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  - Cement is extremely perishable. 
  - Contruction projects need cement at very precise times.
  - When that precise time will occur is hard to predict -- construction projects have a lot of delays. 
  - In a city there are a lot of construction projects at any given time.

So using software to coordinate cement mixing and delivery has a lot of potential to reduce waste -- or that is, it did back in the dot-com boom when CEMEX started working on that. If you heard about that back then, you were hearing about something with a lot of promise! From what I remember it worked out really well.

Why not use your github/etc username?

The book "Burn Rate" by Michael Wolff is good.

Or PostGraphile: https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/

Everything starts in my emacs scratch buffer (the default file opened upon startup), which is an org-mode file, and when some category of stuff gets big I move it into its own file in Dropbox. The content is just links and written-out thoughts and questions.

Welding tanks are different, and not in shortage.

You would carry it into patients' rooms and ambulances in tanks.

I can't believe they're rationing oxygen. I administered welding oxygen to my girlfriend every day for about 6 weeks when she had Covid. It's cheap, easy, and perfectly safe.

I assumed that when things got bad someone would just suspend the regulation requiring medical certified oxygen.

Inertia.

Boy, those just don't look right.

The parent comment is right. It's not just the spark; heat and pressure are also part of what ignites your air/fuel mixture.

It's

            people actively looking for work 
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    people actively looking for work + people with jobs

Thanks; I should have done more than glance at it.

How is the 'write a byte to disk' loop faster than the empty loop? Maybe xrange() is dominating in the empty loop example.

Those languages use three value logic?

Your best bet is a wonderful book, The Little Schemer.

They're there, though. https://www.backcountrychronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/gri...

EDIT: Also https://www.backcountrychronicles.com/grizzly-bear-distribut...

Yeah, it would need to be combined with a (long overdue) closing of all bars.

True. Public health emergencies are about making hard choices.

It's great to cancel the in-person fan experience, but it's bad that they're cancelling the games. The more things we have to keep people at home watching TV, the better.

In fact I think emergency 'friendly' off-season college football and NFL scrimmages should be organized. (Other off-season sports too.) The increased spread caused by a few healthy young people getting the virus from each other would be more than outweighed by keeping sports fans at home.

If we don't reduce the current 'doubling every 7 days' growth rate, then at the end of the epidemic most of them will.

    your database is a human-readable text file that you can grep/awk/sed freely, and a line-oriented structure makes it perfect for version control systems. 

But in fact it's not great for grep/awk/sed/, etc. For those tools to work well, you'll find you need to keep each record on its own line.

> Projects like Augur and MakerDAO must have their own token or they wouldn't work at all

Why?

Seattle's new-ish library is like that: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/259421447

There's nothing unsustainable about Las Vegas or Phoenix. The desert is a good place to put a lot of people.

It's not just the last decade. Since the mid-1980s the conventional wisdom has been that stocks > bonds for long term gain.

Or "The Army will pay you for ..."

That's the passive voice! The explanation for why their example of the active voice is in fact the passive voice is right below, in section "e". That's pretty funny.

You don't need a market to build things of value. The wealth creation happens with or without navigating laws. That's not true of capturing some of that wealth.

Fiduciary duty.