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> People don't realize how much maintenance sewers need. I think about this in relation to modern society often these days. So much of the machinations that keep things running are invisible to the daily user.
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> Most famously, in New York City the writer and urban visionary Jane Jacobs took on Robert Moses, rallying community opposition to his grand plan for the 10-lane Lower Manhattan Expressway that would have destroyed parts of Little Ital
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> a commercial entity is sharing their data despite it being valuable to them What's their incentive to share?
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> I wonder how many of these extraordinary leak prevention measures would be necessary if Apple manufactured their devices in the US or Europe? Probably still going to need them. The person responsible for ripping and leaking nearly ev
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Great example! Reading your comment and politics immediately jumped to mind. Specifically taxes, and paying local (a handful of people) vs. federal (the monolith). E.g. paying property taxes for schools vs. federal tax dollars allocated to
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I really appreciate this question. Illuminated my cognitive dissonance. My mind didn't even think to ask it as I was reading the GPs comment and thinking about that small company as scummy.
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Here are a couple but just reading through them, I think they are lacking. I need to think more about why. I suspect it's about tactics vs. principles. For example the one talks about pre and post mortems. I have seen those done badly
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This is a really thoughtful article. Expectations and norms are what come to mind. For orgs: expect that disabilities can be invisible and need accommodations For individuals: expect that you will need to advocate for yourself (especially b
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> never had an issue with hard work Very similar boat as you when I was younger. Lots of physical labor. No big deal when you're young. Extrapolate that out to a decade, two decades, or an entire career and I bet we would both be
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Twitter App for iOS 12.3.1
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> If video streaming subscribers don’t know what they want to watch, they’re almost twice as likely to tune into their favorite broadcast television channel (58%) rather than browse through the menus of their streaming services (33%), a
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List functionality operates annoyingly different from timeline functionality though. In the TL, if I click out, it remembers where I left off. With lists, if I swipe out, it loses my place. Small issue but it puts a hamper on me using lists
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> And we shouldn't shit on the person who brought the organization from zero to one Very good point. There's an underlying principle here that I didn't say. Management is responsible for the system. Dead simple when writte
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> Because I had special skills it meant that I was being relied upon more to do work that no one else could do. This is a textbook example of a bad system with a single failure point/bottleneck. One way to be considered "10x&qu
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I suspect you've listened to overproduced podcasts. I don't care for those. NPRs are like that. Reed Hoffman's Masters of Scale podcast is a textbook example of what I don't like. Dan Carlin, of Hardcore History, a very
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Three I like: The History of Rome in 179+ podcasts. Done in increments of 12-20 minutes. Great for short commutes. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History as mentioned by ghaff, but yes, it's extremely long form. Tides of History - differen
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> There's even a poop train to Alabama An NYC poop train bound for other parts played a big role in season 4 of the television show Billions. https://uproxx.com/tv/billions-stock-watch-poop-train/
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Good question. Desalinization also has externalities that aren't priced in but would make sense to consider. That's a fancy way of saying that the salt removed from the water creates a brine that in large quantities is no bueno to
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I love coming across posts like these. There are historical narratives, and then there are these anecdotes, which add flesh and color from people who were there. Much better read than the title alone suggests.
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Friendship, yes. Inferior or tainted, no. Wikipedia has a good definition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromance
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Context makes this quote even better--Perot was a GM board member.
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Great work on that timestamp
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Thanks vijayr. I missed that one.
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Hey BeetleB, I hear you. It sounds like you are engaged in the conversation in good faith and are trying to understand why your communications are being downvoted while others are not. I can't say for certain why your comments have bee
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This reminded me about Yemen. Eight years ago I read that Yemen may be the first country to run out of water. I went to check on where they are. It's not good. Drought is being compounded by conflict and politics. I can't help but
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> it's capital Chennai recently ran out of water This casual statement made my eyes bulge. Like, what does this mean? How does it happen? Is water permanently gone? What are the ramifications? I found a WaPo article on Chennai, whic
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> One other factor to keep in mind, though it’s unclear if it contributes to the Foran-Lore tension: In past years, Foran’s annual performance bonus has been heavily tied to the operating profit of Walmart’s US business, which includes t
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I re-read the guidelines last week when the HN people posted that they were updated. Here's my take on why you are being downvoted based on them. 1) This conversation veered into politics, making it more divisive. 2) Your response &quo
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> Your head in a jar until they either create a new body for you or find a donor body Could you imagine the horror of waking up and being just a head?
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I've found one of the quickest things to atrophy for managers is their empathy for being an IC. If I had to conjecture, it's much more a person's mindset, the organizational culture, and their incentives (so the system), that

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