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You'd think people would look at the initial healthcare.gov mess and make some conclusions. One of which should maybe be "Don't strictly isolate teams, with unowned space between t…

Wait until they learn a jar company makes aerospace parts... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_Aerospace_%26_Technolog...

DCS? https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/products/ ? (It's been Janes-90s since I sim'd)

> winding roads Don't get me started on the folly of single-path, non-grid road planning. It's literally encoding the assumption "There will never be more than X people living here…

Haven't read the paper yet, but could you expand on the tuple use? It seems like the odd person out in that list of primatives.

I'd include the addendum that wisdom is holding mutually-exclusive truths at once, and deciding which governs in any particular circumstance. But I've found the previous to be righ…

I considered including all the caveats you mentioned before posting, but decided the base points cover more circumstances. ;)

I think I found that paper. Posted in a reply below.

Yes. The gist was that your brain gets caught in a loop in which your perception of time was continuously skewed, leading to a constant feeling of hurrying / lacking enough time. S…

The opportunity of company towns is the opportunity of dictatorships: with fewer decision makers, longer-sighted decision can be rammed through. For example, California could presu…

Used to live down the road from Avalon. I'd say it's better than a mall, but still too profit-first to be when I'd hope we're pivoting towards. As context for others, Avalon is a m…

If you don't need a decent school zone, can confirm. 38 minutes from downtown. 3 acre wooded lot. 1900 sq ft house (currently refinishing full basement). $135 when I bought, probab…

I can't lay hands on a link, but there was an article about the psychological phenomenon of time passing too quickly. It was a measurable state you could detect a brain as either b…

I think a few things aren't hammered into young people enough today. 1) Any action is greater than no action. It doesn't matter how much you suck at something. Do it. Congrats, you…

It's amazing how many cryptocurrency users are citizens of Panama...

Isn't that the whole security / obscurity point? That true security only comes by being exposed to active, intelligent, informed adversaries for a sufficient amount of time? Or, an…

> Otherwise your goal should be to find the easiest most phone-in-able class possible. Thanks, COVID!

One question I always ask of my interviewers is "How often do your developers sit with end users?" If they look flummoxed and confused as to why that should ever happen, I politely…

I spent a while on word choice, as nothing seemed to fit. The best I can describe the alternative is (most of this via conversations w/ kids in the 12 and 18 age ranges) essentiall…

Most of the source books are still in print. There are a few that are harder to find. https://talsorianstore.com/collections/cyberpunk

Snow Crash is Last Action Hero for cyberpunk.

> there's nothing wiser or more edgy or purer about cyberpunk that would have prevented this from happening to it. If anything, it's very apropos. But that never happened to punk m…

As an older millennial and prolific fiction reader (more so when I was younger and had time), there seems to be a 1:1 correlation between lack of consumption of... "intentional" cr…

Read it on the basis of recommendation here (along with Skunk Works), would highly second. The fascinating thing about successful, lean, scrappy defense projects is there are almos…