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by johngalt 6y ago
+1 Pedestrian Observations is great reading for infrastructure nerds. Really digs into the details and trade-offs related to city transportation and regional transportation design.
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by johngalt 6y ago
Conversely I see the tipping point fast approaching for electric cars, but not necessarily for Tesla. The fact that one electric car manufacturer has been successful means that the infrastructure and support for electric cars gets built out
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by johngalt 6y ago
This isn't the right answer, but we should at least acknowledge that there are potential problems with the gig economy. I'm not quite sure how to reconcile this with my views on markets. The platform certainly performs a valid fun
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by johngalt 6y ago
I've tackled legacy systems my entire career, and there is a certain art to untying the knot of dependencies, procedures, and expectations. Not surprised at all that most projects to modernize end up as smoldering craters rather than f
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by johngalt 6y ago
This seems very ambitious: "It will soon be just as cheap to have your food prepared and delivered as going to the grocery store and making it yourself." It depends on how many variables you bake into the equation. Such as the tot
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by johngalt 6y ago
The challenge with the link fights is often about the difference between data and conclusions . For example, if I claim that "marriage has a positive impact on men" then cite a bunch of data showing that married men live longer
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by johngalt 6y ago
Don't directly refuse the non-compete. They will just say it is non-negotiable "to protect the company" etc... Instead insist that they include a severance clause that continues to pay you during the term of the non-compete.
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PRC Targeting of Covid-19 Research Organizations(cisa.gov)
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by johngalt 7y ago
You would be surprised how far you can get with consistent pressure and time. Small iterative changes. It works for practices/culture as well as technology. There is never some big meeting where everyone decides that 'operations a
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by johngalt 7y ago
It's somewhat ad hoc. Generally you'll want to find who owns the actual infrastructure, and get as close to an agreement with them as possible. I.E. There will be some huge Zayo fiber that is resold by a bunch of different carrier
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by johngalt 7y ago
Social groups don't spring up out of nothing. They are formed by shared interests, goals or experiences. This is why you had friends in school, and also why they are drifting away now. Volunteering is a great way to gain that interacti
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by johngalt 7y ago
Just replace it with 'pretending'. LARP Security = Pretend Security LARPing has a connotation of nerds ineffectually playing pretend warrors. Going through an immense amount of effort in the process.
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by johngalt 7y ago
It's mainly about routine. Given time and repetition people will get used to almost anything. The anxiety surrounding travel is what makes it exhausting. Once you are used to it, it fades into the background as a well optimized habit.
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by johngalt 7y ago
If being searched is a task required by your employer, I don't see how that's any different than time spent doing any other task. This also seems like a good way to align incentives. If time spent on security is compensated time,
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by johngalt 7y ago
Sysadmin here. We install AV to tick the box. It doesn't add much to the security equation, and hasn't for years. For prevention, limited roles/access and patching does all the heavy lifting. Detection happens on the server a
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by johngalt 7y ago
A miracle. Bringing focus and engineering discipline back to a large company that has atrophied is difficult bordering on impossible. A change like that would be an uphill battle the entire time. Fighting against all the careerist empire bu
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by johngalt 7y ago
Scale. Nuclear puts a huge denominator in the 'deaths per kwh' ratio.
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by johngalt 7y ago
The individual person changing their commute doesn't capture the benefits of the change. If I take the bus, it takes one car off the road for everyone else, but it also makes my commute longer. Additionally, human beings aren't pe
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by johngalt 7y ago
The manufacturer wants to pull more value out of the entire lifecycle, rather than just the initial sale. From the manufacturer's perspective, they only sell the tractor once. The revenue from repairs, and second hand sales accrue to o
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by johngalt 7y ago
1. The market correctly understands that Boeing is backstopped by the US government. Removing any large downside risk. 2. Even including the problems with the 737 max, Boeing has an exceptionally good safety record. 3. Regulatory capture of
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by johngalt 7y ago
Of course not, but only because we already know how the story ends. If they had been correct, we wouldn't be here to say that we should have listened. Their predictions on nuclear arsenals were correct. A nuclear war in 1965 would have
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by johngalt 7y ago
Context is crucial when reading this quote now rather than the 1950s. JVN said this before a nuclear war would have been 'world ending'. Consider that several nations had avoided war as hard as possible prior to WW2. Standing by
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by johngalt 7y ago
Solving population problems with density + transit isn't exactly non-retro. Building trains and subways has been a thing for longer than interstate highway connected suburbs. It's historically rare for people to accept a reduction
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by johngalt 7y ago
Boeing is going to be the case study of what happens when you let 'business people' take over an engineering company. A bunch of MBAs deciding to move numbers around on paper and losing sight of the bigger picture. The 737 MAX a
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by johngalt 7y ago
It's always interesting to see the weird things that are designed after technology advances but before it is optimized.
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by johngalt 7y ago
The biggest thing about history is that we know how it ends. Nothing really captures the uncertainty of the moment. By 2000 everyone knew there was going to be a big correction. Few accurately imagined how big. It was like going to the doct
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by johngalt 7y ago
> Fixing the lack of women in tech is a multi-century process Why does tech take longer than other professional fields like medical and legal? Harvard law started admitting women in the 1950s. MIT started admitting women in the 1870s. Ye
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by johngalt 7y ago
DevOps is the intersection of three things. 1. Developers learning that running code is not the same thing as reliable code. Certain things must be put in at design time to allow for operations. 2. Operations people supporting development b
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by johngalt 7y ago
http://www.artificial-gravity.com/sw/SpinCalc/ The math pencils out, but the station has to have a fairly large radius away from the axis of rotation. For example a station rotating once a minute with a radius o
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by johngalt 7y ago
Moving from car centered sprawl, to dense transit oriented city isn't something that can be done in one step. It's immensely complex, and changing the direction of cities/governments is difficult even when everyone involved

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