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Obviously, but that doesn't change my mind here. If you're in the 1% of top performers, you have the cognitive ability to learn new things.
> Obviously, but that doesn't change my mind here. > If you're in the 1% of top performers, you have the cognitive ability to learn new things. I had to stop and admire the subtle self-deprecating humour on display between those two statements. Well played!
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Up above we see "Then you start learning the Starbucks menu". Does that seem like an honest take here? Surely folks "dancing around the fundamental constraints of reality" aren't about to start whipping up frappuccinos because they failed to keep up with industry trends and plan ahead, right?
My good friend from high school has a PhD and was a published expert in a field that stopped being relevant when his company acquired another company and went with their tech. He was laid off and unemployable in the field. He survived as a Starbucks manager and sold Herbalife for a year while getting some additional education. I was able to help him get a contract as a tech writer to get out of the retail stuff. Now…
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Obviously, but that doesn't change my mind here. If you're in the 1% of top performers, you have the cognitive ability to learn new things.
> Obviously, but that doesn't change my mind here. > If you're in the 1% of top performers, you have the cognitive ability to learn new things. I had to stop and admire the subtle self-deprecating humour on display between those two statements. Well played!
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I've been thinking about moving out to that area. Building these fabs will do amazing things for the local community & economy. It is also likely the most resilient part of the TX power grid...
There's a lot to like and some to dislike, but I imagine that holds true just about anywhere. I've enjoyed my time living in North Texas, mostly from a cost of living and plenty of opportunity perspective. I don't exactly make a massive income (probably about half of a similar salary to the valley) but with that I'm able to actually afford a decent house with a single income family and still save, have a commute of o…
Do you have a source for this? Anecdotally, I felt the need to buy a generator when I lived north of Austin, because outages were frequent enough that it seemed warranted. Since moving to North Carolina (just north of Charlotte), I’ve had exactly one outage in a year, and that was on a mild day, just had some equipment failure.
Never once here have I received notice that I needed to reduce consumption to help the grid.
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It’s the worst business to work for. You’ll work 60 hours a week for shitty pay, and be the Yoda of some tool. In 10 years there will be a new magic tool. Then you start learning the Starbucks menu.
It's the best possible bootcamp for engineers if you are lucky enough to land a role in systems engineering (or its equivalent). If you actually pay attention and participate, you will learn about ways of troubleshooting that will stick with you forever. The notion of making an assumption is completely exorcised from your body - in this industry, the consequences of bad assumptions cost at least a million bucks alway…
I didn’t particularly like the job, but I’m grateful for the opportunities that time and effort has given me.
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This would have been categorically true circa-1970s. Unfortunately, US industrial vertical integration now includes foundations placed in global low-labor-cost countries. The crash vaccine manufacturing scaling program was possible because we were rich enough to throw mountains of money (of which we have the most) at any international supply problems. If the Atlantic or Pacific had been hostile to commercial shipping…
Russia's military is being decimated, just not at the line of contact currently. You're watching a protracted battle play out all across the world right now between Russian interests and Western interests. Some of these include: 1. Russian/Wagner (now admitted to be the same) neocolonialism in African states, most recently Niger. Within days Niger stopped trading Uranium to France. Conveniently, France is the least d…
The naval drone question is especially fascinating.
IMHO, they have to be transported closer to impact site by some other vessel.
Ukraine doesn't have submarines, and Russia has 6(?) Kilo's in the Black Sea, so traditional submarines would be insane in that environment anyway.
And whatever transport method would need to be stealthy with respect to Russia's sensing methods: acoustic, radar, to a lesser degree visual.
Given Ukraine's technical capabilities and traditional shipbuilding expertise, I'd hazard there's a somewhat-stealthy drone carrier boat (probably also unmanned).
They could also be hiding/launching the drones directly from commercial shipping, but that's an awfully big risk for the flag country/ship owner with respect to Russia boarding and searching, or even back tracing launch points.
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Russia's military is being decimated, just not at the line of contact currently. You're watching a protracted battle play out all across the world right now between Russian interests and Western interests. Some of these include: 1. Russian/Wagner (now admitted to be the same) neocolonialism in African states, most recently Niger. Within days Niger stopped trading Uranium to France. Conveniently, France is the least d…
It'll be fascinating to learn whatever grey/black ops details come out after the war hopefully ends. The naval drone question is especially fascinating. IMHO, they have to be transported closer to impact site by some other vessel. Ukraine doesn't have submarines, and Russia has 6(?) Kilo's in the Black Sea, so traditional submarines would be insane in that environment anyway. And whatever transport method would need…
> IMHO, they have to be transported closer to impact site by some other vessel.
The specifications I have seen is that they have somewhere between a 400km - 800km (I know it's a big spectrum) range.
If they were about mid that, they wouldn't need launching from outside the Ukrainian mainland to hit pretty much anything of military interest.
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> what's the actual issue you want capitalism to solve Seeing as it's more or less the de facto world order it should ideally solve global alignment for the long term wellbeing of Earth-borne life
The difference is capitalism is bottom up. It has no top-downness, and would rather individual people and groups of people made agreements between themselves. That's why it can never usefully be described as a "world order". That doesn't align well with efficiency or top-down world political agreements. But it has lifted more people out of poverty faster than any other system in history.
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The point is that this isn't Germany and there is no such law here.
If there is no such law in Texas, then surely detaining random people who are not white enough and putting them in jail would be a significant topic of discussion rather than an offhand comment on HN. 40% of Texas are Hispanic — a demographic that would be under the most suspicion. That is a lot of people in jail for no reason and without any legal reasons. The whole state would probably get bankrupt after a few laws…
There are only four states that require you have an ID during a police stop and Texas is not one of them. Obviously if you're driving, a driver's license is required. But for a random stop walking down the road? Nope, Texas does not require that you have ID.
To the rest of your post: I honestly don't know where to start. You're making a lot of assumptions that don't hold. Suffice to say that it's a lot harder to prevail in a case against the police than you realize.
People get arrested/thrown into jail for no reason far more often than you apparently think. I know someone (a software developer actually) who was attacked by an undercover officer in a case of mistaken identity. He fought back not knowing the guy was a cop. To prevent him from being able to sue, they charged him with assaulting a police officer. After months of trying to fight it in court, he finally gave up. City dropped the charges as long as he agreed not to sue them.
This is why people are so pissed and why there have been so many protests in the last few years. Everyone is tired of this shit.