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by relix 2y ago
I read worryingly little (no?) counter to the sentiment expressed by the lyrics as part of your message and the comments here. And the implication that people in other countries wouldn't spend $10MM of government funds to save a family
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by relix 3y ago
Turboprops are awesome and underrated. They have some advantages over jet engines such as faster response times (they can angle the blades instead of having to rev up RPMs), easy reversing (no pushback mule needed), and higher efficiency. T
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by relix 3y ago
I don’t think this makes much sense in the real world. Shit happens and plans change. What if an aircraft needs to do a go-around, do they suddenly face 45m of delay or immediately need to divert, because The Sequence is immutable? No, they
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by relix 3y ago
Of course. My point is that this exact same situation, at a different company, may have surfaced a Tim that actually should be PIPed because he wasn't doing what he was asked to do, or his contributions weren't as valuable from an
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by relix 3y ago
I agree that firing people based on delivered story points is probably wrong. I disagree that measuring the amount of story points someone delivers has no benefits. In this case, it surfaced a very interesting dynamic in a team that apparen
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by relix 3y ago
As a manager in technology I'm starting to really detest stories like this, because they are often bandied around by IC's with a very narrow view or opinion of why it's bad to do new change X or Y "because here is a stor
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by relix 3y ago
No, that's not the thing, they are already a business. They sell three tiers of the app, one of which is a subscription. The current price of the subscription is $13/year. > Additionally the outrage, as far as I am aware, has l
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by relix 3y ago
I personally don’t understand the outrage. Reddit obviously has costs, and if it wants to make a profit it should not subsidise third party apps that cost double - both no revenue and no ad views. The cost of 0,00024 per request seems reaso
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by relix 3y ago
It’s 0,00024 per request
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by relix 3y ago
This is a very naive, simplified, and wrong take on a generally well accepted concept. Point 1: increased demand for stocks will increase the price of it and thus the market cap. Point 2: the higher the market cap of a company the more capi
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by relix 3y ago
Of course, because every time it happens, unless I don't want the answer, in order to move forward I do need to explain the context. So I do. And invariably either the original responder goes radio silence, or admits that my question i
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by relix 3y ago
I often encounter the opposite. I would have a complex problem that I can legitimately solve by something reasonably simple yet I don’t posses the expertise on. Asking how to do Y, I need to spend an godawful amount of time wasting to convi
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by relix 3y ago
The extensive lack of database consideration in many decisions is indeed concerning, and obviously integrity checks should be standard and default.
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by relix 3y ago
(not a rebuttal on your comment, just a continuation of the conversation) I found it an interesting criticism, and from what we know about the project I don't think I agree with the author. In the space of what database to use, there a
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by relix 3y ago
As everyone's "hate-boner" will be personal, to me a part that stands out is that Columbus seemed to be a conspiracy theorist akin to the flat-earther. The reason why his expedition took so long to get funding, is not because
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by relix 3y ago
I don't think this is the main reason. How many millions in licensing fee profit are they really earning? It seems like a drop in the bucket comparative to their total profit. And if that's the reason, why does the iPad have USB-C
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by relix 3y ago
It's in the first point: "durable competitive advantage, or moats"
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by relix 4y ago
Maybe overpaying 50% for talent is an OK price to pay for what they were actually trying to achieve. Engineers are fickle - they'll complain about one side of an equation while ignoring the other N sides. Maybe cost was never an issue,
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by relix 4y ago
The most likely explanation is that your premise is wrong - top management of these companies is not low quality. Instead they are very good at their jobs, but what that means is just not be what you think it is.
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by relix 4y ago
hard to make that study work, it presupposes that users (a) understand that their battery life is decreasing and (b) understand that this application is responsible for it (and to what degree). Those are two big if's, it's more l
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by relix 4y ago
Make it broader - before take-off, pilots enter the expected destination (or expected distance). During cruising, computers keep track of how much fuel is being used (lost) per unit of time, and projects forward to see if they can still mak
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by relix 4y ago
That hasn't been a blocker in the past (see: all the other taxes that exist), why would it need to be going forward.
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by relix 4y ago
That's a completely different concern.
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by relix 4y ago
That's a ridiculous argumentation. This infrastructure was not built or maintained "just do idenfiy those 10 people in a neigbourhood that have "saved" 300 bucks a year". It exists for lots of different, likely more
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by relix 4y ago
This ignores many of the main reasons why an application does email verification - to improve chances that the user is not a robot, that the stack is setup correctly, that the user actually can receive and open email, and that the user is w
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by relix 4y ago
Kobo's default OS has Dropbox and Pocket support. You can just drop a book in your Dropboox and it'll appear on your Kobo through wireless sync.
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by relix 4y ago
If no country is specified you can assume it’s an American talking about their country. So west coast, USA (California or Washington)
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by relix 4y ago
Beyond what everyone else has said here, it's also just not as easy to interpret GPS location on maps. Say you're in the middle of an ocean, nothing but water everywhere around you. You're rocking on pretty good waves, going
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by relix 5y ago
If that's fake, you can make an easy 50% profit by arbitraging it. If you are somehow practically unable to arbitrage it, then you just discovered the reason why the conversion rates are so different.
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by relix 5y ago
I do wonder the effect it has on "total leisure time spend". My hypothesis is that piracy drops total spend in dollars, but maybe not necessarily on the category that was pirated. This would fit and counter the oft-claimed "i

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