KevinEldon

The state unanimously passed a law to exclude sexually explicit books from public school libraries. A reasonable thing to do. The library association and the ACLU decided they wanted to sue the state. The state, in turn, removed the relatively small amount of funds allocated for the libraries. FaFo. All of this is in the article.

The blockchain hype was in pitching a solution to every problem in an effort to get rich quick. The technology still has application for verification and ultra-micro transactions. I expect it will be foundational within before the end of the decade.

Martyrmade by Darryl Cooper is fantastic. His series “God’s Socialist” provides a backdrop for current events and paints a picture of the 60s and 70s in America they is often not shown; its heartbreaking.

Cool. PlantUML also does JSON visualization [1] if you need a local option or are hesitant to load your data onto a website.

[1] https://plantuml.com/json

Martyr Made, History on Fire, Jocko Podcast, and Hardcore History

I hear History of Rome and Revolutions are good.

The bigoted, classist, and emotional language in your statement undermine your argument.

Edit: Rewording my comment for clarity and to remove passive aggressive phrasing.

For many years I didn’t appreciate perfumes. I didn’t understand them. I encourage you to take the advice above, watch a few Jeremy Fragrance videos, and get some feedback from your romantic partner. You’ll be thankful for knowing a thing or two about fragrances.

Sounds like an opportunity to create a Protest Current Thing as a Service.

Vannevar Bush’s legacy of public sector entrepreneurship lives on in Raytheon, the company he co-founded.

This seems like a reasonable strategy worth if you plan to exit in the next 3 years. It is simple to manage, is designed to be competitive for a point in time, and focuses on performance for growth (up or out).

May you continue to work until you no longer want to, create on your own terms, and drive as many HR people nuts as possible!

You would negotiate how that experience is recognized in the hiring process.

"If everyone can get promoted simply by sticking around, managers have to be active in communicating with people who aren’t meeting expectations and helping them improve. Managers also have to be willing to let people go if they don’t show progress."

I agree with your point, and want to add that HP does commercial grade end-user compute and printing along with the related enterprise services. They have a whole set of offerings for the medical industry [1], industrial printing [2], and enterprise PC fleet management services [3].

[1] https://www.hp.com/us-en/printers/3d-printers/industries/hea...

[2] https://www.hp.com/us-en/industrial-digital-presses.html

[3] https://www.hp.com/us-en/services/manageability.html

You’re volunteering?

I think you wrote your approach with the best intentions. In some scenarios it may work very well for everyone. In other scenarios it looks like a person circumventing rules and hierarchy, using social manipulation and pressure tactics, and interrupting workers who need uninterrupted focus time. People who use these tactics can come across as selfish and inconsiderate. Your approach may work great for organizational work priorities and helping build motivation, but for situations of overload you may be adding to the emotional stress of overworked developers.

Yes, a request made on the behalf of all Europeans by their government.

You should not knock Netflix at all. The request came from the European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services. Netflix helped out when they were asked to. If Europeans are upset about this decision they need to take it up with their elected officials not Netflix.

No, in the same way that you wouldn't expect a refund if you personally chose to use less than 4K for a stream. In this case Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, has made that downgrade choice for all Europeans.

patio11 has a relevant Twitter thread [1] on 'force majeure' y'all might find interesting.

[1] - https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1237201843131797505

The article is a comprehensive breakdown of how to use service workers with HTML content to reduce network payloads (47.6% reduction cited) and decrease first content paint times (52.3% reduction cited). Beyond just the 'why' of service workers it shows how to actually set them up for your site, the implications for dynamic and static sites, and includes a rich set of additional resources to dig deeper.

Found via tweet from @slightlylate, "Pretty sure I've pointed this out before, but the architecture that @philwalton outlines in this post is the platonic ideal for nearly every content site in 2020. If your tools don't support getting to this architecture, get new tools"

Medicare for All nationalizes the health insurance industry. The Green New Deal would nationalize parts of the energy industry.

I think we agree. I meant inefficiency in building density not energy use. I was thinking about row houses in San Francisco and brownstones in New York City. Old short and inefficient buildings could be torn down and replaced with tall, dense, efficient structures; but people who own row houses, or rent apartments with high rents, or like the way their neighborhood is now don't seem to want this kind of transformation.

It seems people do take a variation of this bet quite often; they keep moving to and investing in coastal cities and regions.

It may also be that people like the idea of 'improvements in urban planning' when they are intangible, but if those changes involved limiting their land use or bulldozing their inefficient homes and neighborhoods they balk; they may also not like moving those planning decisions from their local communities to some bureaucracy outside of their direct engagement.

Germany had a Total War economy in WW2. North Korea has one today. The Russian Revolution might not be considered 'Total War', but was single-minded in its focus similar to what you're suggesting. None of these economies worked out well for their citizens. Even the US economy/society during WW2 was more than victory gardens and war bonds; personal freedoms were limited, there were interment camps, forced enlistment, war profiteering, and propaganda (along with the hundreds of thousands of deaths).

Kerry Patterson

Yes, the catcher does miss the ball occasionally. It's common for the pitches to be 90 MPH or higher. I've seen them as high as 104 MPH. The ball will also move; it's not always thrown in a straight line. Some times it cuts across the plate, other times it can drop as it crosses the plate. If the catcher knows where to expect the ball they have a higher probability of catching it.

I read that as The Americans, The Russians, or The Chinese with their current leaders written in as stand-ins.

If by bad take you mean unfounded conclusion then yes, because you've provided no evidence or argument to support the conclusion.

If by bad take you mean unpopular conclusion then maybe; it depends on who you share the unfounded conclusion with and whether they have information or biases that support or contradict your conclusion.