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by rficcaglia 7y ago
Local farmers markets and reusable canvas bags. I know not everyone lives in areas with these options, though. We were able to reduce our garbage and recycling in half. But I also think taxing and or regulating packaging at the manufacturer
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
True. But even experienced execs and investors know that lawsuits require time, arbitration, and often don’t go how you would expect. All the while eating up money that should go to shareholders. I’m agreeing that employees get screwed more
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
Yes shady shenanigans happen. First hand experience. You should be upvoted.
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
You can with lawyers. Just saw it happen first hand. It is amazing what cap table engineering can be done with a few 100K in lawyer fees and a devious board member or two.
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
I recall covering these topics in my undergrad linear algebra course. Textbook was: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780387940991 Probably not as deeply as this course proposes to be sure, but good into for those
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
True but all you need is one of the bigger ones to spoil the party and that gives cover for everyone else. This problem cannot be solved by committee. I don’t expect anyone to agree with me, I just plan to move to higher ground.
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
I work remotely and have been at both remote-first and traditional cos...I would “never” go back but I have kids and maybe once they leave I would reconsider. That said I have lost multiple (mostly younger) employees due to several of the r
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
Is that (CFCs) even solved? https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/22/health/china-cfc-pollution-en...
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
If one country can’t get its stuff together across religious, educational, socioeconomic and cultural barriers....how can a planet scale coordinated governmental effort by committee work? Ask Al Gore how that worked. Or the Paris Treaty fol
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
Anything looking at 2040 timescales is inherently not enough. That’s the definition of passing the buck! No, there needs to be a decision at the individual level and the investor level to forego easy money on building the next furry slipper
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
It would be to the other 99.9999% of species. Maybe E Coli amd Herpes beasties get the shaft.
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
I love Childhood’s End [0] Also there’s this : http://vhemt.org/ [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood%27s_End
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
From a comment there about planting trees or preventing deforestation...isn’t the problem now that climate extremes will make it harder to expand forests with droughts and fires? Seems like it may have worked 50 years ago but too late now.
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
for my kids’ university I’m assuming 8+ years...and that’s if they don’t follow Mom’s path through multiple PhDs! All so they can program the robot caregivers that will swaddle me someday.
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
Nothing targeting climate change? Hopefully day 2... Edit: mea culpa, Holy Grail is a play here of sorts.
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
You have more luck than I do since I mostly see 2 variations of this play out: CEO: I want X....and Y, Z, and enhance A-F, all yesterday SE: you outsourced me last month!? PE: I can’t do anything without more specs Or CEO: I want X SE, PE:
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
Stanford is not going anywhere. UCSF is not going anywhere. UC Berkeley is not going anywhere. VC not going to completely uproot anytime soon. Can’t build much farther out in the suburbs due to water shortages, and not making more land. NIM
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
In some cases it may indeed be worth automating even when producing at low volumes: * data mining or AI can analyze data sets better than all the humans you could possibly muster, data sets that can illuminate low volume but high impact dec
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Kubernetes Gatekeeper 3.0 for policy enforcement(kubernetes.io)
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
Seems like another Dice or Hall Kinion or Robert Half? Am I missing something special here?
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
He worked at Sandia so he seems to have engineering chops. But it is ridiculous to think that one individual or even one isolated group can defend against pervasive threats. Like worker safety, it has to be a cultural priority starting at t
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
> very optimistic about their chances, and about their ability this is the very definition of due diligence...you don't take their opinions as fact. to answer how: * meet with their senior engineers * review code * talk to former co
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
Or they finally invented precog! :)
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
Not necessarily when the choices are constrained by the health insurer. We (a big VC funded primary care provider) experimented with full transparency pricing. Never moved the needle. But that was 10 years ago so maybe things are different
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
From this it seems he was there at least until 2011: https://news.chapman.edu/2011/05/16/jerry-lewis-among-commen... PR when he was appointed in 2010: https://www.biospace.com/article/rel
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
> Additionally, he has attended the President’s Seminar at Harvard Business School ('09-'16) I can only assume it refers to this: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/event/harvard-seminar-new-presid... Which is ju
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
Some of their portfolio companies seem centered around Irvine, CA and Newport Beach and/or focus on plastic surgery and "wellness" marketing. Seems to me that this is a very well architected investor scam that maybe finds a l
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
> Maybe it's circular. Sure, if not directly circular then consider that our simulations today are used to explore choices/behavior before doing something, so it stands to reason that as each universe sim gets to some interesti
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
This is not universally true in my experience. People who take pride in their work will often go the extra mile, without being asked. I don’t “blame”, I just correlate. Maybe this is the answer: if someone needs a guarantee then they are p
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
In my experience this is not true. I know lots of grunt work that gets done in both paid and open source projects that no one likes, by volunteers with nothing extra to gain. Those mundane tasks are necessary for the larger good, and folks

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