Hermes: Futurama?
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Who covers the new costs for high-rise firetrucks, crews, and training?
What about high-pressure water supply for upper floors and high-capacity sewage management for the suddenly increased, ahem... effluence of these new living spaces?
What about suddenly dumping another 2,000 cars into a neighborhood without parking and traffic management for everyone leaving and returning at the same time? (magical thinking about mass transit?)
Surface and sub-surface infrastructure costs remain the hidden barrier to expansion and they can't be wished away. Real zoning is about managing capital investments and leveraging infrastructure for dual use where possible. Yes, it can be used for evil, but at the root, zoning is actually about central social management of scarce infrastructure resources.
So, I guess, hooray? You've unleashed a bunch of capitalist land barons who can now ignore local citizen oversight of their countryside and capital infrastructure spending?
You may not be happy with today, but the impact of this change is not well considered and I suspect the 7-year wailing will come from every optimistic constituent whose childlike expectations were obviously never possible through simple inspection of the proposal
Funny how something like Cowboy Bebop suddenly makes so much more sense after someone else turns the light on in the room!
I enjoyed the Bosch tv series but always suspected it was mostly for the jazz music
I wish there was someone out there that would curate a station for me
HR is the real enemy here and their fear-based power derives from risk management action against Federal/State mandates and potential employee legal action, i.e. "Make sure we don't get sued and that we have a strong defense if we do."
Without a documented methodology for weeding out 'poor performers' and a history of doing so, the company's risk from an individual dismissal increases.
Hence the HR team locked in the basement where nobody accounts for the differential cost from all these schemes and programs.
Like vaccinations, thousands of lives are vaccinated in the hopes of preventing one, high-cost event with a damaging outcome.
Managers feel safer, executives don't care, and you play the game
Where are the real tech solutions?
The autofocus jammers?
The ultrasonic microphone overdrive scramblers?
The infrared iris scramblers?
When did we lose control over the space around us?
Take back our personal space!
Audio amplification for humans requires similar deviation away from 'purity' and engineered precision, we need distortions, nonlinearities, and other 'additives.'
Is this driven by the flawed nature of how our bodies capture and translate sound?
Is it inherent in how the human brain interprets these signals for the conscious mind?
Or does the answer lie somewhere in how music engages with our souls through all these steps?
A thousand flame wars will find no answer better than what the continued celebration of tube amplification demands; the devoted will abide no other. This truth drives a moment of respectful consideration of those who have endured the longest journey toward audio nirvana, for ignorance is not likely their weakness.
With AI reaching an acceptable level of mass acceptance (i.e. mediocrity), many writers for news media and the entertainment industry exist on an eroding edge of economic desperation.
Superior communication skills now stand as a critical hallmark of success for the future.
This may not necessarily mean traditional authoring skills as your app so deftly demonstrates, but crafting well-reasoned messages into a compelling narrative that works within a logical construct while eliciting emotional engagement still requires work and artistry worthy of your effort.
The tears of your unborn children stop falling with every sentence wrought from furnace of your heart and finely hammered on the tempest anvil of collaboration.
Work on your writing you wretched slave and free your mind.
"Is this really appropriate?," my mom to my dad.
"It's better than TV," my dad to my mom.
My 8-yo self rolling back and forth on the brown shag carpet wearing my pajamas in front of the wooden stereo console, warmed by the glow of the tubes inside, laughing with my dad to the pure comedy gold of Tom Lehrer's voice pouring from the speakers.
We didn't have fishing or hunting together, but Dad and I will always have those evenings with Mr. Lehrer and a sip of Balvenie.
The outcomes don't match the 'natural law' story in my head so I'm reflecting the anger and frustration of my own personal tragedy at the biggest outlier I can find. I don't understand politics because the game is filled with criminals and sports is too boring. So, I focus my puerile venom on tech leaders.
I'm a creep, and my hatred for Elon is based on my own self-loathing for being irresponsible with the talents I have.
When I win the Powerball this weekend, I am going to buy one of his damned rockets and fly it to the moon, and build my own casino. With blackjack, and hookers.
Where will you turn for knowledge if only single-spaced bodies of work stand as acceptable to your delicate sensibility? What a poor, daft man that simpleton Einstein must be with his extra spaces.
Let go your hate, extend grace to all, engage sincerely, and be the light.
On the other hand, people who use tabs in code are philistines... there's just no room for them (Bwaahahahahahah)
Launch cost is ~$3,000 to $5,000 per kg
What's the value of pulling it back down and what drives this value?
Many thanks to the team
Coincidence?
The wifi is also stronger in my bathroom, so... there is that as well.
At 55 with a career in technology and manufacturing, I support your concerns. Your spidey senses, or 'situational awareness' within the business context are warning you about a long-term potential issue.
A sharp wit reveals an active and creative mind capable of engaging in the immediate context as well as operating separately at the 'observational' layer away from the engagement. Strong leaders use this ability for managing the topics, discussions and participants through the engagement in productive ways.
It's a bit like poker where understanding the other players takes time, but offers opportunity for control and manipulation over time.
Ultimately, this is why executives turn into psychopaths because they only focus on the art of manipulation and control with complete disregard for the humanity of others. If this sounds like fun, congrats, go into banking or finance.
For the rest of us, a little bit of wit goes a long way and should be used like habanero peppers in cooking; sparingly and with purpose.
There are some excellent suggestions in the other comments here about redirecting this energy into more creative or productive activity. I recommend first developing interpersonal and engagement skills that help you manage others by expanding your situational awareness tools. Buttress this with other drawing, writing or thinking activities as suggested.
Your concerns about long-term impact are well founded.
Act on them
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WFH makes it much easier to open a shared window for collaboration and it's the one thing not mentioned in most of the literature
Works for programming, presentations, documents...
Remember, the HN community is here for you and whatever painful emotions you experience in the future
We will listen, encourage, and offer guidance as best we can
Grab the boys and pull them out of the way
Reach through the front and it's much easier to get everything clean while using less paper.
While we are at it, who uses a wad? Am I the only one carefully folding the paper to maximize padding and hand coverage?
So many questions...
It rests like an eagle on the wind
An anxious eye triggers a thousand ideas
Driven by a single motion below
A twitching grass blade,
A shifting sparkle from the water's edge
No uncalled cure beckons my mind
No defect can I find
Fix me not you callous normal
And care for your own hollow cave
But you can't career from home
The most poignant thing I learned in 1990 came from my electromagnetics & digital communications professor at Iowa State, Dr. Mani Mina who used to say, "The more you scare people, the more they will pay you."
He's still there and still brilliant.
As Omicron winds down the pandemic, the media needs a new boogeyman to drive clicks and scientists need funding for apparition research
It's almost Spring and time for NASA/NOAA to regale us with their latest scary tales requiring money as part of the annual Federal budgeting process. Happens every year and coincides with new swimsuit fashion releases.
Dang, I am getting to old for this...
continue with the regularly scheduled programming