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That adressing throughput not costs. If you keep costs contant, lower prices but acchive higher throughput, the only thing you acchieve is to lose money faster than you would have …

> In the aftermath of 9/11, the government has to be seen doing "something". This was the something. No, that might have been true then, but the real reason is the same that Airlin…

> They didn't kill RSS - they introduced people to it. For myself and most people i knew that knew of RSS feeds, we weren't introduced by google reader, we migrated to it because i…

> It turned out the distribution (and to some extent, ownership) problems eclipsed every other problem in software. I have a different perspective. I see it more as a question abou…

You can do that in confluence.

Despite the odd angle used throughout all the western media propaganda. It was an Iraqi group not Iranian group. The constant push to frame this as "USA vs. Iran" by calling it an …

Micky mouse was inspired by "a real world animal". That doesn't mean that all IP is suddenly void.

> It feels like almost all the issues with self-checkout technology come from the attempts to minimise shoplifting, which don't even seem that effective at doing that. In theory, a…

Thank god, finaly! I was getting so annoyed at my ice melting when cooking fish and the beeswax melting when cooking tenderloin. Why didn't anyone think of this before? /S When you…

Human level means at the level of a human. Replace your 6 senior software engineers with 6 random humans, heck, replace them with 600 random humans. Let them lose on a problem and …

I might be glossing over a lot of subtleties, but if you ask me South park single-handedly rerouted Disneys trajectory through nothing but targeted satire.

That's like demanding that anytime a F1 driver takes a pit stop he should be fired. Obviously the pit stop itself doesn't improve the time, and he's just sitting still. Imagine if …

> Yes, the latter more difficult to do accurately, but if people were really able to evaluate themselves, they would be able to understand they’re, on average, below or above the m…

Too late to edit, but I think Adam D'Angelo staying on the board proves my speculation completely wrong.

> I think if people at all levels of skill were reasonably good at measuring their own ability, we would see two curves that roughly overlap. Instead we see the graph given. Actual…

> But in reality, it would be very surprising if performance and evaluation of performance were independent. We expect people to be able to accurately rate their own ability. This …

Everyone who sat in the meeting with the board ousting Sam knows enough of the reason as to why he was ousted. They all voted Yes, and even if some of them regret it now that they …

It looks like 90%+ of the company is ready to join him and other senior members at Microsoft under a new banner and with the backing of Microsoft which is the major cost center for…

So from all the news it's difficult to figure out what might have been the boards Idea. But I have a fealing it went something like this: Adam D'Angelo has a solution for selling c…

Another great point in this discussion is the page on why fossil deliberately does not have rebase: "Rebase considered Harmful" https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/rebaseharm…

Believe it or not, but if you manage to damage your engine by driving through deep water that snot under warrenty either, unless you own an ambitious vehicle. There is this incredi…

My laptop can't handle being submerged in a puddle why would a car? It's batteries being submerged, the doors aren't waterproof. It's not a amphebian vehicle. If the puddles are de…

I mean the owner pretty much admits to driving through puddles, the question is how deep they were, but my bet would be that they did in fact submerge the bottom of the car. Most e…

> Ok so a lot of folks have fine motor control problems. The scrollbar is not there so you can use it to change your scroll position. It's there solely for the purpose of visualizi…