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I’ve only seen that once and I thought it was insane. That person was fired less than a year later, so to me, it’s an extremely negative signal.

The quest for better fuel mileages also makes a big difference. Cars looks like jellybeans for aerodynamics. It’s also difficult to get a 6 cylinder engine compared to the past.

The performance of web apps is pretty terrible though.

I thought this was intentional so it is t left plugged in when using.

So you don’t believe that worker productivity can increase? History disagrees. Do you invest your money or do you view that as somehow getting free lunch?

The energy density of a battery is so low though. That means a lot of capacity must be dedicated to batteries instead of cargo. Meaning you need more trucks.

Ignoring a country’s sovereignty and attacking them is also “rules for thee and not for me.”

Why is quantized probability nonsensical? Isn’t it equivalent to asserting the universe is not a continuum?

Most East Asian countries have a huge advantage in labor cost. If they don’t have one now, they often did in the past during the ascent. That’s basically the definition of zero-sum…

Have you heard of supply and demand? Suppliers have a price point at which their willing to supply a good. That price point is dependent on the input costs of producing the good. F…

Engineers have targets to meet, but management still has to trust estimates and scopes provided by engineers.

Why don’t you spend more on Reddit until you stop seeing results?

You can’t sign in to a very popular brokerage using Firefox, so FF users definitely need a secondary browser.

Directly dealing with a counter party is called a market. A “market maker” is called so because they literally create a market by ensuring there is always is a counter party.

I’ve worked both in the EU and the US. Working in the US is 100% worth it, especially if you don’t have kids. It costs about 10k to move one’s belongings to Europe, including havin…

The steam deck has the potential to be huge. I want to game. I have a mac book and I don’t have a dedicated to desk to play on even if the game selection on mac was good. I don’t w…

> There is no such thing as a “forex market”. You are trading directly with a counterparty in forex. That’s called a market. You probably mean a market maker, who may buy or sell a…

It sounds like the issue is that the stocks aren’t locked up for some period of years, leading to a situation where Tim Cook could take the money and run.

I’ve been following this closely and I haven’t seen any mention of non-Ukrainian forces in the country. Seems like pure speculation?

It wasn’t I’ll-thought out. It was an intention decision by the chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Immediately after leaving the chancellorship, he went to work for Gazprom and oversees …

I was responding to this: > It appears the CO2 emission standards can be achieved overnight simply by boycotting of all goods produce in countries where there is zero qualms about …

As a German citizen, you should be aware that your country just veto’s sanctions on Russia so that they could keep the flow of natural gas coming. Your ex-Chancellor decommissioned…

Do you have a source for the claim that most studies done in mice don’t hold up? As far as I know, mice are quite a good proxy, although there are some differences. It seems like i…

Russia doesn’t want its sphere of influence to decrease. Ukraine has wanted to detach from Russia for a long while. Russia has responded with assassinations, destabilization by sup…