chrishacken

>RTFA

Providing me with the email would have been more helpful. Regardless, I sent him an email. Not sure if I'll be able to do anything, but we shall see.

I'm a developer at USPS; if you send me the tracking number I can try to pass this along to someone.

It's not just flowing over the top of the dam; the water is channeled through an area designed to handle overflow; but the channel is damaged.

See pic: http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20170213&t=2&...

I believe they're worried about the erosion tearing apart the hillside and thus destabilizing the entire hill; at which point the whole hill would just collapse.

That's a real respectable and credible source you have there.

I'm not sure I'd compare Snap with Twitter. Twitter has essentially flat-lined. Snap has only been monetized for a little over a year now and has at least demonstrated that they're capable of bringing in revenue, based on their ~$350M in 2016 and $1B 2017 projection. They're just beginning and I think they'll find more ways to capitalize on their large user base in the future.

> and I'm certain they're being lied to or paid to go on the streets

You realize both sides use this argument? It's not that either side is being lied to or paid; some people simply have different viewpoints on issues, as hard as that is to believe.

I know, that's also what makes it so difficult to deploy. You need to have dozens of them within a very small area. That essentially defeats the purpose of going wireless at all, since you'll need some kind of backhaul to those devices. Going from curb to premise is cheap relative to bringing the fiber to the curb.

Like he said, you still need to spend an insane amount of money to acquire spectrum. Furthermore, High freq spectrum doesn't go through trees or buildings so any obstruction then makes dozens of properties unserviceable. Unless you put AP's every 500m, it doesn't work out the way you'd think it would, and at that point, you might as well just run a physical drop cable to the premise for a few hundred dollars.

That only works because you're 1 person. If everyone in your town decided to do this your phone would be unusable.

We have ~50 users on our unlicensed fixed wireless service and we've been running into numerous signal issues. Wireless isn't the answer.

> We need meaningful competition for broadband. (I live in Silicon Valley and all I can get is Comcast!)

I run an ISP. There's a reason for this. In order to compete, you need a viable business. Unless a competitor can obtain >40% market share, it's not worth the enormous costs of deploying new infrastructure. Competing with Comcast is one of the worst possible business strategies ever; they have limitless access to cash and if you try to compete on price you're going to lose.

> If classifying broadband as a utility is the right way to accomplish this, let's keep it; otherwise, let's find a different way. I'm open to argument about the means, but not so much about the goal.

I honestly don't think that's going to solve anything. We're obtaining "utility" status simply by offering voice service, that won't give us any kind of major advantage other than forcing our local government to be more willing to cooperate with us on infrastructure deployment.

How would that solve the symptoms? And why is that the cause? I think the actual issue is that there aren't enough top-talent individuals in the country already; meaning the real cause is actually our broken education system.

Opening the flood gates might solve the issues of select individuals and some companies, but it doesn't solve wage depression.

I believe the proposed solution to the H1B issue was to simply increase the minimum wage for H1B's to $140k. If a company is bringing over top-talent that is irreplaceable; surely that salary is justified. Otherwise, they probably don't need you as bad as they say they do.

So how much were you paying him? (Last week?) there was an article about someone trying to double the H1B minimum wage to $140k; surely if this physicist is as important as you say he is, you were compensating him around that figure, no?

I would love to see some research on #2.

As someone who works out daily; the point at which I was in the best shape of my life was when I was consuming large amounts of fats. Peanut butter, olive oil, etc. I also find it really really hard to believe that protein would cause obesity; I've heard the exact opposite.

As am I. It also crashed my browser somehow.

For those interested, here's the Marine Corps reading list. (Edit: that's actually already in the list of links you posted, missed it). There are a lot of good books on leadership; I'd stick to the Officer lists.

http://guides.grc.usmcu.edu/usmcreadinglist

It's not on the list, but the best book I've ever read was One Bullet Away by Nathaniel Fick; current CEO of Endgame Inc.

Turn the Ship Around! is also a great book about leadership and empowering your subordinates.

My mistake, thanks for the clarification.

I'm confused now. Which stance are you taking?

> When technology becomes more meritocratic (e.g., audition via github/coding tests/open source contributions rather than interviews), we get more Asians, fewer non-Asian minorities and fewer women. Because meritocracy in technology fails to achieve the goal of "gotta catch them all", it must be opposed.

This seems to suggest that you don't want meritocracy. Was that sarcasm?

Then learn them before you apply for a job so that you can be competitive.

So what you're saying is, you want to hire people based on their gender and race rather than their skill set and experience.

Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned that particular incident; the rest of my points still warrant a higher police presence.

I used to go to Temple in Philadelphia and the amount of crime that took place on or near campus definitely warranted its own police department.

North Philadelphia isn't the safest place to begin with, but 28,000+ college students fresh out of the nest make easy targets for criminals. There's likely around a dozen "incidents" almost daily. Of the 2 or 3 years I was there, two students were murdered, another committed suicide in the middle of campus, and a few others were shot and survived. The campus police department does its best to make a safe zone around campus with either uniformed officers and/or safety officers on the corners every few blocks outside of campus.

> How will Facebook's new features (basically a clone of Snapchat) affect this?

Just based on usage within my circle, I don't see FB's clone attempts affecting Snapchat at all. FB is actually starting to piss me off with all of the spammy push notifications they keep sending out. If anything they're going to lose market share from people like me uninstalling their apps.

"(name) just posted for the first time in awhile" "(name) just started a live stream".

Design is completely subjective. Those Z series suits you linked look like a buzz light year costume.

I think these suits (Boeings) look fine, Boeing is just absolutely terrible at marketing. The giant image with "Tailored for Starliner" looks like it's from the 90's.

I think it more-or-less (at least for me) comes down to...

Friend: "I can only make the movie after 8"

Me: "The 2D one is at 7:40, but there's a 3D showing at 8:10"

And thus, 8:10 it is. Then I have to stake the glasses off for 30 seconds every 5-10 minutes because the image makes me dizzy as all hell.

I was thinking the same exact thing; didn't they say they were closing Voice down in favor of Hangouts awhile back? I freaking love Voice, but Google needs to make high-level internal decisions about which products will get long-term support no matter what, and which won't.

I was thinking something more versatile that could have many different uses, but that's cool none-the-less.

There's probably a huge market for super thin portable (wireless) displays. If I could grab a handful of displays and wirelessly link them with my laptop while using gestures to move content between them, I'd probably pay a few hundred dollars per display. (I imagine the drawback of them being wireless would be a really slow refresh rate, so you likely wouldn't be able to watch video on them.)

If you placed a magnet on the back of them you can throw one on the wall when you get home and it could detect it's location in the room and start serving as some other systems interface.. like a thermostat or something. Then pick it up on your way out the door and it connects to your phone or laptop.

> The Apollo space program, which ended before most people were born (or thereabouts), affected our lives in a peripheral manner if at all. Tang, Velcro, and a big swinging "if we can put a man on the moon, we can put an ICBM on your capitol" dick to show for it. Umm, thanks, I guess. Too bad there's no real follow-through fifty years later.

That's an extremely pessimistic view on it. Space exploration has created tens of thousand of new materials, science, and products as a result.

The biggest impact that it made was in the hearts and minds of young children that grew up dreaming to be scientists and astronauts that would one-day go to space. Our society has lost that vision for the most part.

Maybe I'm naive, but I don't think any one denies the role luck plays in one's success or not. However, to completely discard effort and determination is selling everyone short. I'm running a successful company partially because of "luck", I happened to start it at the perfect time, but also because I pour every ounce of money and time I have into it. My nights and weekends don't exist. Some people aren't willing to put in the time to turn luck into success.

Telling people that success is just a matter of luck will only reinforce the thoughts of unsuccessful people to believe they're "unlucky". You are able to make your own luck to an extent.