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Comment · 3 years ago
The makers of FTL have another game, Into The Breach, and it is available on iOS for free with Netflix.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yup! The term is marginal cost: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_cost
Comment · 3 years ago
| After it was founded in 1947, “it took the Air Force 25 years to figure out their mission,” he said. “We shouldn’t expect that the Space Force is going to be able to figure it out the day after we stand them up. It’s going to take a little while, and that’s okay.”
I’m wondering if this is a bit of a misquote. The 25 year period interestingly is the same as the existence of the Army Air Corp[0]. 25 years after 1947 would be 1972, and infer that the Air Force hasn’t yet figure out their mission through the Vietnam War, Minuteman missile development and emplacement, or most of the Cold War.
I personally think that the Space Force should have remained part of the Air Force until more capabilities were developed and a sense of mission.
As far as I can find, only two members of the Space Force have been to space[1]. I’m not sure there would have been support for the creation of the Air Force if only two Army Air Corp pilots had completed missions yet.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Corps
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Space_...
Comment · 7 years ago
I think that they key difference is urban vs rural environments. Walls are effective in urban environments to focus the movement of people into checkpoints - in Sadr City or El Paso.
A difference is that along the non-urban sections of the US-Mexico border, a wall needs to prevent individual persons from crossing. In Baghdad, the reason for division was to prevent large munitions, vehicle borne IEDs, and scattered gunfire.
In summary, walls can be effective, and they exist where needed along the US-Mexico border. A grand, glorious, wall in the middle of nowhere will not be helpful.
Comment · 8 years ago
Thanks for your take on this one. I was in Baghdad around the same time, Army, but a half step removed from combat arms. A decade removed from that now, I agree with you. In the moment, I think that dehumanization is a necessary side effect of combat. It lets you come to terms with everything slowly over time, rather than dealing with it all at once.
Interestingly, this was a management team read at my current employer. It isn’t seen as the only way to manage - more of a kick to have people own more of their responsibilities rather than deferring to others.
Comment · 8 years ago
Freakonomics - good “everything you know is wrong”
Promote yourself - meh “just become an influencer and pick a new job”
Extreme Ownership - good “navy seal war story -> leadership principle -> business application” x12
Rise - good “wow I have an easy life”
Drive - good “some people like doing stuff just because”
The Accounting Game - good “money explained to a kid to make you feel vetter about not understanding money”
Comment · 8 years ago
I had a 2008 Toyota Yaris with the same center speedometer. It didn't take that long to get used to it, and I liked having an additional compartment in front of the steering wheel (for papers mostly).
Comment · 8 years ago
@pbhjpbhj - I believe the meaning of the sentence is that Troy Hunt is expecting/planning for a few orders of magnitude of growth.
"Soak a few zeros" for example going from 1,000 calls per second to 1,000,000 calls per second.
Comment · 8 years ago
Looking at the info for pedialyte, 12 oz contains 370mg of sodium, and 9g of sugar.
So for 32oz, that 986mg sodium, and 24g sugar, which seems spot on to the articles recommended ratios.
Comment · 8 years ago
That was a good read, I had heard previously about the Canadian farmer who was sued for having the roundup-ready gene is his canola. Taking a look at the court record, it shows that it was a bit more intentional:
https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf/decisions/en/item/38991...
[39] In an attempt to determine why the plants had survived the herbicide spraying, Mr. Schmeiser conducted a test in field 2. Using his sprayer, he sprayed, with Roundup herbicide, a section of that field in a strip along the road. He made two passes with his sprayer set to spray 40 feet, the first weaving between and around the power poles, and the second beyond but adjacent to the first pass in the field, and parallel to the power poles. This was said by him to be some three to four acres in all, or "a good three acres". After some days, approximately 60% of the plants earlier sprayed had persisted and continued to grow. Mr. Schmeiser testified that these plants grew in clumps which were thickest near the road and began to thin as one moved farther into the field.
[40] Despite this result Mr. Schmeiser continued to work field 2, and, at harvest, Carlysle Moritz, on instruction from Mr. Schmeiser, swathed and combined field 2. He included swaths from the surviving canola seed along the roadside in the first load of seed in the combine which he emptied into an old Ford truck located in the field. That truck was covered with a tarp and later it was towed to one of Mr. Schmeiser's outbuildings at Bruno. In the spring of 1998 the seed from the old Ford truck was taken by Mr. Schmeiser in another truck to the Humboldt Flour Mill ("HFM") for treatment. After that, Mr. Schmeiser's testimony is that the treated seed was mixed with some bin-run seed and fertilizer and then used for planting his 1998 canola crop.
Comment · 8 years ago
Along with the Afghanistan Strategy image: http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Components/Photo/2009/Dece...
Comment · 8 years ago
My assumption is that Kanban has ongoing demos to the product owner as work is completed. In that case, the consolidated demos in Scrum may work better when you need to gather extended stakeholders (legal, compliance, design, etc).
Comment · 8 years ago
It could be people receiving netflix capable devices (smart TV, appleTV, etc) and deciding that the cost is now worth it.
Comment · 8 years ago
Probably a bad example because of its dependence on tourism, but Mackinac Island has prohibited motor vehicles since 1898: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackinac_Island
Comment · 8 years ago
That's an interesting point. I wonder if tax-incentivizing mixed use development by allowing a short depreciation period could create the same desired result as mandating it.