collinmcnulty

11 ms·

181.
by collinmcnulty 2y ago
That’s longnow’s whole deal. Getting people to think about the future far beyond a human lifespan.
182.
by collinmcnulty 2y ago
It serves the purpose of bringing all the market participants together to have the deepest market at the time of trading. This prevents pricing swings based on who happens to want to trade right this minute. Trading more frequently actually
183.
by collinmcnulty 2y ago
Regressive has a specific meaning regarding taxes. It means that the rate of the tax decreases with income. Whether a tax is regressive or not is a factual question.
184.
by collinmcnulty 3y ago
Larry Culp may not be an engineer, but if you want someone who can take a storied American manufacturer that got infected with MBA bs and brought it back to its roots … I mean he’s the only one whose done it, right?
185.
by collinmcnulty 3y ago
The "personal liberty" is a rhetorical shield for protecting a certain kind of person and the things that person wants to do. If you don't fit that mold, your personal liberty is of little importance to the state of Texas.
186.
by collinmcnulty 3y ago
As addressed in the article, all the information is stored encrypted. Signal cannot see your photo, name, etc in any practical sense. The only thing signal know is that this phone number uses signal … that’s not a lot.
187.
by collinmcnulty 3y ago
This is simply not true. Signal implements sealed sender so they don’t know who is talking to who.
188.
by collinmcnulty 3y ago
Your resume link might be broken.
189.
by collinmcnulty 3y ago
In his podcast, Michael Lewis described his job as finding the expert in a topic and then making their understanding legible to the reader. Going Infinite demonstrates the weakness of this approach, which is that he is entirely too credulou
190.
by collinmcnulty 3y ago
Almost certainly, assuming the growth of solar occurs as stated. The real tipping point is the fuel-only operating cost of a given plant, which is a function of the plant's efficiency and the price of its fuel.
191.
by collinmcnulty 3y ago
Braid was a life changing game for me. Hit me at exactly the right time in my youth to really “get” art for the first time.
192.
by collinmcnulty 3y ago
My number one “personal CRM” challenge isn’t getting reminders to call people, it’s remembering things people told me. I’ve taken recently to using the Notes field in Contacts, but something more structured would really be nice.
193.
by collinmcnulty 3y ago
I believe it’s because of the different standards of vetting the US government does for attaining refugee or asylum status vs a work visa.
194.
by collinmcnulty 3y ago
The principle of least privilege is table stakes for security, and is not a sign of disrespect.
195.
by collinmcnulty 3y ago
Not necessarily. I went to a charter middle school that received more qualified applications than they had seats, so they had a lottery every year. You could easily compare students who won the lottery to those who did not.
196.
by collinmcnulty 4y ago
How does this square with Google’s reputation for releasing and then abandoning many, many products? Like their dozen chat apps, Stadia, seemingly every other Alphabet subsidiary, etc. It seems like Google is pretty good at releasing things
197.
by collinmcnulty 4y ago
Texas electricity prices are capped at $9/kWh but are often reported in the wholesale $/MWh
198.
by collinmcnulty 4y ago
And it’s free
199.
by collinmcnulty 4y ago
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/2102
200.
by collinmcnulty 4y ago
My Chevy Bolt has exactly such a setting.
201.
Postmortems: Not asking why is expensive(carbonandsilicon.substack.com)
1 points by collinmcnulty 5y ago|0 comments