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dstroot··on ‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room
It will be interesting watching how all this plays out. As others have noted the liability math has certainly changed. Enough to bankrupt one of the largest utility companies in the country.

One the other hand this is also a political statement. They are clearly signaling to the politicians that they better shield them from further liability or expect more of this behavior. Shut the power down when the wind blows, after each earthquake until the lines can be checked, etc. My money is the politicians fold. The stock rose 3% Friday.

dstroot··on How to Tax Our Way Back to Justice
Tax is money we contribute to a collective fund and then we elect representatives to spend it for the common good. With me so far?

The people who contribute the most should have a proportional say in how it’s spent. This is “fairness”. Numerically there will be more people who contribute less and fewer people who contribute more under a regressive system.

All of us share the benefits of social programs and health care even if we are not directly benefiting. Society works, and people can regain health, etc. and start contributing to the overall pool of tax money again.

At no point should tax become a method to redistribute wealth - although that’s exactly what it’s become.

We can all agree that some people earn so little they don’t have to pay into the “common benefit fund” (tax) but then shouldn’t they lose the right to decide how the funds are spent?

dstroot··on You Crashed a $3M Bugatti. Now What?
Um... a personal jet starts at 10x the Bugatti price and goes up from there.
dstroot··on LastPass Extension slows Chrome's responsiveness by up to 50%
Me too.
dstroot··on LastPass Extension slows Chrome's responsiveness by up to 50%
Thanks - read the post and just switched to Bitwarden!
dstroot··on Hard comp-fi reading list
Three Body Problem and Ready Player One should be considered. Daemon by Suarez is better than Ready Player One. Oh, what about Ramez Naam and the Nexus books?
dstroot··on Sticky Footer
The article makes it look simple. The actual code that deals with various browsers is here: https://github.com/philipwalton/solved-by-flexbox/blob/maste...
dstroot··on Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform
You can use wordpress as your CM. Write posts and they appear in your Gatsby site. Contentful is probably a better option though...

https://www.gatsbyjs.com/guides/wordpress/

dstroot··on iPadOS
OMG. This was my first Mac experience exactly. I was on a consulting project and the disk had some very valuable files on it. Someone at the company told me I had to drag the disk to the trash to eject it. I thought I was being punked and refused to do it. My favorite Mac story!
dstroot··on EasyOS: An experimental Linux distribution designed from scratch for containers
Anyone know how this compares to CoreOS? Whatever happened to them?
dstroot··on Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)
Found out recently my 77 year old mother (who spends a lot of time on Facebook) does not believe in global warming. I was completely shocked. She’s very religious and perhaps is targeted as a “low information” decision maker.
dstroot··on Why we lie about being retired
I’ve retired twice so far. Each time I loved it for a while and then eventually I miss the social contacts from a work environment and the stimulation. I LOVE making things happen. So I end up going back to work for a while. Also paying for healthcare on your own is challenging. It would be ideal for older folks to gracefully exit full time work by transitioning to part time but also have a means to keep health care.
dstroot··on Electric motor design claims remarkable improvements
If what they say is 5% true they would have raised $50m seed rather than $4.5m.
dstroot··on iTerm2 3.3
Anyone using Hyper? I played with it but pretty quickly reverted back to iTerm2. In fact iTerm2 is basically the first thing I install on a new system along with ZSH/Oh my ZSH.
dstroot··on FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces and Names
Link?
dstroot··on Ask HN: Anyone Using CockroachDB in Production?
This is what I love about HN - a simple question about a somewhat rare technology and a detailed answer.

I tried running Cockroach DB a few years ago too, also on Kubernetes. It worked but today we just use Postgres. Turned out we didn’t really have the problem Cockroach DB is designed to solve. We just needed a reliable performant SQL database.

dstroot··on Building the New Twitter.com
Does anyone know what’s under the hood? React? Vue? Something I don’t even know enough to ask about?
dstroot··on Ask HN: Why are wiki's UIs not evolving?
> If it ain’t broke...

Many of the comments below agree with this point. However I think the OP’s question is worth exploring. Good design that leverages fonts, colors, spacing, layout, etc. is supposed to make sites more usable and enjoyable. Why can’t we have a wiki that is easy to use/edit and looks nice and is accessible? These are not mutually exclusive are they? That being said, my recent wiki experience has all been using GitHub.

dstroot··on Tesla drops cheapest Model X, S variants, cuts prices to simplify lineup
> This company has its priorities ass backwards at times, apparently fart gags and video games are more important than delivering promised voice commands and then doing a proper blue tooth audio stack.

This. It makes It makes me angry when I see those features it reminds me that this is a company not run by adults.

dstroot··on A problem worse than Zoom?
127.0.0.1/localhost are kind of obvious no?
dstroot··on Paul Graham's Keynote at Pycon 2003: The Hundred-Year Language
Enter Golang...
dstroot··on Iceland tire of tourists trashing their nature
Munich is such a great city for work-life balance and a sustainable approach to living while still being very “modern”
dstroot··on AWS Control Tower
I had a key compromise. They spun up resources across the world. I had to go on a safari to hunt and kill all the things they created in each region. I would’ve loved to of had a single view to see all the resources running across all regions. That would’ve been super helpful.
dstroot··on A Random Walk Down Sand Hill Road
“A random selection of words for a title that may or may not describe an article promoting a book about models, but I’m a VC so I have to work in the fact I’m on Sand Hill road. ps - my assistant really wrote this.”
dstroot··on Reasons not to reveal your DNA
I paid 23&me to test my DNA. I have received the results. Now I have no idea how that information is being re-used or sold. I plan to submit a delete request of my data when CA’s CCPA law goes into effect.
dstroot··on JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016)
My largest hang up is I LOVE to comment my configuration. So JSON is out by definition. YAML seems to work just fine for all my use cases and is less verbose and more human readable FTW.
dstroot··on A researcher needed three hours to identify me from my DNA
https://www.jumio.com/

Their founder is going to jail but the tech was OK - take a photo of your ID with your phone and look into the camera. Do the faces match?

dstroot··on Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing
Umm... where do I start? ALL the tax prep companies lobby against free electronic filing. So if I want to vote with my wallet I have to go back to paper forms. Paper forms may be outlawed at some point in the future. Can you solve that issue?

We either need campaign finance reform or we need to accept our government is bought and paid for by big oil, coal, the NRA, the car manufacturers, etc.

sorry for the rant

dstroot··on Apple’s $9 engineering marvel no one wants (2017)
> It doesn't create more room inside the phone, and Samsung had water-resistant phones with headphone jacks. It's basically designed to force you on to more expensive wireless headphones.

Well I was told that Apple viewed the removal of the headphone jack as a necessary step to a sealed, water proof phone. The two key reasons for phone failure are drops and water damage. Water damage will eventually be handled by a sealed device. So it’s not about “more room” AFAIK.

dstroot··on Foods for healthier people and a healthier planet [pdf]
Very few jokes here on HN. Upvoted due to involuntary chuckle. ;)
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