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by vegetablepotpie 12d ago
There is a methodical issue with that study that the authors acknowledge. > How can higher demand lead to lower prices? … a bump in demand can allow for higher utilization of the existing generation … Provided the bump does not violate c
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by vegetablepotpie 3mo ago
Coordinated opposition campaigns against misinformed and dangerous legislation has been effective in stopping bad laws [1]. After a website blackout, including a Wikipedia shutdown, lawmakers in Washington decided not to proceed with the S
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by vegetablepotpie 3mo ago
There were proposals to do this, using encrypted containers of data that would let users authorize apps to use just the data they needed, but the idea got tied to Web3, which got some intense public blowback between the Crypto and NFT hype
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by vegetablepotpie 4mo ago
Unfortunately the legislation that exists requires surveillance tech be installed on new vehicles. https://www.gadgetreview.com/federal-surveillance-tech-becom...
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by vegetablepotpie 4mo ago
And let’s not forget: fertilizer. About half the world’s population is fed with foods produced from the Haber-Bosch process, which makes nitrogen fertilizer [1]. This relies on hydrogen inputs primarily from natural gas. The fact that we’re
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by vegetablepotpie 5mo ago
Wabi-sabi.
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by vegetablepotpie 9mo ago
Is that the full dataset? “The output constitutes many terabytes of data and requires a high-performance computing system to run,” co-author Pawlok Dass, a SICCS research associate, said in the release.” The largest zip file I see on the ze
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by vegetablepotpie 9mo ago
Ah! But I want you to own it. If you say it first... you own it. And I do not have to get you to agree to it.
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by vegetablepotpie 9mo ago
Padding ties up capital, it reduces credibility, it delays deployment, it adds costs through delay. It is bad for organizations. However, it is a great solution if you're a worker in a bureaucratic environment that can tolerate large c
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by vegetablepotpie 9mo ago
As a project manager, it sounds like you're making excuses. Just give me a number, trust your gut! We have a fundamental failure to communicate, what we're doing. The game project managers and finance believe we're all play
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by vegetablepotpie 1y ago
Every company that uses SAFe agile has quarterly, or bi-quarterly, releases [1]. [1] https://www.servicenow.com/docs/bundle/yokohama-it-business-...
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
This is very fascinating and a photogenic demonstration of what is possible via gene editing. My hope is that this research leads to cures of genetic diseases that have previously been incurable. I doubt the efficacy of creating mammoth lik
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
We’re going to lose economic growth because of climate change, “Staying under the 2C threshold could limit average regional income loss to 20 percent compared to 60 percent" [1]. Whether it will be significant amount, or a devastating
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
The build a duplicate distribution grid is effectively what Ann Arbor is doing with its Sustainable Energy Utility, approved by voters in November [1]. [1] https://www.a2gov.org/sustainability-innovations-home/sustai...
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California went a record 98 days with 10 hours of electricity from renewables(grist.org)
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California withdraws clean truck EPA waiver request ahead of Trump inauguration(reuters.com)
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
The barge company in question is Koch Industries (yes, that Koch Industries). Starting in 1982 they leveraged Deming’s ideas, realized 30% profits, and pushed it far enough to enter the dark side. > Koch’s dedication to Deming’s ideas ev
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
This reminds me of a thread posted on HN last week. Someone used LLMs to write cover letters and post on job sites for them. He was able to spam out hundreds of job apps [1]. To me that sounds like a perfectly rational response to fake job
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
The source of the conflict is summed up here. > The central thread here is collective action by principled people who will use copyleft primarily as a tool for rights of users and for the improvement of copylefted projects. Joint stock c
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
I’ve engaged National, state, and, local officials on climate change. I’ve influenced my congressional representative to co-sponsor legislation, and I’ve influenced my city council to hire a consultant to do a benefit to cost analysis on en
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
Responsibility needs to be taken on the hiring side. Some companies post jobs with no intent to hire [1]. 70% of hiring managers surveyed say this is a morally acceptable, 45% of hiring managers have said they’ve done it. This increases the
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
> The irony? I got a job offer before I even finished building it. More on that later Nothing succeeds like success. If you are on n attempt, and you are geared up for what you will do for n+2, usually the problem surrenders its self on
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
I mean, it’s not like we’ve ever seen this with the agile movement /s. I’ve gone through “agile transitions” in government contracting, at a high level it starts out with a high concept idea of reducing lead times and increasing produc
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
This is very well said and succinctly summarizes my frustrations with QA. My experience has been that non-technical staff in technical organizations create meetings to justify their existence. I’m curious if you have advice on how to shift
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
I have personal experience with this in my professional career. Before Christmas break I had a big change, and there was fear. My org responded by increasing testing (regression testing, which increased overhead). This increased the risk th
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
This is PM propaganda. Deadlines help people is a huge double speak management fallacy. It may not be wrong in some contexts, but it’s very far from what I would call generally applicable advice. I worked on a project in the defense indus
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
> this article is really aimed at people who are trying to have a bit more empathy for the assholes they work with That was a sad article. The model they presented was useful we’ll have two axis for classifying employees, one for how h
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
> We are essentially all complicit. With statements like these it’s important to take into account proportionality and scale. Whereas a member of the public may have been aware of climate change after James Hanson’s congressional testimo
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
Cigarette companies knew that their products were dangerous for years . They didn’t know who specifically would develop lung cancer.
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by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
Climate Central has a model that can show how much more intense hurricanes are based on how much warmer the ocean is. This is an advance for attribution science , which aims to show how much of a natural disaster is attributed to climate c

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