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“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” - Bill Gates.

He didn't have a third rule that says "If there's no process, automating a new will expose your hubris" but it's implicit.

Sure, but that's been going on forever. There's a difference between activists that are motivated enough to show up at your workplace, and those who are willing to daylights out of you.

Another reason communication works is mutability. Personal and popular opinion changes over time. We're (and especially young people) not adapted to have everything we say or do kept on record for eternity. We've done a good job of messing that up too.

Don't forget on commercial real estate.

Come to Salt Lake City. We even have absurd branding to lure you "silicon slopes!"

There are a few SF organizations with satellite offices here. I've worked for one, have friends working for others. It's a pretty decent arrangement. You can get a team setup here for the cost of a single employee in the bay (especially when you factor in real estate.) Hell, maybe more. Shit, some of us will take pay cuts to avoid working for the Domo's of the Provo Valley. Don't have to deal with time zone issues, and when shit hits the fan it's an hour and a half flight. I've flown to SF and back, same day multiple times.

I count myself so lucky that I managed to figure these exact same things out my sr year of college. Got the degree and promptly did not use it. Though I contend it's still the most applicable skill set to product management of any degree.

Completely agree with this. Previously I was a PM at a rather large (valued >1bn) sales software organization. I was tasked with building a completely new product to replace the original product. We built an MVP and had our internal sales team use it. It wasn't easy, it took some motivation to get them to use it over the large, steady, enterprise solution they were used to. But, they used it enough that we received considerable feedback that we rolled into the public beta, which was much bigger than an MVP.

nads would have been a nice addition to that thing.

This has nothing on the Nasal Radium Irradiation tests on children during the same time period. My mother was one of the subjects.

http://ahrp.org/1948-1970s-nasal-radium-irradiation-nri-of-c...

As a dude I'm exhausted too. As a boyfriend and a son of a mother, I'm accepting that I'll continue to be exhausted by it until it changes.

But, I'm not walking on eggshells. I'm having, and will continue to have debates with women, and more often than not, have my view expanded by the conversation.

Things are changing, pretty rapidly. I hope the continue to change. Current situation is untenable for men and women, which is probably a societal improvement over situation way untenable for women.

I'm also accepting that this is going to continue until men do a better job of policing men.

>Obviously we'd prefer greener power if possible, but nuclear power appears by far the lesser evil than all the fossil activity.

Fair enough, but at this point, it seems like they can, should, and do skip over nuclear and focus on 100% renewable. Their messaging may not be as effective as "clean coal" but that feels like a different debate.

I read the article as:

1) We're decommissioning a recycling plant because no one wants to recycle rods.

2) We don't know where on earth we're going to put the waste from the decommissioning.

3) We don't know how we're going to do this quite yet, the technology doesn't exist.

4) It's going to take 100 years.

5) The entire endeavor was massively expensive (who's paying for this, btw?)

Given that, I'm not sure I can accept that Greenpeace is or was on the wrong side of common sense. They may not have seen the entire playing field, they may not have have have proposed the best solution when they started out, but given what they knew at the time of their inception, and how they've grown, I think they are on the right side of common sense.

I don't have a timeline of their stance on renewables, nor of coal/oil/gas, but they currently advocate for 100% renewables. And after reading that article, I think that's the only common sense position.

very interested, email in profile.

I miss the good old days when manufactured spend was as easy as ordering 10k in sacajawea coins from the treasury.

Major Omission: People

Ask yourself-

Do I trust the founders?

Can I have healthy debate with the founders?

Will my feedback be considered by the founders?

Am I compatible with the founders?

Are the founders compatible with each other and are they able to work together constructively?

This was a good reminder, habits are hard to break. As others have pointed out, the comic is a bit one sided, but it's trying to make a point, so whatever.

However, the comic does fail to recognize that the priorities of the woman (in this case) are also societal constructs. In the same way that women are taught to be the cleaners and boys are taught to go off to "save the world," women are also taught to value things like a tidy home. There's no inherent value in not keeping my jeans on the floor of the bedroom. That's something that women writ large have been taught to value.

If the men are being encouraged to think about what society has taught them to do, and change it based on this comic, I think it's only fair that the women also take a minute and consider the same.

This article is about capital costs, not labor costs.

>One point construction experts are making, however, is that taxpayers are paying premiums for these public projects since they aren’t being done open shop. The Empire Center report calculated that the government ends up paying 25 percent more for public projects in New York City because of the high prevailing wages. This is the cost no one wants to talk about.

Good! Living in NYC costs more than living just about anywhere in the USA. Well over 25% more than where I live, a top 50 metro.

You have a source for any of that? It's one thing to say labor costs are a primary driver of costs. It's quite another so say Labor Union costs are the primary driver.

Madison to Racine would have been a tolerable commute had Walker not killed the high speed rail.

Having a semi-itinerate workforce seems like an extremely effective way to avoid any risk of labor activities.

I'm an avid cyclist, I typically ride about 50 miles a week for pleasure. But, I've been walking about 2 miles to work for the last 3 years.

I'd much rather ride my bike, but after close call after close call, and even intentionally threatening behavior, I stopped riding and started exclusively walking. Also in the US, and I follow the law very carefully when riding. Doesn't matter. I've had things thrown at me, been coal-rolled, been tailgated by large trucks honking, been screamed at by little old ladies telling me pay my taxes.

The infrastructure isn't there, and well meaning bike lanes make it worse by encouraging bad and unpredictable behaviors. There are bad cyclists out there. there are many more that try to follow the rules. There needs to be an investment in infrastructure, maintenance, education and enforcement. Until then, I'll keep walking to commute and riding for pleasure.

I'm sure theres a direct source out there, as the former CEO of diapers does not hesitate to discuss his aim to crush amazon.

https://collaborativegain.com/the-diaper-war-amazon-whole-fo... https://www.recode.net/2017/3/29/15112314/amazon-shutting-do...

Environmental historian J. R. McNeill opined that Midgley “had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth’s history”,[19] and Bill Bryson remarked that Midgley possessed “an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny”.[20]

There are definitely different categories of tattoos. From flash to full body art pieces, remembrances of pets, girlfriends names, things to cover up ex-girlfriends names.

There are absolutely tattoos one can get that are less likely to incur regret. It's like getting hardwood floors in your home instead of patterned or brightly colored carpet.

I see many millennials with full sleeves of flash art that means approximately nothing to to them, other than it looking cool and being very in at the moment. I think this is probably going to belong in the green carpet category.

You got a source for that? Everything I've read says they do. And yeah, obviously hyperbole in service of a joke...

I also have no idea why this is such an obviously great idea. I don't see anything obviously great about it. Care to explain.

Not that this is a perfect option, but it's exactly because of this I've been able to justify buying classic/collector vehicles.

They have the added benefit of either appreciating, staying put or only very mildly depreciating.

Plus I get to drive fun cars and claim a moral high ground.

It means I would like "liking" a post of grumpy cat to use as much energy as a Toyota Carola driving from Miami to Washington DC. Luckily, actually posting grumpy cat photos causes brownouts, so there are none to like.

I had never heard of sundown towns before this article and plan to read the book they link to in the article [1]. One silver lining of the last year or so for me, personally, has been a sort of awakening to the real issues that have persisted in the shadows of the US for marginalized populations. There has always been some level of awareness, but the very concrete and contemporary stories that seem to be pouring out currently have forced me to reconcile that much of the US population doesn't live within my progressive, city living bubble, and just how much worse things are in some places. I don't think I'm alone here.

Some other things I've heard that have reinforced this:

Democracy in Chains: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30011020-democracy-in-ch...

When the Welfare People Come: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29633687-when-the-welfar...

[1]https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52444.Sundown_Towns?ac=1...

I was on a video chat with an engineer in Taichung when it happened. The bicycle hanging from his ceiling was shaking pretty aggressively. He guessed it was a 5 and was on the third floor of his 40 year old townhouse across the island from the epicenter.

The media will definitely be expensive and proprietary. That's part of how they control for the "jenkyness" associated with 3d printers in general.

If you look at the fine print they compared the "default mode" of the other printers with their "fast mode."

I've evaluated a few 3d printers and from what I recall the default mode is usually fairly high quality (read uses more material.)

We were about ready to pull the trigger on a competitors printer (~100k machine) but at the last minute figured out that the media would basically cost us the salary for a full time employee. Instead we're running a cheapo FDM machine for parts where quality isn't critical and outsourcing the highend stuff to shapeways (who are mentioned below.) Overall I've been really happy with this strategy.