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Catastrophe Bond(en.wikipedia.org)
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
It’s not. Projections say that global gdp will shrink 18% by 2050 because of climate change [1]. [1] https://www.swissre.com/media/press-release/nr-20210422-econ...
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
> utility companies are not embracing transmission expansion. They don’t want their power plants to face competition or their regional alliances to lose control over their networks Utility monopolies are both vertically integrated, and h
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
The red/blue split we see is because every blue state has overtly stated renewable energy goals [1] whereas some red states have them, others don’t. Wyoming wind offers a solution to California’s strained energy system and a path forwa
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
They would be in favor of measures that would balance out the tendencies of the market and protect low income and working class people, such as rent control.
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
I do climate organizing, I’m on a climate commission with my city, and I work as an engineer. I will say that everything engineers hate about “waterfall” development, local communities hate about technocratic top-down solutions raining down
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
One of the reasons defense spending in the US is so high and why programs like the F-35 have gone $183 billion over original cost estimates, is because of the Shirky Principle. I’m convinced that earned value management (EV), which is a req
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
Show up 15 minutes late and leave as soon as you give your status. This communicates that you’re a team player by showing up, but that you’re also very busy.
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
The problem is, as you articulated, they are required by law to provide credit reporting information about you to you. They have no incentive to do this because they make their money by collecting and selling data about us. They have ever
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
WBS works great if you are building structures. WBS fails hard if you’re trying to achieve an outcome. For most engineering activities, I’ve found developing a knowledge point plan is a better mapping to the work being done.
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
I can see where you’re coming from and I have some more context to add, which can be helpful. This phrase: > a strong leader knows how to turn that down to 0 for maximum confrontation and/or defiance Feels like something uttered b
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
I was just thinking about this, I saw a comedy bit about a man taking to one of his children that was the result of his wife having an extra-marital affair [1]. It’s a really terrible situation for everyone involved. The comedian made it hi
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
Art done right is a tax dodge by the wealthy. Rich person buys a painting, by an artist, for $50 million and puts it in their collection. Another person buys another painting by the same artist for $75 million. The rich person gets their pa
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
Can you say the same about cigarette smoking bans in restaurants? Just a socially acceptable way for people to hate smokers? Smoking or emitting carbon, or using plastic imposes negative externalities on other people . Second hand smoke ca
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
You can do something about this. I got involved in climate advocacy in 2021. Since then I’ve successfully lobbied my local government to start an energy resources study, which will look at ways for my community to quickly transition to rene
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
This is a well written article, that makes the point that rooftop solar is good, but a market based approach to roll our it leads to anti-social outcomes like scammers installing substandard systems consumers pay through the nose for. Still
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Use of Short-Range Forecasts to Evaluate Climate Sensitivity (2020)(agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
Not who you’re responding to, but I agree with the notion that if you want an engineering culture, you need an engineer at the top. Engineering is one of the few fields that understands value . Most other functions, within a corporation, a
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
Fundamentally different problems. Manufacturing process builds identical widgets using standard equipment. Widgets are inspected to confirm they are within spec. Frequentist statistics are used to determine when widgets are consistently out
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
I can see integrated QA working for teams because QA personnel would understand project specific constraints and degrees of freedom and tailor solutions in a way that top-down QA cannot. However, there are situations where less QA may be ne
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
> You cannot dictate all of the NFRs because you simply do not have the knowledge or ability to oversee them This is a key point, and I believe the reason why software projects are always late and why it’s impossible to estimate them g
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Rational Unified Process(en.wikipedia.org)
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Does it make sense to degrade the performance of good software teams because bad software teams exist? Ideally we’d always have good software teams, but in the real world sometimes you have to build software with bad teams. Leaders have opt
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
Fair point, you are correct in your inference that there are some bad actors in my workplace. However, I’ll argue that the fundamental dynamics of bifurcating the responsibility of quality from software leads to a steady state where all Q
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
I work in the defense industry, it’s very much like the aerospace industry in that we deal with human life as a consequence of our work. We have software QA departments that operate very much like manufacturing or aerospace QA. Software QA
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
We talk about legislative solutions as if they exist in a bubble. Like there’s some idealized body of completely rational actors who will deliberately evaluate all the features of an issue and make a decision that will benefit everyone in a
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
As a third bullet point person, never ever attempt to solve interesting technical problems. I’ve made that mistake, I’ve been asked into meetings and asked “how’s it going” then promptly told “don’t tell me the details.” Working in bullet p
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
I shutter thinking my boss could read that article because unit testing is already viewed as extra work that is unnecessary. It’s apparent that the author has never worked on a legacy product. End-to-end testing works great until your p
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
It’s easy to blame EV trucks for lower income and more hours spent by truckers for less product moved, they’re new and different from what the trucking industry has dealt with. But these issues are also driven by calcified incentive structu
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by vegetablepotpie 3y ago
If you want to make new works that are not GPLd, not GPLing the building blocks would let you do that. Alternatively, you could LGPL the building blocks, still allow the end products to not need to be GPLd, but require development on the bu

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