PhilWright

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by PhilWright 7y ago
Later in the article it points out that an undercover person would arrive on a passport under a name but then check into a hotel under a different name. In that case it would trigger the alert that the passport name never arrived at a hotel
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Sell the developer on the chance to use the latest technology. Sell the developer on the chance for career growth as the company grows. Sell the developer on the fast paced environment without all the meetings and bureaucracy of larger comp
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Is this an American thing? Thinking that you can take a companies money and then have the right to tell the company what they are allowed to do. If you are unhappy with the way Google operates then you can move jobs to somewhere else. Somew
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by PhilWright 7y ago
I think you are making the mistake of assuming that there is always something more fundamental to discover. It could be that we have now discovered all the pieces of the puzzle, all the building blocks are now known about. Maybe the LHC has
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by PhilWright 7y ago
There is nothing new in the article. It also does not mention that the latest calculations on the flatness of the Universe make it flat with a 0.4% error bar. That means it is either flat, and so infinite, or very close to flat. In the clos
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Is this a serious question? What is the alternative, focus on not providing value to your customers? Yeah, I would go with the initial idea and given them something of value.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Hollywood always goes through cycles. Remember when most films were simple/generic Westerns with John Wayne on screen every other month. Remember after WW2 when there was a glut of war films. Some actors made there career out of playin
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by PhilWright 7y ago
"Gen IV nuclear energy is clean, efficient and plentiful - why the fear?" Despite all the promises, in practice they are super expensive and take forever to build. The UK is currently building a new reactor at Hinkley Point. The t
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by PhilWright 7y ago
$20 trillion is the yearly output of the US economy. A fair comparison would therefore be the revenue of WeWork for a year, which was $1.82 billion for 2018. That makes WeWork about 1/11000th of the economy and so about 0.0091% of the
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by PhilWright 7y ago
WARNING: This article has nothing to do with UFO's.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Please ignore, this is one of many questions asked by the poster on quora.com in order to promote his book.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
There is no difference between a machine gun and a robot. A person designs a machine gun but does not pull the actual trigger. There is an army officer that orders the weapon be deployed and the rules of engagement for when it can be used.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Sit down with your business partner and tell them what you are feeling. Indicate you are burnt out/bored with the current situation and scale of revenue. You need significant change to occur in the future to remain engaged in the work.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Think yourself lucky. Being ugly has an even bigger impact on your dating opportunities.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Bobby McCool
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by PhilWright 7y ago
I think you need to begin by understanding why you are having the problems that you are in job performance. Otherwise, you will just repeat the pattern with the next job and end up quitting fairly quickly. Is if a feeling of pressure, the t
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Exactly, they should have stopped flying people out when they were within two weeks of closing. If they had secured the funding needed to continue then all well and good and then start flying people out again.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Why do these travel companies always go bust in a way that leaves people stranded? Surely the management must have known a week or two ago that the company was about to go under. In that case, stop anyone flying out but still bring people b
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by PhilWright 7y ago
And you were one of the 400-500 packing the place. All the others were thinking you are part of the problem and they are the legitimate visitor.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
The time he took to publish is not because he was a 'slacker'. British society was very religious at the time and coming out with evolution was going to cause quite the controversy. Which it did. So he wanted to gather as much evi
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by PhilWright 7y ago
> 'Watch the Bugatti Chiron smash through the mythical 300 mph barrier' There is nothing mythical about a car travelling at 300mph, it has been done before and nobody I know thinks that it is a myth. Going 300mph is not breakin
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Actually it was 500 feet or around 150 meters.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Written by Chris Patten, a long time Conservative party member that has always been very pro-Europe. So of course he thinks leaving the EU is a disaster, because it goes against his long held belief that the UK should be all-in with Europe.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Nothing. First it will never happen and second, why would China even care? They don't.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Ideas are ten a penny but execution is what counts. When it comes to SpaceX, there was no rocket company/government agency creating a reusable rocket. None. Not only that, but no one thought it was even realistically possible. He was r
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by PhilWright 7y ago
I don't think having oil makes any difference at all. There are plenty of African countries with regimes that violate human rights. As long as a country keeps the abuse below a threshold that forces intervention then nothing much happe
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Maybe they only recently decided to target RISC-V but the ALU design does not cover all the functions needed. It is missing implementation of the shift instructions, for that they need a 32 bit 5-level barrel shifter. Plus they also need a
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by PhilWright 7y ago
People getting hit on the head is not acceptable whilst the technology and standards mature. A few rockets blowing up, without hurting anyone, is acceptable whilst technology matures.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
I think the difference from a psychological point of view is that getting a drone drop randomly on your head feels, well random. Therefore it does not feel like you can do much of anything to avoid it, unlikely though it would be in practic
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Having large numbers of drones in the sky, where any failure has the potential to drop a large weight on a person seems like a show stopper. Or just crashing onto a house or car and causing damage is going to get annoying for the community

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