chancy

But that's not the real problem; the real problem is how chancy farming is. Too much rain?

Whereas before they were "taking chances", now it'd become less "chancy".

It is a very chancy business with a lot of failures per success. There are much better things to investment in.

Game dev is a precarious and chancy marketing biz as all these HN experts are telling you!

When they do it's reliable to update one or the other without issue, else it's a bit chancy for my tastes.

I like to imagine that time travel is chancy, and the 'time tunnel' collapses each time a paradox is imminent.

Placing ads is such an arduous and chancy process. If I can hire somebody who has strong recommendations from people I know, it's much easier and much more likely to work out well.

Without some big and chancy changes in work and families, thoughts about would, could, and should be pale to insignificance as Darwin wins again. Or, it's not nice to try to fool Mother Nature!

So an education even if you didn't pass, which was pretty chancy anyway in my experience. Note to Stripe: I would gladly pay $10 next time around if it could buy more/better ec2 instances.

Research is an inherently chancy endeavour with a low chance of success. But academia is still a source of important research.

And walking around in roma neighborhoods as a foreigner is a _very_ chancy activity. Nobody local will even cry for you if you get robbed.

How to skip a Bachelor's is chancy. For the importance and potential of good independent work, at the best research universities that's rock solid.

But your paragraph about how difficult / chancy it can be to switch companies is exactly why it is a failed, exploitative program.

The standard attitude in the C-suites was a special case of C-suite attitudes more generally -- don't spend money on chancy, risky stuff. Instead, if there is to be a development project, then time, budget, good ROI, etc.

Relying on specific misfeatures to be present, exploitable, and useful on a diverse set of platforms is more chancy for the attacker.

My experience suggests that meeting cofounders at school is a pretty chancy thing. I wonder if the best way to purposely meet potential cofounders isn't to work at startups in the first place, where people won't be stuck in the big-company mindset.

A lot of nonsense, expensive, chancy, risky nonsense all due to some quasi-religion about CO2. The renewables proponents want to talk storage: Yes, storage would be crucial for much in renewables.

This is extremely difficult and chancy. The levels have been designed to progressively require smaller tolerance against errors.

Its a chancy proposition. Wealthy Americans are a very narrow demographic.

That behavior is endemic, and I'd rather be a consumer in the know than trust to the chancy kindness of a corporation whose interest is not per se aligned with my personal interests.

Sometimes it's a tiny event that precipitates the change, sometimes it's a massive event, and sometimes it's the accrual of thousands of chancy occurences. Past performance is a useful indicator of future performance only if aggregate statistics are your sole concern.

Philosophers of physics considered, and largely rejected, the many-worlds interpretation because, if quantum events result in every possible outcome occurring in some world, and our consciousness ends up in one of them by some chancy process, then there's no reason why we observe some events with higher probabilities than others. But we do, and many-worlds doesn't explain that.