plans", "pledges" are about as reliable as carbon net zero promises.
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
I very much doubt this will happen. Toyota announced it will continue to produce ICE cars, and other major manufacturers will walk back their vague "goals" once the utopian goals are revealed to be impractical. Or perhaps the goal
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
That's not how the current administrative state operates. The white house can nominate the head of the EPA (and a layer of bureaucrats beneath them) and the Senate must approve the nominations. These are political appointees. The white
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
if you aren't using Lisp, then are you even a real driver developer?
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
I wouldn't at all be surprised if we get a flood of relatively cheap to maintain EVs from China, as a parallel of the durable and cheap cars we got from Japan in the 80s. Except this time, it wont be so much that the components themsel
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
A lot of people assert that EVs have a lower cost of ownership, but there just isn't a lot of data to support that. Yes, on the one hand you have fewer moving parts. On the other you have a huge amount of new tech and a rapacious servi
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
It is only strange because you don't understand the situation. In most developed countries, university education is "free" for a select group that test highly or get good grades. It is not true that 100% of the population is
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Bekenstein wrote an interesting paper on MOND in 2010 here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.3876 But again, the 2017 experimental data [cited previously] in support of Lorentz invariance and the 2016 bullet cluster data in

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