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mogadsheu··on VW breach exposes location of 800k electric vehicles
Revisit frequency and spatial resolution aren’t high enough to meaningfully and uniquely identify vehicles without additional data.
mogadsheu··on Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals
The thing about Norway is that it’s a cold, barren, remote place where very few people want to live. Most of the year it’s cold and gray, and most of the country is uninhabitable.

The result is that its natural resources haven’t been consumed to the degree that most developed countries’ resources have, and there aren’t as many people to consume them.

I find it a strangely fair situation. Their luck comes from having friendly neighbors who care about their well-being and responsible development.

mogadsheu··on Seismologists suspect earthquake on San Andreas Fault is imminent
I think op is referring to a TS Elliot poem
mogadsheu··on Seismologists suspect earthquake on San Andreas Fault is imminent
I sat in on a lecture by a Stanford geophysicist, and he said that seismologists have every legal incentive to communicate that a large earthquake is imminent in the Bay, even if their work is inconclusive or suggests otherwise.

They might get sued or prosecuted if they say it’s safe and a big one strikes.

mogadsheu··on FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal
Imagine all of the unnecessary insurance and “Google tech support” you’re missing out on purchasing.
mogadsheu··on Norway to allow mining waste to be dumped in fjords
The substances needed to efficiently extract the materials of interest and separate them from the remaining ore can be a toxic.
mogadsheu··on US surgeons perform first whole eye transplant
Does anybody remember that movie Minority Report with Tom Cruise?

Eye transplants were available in that realist dys/utopian future.

mogadsheu··on SVB collapse could mean a $500B venture capital ‘haircut’
$500B is more than a haircut, it's a whole head shave with the eyebrows included
mogadsheu··on Show HN: Reverse Proxy as a Service
Writing a worker that does general purpose proxying is hard.

Unlike Workers, we made Snow Owl more user friendly and no/low code, with a robust rules engine for custom routing. All requests are logged by default for rapid debugging. It's intended for all members of development teams to commonly handle network operations and site maintenance, especially for maximizing uptime.

mogadsheu··on How to brazenly steal $100B from Medicare and Medicaid
While this is an incredibly serious issue, the fraud the article focuses on is billing for services that don't really get provided, which is very different than pushing unnecessary procedures.
mogadsheu··on Show HN: Reverse Proxy as a Service
Send an email to David at snowowl dot co and I’ll get you a demo account with healthy rate limits
mogadsheu··on Show HN: Reverse Proxy as a Service
We built Snow Owl after two incidents at our last company required us to build reverse proxies from scratch. We thought it would take a few days but they ended up taking two months to build, and we knew there must be a better way.

Snow Owl sits in front of your back end, enabling request-level monitoring for rapid debugging, and conditional routing based on a rules engine. It sets up in less than 20 minutes and is cloud agnostic.

For those of you implementing microservices, this is one great way to do it without getting into the complexities of Kubernetes.

We'd love to hear your feedback, input, and questions!

SnowOwl.co, docs.SnowOwl.co

mogadsheu··on Should we use flutter or React Native?
If you need help with the networking side, we can offer you a free beta of our traffic management/observability platform! Snowowl.co Docs.snowowl.co
mogadsheu··on Computer Science Students Face a Shrinking Big Tech Job Market
Hopefully their short term struggles lead to a better software/internet ecosystem and more fulfilling careers.
mogadsheu··on Outdoor Tennis Could Be Sports’ First Big Climate Change Casualty
While I’m generally supportive of climate change, I have a tough time understanding why event organizers couldn’t reschedule or relocate major tennis tournaments.

Melbourne and Indian Wells in the Southern California desert are hot with or without climate change. The Vancouver Open is lovely.

mogadsheu··on Why are nuclear power construction costs so high?
This analysis is incredibly thorough and detailed, but I don’t think it answers the question it poses itself.

From my civil engineering and energy economics coursework, the one of the largest economic deterrents to nuclear power adoption was insurance: nobody would insure the construction of a plant, because a failure would bankrupt the insurance company.

To give the article credit, they do allude to catastrophic incidents and waste storage costs in near perpetuity, but don’t really mention insurance.

mogadsheu··on About 200 years ago, the world started getting rich. Why?
The authors interviewed in the article point heavily to industrialization and increasing rates of innovation.

The unpopular root of these is the utilization of fossil fuels. I.e. we found and harnessed a 600M+ year energy bank account.

mogadsheu··on Chase plans to spend $1.2bn on tech modernization. 30% on cloud infrastructure [pdf]
What page is the tech investment info on? I mostly see card, lending, and consumer investment strategy
mogadsheu··on China launches antitrust investigation into biggest academic database CNKI
Chances that the US/EU would do the same for Springer/El Sevier?
mogadsheu··on Utrecht starts catcalling men in campaign against sexual harassment
True. The difference is that the men getting catcalled have no clear ties to the men who catcall the women, except that they’re also men.

I have a tough time seeing how this gets the point across

mogadsheu··on Utrecht starts catcalling men in campaign against sexual harassment
Isn’t that just sexual harassment towards men?

We don’t rob people then give them back their things to raise awareness about robbery.

mogadsheu··on Congress urged to ease immigration for foreign science talent
Love the sentiment and bipartisan support for this.

As long as reasonable measure are taken to vet the candidates and that the legislation isn’t perversely skewed, this seems like a no brainer.

The ROI on science talent must be high.

mogadsheu··on Percent of America's baby formula supplies are out of stock
One of the problems with the US dairy supply chain are anticompetitive practices with respect to manufacturing facilities. I’ve witnessed this.

There are a very limited number of manufacturing facilities approved to product infant formula, and only the largest of companies have the scale to work with them.

This affects product quality—illegally importing baby formula from smaller brands in Europe into the US has become incredibly popular because the perception of quality is much higher.

Does strict regulation to ensure the immediate safety of formula make sense? Yes. Does regulation that is so strict that only established multi-billion dollar businesses are the only ones who can produce it make sense? I don’t believe so and I believe that it’s bad for the country.

mogadsheu··on Homes in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, Moody's says
According to the article, they’re mostly comparing it to income.

I agree with the sentiment though, in which case maybe the currency in which the assets are denominated is overvalued.

mogadsheu··on Homes in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, Moody's says
No because houses as an asset class could still be overvalued relative to other assets.
mogadsheu··on Ask HN: Has anyone managed to deal with their ADHD without medication?
Yoga, meditation, and time limits on your addictive apps
mogadsheu··on Georgia to mandate personal finance education
I don’t think most people would consider adding a personal finance course to a public school curriculum a mandate.

Those young adults will still have every right to be financially irresponsible.

mogadsheu··on Meta hired GOP consulting firm to amplify negative messages about TikTok
Just because they don’t need help getting bad press doesn’t mean other platforms don’t encourage it.
mogadsheu··on Meta hired GOP consulting firm to amplify negative messages about TikTok
To gain share of the social media market
mogadsheu··on Meta hired GOP consulting firm to amplify negative messages about TikTok
What are the chances that TikTok doesn’t do the same about Meta?
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