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For the home NAS, Assume a 5-6 year lifespan for the drives so in those 10 years you will spend another $100.

Of course this assumes you just need storage while a NAS can provide other services allowing you to consolidate calendars, shared note-taking, password managers, etc.

People always drive, not to within certain parameters of the law, but to within their risk tolerance. As cars become more safe, the risk factor reduces which allow people to increase risky behavior.

If you want people to drive better, don't put airbags in their steering wheel, put a 6" metal spike pointed at their chest.

Can you not disable transcoding on the iOS version of Jellyfin?

Flicker at certain frequencies isn't noticeable to humans in isolation. Add in other types of flicker (lights at other refresh rates, monitors, TV's, etc) and you can see the interference between them.

This explains how it makes wind affordable, but not necessarily cheaper except perhaps in the 20+ year time frame. It likens the CfD models to mortgages which do, in fact, raise of the cost of housing. The long-term savings potential seems to be in the stability of "fuel" costs which are zero for wind and who-knows-what for oil.

The below statement confuses me deeply as getting more wind is entirely out of our control. "it costs you nothing to produce an extra MWh (all you need is more wind)"

>The minimum wage is "we would pay you less if we could, but we cannot."

That is what what the minimum wage is, but I'm not sure that's indicative of a flaw. We are all seeking the most value for our money. E.g. I need some repairs done to my roof. One company quoted me $1,800 and another $4,200. Considering I had a recommendation for the first company, I went with them. That is something we all do, and it isn't indicative of sociopathy. If the second company was offering more value (better matching roof shingles, a much shorter time to start, etc) then it might be worth more money. Otherwise, like fast food workers, they're generally interchangeable and by saving money I can choose to spend it on something else of value.

Being an adult is willingly taking responsibility, and in some ways liking it. Whatever it is, I'll handle it somehow. It might not be perfect, the plan may change, and it may even ultimately fail, but it's still mine and I'll deal with it. I might do it myself, hire an expert, or ask for help. That doesn't matter.

The key is how we handle speedbumps and mistakes. A child throws up their hands, surrenders, and/or hands it over to someone else. Being an adult is less about knowing everything, but being able to see things through to the finish regardless of what comes your way.

Linear conversation is a big problem for anything beyond simple, casual usage. It is the reason that YouTube is a terrible research platform. Is the information you want inside that 3-hour video? Possibly, but with text I can search an article for content or skim sections to determine if it's worth a deeper read.

Let's not forget the value of non-linear input. Good search terms are often constructed rather than spilled forth. Sometimes I enter search terms, read it and realize that it's like to return unrelated results and need to modify it. By the time I realize this while speaking to an AI it's already spitting out the wrong information.

This leads to a need for altered interfaces that allow these scenarios to be accomodated. This is v1.0. Let's see where it goes.

There are no details in this article. It doesn't even state whether their water source is tainted or if it's a transmission issue. My house tested 16ppb for lead. Our source had no lead but a low ph which was leaching lead from the solder used on the pipes. An acid neutralizer brought the ph up and the lead dropped to zero.

Did he say that a topic was bunk because it was held by the upper class? I took his point that the prevalence of these luxury beliefs is higher among the upper-class in gross disproportion to the impact those beliefs have on people. E.g. cultural appropriation is sometimes used by people in power to pretend they have a connection to cultures where none really exists. It's a form of manipulation. The impact that has on the average person's life is minuscule. The impact of someone from the middle-class taking cultural clues from other cultures in non-existent, yet it's easy to find discussions about the alleged harm this causes among some social groups.

The luxury is in the time spent on relatively unimportant matters, much like spending millions of dollars on a bejeweled egg. That doesn't mean the egg doesn't exist.

The belief that success is mostly luck, while sometimes true, is useless when it comes to making decisions. There is little that I can do to increase my luck, while there is plenty that can be done to work toward a goal. One who has benefited from luck or can afford to buy their own luck, can state this and mean it. Anyone else who holds that position assures their own failure.

It's not enough that large corporations use economy of scale to undercut smaller businesses. That would generally be a good thing for consumers. Instead, we're seeing larger companies use their influence to increase regulation: a cost they can absorb that smaller businesses cannot.

We've seen this in medicine in the last 10 years. I know of no independent doctor's offices in my area. They looked at the cost to comply with electronic medical records requirements and joined a local health network.

It is difficult to tell from the article what impact free public transport had, but it's clear that, when Estonians had the option to take no-cost public transport or spend a ton of money on a personal vehicle (and incur the maintenance associated with it). They chose the substantially more expensive option. This is driven home by the fact that ridership fell "transit’s share of Tallinn commutes has fallen from over 40% in 2013, the year fares were eliminated for residents, to under 30% last year."

Whatever services public transit was offering failed to meet the needs of many Estonians. It doesn't matter how inexpensive your product is if it doesn't deliver what people want.

X doesn't apply its own filter to those potentially biased reports. You can find pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel tweets. These are all suspect. What gives credence to certain points of view are the details provided. Fabrications are often shallow and when repeated offer no new insight (it's often the same tweet with little change in wording). The truth can be supported in many ways and becomes more clear as more data becomes available.

It's not that any one tweet is more accurate, it's that the collection of tweets that provide info and insight eventually steers us closer to the truth.

We don't need fact-checkers or disinformation checks. It's more useful to remove duplicate posts, low-quality posts (e.g. "Israel should bomb Gaza!!") to give us more signal to noise.

Everyone wants good usability, but what that means varies widely. When my vision was 20/5 (really, it was amazing), I wanted small text with lots of information on the screen so I could do more without context switching. Now that my vision is a pitiful 20/20 (how do people live this way), context switching with zoom is ideal on the phone and most of the time I'd rather use a laptop.

Interfaces cannot appeal to everyone. We can do better to make magnification universal, but that's not what the article means.

It's also funny to read this article as they think that older people want scooters. Most of the people who are experiencing problems are having issues with strength and balance. Scooters are the last thing they want.

When municipalities share problems, it's possible that many of them are experiencing them for the same reasons. It certainly doesn't mean the problems don't exist.

Land ownership must be enforced by court of law, and that's true of all property. Yet land ownership is the easiest to maintain. While my neighbor might take my lawnmower and claim it as his own and the courts would have difficulty proving otherwise. Land is difficult to walk off with. Maintaining ownership is simply a matter of maintaining accurate and secure records.

That's part of it. Many people upgraded early 3 years ago. Combine that with inflation eating away at disposable income and people are extending the usable life of... everything.

The lack of updates beyond 2-3 years on Android is pitiful. If the manufacturer will not certify new updates after a period of time, they should support moving to another version of the OS that supports updates.

Repair costs are ludicrous. My 4 year old phone has a crack on the corner of the front glass. Repair shops are quoting me $250 to repair it. I can find old new stock of the same phone for less.

Something like Kagi is going to have to make its case strongly before making $120/year sound appealing.

Google's only advantage over other search engines is its ability to search forums more deeply. The build-in feature of diving into reddit, stack overflow, etc is often useful. After a few test searches, Kagi is adept at this as well.

Other free search alternatives that I've been happy with include: Ecosia, Quant, or even startpage.

It would be interesting to see data showing how often some symptoms are "all in their head." If certain symptoms are commonly presented by people who are drug seeking or have bonafide psychological problems, it creates a large amount of noise in which doctors need to find a signal.

I suspect, useless as my suspicions can be, that HOW symptoms are presented play an important role in how seriously a doctor takes their patients. Someone whose symptom descriptions change with each visit, whose symptoms are contradictory, or even patients who feel the need to describe every minuscule detail of their lives in hopes that anything helps provide a diagnosis can give the impression that the patient is not experiencing a treatable medical condition. Long-term histories with patients can taint a physicians outlook when James comes in one week because of an "itchy nose," and the next demanding prescriptions for his mild cold symptoms, etc. It can be hard to take him seriously when he presents with vague symptoms of what could be more serious.

We have already seen the privacy implications of this at the private and government level at the same time. There is data that the government isn't allowed to collect, but it is allowed to purchases that data from 3rd parties. If the government having access to your data isn't a concern, what should be is that if the government can purchase it, anyone can.

Yes, people generally don't care if others know they shop at Target and the mundane details of their kid's softball practice, but they don't know what else is available: - When nobody is home and their house is empty. Not only can they do this in real-time especially if they can track car data, but they use see time data to determine when you're least likely to be home in the future. - Your medical history. You car was parked outside of a cardiologist and a pharmacy. You probably have high blood pressure. Did you go to an obstetrician's office for the 3rd time? Maybe you're pregnant. - How about existing and future interstate crimes? You go to a shooting range every week and since the recent passage of a law banning ammunition purchases without a background check in your state, you've started making regular runs to a neighboring state. Is this probable cause to show you're breaking the law? What about a woman going to the doctor in a state that bans abortions who makes similar trips out of state? Have you been posting about your recent bourbon tastings and making trips to the nearby state known for having better alcohol availability? - People don't care about strangers having access to boring personal details, but what about people you know? There's nothing stopping your mother-in-law from snooping on your life and asking personal questions they have no business looking at. Maybe this is cumbersome and expensive today, but considering how tech makes things easier and cheaper over time, will it always be this way? Once data is out there, it's out there forever.

Maybe people aren't concerned because these laws aren't being enforced, but how much of that is a chicken and the egg? Are they not enforced because they don't want to enforce them or because or because it's difficult to ID the people breaking the law. Data like this makes it easier.

The determination of whether a job is useless is largely left to the person responding to these surveys. If a person thinks their job is useless, then it is. They may be right, but it's also possible that there is a disconnect between their perception and reality. The study uses the example of doormen who are considered to provide no useful function except as a symbol of prestige. However, I'd argue that if the doorman viewed themselves as that symbol rather than a necessary skill which facilitates ingress and egress, they may feel differently.E.g Vanna White isn't a letter flipper (useless), but an entertainer who flips letters as part of her job.

There was a recent thread where a person working for a pizza shop was depressed because he felt as though he should make a larger contribution to society than "just working at a pizza shop." From a career advancement perspective, this job offers little opportunity. However, from the social perspective of feeding the people in his area, it's immensely helpful.

Some of the fault for this disconnect belongs to their employers. Knowing the difference that they make in the world is helpful to everyone and something that companies rarely communicate.

> it was already done and paid for. It's a trashcan, it doesn't require specialized tooling

The government doesn't spec "a trashcan." They create size specs, water-tightness ratings, material durability, etc. The exact spec they provide may be met in 90% of areas by an existing trash can, but that won't do. If there are requirements for some level of waterproofing, you can't just seal it or even mold it from a single piece of material, you have to PROOVE it. It has to be tested and usually adhere to an existing standard so you're going to design several trash can, submit them for approval and use the best one that passes.

It's mind-numbingly tedious to build anything for the government.

If the viewing software was provided, the support would be included and that will cost money in the long term. That is something that the company didn't agree to provide nor the government to pay for. In this case, the adversary wasn't the contractor, it was the users in the government and the government employees holding the purse strings. No contractor will turn down the chance to extend the contract.

The courts seem to place little to no value on privacy.

Within simple interaction I agree, but disagree when it comes to aggregate data. Maybe I tell Amazon some info, Wayfair different info, and Vitacost something else. A 3rd party can aggregate that into a new superset that I didn't give anyone explicitly. This goes well-beyond in-store surveillance and expands potentially and in-reality to full-time surveillance: when your smart thermostat senses you are home, when your car is moving, etc.

The CDC plan is still available online as a PDF (see below). It was targeted toward influenza as that was the pandemic they anticipated. When Covid hit, due to it being a novel coronavirus, there was no plan in place. There was no data. Until that data was available, it would make sense to follow the existing plan and modify it as new data was collected.

What surprises me is that as we learned that Covid was spread in a way similar to influenza that our plan didn't track more closely to the CDC's pandemic plan. It tracked in very much the opposite direction. It's fine to change direction, but we should understand why.

Link to PDF version of pandemic plan: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/pdf/community_mit...

Organic Maps is very good at showing where 'restaurants' are. It's just not very good at showing their hours or including links to their web site or menu.

Sound insulation in older homes is much better than in new. Thicker and heavier materials are much better at absorbing or reflecting sound, especially low frequency. Fire resistance seems to be a wash. I've seen the aftermath of new and old construction. We don't seem to have made improvements in this regard, but we have made the likelihood of them starting lower in all kinds of construction.

The opposing argument for much of their down-sides is the up-front cost of building a new home has it's own environmental and financial costs. Much of the down-sides to older homes can be retrofitted for substantially less cost and impact than a new home.

We could get the best of both worlds by designing homes for upgrades with large conduits for wirings, easier access to walls and attics, etc.

When COVID hit, the WHO had a pandemic plan in place (written in 2016). Organizations often do this so that when an emergency happens, they can use the decisions made with cooler heads rather than trying to react to a rapidly changing landscape... at least until new, solid evidence emerges.

The WHO did the opposite of its pandemic plan. They failed to follow best practices and did so without any evidence for it.

The best evidence that the current WHO is not to be trusted... is the old WHO.