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by smcin 2y ago
Why Boca Raton in particular?
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by smcin 2y ago
No, Macau is. It's Western media bias that we talk about LV way more than Macau. (Also, LV still has the English-language entertainment acts, conventions, conferences.) But for gambling revenue, Las Vegas was passed out by Macau back i
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by smcin 2y ago
I said "used to put it". In the early days of Amazon, it totally differentiated itself from other online and brick-and-mortar sellers of books(/CDs/etc.) on price, speed, accuracy, customer support, responsiveness. Obvio
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by smcin 2y ago
It's not just about the US or the current or previous US govt: there are billions more tech users in EU, Canada, Asia, Central & South America, Africa. They also have differing levels of electronic privacy. EFF has members in those
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by smcin 2y ago
Essentially it says few customers will move the needle on bringing you new business, only the ones who rave wildly about you. Hence, "Customer obsession" as Amazon's Bezos used to put it. Since NPS and changes in NPS is measu
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by smcin 2y ago
Marketing executives often have it as one of their KPI. Clearly the less fuzzy way to define it is "How many people have you recommended this product/service to in the last n months?" not "Would you, if asked?" Also
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by smcin 2y ago
In the US, most public-sector unions incl. transport workers are essentially not allowed strike under the Railway Labor Act unless they have exhausted all mandatory federal negotiation/ mediation (nominally on the grounds that it could
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by smcin 2y ago
Still irrelevant to my comment that you replied to; it belongs in a separate thread. Noone suggested cheap suicide drones can replace the F-35 in general. I did point out that the military has a weak spot in economic asymmetric warfare usin
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by smcin 2y ago
Agreed. Imagine if tech hiring worked like that. Entry-level positions could be moved to WV or the Dakotas, optimize for low salary and cost-of-living and ignore retention/burnout/washout rates since you figure they're going
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by smcin 2y ago
The original 2013 post is 404 and was not archived by IA: https://philsturgeon.com/blog/2013/09/wtf-is-t-paamayim-neku...
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by smcin 2y ago
> immigration is a law and order issue for many voters Clearly they don't - where are the federal criminal indictments for companies which employ thousands of illegal immigrants? How many employers went to prison for that in 2024?
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by smcin 2y ago
> on a particular day I won't know if my shift starts at noon or 3pm until the schedule is posted. Why? What's the rationale to that? Presumably that doesn't work if you have small kids or dependents, or a commute with a
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by smcin 2y ago
> - The fundamentals and technology of the job have not changed in decades, despite air traffic exploding in recent years Ok what's the top-5 list of technology things that need to be changed? finally rolling out the decades-delay
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by smcin 2y ago
How much advance notice do you get of overtime requirement? Can you plan a week or month ahead? Do you have to cancel days off or vacations? (How much of those stats are available by FOIA, for each ATC location? Also, how can we see how man
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by smcin 2y ago
People won't care why it isn't freely accessible, it's not going to displace ISBN (or other non-US classifications) without that; not even inside the US, and certainly not outside it. I'm actually genuinely surprised i
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by smcin 2y ago
But you can't access Classification Web without a $$$ subscription plan! (from $375 for Single User up to $1900 for 26+ Concurrent Users). https://www.loc.gov/cds/ https://www.loc.gov/cds/clas
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by smcin 2y ago
Never knew about LoC book Classification till now; based on what I read I'd call it a failed US-wide attempt to standardize US collections (not international ones). Neat as it is, it's not free to access ($; why??), it's not
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by smcin 2y ago
(Turns out the Black Hawk did have a black box and it is expected to be recovered soon.)
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by smcin 2y ago
But you can still play DRM content on them?
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by smcin 2y ago
Curious how many times that has happened. And presumably there are typosquatters on .co domains corresponding to valuable .co.uk domains.
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by smcin 2y ago
from the article: "Musk publicly called on Whitaker to resign after the FAA fined SpaceX [a proposoed $633K] for failing to get approval for launch changes [in 2023]." As has been commented there are many conflicts-of-interest i
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by smcin 2y ago
As fullshark commented above, there is no value to wild speculation. Wait for the facts, avoid the noise and wild speculation. We do not have many facts as of 1/29 overnight. (Next thing is how would we ever falsify a wild theory lik
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by smcin 2y ago
No, the Twitter/X post is gone but the archives.broadcastify.com link is still good.
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by smcin 2y ago
Irrelevant. Noone said "cancel the F35 program", and noone said it can be totally replaced. The F35 program is running over-budget, so it's entirely reasonable to look at some cost reductions on the $2 trillion. (The current
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by smcin 2y ago
Realistically, the programs that are likely to be trimmed are hugely expensive things like the F35 program, which the newly-promoted tech class would to a large extent replace with drones (land- or carrier-based) [0]. We might expect to see
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by smcin 2y ago
But still less than if the federal employee was providing any ROI whatsoever on their salary. Why not instead talk about which federal departments (or agencies) provide an ROI, and how that can be measured in a nonpartisan way. (In any case
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by smcin 2y ago
Ok, but Grindr and DraftKings were already viable businesses for a decade before SPACmania.
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by smcin 2y ago
You missed that the "victims" did not exist and were invented (and Ulbricht's defense could have claimed that he was aware of that, and it would only need one juror to find that credible). I'm pointedly asking what a &qu
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by smcin 2y ago
FWIW, the two agents in the Ulbricht case, Shaun Bridges and Carl Mark Force IV, both subsequently went to prison for corruption, money-laundering etc. which they were perpetrating at the same time as the Ulbricht investigation, and tainted
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by smcin 2y ago
The first person in the murder-for-hire allegations 'FriendlyChemist' was an undercover DEA agent or informant, and it's strongly possible none of the other people existed. It's also conjectured the hitman account '

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