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Not a designer or a manufacturing engineer so perhaps I don't understand the minutiae, but things we know that just work:

Switches Buttons Dials Knobs

and 3.5 mm jacks

I really want to use these advanced approaches more, and they make a lot of sense in the daily fantasy scene (this analysis was for tourney long EURO 2024 I think?), but for something like season long NFL, I am convinced it is mostly luck:

  Hope your top 3 picks stay healthy

  Hope your 3-4 "flyer" picks (the guys who are on a new team, rookies, etc.,) don't completely bust

  Play the waiver wire (mid week pickups to fill in positions where needed) well

The one part where more skill/operations research is involved would be playing the matchups (top defense vs crap offense, WR1 vs rookie corner) but even then it's not a surefire recipe for success since there is so much variance (that top WR play might be nuked by a run oriented game). But it is playing smart so you should do it.

Unsurprising if you have noticed the way (I am going with 10-15%, unsubstantiated speculation) of people drive these days:

-Running red lights

-Not stopping at stop signs

-Driving way too fast for the street/road they're on

-Passing when you're not supposed to (single/double yellows)

You can chalk it up to decreased enforcement. Maybe that will help. The tradeoff is potentially more high speed chases and increased police encounters.

Honestly, it's just a lack of decency and common courtesy. It's like people who litter or don't pick up their dog's poop. I don't know how you fix it. It's a symptom of a decaying society, that we cannot count on each other to do the simple things correctly.

I heard about this on NPR the other day and immediately thought of the Skyscraper Index. Self-fulfilling prophecy, financial divination or not statistically relevant?

Haven't finished reading this but I do wonder about the (still fairly common?) belief that Russia and China very much distrust and despise each other. They're much different than they were in the middle half of the 20th century when their animosity towards each other was based on who they though should be the vanguard of the communist-socialist Leninists-Marxist world revolution.

And if people still believe in this split, incorrectly, will that cause people to incorrectly analyze the situation? As a general principle Russia and China are each untrustworthy of other countries so perhaps they're playing the "keep your friends close but your enemies closer" card. And it's at this point I start to feel that my analysis is too circular, and that China will continue to assist Russia only so long as it suits them (the self interest argument that someone else posted about).

There are two types of Friday deployments:

A) Deploying major changes

B) Deploying small changes/bug fixes

Don't do A.

How does this work exactly?

1) A blogger publishes an article warning about scammer/fraudster/terrorist known as person Person X. They publish on January 1 2024.

2) Person X wants to get this info out of the Google results.

3) Person X goes to one one of these reputation management companies. They copy verbatim the article and post it to Tumblr. Tumblr has a feature to back-date posts so they back-date their post to December 1 2023. This makes it appear like the content appeared before the blogger published their article.

4) The reputation management company then sends a DCMA takedown notice to Google with the Tumblr post as evidence that the blogger is infringing on their content. Google does their DCMA thing and de-indexes the blog post.

The blog poster's remedy is to appeal the takedown at which point Google would then re-list their post...at which point this process starts over again?

Stuff like this is incredibly frustrating. It's so simple yet effective because of how the DCMA compliance process is implemented.

That "sorry I assumed you already knew this" part of the answer is wild! So artificial but so real at the same time. I can't think of the word to describe that kind of behavior, it's not patronizing, it's like passive aggressive flattery?

When CEOs or college presidents or others go before Congress like this, is it because they were invited or is it because they are subpoenaed? If it's the former, it really feels like talking to Congress is like talking to the police ( without a lawyer); there is no upside and it's all downside. Member of Congress ask these loaded questions where even if the person wants to answer, they can't because the Congress person doesn't let them finish. Or the Congress person follows up with basically the same question but worded slightly differently and when the person inevitably answers slightly differently or tries to give a nuanced answer, it blows up in their face and the Congress person has these crazy out of context sound-bites to take home.

I've always held TIE Fighter as the pinnacle. The story is epic and the dog fighting is very intense, not only early on when you're in an unshielded TIE Fighter (going up against TIE Interceptors and the Escort Shuttles with that rear facing turbo laser) but also later on when you are in a TIE Advanced going up against TIE Defenders.