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by scottyah 4y ago
The weaponized ones are rarely just in the visible spectrum. But yeah just like radar there’ll probably be a lot of cat and mouse games
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by scottyah 4y ago
Lots of people can pay off their mortgage but choose not to. If given a good enough discount it would make financial sense to do so.
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by scottyah 4y ago
He was also determined to shut down Guantanamo Bay, but things ended up being a lot more messy than signing a paper to make bad things go away
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by scottyah 4y ago
I thought it was Bethlehem?
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by scottyah 4y ago
Kiss the 'ol Blarney Stone
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by scottyah 4y ago
I’ve experienced similar. What are some of the questions you ask?
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by scottyah 4y ago
Jesus Christ
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by scottyah 4y ago
The justice system is kinda made for handling all these disputes that people can’t talk out themselves. The lawyers are incentivized to drag it out because they almost always get paid by the hour.
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by scottyah 4y ago
I agree with you on how much innovation occurred at google, but I think the timeline of when these innovations occurred vs when leetcode interviews really took hold is what the commenters are addressing. In the old days they had crazy hirin
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by scottyah 4y ago
People don’t want to buy other cars just because the dealers are colluding and raising the prices despite adding no value. When they do decide to avoid a car just because of the leeching dealerships, it hurts the manufacturer too
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by scottyah 4y ago
I can’t speak for the quoted, but the dealerships are not creating the value that makes the cars desirable. They simply are in the right place at the right time and none of the extra money they get is going to improve the car in the future.
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by scottyah 4y ago
From what I hear they paw software engineers less, but find it harder to attract sales personnel, as it’s easier to sell the industry leader (IBM, Oracle vs ???). No sources, just some posts a few months ago.
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by scottyah 4y ago
Big Law too
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by scottyah 4y ago
How does this trope still get repeated so often? It has been debunked time and time again: strategy and management are infinitely more complex than almost all technical work. Assuming a group is incompetent just because you don't under
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by scottyah 4y ago
To be fair, banks have been more powerful than a lot of nation-states for awhile, and religious entities before that.
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by scottyah 4y ago
> I'm so tired of seeing truly extraordinary people forced to do menial labour to survive On the bright side, it's probably never been easier for genius type people to become societally useful (and rewarded for it) than now! I
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by scottyah 4y ago
It originates from publishers. When Amazon was pressuring all the publishers to sell cheaper e-book versions for their Kindle, they were aggressively cutting prices to win consumers from competition. They'd then use their classic &quot
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by scottyah 4y ago
Fun Fact: They don't technically own their planes, since it would have made them an nice target for a hostile takeover if someone wanted them
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by scottyah 4y ago
FedEx had very few on site people managing the hardware, it seemed like most work on hardware was done by the suppliers. There were also very few servers there and actually running, I think the software powering the enterprise took up a lot
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by scottyah 4y ago
The industry developed during sanctions is a lot like those created during times of highly protectionist policies though. Once those walls come down, they have to compete with the rest of the world that has been innovating a lot faster. Th
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by scottyah 4y ago
I think Lucid motors is still worth watching, but I wouldn't call them a clear success at this point.
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by scottyah 4y ago
US military drones have been doing it for decades now.
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by scottyah 5y ago
I think it's great that they let the content creators decide if they want to include their own ads or not. You can always skip their ads, and some of the better channels have a progress bar for the ad portion.
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by scottyah 5y ago
The rates can get grandfathered in, I still pay $14.99 for the family plan (hopefully they don't see this and come after my $3/mo)
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by scottyah 5y ago
Looks like Amazon's business plan leaked.
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by scottyah 5y ago
In the context of IP filtering, I would assume those lists would differentiate one-way traffic instead of the regular all or nothing.
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by scottyah 5y ago
We use an issue tracking system like Jira, Trello, Asana, etc and each "ticket" is a unique identifier followed by a brief description. You can add all other sorts of labels, descriptions, etc to better map to the requirements yo
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by scottyah 5y ago
I could see this happening as the processes mature. The Air Force already has hardened repositories for containers etc and "Factory in a Box" type configurations that the Defense Industry is supposed to start adopting for new prog
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by scottyah 5y ago
It turns out that EVs are not much heavier when compared to the similar priced luxury market. Model 3's are 3,648 to 4,250 lbs where as BMW M3's are 3,840 to 3,990 lbs. Model S is 4,561 to 4,766 lbs and BMW m7 is 4,244 to 4,855 lb
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by scottyah 5y ago
I think this is why we pay for support, with the expectation that if their product inadvertently causes losses for you they will work fast to fix it or cover the losses.

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