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by wayoutthere 5y ago
This isn’t really a “once in a lifetime” event; volcanoes erupt all the time and this one wasn’t particularly huge. In fact, there are 46 currently erupting with an average of 20 active on any given day [1]. [1] https://volcano.s
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
My guess is that you live in a newer suburb where the infrastructure isn’t 100-150 years old. When your sewers, water lines, roads, municipal buildings, etc. are over a century old, you can no longer delay maintenance without cutting servic
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
Our hospital system is actively collapsing right now. They have chronically underinvested in “run the business” activities and taken any capital out of the system through buybacks and large capital expense budgets for building new facilitie
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
I’ve done some work in the supply chain space around blockchain; the problem is that in many industries there is already an oligopoly of 2 or 3 companies that control things. They have no incentive to give up any amount of control; instead
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
But like, why? Sure, blockchain can do a lot of things, but it’s not clear that it’s better than an API for the vast majority of applications while being worse in a number of ways. You can put similar governance rules on an API without the
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
I’m not convinced that blockchains would actually reduce the cost or provide any benefit over a federated system where each nation (or group of nations like the EU) controls the data of its own citizens. I run into this problem with nearly
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
Your body is so incredible at healing itself. I’ve had a number of surgeries and while the surgical wound may be swollen and uncomfortable for months after, if properly closed it should be healed well enough to not fall apart by day 3. Most
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
You’d have to get those countries to agree on a common set of governance rules, and inevitably some bloc of countries would eventually fork and go it on their own because they want a different set of rules (e.g. mandatory biometric data, in
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
There’s another explanation that I find fits better: that the last ~70 years have been an extraordinary confluence of good luck and peak resource extraction that is no longer viable going forward. Scarcity was always going to become a thing
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
Mostly because nobody at product companies wants to interview people from a consulting background. I do a lot of consulting in the product dev space, I just haven’t worked at a product company since much earlier in my career. I make plenty
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
Honestly if it’s like the viewing data I saw when I worked in cable, your watching habits are not remotely unique and you can be more effectively targeted using the data pulled from a credit check. Viewing data is largely used in aggregate
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
The problem with the trades is that they burn out your body. And quickly — you have about 25 years of good work in you, so if you start at 18 your body is done by your mid-40s. From there it’s either moving on to manage / start your ow
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
The prestige is all that matters. It’s really the only chance someone has to achieve class mobility; i.e. a kid from the working class might get into an Ivy League prestige program and rub elbows with the children of rich and powerful peopl
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
Yeah I suspect people have wised up to the fact that the alumni base of a program matters more than pretty much anything else. So unless you’re at a prestige program at a prestige school, college probably isn’t going to pay off as well. Thu
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
Yeah, and whenever there was a pandemic in the past there was a heightened period of death and typically poor economic conditions for a while. It’s not as if pandemics haven’t happened before; they have, and they have devastating consequenc
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
I completely agree, but blue collar workers aren’t eating out at fancy restaurants downtown after work. There was an entire segment of a bunch of industries dedicated to serving the needs of white collar workers in city centers, and that’s
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
The next OWS will be armed. The left is seeing the way the right operates and is understanding that non-violent confrontation doesn’t work. For better or worse, the way the laws in America are written, violence is the way we deal with probl
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
You’ll be fine; the way I look at it, AWS is built for product development and Azure is built for corporate IT. Many companies have simply accepted Microsoft lock-in. I have a number of clients moving from AWS into Azure to take advantage o
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
This sort of “glass half-full” analysis is often coming from white collar workers. The actual problem is that blue collar workers aren’t getting paid enough to risk getting Covid. So as much as you might want to go out and re-create a feeli
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
Good managers should be asking you what you need and removing organizational roadblocks to make that happen. They should be in a lot of meetings because they’re shielding you from meetings, filtering the important things and bringing them
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
We fake productivity because there just isn’t enough to do. I can do my job in about 2 hours a day most days. My company and clients still receive the same amount of benefit whether I work 2 or 10 — and actually, probably more out of 2 beca
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
Doesn’t matter much when you’re reliant on software updates to do pretty much anything on a vehicle. Better to just acknowledge that vehicles come with an EULA these days.
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
Same experience. I didn’t quit completely, but I do limit myself to one cup of coffee in the morning. The rest of my fluid intake is water. I don’t have trouble sleeping anymore.
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
In my mind, it’s a signal that we’ve solved all the problems capable of being solved by a hungry person with little experience in the problem space. The problem space that’s left is in places that require a significant amount of expertise t
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
Suicides were actually down. This is entirely due to Covid deaths. This effect is so large you can’t minimize it, and some of these kids who didn’t die will have lifelong issues because of Covid. It doesn’t only kill old people. And it al
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
Many jobs (mine included) frequently involve sensitive information where my clients / regulators have rules that work must be done onshore. And go ahead and hire someone in a high CoL area — if your pay bands are flat across all people
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
It’s less about being unable to access our emotions than our emotions being frequently influenced by sensory (over)stimulation — we learn to ignore them because they often tell us things that aren’t useful. My main trigger is light — too br
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
Employers are just butthurt they might not be able to do geographic arbitrage anymore. This was always coming in a globally connected world, but they’ll fight it kicking and screaming like always.
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
Hate to break it to you, but the word you’re looking for is “anti-competitive”. Capitalism is in fact designed to be anti-competitive, so in the absence of laws punishing anti-competitive behavior, capital accrues to those with the largest
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by wayoutthere 5y ago
I’ve had the flu. Covid is way worse. We’re already in the new normal; nobody is going back into the office if they don’t have to and that alone will force a realignment of American life. We were slowly headed that way before Covid anyway,

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