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Comment · 1 year ago
The other 51 percent for are sophisticated economic analysts who ended up hoarding toilet paper and pasta during Covid.
Comment · 1 year ago
> For those that went through Brexit, can you detail when the larger population realized it was stupid?

49 percent for sure knew and voted against.

Comment · 1 year ago
Long long before.
Comment · 1 year ago
Anyone feel confident that the companies who benefit massively from MITRE are even now planning to step in and provide significant funding?
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
To install an AI update you didn't ask for, do not need and cannot turn off?
Comment · 1 year ago
CEO's have a "replication crisis" and they join and leave companies on huge salary and equity packages having totally failed to turn around or deliver the growth they were hired for. The fact that they did it in one place is no guarantee they can "reproduce" their first success and chance has more of a role than anybody will admit.
Comment · 1 year ago
As somebody who has lived through about three decades of Powerpoints that begin and end with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

where on earth are the management consultancies supposed to steal their "ideas" from to generate new fads now. I'm for sure none of them have had an original thought of their own.

Comment · 2 years ago
> and it's impossible to keep extending their service lives.

B52 projected to last till 2050

Comment · 2 years ago
> It’s a new plane!

First flown in 2006. Introduced 2016.

Comment · 2 years ago
The company with a board of directors responsible to shareholders noping out of anywhere isn't a choice.
Comment · 2 years ago
see Apple's 14 billion tax troubles in Ireland. For years these companies have been using the European operations as part of the tax avoidance schemes.

Don't mess with the Flemish has been good advice for 600 of the last thousand years.

Comment · 2 years ago
>yes it's a security issue but you wouldn't "expect" to get fined millions of dollars.

The penalties are based on percentage of turnover.

Comment · 2 years ago
Can't blame a rogue junior engineer if that happens.
Comment · 2 years ago
Sanitize your outputs?

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