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phdoofus t1_jebhs5g wrote
Reply to The New Light Is Bad: There’s something off about LED bulbs — which will soon be, thanks to a federal ban, the only kind you can buy. by newzee1
I stopped reading when the whinging never seemed to end.
phdoofus t1_je8s8ji wrote
Reply to TIL that Drew Carey refuses to ever submit himself for an Emmy Award nomination by Sensitive_Deal_6363
Zim: Sorry I'm late, my Tallest. I couldn't find my invitation. You're lucky I made it at all.
Red: You weren't invited at all.
Purple: Weren't you banished to Foodcourtia? Shouldn't you be... frying something?
Zim: Oh, I quit when I found out about this.
Purple: You quit being banished?
phdoofus t1_je6fat2 wrote
Reply to comment by A40 in This Swiss hypersonic hydrogen-powered jet will cut flights from Europe to Australia to 4 hours by altmorty
Plus theoretical materials and a theoretical infrastructure. NB, it hasn't even gone supersonic yet so the hypersonic part is still theoretical too.
phdoofus t1_je44avg wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Deeply, truly, very sorry: How tech CEOs talk when they lay off workers by CrankyBear
The founder is pretty much in the background. He's an academic and I think he knows when to not be in charge of a business. Our COO is highly technical and very very good. I'm not terribly surprised they got rid of the CEO. It's not that he was bad it just didn't seem like he was pushing us in ways we need to go.
phdoofus t1_je3hfod wrote
Reply to comment by 547610831 in Deeply, truly, very sorry: How tech CEOs talk when they lay off workers by CrankyBear
That's not 'economics' per se. That would not be something you pick up in an economics graduate program but probably something you pick up from your colleagues who think just like you because of 'prevalent business school think'
phdoofus t1_je3h8wg wrote
Reply to comment by nova9001 in Deeply, truly, very sorry: How tech CEOs talk when they lay off workers by CrankyBear
I work for a startup and our BoD just let our CEO go because they felt he wasn't the right person for the job any more. Nobody else got touched.
phdoofus t1_je3eb7l wrote
>Significant policy changes would be needed for US-based manufacturers tobe even remotely competitive. As things stand, they face three seriousimpediments — all inflicted by the government.
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Translation: cut taxes, cut regulations, give us more money, shield us financially from failure.
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Same as it ever was. If we were 'exceptional', we'd find a way to succeed regardless of impediments. According to the editors, however, we're doomed before we start not because of ourselves and our own ambition and drive but because of 'them'.
phdoofus t1_je1ia4r wrote
Reply to comment by bitfriend6 in I Would Love to Have Enough Time and Money to Go to an Office to Work All Day - Perhaps Steven Rattner and the executives complaining to him about their remote employees could lend me a hand (or $50,000 more a year). by speckz
90 min? When I was doing it I ran in to people on the Amtrak who were riding in from Sacramento to either the Berkeley station to catch a bus or BART in to the city or taking it all the way to Santa Clara. That's almost 3 hours one way assuming the train isn't late or gets stopped due to someone on the tracks (dead or alive). And, yeah...Amtrak...that never happens.
phdoofus t1_je0rhn2 wrote
Reply to comment by Stoo_Pedassol in Adult Obesity Prevalence Nearly Matches Heart Disease Deaths [OC] by orgborger
If you go to their data link, there are multiple images. Rather than choosing the map showing overall rates for all groups, they chose the 'non-hispanic black adults' map for some reason. Hence, the white bits are labelled 'insufficient data'. Given the number of blacks at least in MT, this is not surprising. Still, kind of stupid to present obesity data for only part of the entire US population and then show heart disease rates for all demographics
phdoofus t1_jdwas66 wrote
Reply to comment by Gabi_Social in TIL It takes 20 years for clothing to be considered "vintage" and today’s most sought-after vintage styles are ‘90s and early ‘00s by Ok_Copy5217
When my mom passes, I'm claiming her fridge because that damn thing has been going since the 80's
phdoofus t1_jdpk9er wrote
Would have been easier and more informative to just make a colored contour map
phdoofus t1_jd51jl8 wrote
Reply to Judge dismisses gamers’ claims that Microsoft/Activision merger will spoil gaming by Flawed_L0gic
A group of people thought they could go to court with the argument that a merger would 'spoil gaming' and they thought they'd win? Were they representing themeselves or something?
phdoofus t1_jcztygg wrote
Everyone just stop buying Amazon. If you can't make good business decisions that don't include 'significant overhiring', why exactly do you need to be rewarded in the marketplace?
phdoofus t1_jcyvb57 wrote
Reply to comment by Acceptable_Repeat908 in Tech layoffs keep mounting - any data showing layoffs are disproportionately fully remote employees or employees in satellite offices? by Dismal_Clothes5384
Yeah...it's more that they need to 'do something' about demands for better pay.
phdoofus t1_jcynsyz wrote
If my hands are cold the rest of me probably is as well so not sure why this is a thing that's needed unless it's for someone with some kind of circulation problem? This looks like a solution in search of a problem
phdoofus t1_jci5pk5 wrote
Reply to comment by pobody in Former Meta employee says staff were 'hoarded like Pokémon cards' by nastyjman
Just because one former Meta employee asserts something to be true all of a sudden everyone thinks it must be true. It makes absolutely zero business sense.
phdoofus t1_jc38zwb wrote
Reply to [OC] There are a few other Banks sitting on large unrealized securities losses. Compared that to their stock price return month-to-date to see what the rest of the market thinks of their situation. by Square_Tea4916
Notice the lack of recognizable banks doing normal business.
phdoofus t1_jawm34g wrote
Reply to comment by Tyler_Zoro in [OC] Self-Identified Party Affiliation in the US, 2004-2023 (Gallup source in comments) by Tyler_Zoro
Speaking of 'false equivalencies'
phdoofus t1_jaulds2 wrote
Reply to comment by Brilliant-Ad-5414 in Yield rate for Top 150 US Universities [OC] by Roughneck16
I would guess number of offers of enrollment accepted vs number sent.
phdoofus t1_jakdn7m wrote
Reply to comment by subset1 in [OC] Fundraising for Venture Capital follows the power law, with most of the funding going to the top firms by subset1
Showing power law data on a linear axis can result in most of your data literally being invisible except for a couple of data points.
phdoofus t1_jak9cwg wrote
Reply to [OC] Fundraising for Venture Capital follows the power law, with most of the funding going to the top firms by subset1
Pro tip, show power laws using a logarithmic axis
phdoofus t1_jai9fmw wrote
Reply to comment by coffeeeedrinker in When a river floods after a rainstorm, does it flow slower or faster? by Chiraqiian
Yes, if you look at the shallow water equations for river flow, the right hand side will basically be predominated by a) slope driving flow and b) friction resisting flow. The friction resisting flow will be determined by the water velocity, the characteristics of the bed material, and the water depth. As water depth increases (e.g. during a flood) the frictional forces decrease as h^(4/3) where h is water depth.
phdoofus t1_jahmnyi wrote
Reply to comment by hatersaurusrex in [OC] Self-Identified Party Affiliation in the US, 2004-2023 (Gallup source in comments) by Tyler_Zoro
Translation: "both sides are the same". Disagree, but you do you.
phdoofus t1_jagtybh wrote
If a bullet could maintain straight line flight, with the bullet axis coincident with the flight axis, then the effect should theoretically be zero.
However, a variety of factors can cause the two axes to NOT be coincident. In this case, imagine you're driving down the road with the window down and you put your hand out. If you angle your hand relative to the flow of air past it, you can easily feel the increased drag on your hand.
The whole point of spinning the bullet (gyroscopic stabilization) is to keep the two axes coincident through the expected/desired flight path of the bullet.
phdoofus t1_jefkvar wrote
Reply to comment by ILikeNeurons in A Timeline Of The Earths Average Temperature - Since The Last Ice Age Glaciation. by Ok_Satisfaction6810
Climate change isn't so much a scientific choice for those idiots, it's a political one. Like not taking Covid vaccines.