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by virgilp 6y ago
"Why do you think people in the 20th century used to bury some women with bags of plastic on their chest? Surely some religious ritual but I found no mention of it." (silicone is not bio-degradable, right?)
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by virgilp 6y ago
Is it? Ghost.org seems to have much higher prices: https://ghost.org/pricing/
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by virgilp 6y ago
I'm totally ready to be a BlueOrigin "fanboy" but their bigger promises haven't materialized yet. I think Rocket lab is cool and follow their progress, but their ambitions are comparatively small.
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by virgilp 6y ago
I didn't downvote you but you make a lot of patently false claims, which at best show you're ignorant of what SpaceX is doing. As others have said: - You say "some domains don't lend themselves to rapid prototyping"
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by virgilp 6y ago
It's not just "cleanup" - they would probably reuse the raptors and maybe batteries/ other stuff too. Losing 3 raptors is probably what hurts the most at this point (but it wasn't unexpected). All in all, the test w
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by virgilp 6y ago
My understanding is that the speed didn't get low enough for landing legs to deploy.
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by virgilp 6y ago
I don't know how long my NDA period of confidentiality with Adobe is and I'm too lazy to look up my contract; so I won't give the full details but let me just say that this perception ("Thoughts on Flash killed Flash&quo
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by virgilp 6y ago
So tell me. Which browser(s) should I use? Don't be so mysterious.
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by virgilp 6y ago
In this context, "chief executive" clearly means "C-level executive" which includes the COO.
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by virgilp 6y ago
Apparently, yes. Lots of organizations felt the need to rename the master branch, so, what other proof do you need? As a side note, I grew up in communism, and it would be funny if it wouldn't be sad how much of a feeling of deja-vu th
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by virgilp 6y ago
I was mostly disagreeing with "wrongful termination" - a "conditional resignation" is a good reason for termination, and there's nothing wrongful to terminate the employment earlier than his proposed terms as long a
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by virgilp 6y ago
Employers just need to pay you whatever period is written in your contract (which may be longer or shorter than 1 month). Which may very well be what happened here - nobody claimed she's no longer paid a dime, just that she no longer h
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by virgilp 6y ago
I don't know - the outcome was desired by the management (who jumped at the opportunity to "accept" it) but not by her (who publicly complained about it). That tilts it towards "fired" for me - I believe she miscalc
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by virgilp 6y ago
No, that's still "fired". Don't get me wrong, it's an entirely legitimate reason to fire someone - but one doesn't quit unless they actually submit the unconditional resignation. What she did was threaten to qu
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by virgilp 6y ago
Because she became toxic. It can happen - when one's relationship with mgmt turns sour, sometimes that one person can become really negative. A respected, "star employee" that turns sour can really destroy morale in entire de
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by virgilp 6y ago
She was absolutely fired, her boss even admitted as much (paraphrasing, "we accept your resignation but can't agree to your timeline, termination is effective immediately"). TBH, given the behaviour (public email saying &quot
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by virgilp 6y ago
It does say "here you will be able to find Anne's location", I'm just saying author got lazy and didn't actually post something about the location?
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by virgilp 6y ago
format is Name1234
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by virgilp 6y ago
Watch out, DDD is taken/ already has a different, widely-used meaning.
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by virgilp 6y ago
I get the feeling - moving in the opposite direction (from MPV to an estate/ V60), it's definitely more difficult to get in & out. That said - the better view might be a bit misleading, a high position makes you more susceptib
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by virgilp 6y ago
> too speculative with an uncertain path to revenue (unlike Space). It's really funny (and great) that there are actually people now that continue this phrase with the mention "unlike space". It used to be that "the b
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by virgilp 6y ago
Well, in all honesty, VW are the "Toyota"; Audi is the group brand that one should compare to Lexus. That said, I find it entirely plausible that the Audi experience would not be too dissimilar.
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by virgilp 6y ago
> in a coup backed by the US and Western European powers Seriously? I'm sure the fact that Ukrainians could see contrast with next-door Poland had nothing to do with Maidan... no, it was CIA, definitely.
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by virgilp 6y ago
And in that context, is it really impossible that Russia would decide e.g. to annex Bornholm, if they would deem it feasible? https://www.thelocal.dk/20150625/russia-rehearsed-takeover-o... Remember, Ukrainians were li
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by virgilp 6y ago
Why on Earth would Russia invade Ukraine?
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by virgilp 6y ago
Surely Ukraine qualifies as "immediate neighbor"?
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by virgilp 6y ago
I would be guessing that it's one where equal amounts of money are bet on each side/ there's a 50% probability of the result going either way.
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by virgilp 6y ago
> it’s such a good booking platform Is it? I always hated it. I'd be very curious to learn what makes it feel like a good booking platform. It doesn't even show you where the room is located! (only approximate location). Seems
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by virgilp 6y ago
I wish someone at Atlasian would understand this. After N iterations of changing the Jira UI, only God knows if I don't have permissions or I can no longer find the action :(
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by virgilp 6y ago
But there are plenty of other breweries! Adobe hasn't closed shop, neither has Microsoft (OneDrive), Dropbox, iDrive, pCloud, or for that matter SmugMug, Flickr etc.

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