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by rusk 3y ago
I think there are some secrets that don’t go on file. Often times the most crucial meetings involve subtle cues over a cup of tea.
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by rusk 3y ago
> Arguably a conspiracy as well but that depends on our definition of "conspiracy." Not a conspiracy in the more surreptitious sense that most people consider. It would bear all the same hallmarks though, and I guess that’s wha
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by rusk 3y ago
> What if the conspiracy was, "let's avoid war with the USSR"? I think this is a plausible line of thinking. My issue with the official story is that it feels stretched to cover too many datapoints. Like it kind of explain
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by rusk 3y ago
> large organizations I don’t think large organisations can act in such a coordinated manner at all but they can be manipulated. Cartels with a lot to lose can take their secrets to the grave, in particular if their constituents have a l
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by rusk 3y ago
> This can be mostly explained by a mental disorder Kinda like the Reichstag fire huh
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by rusk 3y ago
As a wise man once said: ”Back and to the left” Also, was Oswald’s own assassination at the hands of a mob figure ever satisfactorily explained?
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by rusk 3y ago
> Occam's Razor says it was Oswald I think it doesn’t. That’s why the story has never come to rest, there’s simply too many question marks about the whole thing
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by rusk 3y ago
I think you are referring to “bikeshedding” which isn’t quite what I had in mind. I think what I’m describing is more closely related to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy See also “Complete Information”
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by rusk 3y ago
I’ve heard this thinking described as a fallacy somewhere - in economics I think - nobody has total knowledge of any complex system. So it is not valid to say any kind of complex computer system only does what manifests in its commands is t
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by rusk 3y ago
I think the flip side of this is that the workers are diverted from their typically assigned tasks and all work together to resolve the problem and they collectively take responsibility for enacting any lessons learned … it’s an approach th
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by rusk 3y ago
That’s why he’s a big part of their success. He understands business. He wasn’t going to stand by and watch his legacy squandered by hippies.
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by rusk 3y ago
Thank you. I've been away from HN for a while, but you really could not get this kind of illumination anywhere else x
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by rusk 3y ago
These are separate things. Coach your kids. Praise them when they put in the work. Don't sour their successes by telling them they could do better. Accept them at their ability.
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by rusk 3y ago
This is a DMCA concept that is presumably recongised by various international treaties … but is it widely implemented and enforced?
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by rusk 3y ago
In fairness, this is a US site, that does promote a particular kind of political ideology. It’s run by VC firm after all. The trick with HN is to skip past the top comments.
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by rusk 3y ago
In my jurisdiction at least it was hijacked for business purposes. I believe that all the lockdown stuff was necessary but after a while certain actors started to take advantage of it, for instance supermarkets selling a broad range of stuf
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by rusk 3y ago
I had the unihertz atom for a while and it was a terrible device with poor software and support. You would think, given it’s based on android you could reflash with something useful but no, they don’t provide you the necessary drivers and s
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by rusk 3y ago
“Matchmaking service”
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by rusk 3y ago
A movie like "Being John Malkovich" except it's you!
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by rusk 3y ago
Way over my head unfortunately
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by rusk 3y ago
This is actually a funny joke it took me a couple of goes and a quick Google search.
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by rusk 3y ago
Circuit theory breaks down at high frequencies and the appropriate generalisation of Kirchoffs is embodied in Maxwell’s equations.
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by rusk 3y ago
>The EM field is always there Hmm sounds dangerously close to aether theory. I thought we had moved past this … that EM waves exist in their own right without need for a medium. Unlike sound say.
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by rusk 3y ago
“It was a good measurement, until it became a target”
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by rusk 4y ago
I see these as a relatively straightforward set of problems to identify, quantify, and remedy. It’s a tradeoff between static memory usage and stability. If that additional memory footprint becomes an issue you can make plans to align depe
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by rusk 4y ago
> If that doesn't happen, then the market economy we supposedly live in is broken. Well imagine that
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by rusk 4y ago
Sounds like issues that could be solved by some market regulation - rules about labelling - etc etc but to many that would be tantamount communism
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by rusk 4y ago
It’s not MBAs place to set public policy though is it? If it’s the MBA’s fault at all it’s because they’re doing their job which is optimising the product to the market. If the markets not optimising the right things then that’s a failure i
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by rusk 4y ago
I don’t think anyone would debate the futility of the situation the victims found themselves in. I guess the main thrust of this “urban myth” is that the people that developed it didn’t realise the intent. You’re obviously far better read o
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by rusk 4y ago
To be honest I think you’re being to kind to the they. Yes there are some people who act out of being misinformed, or fear but there are cyclical people that pump this point of view specially for profit. Look at the sea change now in the US

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