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by xyzzy21 5y ago
No. Cost can be in the future. That's the entire point of Cash Flow Analysis in finance and of planning in any other area.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
20 years in Afghanistan - screaming out example. "We can't leave because of troops who died would have died for nothing". That's precisely Sunk Cost Fallacy!! They are already dead and nothing you do can change that -
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Universities mostly no longer teach anything worth the tuition. Jobs pay less than what would be required to make university a positive ROI! Maybe STEM but only engineering and comp sci but no more than 10% of the general population has th
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
LOL Plenty of problems - none of them technical - all people problems!
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
I realized the narrow-mindedness of both co-workers and management in my 40s so I realized I need to be the boss and then I won't be discriminated against. The other thing that works: DO NOT work for American companies - foreign compan
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
If it's based on PCR, it has zero accuracy. It tests positive for flu as much as ANY OTHER coronavirus such as the common cold. It's 100% junk. And CDC knows this because that's why they have an RFP to replace it and the R
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
We need to publicize who these managers are - 100% Doxing.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Yeah, true that. With natural infection you get BOTH lymphocytic memory of the disease AND antibodies to the disease. With a vaccine you ONLY get the latter. And it's the lack of that balanced duality that creates the risk of ADE or
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Not the operators but the designers!! Yes programmers and engineering. Don't give a pass to the guilty! But you are right: moral responsibility can ONLY be a human obligation. Machines are incapable of moral judgements - it's t
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
LOL. Not remotely surprised. Real life and physical reality are far more complex than what you can encode into any algorithm or ML/NN. So by definition, this will happen. Predictive models can only be 100% accurate when they contain
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Simple: NIMBY. There are places they can live where they don't have to dip their toes into the literal shit. And they keep the "riff-raff" out with harsh NIMBY-ism. You have Pacific Heights, Presidio/Richmond (especia
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
SF has ALWAYS been dysfunctional. California created the "ballot proposition system" which causes the ballot measure to become part of the California constitution because the state political system has ALWAYS been corrupt and dysf
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Sure. Why not. They (government and citizens who elect the government) are all stupid patsies who willing allow themselves to be abused in this way. They get what they deserve! If they had spines, they prevent it and/or reverse it.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Taiwan has a fundamentally different place in Japanese culture, psyche and Zeitgeist than any other country does due to common history. Taiwan was a colony of Japan as a result of "spoils of war" when China was beaten in the 1st S
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
SMIC is entirely "trialing edge" process technology-wise. If you want 7 nm or lower for competitive advantage, you don't go to SMIC. Also you can NOT trust your IP to remain secure if you use them.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Well, all THREE of those scenarios (and sub-scenarios) are routinely happening. And add in some other reasons as well. 2019 was predicted to be a "low cycle point" going back to market projections in 2016. So fabs were already d
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
If the "correct politically aligned group" tells them about it. If it's the "incorrect" group, it will be ignored.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
You are right. Especially in space-sourced internet, the provider radically OVERSELLs customers far beyond the actual capacity. HughesNet is the obvious example proving that. When I had it we'd get no better than dial up modem speeds
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
This is why it's always easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. Seriously who doesn't know this!?
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Very true. Waymos are held in considerable contempt in Chandler. Local HATE them (we have a plant in Chandler). But more broadly, the "learning territory" is bizarrely and truly inapplicable to 99% of the rest of roadways in the
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
This was then - everyone was far more religious in the first part of the 20th century than today! You can't take current German sensibilities as representative of that time.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
I find everything about this building hilarious in a dark, horrifying engineering and bureaucratic sense. Part of what started this: a NYC architect and NYC construction contractor came to SF for the first time in their corporate and profes
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
I've lived in Taiwan. It's easily MOST!
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Very true. When it's easier to drive across the street or down the block than walk, you will be less healthy. Part of what I loved about living in Asia (Taipei, Tokyo, et al.) was that public transit required walking to, between and f
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
I have the hardcover version of this book. Good book. Also an example of how older books are better written for a broader audiences than most technical books today. It really shouldn't be that hard but it is. Basically today they are
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
That's the NIMBY way!! Especially in Blue California areas. Where I live there are "Farm Rights" laws which say if you are a newcomer, you can't file suit or complain about or interfere with normal farm operations. Exis
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
"unverified" - yes and this the CDC's ONLY database for vaccine reactions/deaths.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
There are some proposing diverting the Mississippi for California use - like all of it somewhere around Missouri south to be dry. Don't think that will fly but that's the mindset of California for you - makes you remember the imp
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Maturation to adulthood of Millennials and GenZ. Generations who were helicoptered and snowplowed out of knowledge of "how the real world works" especially in terms of how messy and uncontrolled it is. If you are used to authori
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
More people die (and have major medical/quality of life impacts) from car driving than do die from COVID by an order of magnitude. If we want to solve problems most efficiency, it must be by selecting causes in Pareto ranked order thus

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