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by g_sch 6y ago
All over the world, I see people trying to stop people from being outdoors, regardless of the health and safety implications. In the UK, police are issuing citations to people in parks. NYC has set up a tip line to report "social dista
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by g_sch 7y ago
It's strange to me to hear people blame turnstile jumping for the decline of the MTA. Its budget for operations has been repeatedly cut or diverted to large capital projects, which do nothing to improve service if operations are poor.
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by g_sch 7y ago
Signal already does use SGX for quite a bit: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/ Some people here (and elsewhere) have pointed out this recent tendency of Signal to put a lot of eggs in the same SGX
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Botnet: Simulated social network of millions of bots that are obsessed with you(startbotnet.com)
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by g_sch 7y ago
My favorite graphics in these slides are the revenue/user graphs that show occasional, apparently randomly inserted, MoM downturns. Could be an effort to make them seem more "realistic", even though I would be surprised if it
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by g_sch 7y ago
I see a lot of comments here saying that users are buying Rings because they like them, so clearly there must be a need for them. However, in the US, crime rates have nationally been on a downward trend for decades now. Meanwhile, around 60
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by g_sch 7y ago
I think the article makes a pretty persuasive case why competence isn't a core selling point of McKinsey (or many other management consultancies) anyway. What many companies want is for an external party to tell them to do what they&#x
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by g_sch 7y ago
This is a great point - solar/wind and nuclear are, as the grid currently works, not drop-in replacements to each other, but complements. Nuclear provides base load (because it's difficult and slow to ramp a nuclear plant up or do
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by g_sch 7y ago
In, ahem, "fairness" to Germany, they operate some of the dirtiest lignite coal power plants in all of Europe. [0] Despite their self-promotion as a leader in green energy transition with the Energiewende, they seem unwilling to
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by g_sch 7y ago
Everyone has to pick their battles. Sometimes they believe that it's not possible or practical to affect any meaningful amount of change. I can imagine trying to change an entire country as an individual can certainly feel that way. Bu
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by g_sch 7y ago
Even with "at will" employment, workers still have some protection from termination. For example, anti-discrimination laws prohibit people from being fired for a number of reasons, including their race, gender, sexuality, etc. Ano
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by g_sch 7y ago
Does this article really contain a referral link for "overstock.com barstools"? I'm not sure if I should be appalled that they inserted an ad into a journalistic piece, or respect them for doing it despite how negative the re
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by g_sch 7y ago
I tend to think of everything in life as political in some way. After all, politics is the fundamental question of how power is distributed in the world. However, even if you don't subscribe to this view, I would argue that work and th
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Hong Kong rents set to fall as protests curb housing demand(bloomberg.com)
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Visualizing MTA Subway trips with stringline graphs(pvibien.com)
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by g_sch 7y ago
This concept would make a fun (thought) experiment for a street in the US. Imagine a car parked curbside in a city street somewhere in the US. No one complains, because this is how everyone expects street space to be used - as storage for p
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by g_sch 7y ago
It's been done already! Beacon Power operates a 20 MW / 5 MWh flywheel plant in Stephenstown, NY that does nothing but store grid energy and release it when needed. And ancillary services such as spinning reserve carry a price on
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by g_sch 7y ago
I'm an experienced product consultant looking to to move to an in-house product management role. I've worked in various domains and in companies ranging from Series A startups to multinational enterprises. My favorite thing is hel
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by g_sch 7y ago
I understand what you're driving at, but I think war is actually a pretty good example of something that's become significantly worse over time. It used to be fought on a small scale. The biggest battles had just a few thousand ca
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by g_sch 7y ago
I think that if you read GP more generously, you'll see that they weren't implying that being white guarantees success. Rather, the point of privilege is that, all things being equal, people who appear white will on average face l
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by g_sch 7y ago
I enjoyed this article because it contained concrete examples of each of its assertions. It's a lot more engaging to read than many of the other "falsehoods programmers believe about X" listicles.
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by g_sch 7y ago
This is a good point! Hadn't thought of that.
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by g_sch 7y ago
Perhaps this shouldn't be surprising, but what this site makes clear to me is that GDPR enforcement is more lax on major companies than many people expected, and more severe on private individuals. For all the breathless reporting of h
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by g_sch 7y ago
This seems to be a general problem across the peer-to-peer rental industry. My friend had her car stolen while renting it out on Getaround and ended up in a similar situation. These things seem to come and go in cycles. Airbnb and Uber face
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by g_sch 7y ago
I'm interested (and somewhat taken aback) by the intensity of the reactions to this term. Maybe it's a generational/political thing? For my part, I know significantly more people who refer to themselves as "Latinx"
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Sources: US to Question Ola Bini, Assange Pal Jailed in Ecuador(apnews.com)
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by g_sch 7y ago
Hey, I sent you a message via the form on your site! I'm definitely interested to hear what you're up to.
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After looking it up, I discovered PREPA was privatized shortly after Hurricane Maria. So perhaps they have new sources of capital. Though I'm still not sure (or at least not confident) that anyone with a profit motive is going to inves
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by g_sch 7y ago
This is certainly a bold plan. I wonder (doubt, even) if PREPA will be able to execute it. Segmenting the grid is going to introduce a lot of trade-offs. Smaller segments means that dips and spikes in load are going to create greater differ
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by g_sch 7y ago
I'm not convinced it's a temporary bump, though. Space is at a premium in large cities, especially pedestrian/cycling space. As long as bikeshare companies are allowed to use this space for free and wash themselves of respons

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