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If I'm recalling correctly we changed our maths program to include lots of manual (calculus?) maths when the US gov wanted to churn out engineers to compete with Russia in space.

The need to manually solve the formulas has since been superceded by basic calculators. But it's still all (personal opinion) unnecessary rote equation solving these days. I certainly could've used more emphasis on structure and less on longhand math.

Good to know it's the same over there!

An S-Corp is the structure made for that sort of spread to a limited number of stakeholders. Not to say it's viable in some states with current regulation.

Also, LLP is a limited liability partnership. Wholly state entity, though, so the same caveat again. Member limits, etc.

And that's the USA of course. Your country may vary.

Recorded in '69 and typed up in '97? Seems like there might be a story there as well!

First you worry about meeting your paying customers need. Then you spin up just enough infrastructure to handle effectively meeting the need to continue getting paid.

You can do that with some shell scripts on an instance and an e-mail service and manually copy the whole mess for backup if it makes sense. The how of implementation is very case specific.

Thinking more on it I'd sum up as "provide a service that doesn't require that you be Google". If you start by specifying an impossible amount of infrastructure maybe there's an issue with management :).

If you'd like some good dawn-of-time history about the BBS era Phrack came out of (and the people who started it) The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling is available free on Archive.org (book 101!). Fun read, probably even more so if you weren't there.

https://archive.org/details/thehackercrackdo00101gut

If you can cultivate your customer base to only sell this service to folks who want to pay for it. On a timed basis, generally. All the upside without the headache of dealing with angry people you don't have a business relationship with.

Folks who want to purchase a service are generally grateful of getting whatever they're paying for. They realize that's not always the case.

HBC is in Europe, correct? I find the argument that money laundering is frowned upon hard to believe.

They were basically offering money laundering as a service as recently as ten years ago. And given how long those court arguments likely take that's recent enough.

https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-n...

That reminds me of Reddit's endlessly repeated questions. Possibly there's a large audience that refuses to look for an answer prior to asking a question? Almost an expectation of free "service".

That might result in a preference for Discord. With a refusal to research it's free developer tech support.

I'm not sure that's just open source products. Par for course with the largest online services too... looking at you Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

At least with an open source product if I want to pay I can have an issue addressed ultimately. Good luck with that deleted YouTube account or owned Facebook business page.

Thinking on it I'm sure if you're paying enough IBM will be happy to throw developers at any problem you can come up with.

Don't know if it was the book, but "Design for a Great Day" by Alan Dean Foster is what that reminds me of.

Based off (someone elses?) short story iirc but I didn't pull it down to check.

True. Adding an extra, capable person to an incredibly small number of people who've considered a problem is a huge increase in total throughput on it. Might be that there isn't much more to it.

In a side note I usually read that those rashes are only present in 30% of cases or so. Probably good advice to get checked out if you suspect an infection. Multiple times, if necessary, as the testing also doesn't appear to have a high degree of accuracy.

You may want to try any of the other platforms. For instance, Google Play store.

It'd be pretty awesome if it scrolled across its chassis though.

The article covers that but very pointedly doesn't bring up the angle. Just a note that suddenly there were dramatically lower projected sales the next year.

If you read closely they attribute this to medical objections without mentioning the reason you're stating. Your statement better aligns with my memory of the period.

Anyone taking part in the design of one of these machines should be required to stop, prior to starting design, and build a wall of bricks by hand. In a grassy field. From scratch.

The problem with all of those (less the exoskeleton) seem to be a poor grasp of the challenges involved in doing the job. They all seem to assume a perfect environment; something rare (impossible?) for most on-site work.

My experience here mirrors that. I just assumed that the lead paint was more expensive and the builders of my old multi-family went with duller paints. No lead to be found!

Linux either, afaik. Using a 7" 1080p tablet with a necessary 125% scale that seems to work fine.

Certainly the same here for the past 20 years. Although not the same year to year the plants do seem to be growing more vigorously overall.

So we now have a sample size of two :).

I use a allow-only javascript setup. I've found that for the web browsing I do that cuts out essentially all extraneous junk. YMMV.

I actually had a copyright claim filed against an US Air Force band of the Pacific composition and recording. Which I got from them directly and had used because it falls outside copyright (and I like their work).

It did get rescinded when I forwarded a response from a surprised representative. But YouTube still immediately flags those works as copyright belonging to a party that reproduces those recordings. regardless of that being impossible.

True. I was internalizing "no new need" as hyperbole because it didn't make sense (given the reality of medical) but that's my mistake.

On re-reading, a highly specialized and entrenched workforce having a 30% uptake on a new technology in only a few years seems phenomenal.

Am I missing something or does this look like poor uptake for (possibly) reasons other than performance? The article cites a lack of use as justification for the assumption that the model doesn't work. It might just take time.

Especially in medical. A century (+) ago hand-washing took time to adopt unless I'm mis-remembering.

Ours was Western Digital. I worked at a VAR before the turn of the century and there was a rumored clean room problem at WD. We had over a hundred drives that failed but they flat refused to acknowledge the problem.

Ended up having to kill the drives on a dedicated rig and send them back to keep our customers from having issues. They knew they were bad but refused to accept them back prior to failure. For a while they were returning a failing drive on the RMA too.

The thrilling tale of: Drinking Orange Crush while someone's mentioning this "Uber" thing. And thinking that might make a good longshot investment for the 4k you've made in an anonymous management position your uncle got you. (I joke, it may have been a former college roommate)

Yea, I can see how "work less, get rich" makes for a better selling book.

It'd be nice if someone expanded on the subject. I assume it's this McKinsey: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company

And infer they treat the new hires harshly?

One can be an addict. To my mind the condition of addiction is, at least somewhat, divorced from the object of the addiction. Addiction certainly seems to survive its initial objects absence.

I would probably put the quotes around Technology above, rather than Addicted. Could be it's the pathology expressing itself and whatever the technology is is only tangentially related to what's going on.

To my mind this can all be in a similar silo to gambling or love addiction. How different is a slot machine from many games?

Just my 2 cents and not a professional analysis.

My wife got a news article pop up because it included a Getty licensed stock image that was from a location and time she had physically been present at.

The article itself was unappealing in any other way.

That was as long and rambly as a country drive. The author covers lots of incidental details like segregation and women owning the roadside diners.

I was reading with an eye for shortcomings and enjoyed the article. Well written!