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by warner25 2y ago
I often wonder about how much electricity is wasted (recording, encoding, transmitting, decoding) on videos where the video itself seems to add no actual value, and it would be just as effective as audio-only (or text-only) content instead.
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by warner25 2y ago
This is great; very mature organizational thinking.
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by warner25 2y ago
I mostly agree with you. I suppose we should distinguish between a "proposal" and a "solution." I guess a "solution" actually satisfies a set of constraints whereas a "proposal" could just be dead on
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by warner25 2y ago
To be clear, in practice I think some organizational cultures just aggressively embrace this idea to the point of it being detrimental. I've heard statements with those exact words coming from executives, and I've seen people sort
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by warner25 2y ago
Yeah, I've used this to my advantage: Sell my boss on the idea that we had a real problem and I could address it instead of doing some other lower-value tasks; essentially re-shaping my own role into something that I found much more fu
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by warner25 2y ago
I was trained from the beginning of my career to do this, and trained to teach the same thing to the people reporting to me. It makes us all think harder, empowers lower-level people to make an impact, etc. Recently, though, I had someone c
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by warner25 2y ago
You gave me flashbacks to a far worse bureaucratic nightmare with #2 in my last job. I supported an application with a team of about three people for a regional headquarters in the DoD. We had one stack of aging hardware that was racked, on
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by warner25 2y ago
> unbearable to watch a movie with them because they open their phone up every minute just to get fed some random content Yeah, unfortunately I know some Millennials and Boomers like that too. Anyway, you have an impressive perspective o
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by warner25 2y ago
This is great. I've never seen anyone frame it before as a function of attainment rather than age, but it seems obvious now. I've long been part of the online FIRE community, and I think it shows up there as so many people reach t
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by warner25 2y ago
Well, I think it's the combination of the apps as you described with the devices to connect to them always being within arms reach. Take away either one (or take away the unlimited, always-on network access, like I have a 500 MB per
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by warner25 2y ago
I feel this. When I envisioned having kids, I never envisioned having to tell them a dozen times per day to "put the book away!" I accept that it's a relatively good problem to have, but there are absolutely inappropriate tim
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by warner25 2y ago
Interesting. Thinking more now about why I picked 2005, I'm trying to decide if someone with a kid born in 2000 fared any better. I suppose that those kids were already teenagers when smartphones reached 50% market penetration, and giv
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by warner25 2y ago
That's heavy. If you're willing to share, I'm curious to hear more. Like when did you have kids, when did they get their hands on phones, how did it progress? My own kids are still too young for this to be an issue, and I&#x2
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by warner25 2y ago
> trying to figure out when phones started being allowed in school I was a high school senior in 2003-2004, and my dad gave me a phone to use that year, and I think most of my classmates had one too, but I don't actually remember th
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by warner25 2y ago
> along with my wifi router I'm all about eliminating phones, but I'm curious to know what you accomplished for several hours without network connectivity in general. Whether I've been working from home or in an office, a
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by warner25 2y ago
For better or worse, I think athletic participation and achievement is used[1] as a proxy for what you want. The idea is that one can prove himself through sport as a good teammate with grit, determination, toughness etc. in adversarial sit
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by warner25 2y ago
> so hard, to the point it looked like she wasn’t going to be able proceed with her rotor license (before it all clicked) Yeah, I think we were all convinced that we were going to wash out of flight school in the first few weeks. Hoverin
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by warner25 2y ago
It's not as direct as measuring wannabe aviators for athleticism. You have to see it as the multi-year pipeline going from high school / college / enlisted ranks to the selection for officer training to the selection for av
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by warner25 2y ago
With the old mechanical linkage controls (not the newer fly-by-wire controls with a bunch of automatic stabilization) it was typical to have 20 hours before one (i.e. 20-25 year-old flight school student) could safely pick the helicopter up
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by warner25 2y ago
True. I flew Black Hawks instead of Apaches, but we also had a HUD monocle that we could attach to our NVGs (so it was only for aided night flight in our case). It prevented us from having to shift our eyes from the NVG image down to the ac
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by warner25 2y ago
This seems to be specifically about the effects of high g-force, but I'll say that learning to fly a military helicopter (in which coping with high g-force isn't a factor) felt like it probably demanded more neuroplasticity than a
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by warner25 2y ago
Even if this were the case, I think that the fake ID would no longer be helpful to him once investigators were aware of it. I'd assume that scanning it anywhere would set off some alarms.
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by warner25 2y ago
I think most of what you said is on the mark, but the core problem is still what the providers are charging. I wouldn't worry so much about in/out-of-network or claim denials, and might not even worry about having insurance covera
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by warner25 2y ago
So one of the problems is indeed that insurers have conflicting incentives, as you correctly described one of them, and it's possible (although I don't know enough to argue either way) that ACA actually made this worse. I think on
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by warner25 2y ago
This reminds me of two excellent back-to-back episodes of This American Life in 2009, when the debate leading up to the Affordable Care Act was at its peak: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/391/more-is-less and https:
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by warner25 2y ago
That's the short answer. The longer answer is that if you're currently spending six figures per year, you're only a fraction of the way to financial independence, but "coast FIRE" (as the parent comment alludes to)
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by warner25 2y ago
Regarding Linux and printers, I use Fedora as my daily driver, and I have a cheap HP OfficeJet printer from 2016, and I'm amazed by how well it "just works" with both printing from any application and scanning with the GNOME
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by warner25 2y ago
I was just thinking about Cal too. I listened[1] to Deep Work and Digital Minimalism a couple years ago and still use many of his prescriptions. Namely, I have no social media or gaming apps installed on my phone. On my home screen for quic
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by warner25 2y ago
I recently saw a bumper sticker on a Tesla that said "We bought it before we knew how awful he was." Because of Musk, my wife and I will never buy a Tesla even if they do release a basic, low-cost model here in the US to compete w
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by warner25 2y ago
Agreed. The Web seems to have a shorter memory than many of us like to think, and ironically seems to be getting shorter.

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