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Is hiring support staff so expensive that it threatens your business model? Not having access to a human being is an unacceptable business risk for many. I have been suffering a six-month integration / certification process with Chase's byzantine Merchant Services API. It's a parody how awful it is, I mean shockingly, amusingly bad, but I have access to bankers directly when something goes wrong, and so I will suffer it.

Can't you just offer paid, guaranteed support? People will gladly pay for it.

What's missing in that analysis is the sheer number of games Niemann has played recently, it's simply an enormous amount of OTB games - outside the norm. Furthermore, there's some consensus that a lot of the younger players are underrated as a result of the pandemic when a lack of rated OTB tournaments prevented a normal rating increase, and Hans' rapid improvement would partially be explained by his official rating quickly equalizing with his actual ability.

Why does it matter? Lying is lying.

I've also mulled different iterations of this idea, specifically with some kind of "on-the-ground" verification of sellers / quality. I lived and worked in China for 8 years, with a small spell of that time in manufacturing QC. I know the country well and speak fluently. Feel free to reach out, email in profile, and GP is also welcome to get in touch if you read this!

The United States has been the biggest perpetrator of terrorism, destruction and death around the globe since at least the overthrow of the Iranian government in the 50s.

Vietnam, Central America, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria. Never-ending, ongoing economic sanctions leveled against a myriad of countries which destroy the lives of ordinary people.

Israel, whose oppression against the Palestinians we actively support and fund, blows up an apartment building in the Gaza Strip and it makes the news for a day, and here we are incredulous when this happens in the Ukraine. We are, this very moment, engaged in the wanton murder of civilians, either directly through drone strikes or indirectly via the supply of weapons, like the ones used to bomb Yemenese today.

What then of your sanctimony? Where the hell is your outrage towards and condemnation of Americans, or of NATO or other US allies that tolerate our behavior? Americans and our allies objectively share responsibility for the largest portion of the sum total of evil acts occurring on this planet, and yet most of us, like you, act and speak as if this isn’t the case. Absurd.

Here's another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVpjFdf5l8c

Interesting. It's still been removed from Youtube.

>Shortly before 3 a.m. on July 19, 2016, American Special Operations forces bombed what they believed were three ISIS “staging areas” on the outskirts of Tokhar, a riverside hamlet in northern Syria. They reported 85 fighters killed. In fact, they hit houses far from the front line, where farmers, their families and other local people sought nighttime sanctuary from bombing and gunfire. More than 120 villagers were killed.

Are we the baddies?

P.S I wonder what was extracted in exchange for a Saturday publish date.

Would you be willing to to sell all of your vehicles and sign a time-charter contract with Uber to manage all of your ground transportation for the foreseeable future?

How much aeronautics/airworthiness/safety R/D is actually conducted by the FAA? My understanding is that they used to do a lot more cutting edge research, the kind that would attract engineering talent.

Looking at the 2022 FAA budget[1], they asked for $159M for "Engineering, Development, Test and Evaluation" out of a total budget ask of $18B+. That's less than 1% of the total budget.

1. https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2021-05/F...

>Whistleblowers like Mr. Kucera provided information indicating systemic problems continue to exist, including understaffed FAA offices charged with certification oversight responsibility for manufacturers and the continued risk of undue pressure under the FAA’s system of delegated authority.

>According to whistleblowers, GE Aviation’s GE9X engine program suffered from undue pressure on production staff acting on behalf of the FAA. For example, Mr. Kucera described being placed in an untenable position where he was responsible for conducting engine conformity tests on behalf of FAA, while also being charged with preparing GE engines to pass these same tests.

Wow.

Yes! I've also had similar experiences during episodes of sleep paralysis. Interesting.

When I'm awake it happens during periods of deep day-dreaming.

I don't even have to close them, I can reproduce pictures of objects, people, scenery etc in my mind while my eyes are open and actively observing other things.

As I type this comment I've got an image of a girl I saw yesterday fixed in my mind, as if looking at a picture of her.

I also assumed this was the norm.

Sometimes when I'm lost in thought a sound, a voice or a piece of music that I heard recently is almost completely reproduced in my brain, like I'm actually hearing it again. It's a subconscious act, I don't think I've ever been able to will that sensation consciously, but once it happens I can sustain it for almost a minute or two (especially music).

I have a very "strong" internal monologue, talking to myself all day. I supposed there could be a connection.

Anybody else have similar experiences?

From the article:

> https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/OrbOperato...

Wowing the natives with shine and magic. Neo-colonialism alive and well in SV. They have to be self-aware, right? Right?!

It's dishonest to offer that up as some kind of objective measure of public opinion on the law. An obvious partisan survey [1], just look at the questions:

> Texas has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, and laws could get even more restrictive due to the makeup of the current U.S. Supreme Court. Generally speaking, do you think that laws regarding abortion access in Texas should be more restrictive, less restrictive, or kept the same as current state law?

We used to call that a leading question.

The Texas legislature voted this into law with a sizeable majority. If the large majority of people are against this law, they should organize, vote new people in, and have it overturned.

The problem with liberals is they're just terrible politicians. Everything is an appeal to the courts or their mega-corporate employers to help establish agendas instead of doing the only thing that works: getting bills signed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_Polling.

All US Presidents and military leaders since at least the 1953 Iranian coup, if still alive, need to be tried for war crimes. US conduct abroad over the last 70 years has been an epic ode to evil.

"Shouting fire in a a crowded theater" is the most consistently overused, misunderstood, and tiresome arguments levied by censorship apologists against the ideals of free speech. It's also completely incorrect, as the actual act of shouting the word fire in a crowded theater is most assuredly protected under the first amendment. A casual reading of literature makes this obvious[1].

Thankfully the use of this argument is generally the loudest signal that can be generated by those who haven't spend much time dealing with the subject in any depth, so it's always a useful tool to gauge how much energy to spend engaging with someone on the topic.

In any case, when activists refer to Free Speech, we are generally referring to the greater principle of Freedom of Speech[2], which has a much broader philosophical and societal scope than the narrow definition of legally protected speech under the first amendment of the US constitution. Apostles for the movement like myself are in favor of greatly expanding the scope of Free Speech protections in the United States and the world at large, and are more generally committed to engineering a deeper appreciation for the broader concept of Freedom of Speech and the enormous influence it bears on our trajectory towards a free society.

1. https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

When will people understand that what’s wrong with censorship isn’t what information is or isn’t being censored, it’s the act itself.

It would just be better if people like you just admitted you don’t believe in free speech. It’s a philosophical argument that just goes over your heads.

> The fast-moving fire is officially the second-largest in state history and the biggest single fire on record.

So which is it?

Just the casus belli for a war with Iran we were looking for!

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"

> While Apple didn’t challenge the idea that Files was unfairly ranked over Dropbox, the company says the reality was a simple mistake: the Files app had a Dropbox integration, so Apple put “Dropbox” into the app’s metadata, and it was automatically ranked higher for “Dropbox” searches as a result.

This seems to be the key argument, I've not seen this addressed anywhere. The Files app doesn't compete with Dropbox, if anything it promotes an interface to Dropbox.

Can we all take a moment and appreciate this headline.

You'll find that many projects include a "bootstrap" script that does just that.

You could also ask why California has the worst-maintained roads in the United States, has mountains of trash littering the center divide and shoulders of its freeways, has huge numbers of homeless people living in slums just blocks away from some of the highest wage earners (and ostensibly highest tax payers) in the country. How does California vote? That’s not “red/blue” shit.

See, I can play this game too.

I disagree. I think your analogy is flawed:

OP disparages people in my sister's line of work as "bottom-feeders", which is just a more euphemistic, if not cowardly, way of saying 'parasite', or 'scum'. My point is to draw attention to the decent people who work as recruiters (I'm implicitly holding my sister here as the archetype of a good person) and expose the original insult as unwarranted. An axe murderer is clearly someone who is indefensible, so could never be invoked as a positive example in argument with a statement like "Axe-murders are the worst people ever!"

Also, an 'axe murderer' is a caricature of a real murderer, used in comedy, horror films etc..., and not a honest counterexample to my sister.

But I digress..., thanks for the note on Totem Poles, I was unaware!

My sister is a recruiter. I’ll be sure to tell her that you think she’s a bottom-of-the-totem-pole, lowest-common-denominator bottom-feeder. That’ll brighten up her day. And when she doesn’t take it to heart, I’ll be sure to add a ‘Let’s be frank...’.

Lol no, how about: 'Newsom pats himself on the back with an executive order'.

Care to be a little bit more charitable with evidence to refute that statement?

As far as I know that’s exactly how it works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_immune_system

Also, what’s your objective in slinging insults like that?

Given everything we know, why would the default mode be to trust our intelligence agencies?