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As someone who disdains hyperbolic, motivated framings of everything in the news cycle, I normally don't like to use words like that. But, it was interesting to see the news discus…

A different model of war and Empire. Yes brutal, for the defenders of the castles and fortified cities they conquered. But again, very targeted at key sites so as to assert an Impe…

They had a very kludgy, homegrown, but generally well-liked and cost effective EMR calls Vista. The fact that it was cost effective, but required internal expertise was exactly wha…

I am trying to use more neutral language when I comment, so that the underlying assertion of facts are more likely to resonate with someone who may disagree with me. I agree with y…

Much more frequent conflicts, yes. Much less total death and dying as well, though. Battles were short and small scale until the Civil War (maybe the Napoleonic Wars prior? Debatab…

Stryker holds monopoly supplier positions for a number of medical products, esp including surgical implants and associated OR tools. If Stryker stays down, supplies of some things …

The ILWU controls labor at all west coast ports, including LALB, which is responsible for a majority of consumer imports from the Pacific. It has bargained effectively to block dev…

I've been telling people for 15y that a phone is just "A TV that watches you back" And at last, the market has finally caught up with me :)

Lot's of good thought here but I will reiterate; helping others doing something you enjoy or are good at is almost always the way.

Remember, the Cerner acquisition enabled an essentially permanent beachhead for Oracle in the VA. It will pay off over time in 'we already run Oracle' across many dimensions of gov…

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Hey HN, I have a brewery, taproom, and event space in my hometown that I've gotten open recently, and for now I am cash-only (I even bought an ATM that I surrounded with cabinetry,…

Yes. I bought the last two units left at any HD for a few hundred miles; drove them up there Monday. Apparently my friend had to drive in and out of his (utterly destroyed) neighbo…

Re your father; wow, what a life. Thanks for documenting that for us. My grandfather became a Navy navigator, B25s I think, right as the war ended. Chased hurricanes in the Pacific…

Just chiming in to say your link led me to the document. The introduction is fantastic. I'm in the middle of an enormous woodworking undertaking and I am gonna have to hit pause an…

I won't belabor points I've made below, but I do want to agree with you about 3rd party doctrine in general; the modern world makes it almost impossible to live a normal life witho…

I guess that's the point I was trying to make - in our case we were not conducting a criminal investigation. And if we were headed that way (which only happened every once in a whi…

> Out of charity, I'll assume the former. But to be honest, every time I've spoken at length about this with LEOs, it's inevitably turned out to be the latter. I am sure this is of…

> Just because it made your job easier doesn't mean that it was legitimate. So, I suppose that the main point. In these cases, we weren't investigating the individual as a suspect,…