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With gratitude! And maybe some withdrawals.
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If their internal docs show that they know their product causes harm and is engineered to be addictive, it could be a big tobacco moment from a mental health perspective.
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> Its likely that lockdowns worsen COVID Please stop spreading conspiracy theories as fact. It is literally killing people.
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High end isn't needed. Simply a marginal improvement and CCP comes out ahead. In the performance per watt per cost calculation, the cost factor has no lower bound. Cost can be subsidized to near zero like many other industries under
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Optimistically, yes. On the other hand, there's a global supply chain appetite for cheap products including CPU's. Upstream commits aren't required to dump cheap CPU's on the market or to develop compute intensive busin
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> For now, ARM is rock solid on a foundation made from shifting sands of eternal tech change. ARM as an architecture may be on solid ground, but their future as a company may be uncertain given that their IP seems to have been appropriat
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From a Google search, https://clearlycultural.com/geert-hofstede-cultural-dimensio...
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What is the relationship between individualistic cultures vs collectivist cultures, and social media? US is on the extreme end of the spectrum for individualism. Is social media toxic for that culture, and more benign for collectivist cult
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Just like anything else in life. Ask around, pick up the phone, send an email requesting more info, ask for references. And if you are in a position to share time or money, find and organization that provides these services and help them w
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If I have to Google to understand what type of elementary school education you are selling, you are clearly not qualified to know what kindergartners should or shouldn't be learning about.
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There are so many free or low cost resources to learn tech skills. Time is the only investment needed. I'd argue that some of the best software engineers slash developers I have worked with came from non-cs backgrounds like engineerin
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> A good tenet is unambiguous in application and interpretation Are tenet and non-functional requirement about the same thing?
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Are any company charters setup to let employees participate in funding raises or acquisitions at the same terms as the 3rd parties? And what would that do to the marketability of the company to those 3rd parties? Sort of a poison pill that
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Disband it and focus on harm reduction. Edit: Let the CDC focus on harm reduction. Read Maté's book, it completely changed my perspective. "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction" https://g.
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Consulting is outsourcing
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I found this book to be extremely insightful on the process and pitfalls. Communication in writing and being specific about grading specs for various finishes was one of my big takeaways. There's a lot more to it though. Having an a
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I see the same on WhatsApp too. Family members blindly forwarding whatever outrage meme of the moment lands in their message queue. Especially for family outside the US who use WhatsApp as their primary way to communicate with groups.
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> The hard part is the enormous amount of heat you need to generate and quickly transmit into that compressed fluid. Without a combustible fuel in the picture, isn't it more efficient for the kinetic energy of an electric motor to d
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Thanks for the detailed explanation. I am not connected to the aerospace industry. In the context of retrofitting an electric motor where the fossil fuel combustion happens today, it still doesn't seem possible. > Or a beefy electr
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The compression effect of the jet engine blades is what ignites the fuel. I don't think that part is replaceable, it's what makes a jet engine a jet engine. The hot gasses from the fuel burn produce thrust, and also sends rotatio
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Competition from Facebook and now Amazon ad businesses eating away at profit margins
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Besides banking, what are your other "must-have" integrations? Any sense as to why QuickBooks is so entrenched with accounting firms? I've seen Xero mentioned more often lately, and curious how they broke through the QB barr
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Do these scale for multi-user situations? Access controls, segregation of duties, etc?
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Are there any standards bodies or informal organizations that try to quantify software bloat and featurism? Seems like an opportunity for groups that are motivated to keep software lean and consumer friendly to pool some resources ala open
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Sure, that's a literal definition of unlimited. In reality, I've seen it implemented as a "take what you need" policy. Unlimited in that sense means there is no upper bound. Managers are trained to push people who are
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Depends on the company! If it's inauthentic though, employees can smell it from far away.
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Exactly this. It's a reserve for a future event likely to happen, with a material impact on the financials. Required by financial regulations. It might even be a footnote or called out as a business risk in a FB public financial stat
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That's hard, I've been there too. I went into role where nothing was documented, and I built up a knowledge base to get all of the tribal knowledge out of people's heads. There were all sorts of manual scripts running "
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I have a different take after a childhood of repressed emotions and some years of therapy. Emotions come and go, and they aren't what make a person, they are just something that happens. How we notice and react to our emotions is a ch
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The public data on the stationary SM-1A rated it as 20MW and was built around the same timeframe. It's in a remote, low population location. The base was decommissioned and the reactor is still there, soon to be decommissioned accord
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