Readit Newssklargh commented on Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn? · Posted by u/unsupp0rted
A few big corporate things. These do not apply to small firms. They may apply to certain middle market shops. Nothing revelatory, just hoping to help a “me” at 21.
1. For large corporations the most appropriate governance analytical model is usually a feudal state and you can think of business units like manors.
2. Over the long run, proximity to revenue is usually a good proxy for survival.
3. Most people just want to do their job, feel good about themselves, and go home.
4. All things being equal, if people like you, you are far more likely to advance than if they do not like you.
It's just as bad to be carrying mechanically unsafe handguns in the presence of people.
Not only that it looks callous if you say otherwise, but also the dollar cost the military put on a human life probably is higher than the typical cost of fixing a bullet hole in a nuclear weapon.
Yeah I agree, school resource officers carry P320s. Unacceptable. Analyzing from a mission assurance vs. emotive standpoint.
Beyond the tragedy here - the implication of this is that USAF security forces were carrying a widely understood to be mechanically unsafe handguns in the presence of nuclear weapons. I am not saying a stray round can cause a criticality but shooting a nuclear weapon or its associated delivery and logistics systems is suboptimal.
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sklargh commented on British naval dominance during the age of sail lesswrong.com/posts/YE4Xs... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Which leads to the theory of why the USS Constitution was so superior to British ships.
The Americans drilled daily with live cannon, while the British drilled less often, and without live fire (presumably to conserve powder and balls).
As an unsurprising result, American crews were more experienced at reloading under the duress of cannonade. The sound on the gun decks was so great it would burst eardrums. The smoke made it too hard to see anything a few feet from the portals.
If you've never been near a gunpowder cannon fire, it's hard to comprehend the surreal rupture of reality it causes in your perception. I was to the side, but in front, of one. My world went black, then lightening values of gray. Sound returned. Then people appeared in the fog, moving with their arms out trying to get away blindly from the threat they perceived (that was already over).
Without proper training, new sailors will stumble badly in their first firefight, and each man on the gundeck is crucial to a team. The officers were outside the deck, so they could receive orders. If you can't load your cannon while blind and deaf, your cannon sits quiet a long time.
My first time hearing 5.56 fire when I incidentally had ear pro off was shocking. Cannot imagine what a gun deck was like in the age of sail.
Such zero value activities are a plague on the economy and the whole world. Obviously the equivalents in the e.g financial sector have more impact than some node.js developer going off on linkedin about the MANGO stack or whatever and spamming people about some crap newsletter, but it's this same mentality that is a cancer on society. And yes, all of marketing and sales and ads (the way it is done today) is a cancer in my opinion.
> winning on linkedin
> push them to
* vomits *
> millions of dollars
dirty money.
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