captaincole

From the wikipedia article on the tiaga bombs.

> "the current external γ-ray dose rate to a human from the contaminations associated with the 'Taiga' experiment was between 9 and 70 μSv [micro-Sieverts] per week". The report also recommends periodic monitoring of the site was recommended. In comparison, typical exposure from naturally occurring background radiation is about 3mSv per year, or 57μSv per week

As someone who is in this field (work at a company that does secondary market transactions), I'm very curious as to why this explosion of growth is happening. I see two examples that aren't directly related to the articles point of money looking for high growth opportunities in a low interest rate environment

1) Increasing capital in the private market has lead to a decrease in value of this benefit of being public (raising large capital rounds)

2) Decreasing regulatory barriers for participation in the private market

I'm curious as to how other HNers who may work for these companies feel?

I think that this was a really interesting parallel to the natural world. There are two really important questions to be asking when trying to figure out if the exodus of Silicon Valley is temporary or permanent.

1. Is the damage or outside stressors that are causing the exodus permanent? (I really hope not...)

2. Was there a natural cause (repeatable, will continue) for the previous abundance, or was it just momentum and luck that kept Silicon Valley as abundant as it has been.

Point number two I leave for discussion.

I'd like to highlight a phrase in the summary here that really stuck out to me. As with some other commenters, it does seem that the judge is not particularly inclined in this argument to side with Epic because it is in the mobile gaming arena, but...

> Fortnite aside, though, Judge Rogers also said she was inclined to agree with Epic's assertion that "there is an uproar in the marketplace about the lack of competition for [distribution of] iPhone apps. You read the papers, I read the papers, it's there." That said, Judge Rogers also suggested this specific case might not be the right one to make that argument, "given the amount of competition for mobile games."

While it looks like this is going to a jury trial, it does leave open a hole for a different kind of app (lets say spotify or tinder (match group)) to try and take a similar argument to court within a different market sector.

Good question. The two considerations I would say here are

1) Rent vs own - everyone i know in the own category is staying for now, and actually exhibiting the opposite tendencies and digging in for the long haul

2) School is now officially going full remote. This was a unknown for many families and now we will see what they choose to do.

I am living in SF now and this confirms a very clear pattern that I have seen emerging, particularly of tech workers. I would say that >50% of the people I know who were living in the city have left, or are in the process of leaving. Some examples (there are countless):

1) All three of the roommates that I had are choosing to leave either permanently or temporarily.

2) A friend who works for google who is going on a 6 month road trip in a camper van

3) A friend who is moving to Santa Cruz just to be closer to surf while we are remote

4) A friend who moved home to Australia because of how the US is handling the virus.

5) A friend who is going month to month in different cities, staying in Airbnbs, and still paying less for housing then his one bedroom in the bay area

6) A friend who moved to Austin to live with her sister

What I am seeing here is very clear also. The SIP order has removed many of the greatest parts of SF, the food, the bars, the culture, the density to be able to go anywhere and see your friends easily, and whats left are many of the problems that the city has, trash, homelessness, and exorbitant housing prices.

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Reading between the lines here

"Other activities that can resume under the new order include residential moves and the use of certain shared outdoor recreational facilities that were previously ordered closed, like skate parks, but not others that involve shared equipment or physical contact." -- I believe this means they will open up parks that were previously closed and allow people to visit again.

I really had fun reading this and thinking deeply about the blurry Ill defined line between things that are alive (an individual) and things that are not.

To take this experiment to a conclusion which the author has “left to the reader” as all good texts do, let’s think about a virus.

A virus has information, in the form of dna or rna (I believe this is what a coronavirus uses), that it injects into a cell to then cause the cell to create more virus. The goal of this is to pass “information” to successive versions of the virus which are then programmed to do the same thing. Since they are trying to keep the same information, then they are in fact attempting to reduce entropy across time therefore they are as the author defines, an “individual”.

Would love for someone to test that logic train that I just rode

While zoom has faced many privacy concerns in the last few weeks, it is incredible how reliable the service has been given the massive spike in demand.

Most services would have buckled (examples abound like robinhoods recent outage) and part of their stack would have not been able to handle the load.

On top of that they are in new customer segments that I bet they didn’t see as their user base. I know more than a few elementary school teachers who are now hosting zoom classes with 15+ 5 year olds on a call.

Agreed and seconded. I use them mainly for testing and for demo. If I need to switch personas but not have multiple private tabs open it is a game changer.