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A similar story that I found absolutely amazing is the story of the screwworm and its eradication from the US. Not the whole world, mind you (which feels foolish long term).

I am not trying to make a point. This discussion made me think of it and I wanted to share.

This does not seem to be happening now because nearly everything is shut down and what is still running is operating at less than max capacity.

I don't think your definition of anti-trust is accurate. Protect consumers by creating a competitive market. To promote and protect competition because consumers and the economy as a whole benefits when we have more competition in the market.

Looking forward to the app. Would be fun to manipulate the sim by moving my iPad around.

Potentially fun ideas...

Allow me to place shapes/blocks down and lock them in place to see how the fluid moves around them.

Let me put a small 'pump' in the liquid to keep constant or pulsed movement. add a couple dials for pump speed, etc. I want to put two pumps facing one another and watch the interaction where they meet.

Different pool shapes - round, star, sphere?

Allow for particles to reach the edge of the pool to fall off and then let me drop new ones into flowing water.

Loads of fun. Thank you!

Happy to see they are keeping it in future iterations of the 'a' series.

1 - Forced to save billions over a short period of time for retirements benefits. 2 - Inability to set their own prices, like a business would.

The extra business from Amazon should have been a massive boon to USPS. But it seems the ridiculously low rate they got into, plus the couple factors above (and I am sure many others - like being required to maintain rural routes at a loss) has put them in a bad situation.

In my limited experience, this is the sales team saying 'anything' to get the sale.

Are efforts to clean up terminology worthwhile? For who?

My 2c, based on my personal feelings and hope... no evidence. This is low hanging fruit. Get people involved and thinking about current issues. Their employees, customers, and stakeholders might grumble or question the value of this work, but it does start conversations (like this one) and that seems good.

We think and speak in the words we know and see. This individual change is not going to end racism across the world but I believe in aggregate, enough small changes over a long enough timeline, these things can matter.

I think instead of criticizing changes like this we should appreciate that they are doing something. I mean, it is capitalism and at the end of the day they are making a choice that this is a better 'look' than to do nothing. A choice more and more capitalist enterprises have made in recent months. To me, this speaks to the continued change in our culture.

On the other hand it does seem to bring about a strong reaction from some counter culture (? idk what to call it). Maybe this sort of thing makes folks dig in their heels more than it helps?

Idk. I think it helps. But maybe not today.

I had not really considered moving because WFH is an option, other than the digital nomad dreams that float through my mind. :D

In my case, I live in small town WV (pop < 2500) and work outside Pittsburgh, PA. Living in WV basically means you can afford a house with acres of property IF you can make more than 60k / year (which is a big IF for most around here).

Back to the original point - The choice to live in one place over another, shorter or longer commutes, etc.. Is not the company shifting its operating cost onto its employees. is it? Do I misunderstand still?

Seems to me, if anything, this is an opportunity to continue to live the way you did before with slightly more free time and potentially more money OR, as you say, move a bit more out of town and save even more money.

This change should decrease costs for the employee, open up the labor market for the employer thus lowering costs for them as well. Shedding office space is a great way to save money anywhere in the country - Let alone in a hyper expensive place like downtown SF.

I am still failing to understand how this is pushing the cost of business onto employees.

Commuting, lunch, tons of cloths/uniforms, (likely more stuff I am not thinking off) is also a huge cost to employees.

I know my mortgage payment is due if I go to an office or WFH. My car, on the other hand, requires loads more fuel and maintenance when I work in the office.

Electricity bill goes up slightly.

Heating / cooling costs goes up a bit. I was already heating and cooling my home though but a schedule made it so I didn't heat or cool as much during business hours (when I was not home).

For lunch I am not going out nearly as much. Mostly because my home is not well positioned for a quick trip for lunch.

Seems to me there are savings on both sides here. I could be convinced otherwise though - I have not read any proper studies where the dynamics here have been fleshed out.

I feel like I am saving lots of money and a fair amount of time with WFH.

For the workers involved being overworked and under paid.

The wrong products I received.

The added expense in not making a trip to the store.

My feeling of selfishness and laziness.

There is room for both Cloud and On-Prem to exist. This endless drive by industry to push everyone to cloud infrastructure and SaaS, in my humble opinion, will look exactly like the whole supply chain coming from the east during a pandemic.

The economics of it look great in a lot of use cases, but putting our whole company at the mercy of a few providers sounds terrible to me. Even more so when I see posts on HN about folks getting locked out of their accounts with little notice.

It does not take much to bring our modern cloud to a grinding halt. For example, a mistake by an mostly unheard of ISP lead to a massive outage not less than a year ago(1).

It was amazing to see the interconnections turn to cascading issues. 1 ISP goofs. 1-2 major providers have issues and the trickle down effect was such that even services that thought they were immune from cloud issues were realizing that they rely on a 3rd party that relies on a different 3th party that uses cloudflare or AWS.

So, even though I think the cloud is (usually) secure, stable, resilient, etc... I still advocate for its use in moderation and for 2 main use cases.

1 - elastic demands. Those non-critical systems that add some value or make work easier. Things we could do without for several days and not hurt the business much.

2 - DR / Backup / redundancy. We have a robust 2 data center / DR fail over system. Adding cloud components to that seems reasonable to me.

(1)https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/verizon-dqe-outage-inte...

Edit: Spelling and clarity

Edit2: New reasons to stay on prem are happening all the time. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsofts-gi...

I was new to dev world and had never touched AWS so the transition to AWS C9 left me bewildered and I just gave up on it.

This seems like this would fill that role for me pretty well.

Bonus points - I currently use Visual Studio Code as my goto tool.

I suppose thinking about it like an antenna, it would aplify. But I would think the bowl shape on my head would reflect my thoughts back into my head. Where a bowl upside-down on my head would act more like a dish to collect external waves.

Pretty sure anyone listening to my thoughts would get bored. Have the gold fishes song stuck in there since the 90's.

I love the fishes 'cause they're so delicious

Gotta go fishin'

I could eat them everyday

And my mom says that's ok

I love the fishes 'cause they're so delicious

Get Goldfishes!

They are not talking about the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs or the Office of the Comptroller of the currency... It is a comment on the NSA. From what we know, everything they do is a bit creepy. Far from "All government is bad" ... The comment is about an agency that Snowden warned us about.

Also, historically speaking the US government (various departments) has done a lot of really shady things.

"They" are not going to let us know all of the shenanigans they are up to. The list of mischievous things we are aware of surely isn't everything. Are we aware of 70%? 60%? I'm going to bet lower.

So you have a opaque organization with a fairly long list of misdeeds and (this is just my sense of things) a growing boldness. NSA programs, patriot act, etc - those are bold programs they have in place. Those are not the "top secret" things we don't get to know about.

It does not take a lot of imagination to make that leap.

"everyone deserves GitHub" is marketing, not a corporate strategy.

How does GitHub stand to benefit from this change? How does more non-paying users help the company?

I am not trying to be a tinfoil hat jerk here. Life in the age of information has taught us all that (again) "nothing is free". So what am I paying here?

No magic left in there at all.

Ended up dropping it and using the functionality of Airwatch.

With the lock down, more online classes, more people seeing the Zoom logo?

Oh snap, the MOST valuable tool. Shit. ADD is really holding me back.

I will have to find myself a .. .hose I guess? (Just kidding) going to give it a try!

Seems the water splashing about is a pretty easy problem to solve. Your bum shoudl cover move of the opening and a simple shroud would block the gap between the seat and the rim.

The amount of TP used goes down dramatically with experience and the idea that you cannot get super clean with it is not entirely accurate. It will not be soap and water clean, for sure, but clean and dry to the touch is easy to accomplish.

The amount used goes down with experience. 4 sheets wrapped around 3 fingers and sort of folded and held by the thumb provides protection to your digits and adequate surface area for cleaning. . Do that 2-4 times and all done. Or as some might say - once forward, once back, once to polish. Don't ask. Just ... imagine. :D

Ready to have your mind blow? within the TP user community there are 3 distinct strategies for cleaning. As the joke goes - Most don't realize people do it differently than they do, and when they find out think they are very weird.

Stay seated, scoot forward, lean forward, hand behind you.

Stand up, lean forward, hand behind you.

Stand up, squat down, lean forward, hand behind you.

There may be some variations on each of those creating sub-groups; hand positions, one foot on seat, etc. Imaging the logistics of those different groups is sort of fascinating.

Water tends to spray _stuff_ around. Do those public facilities need extra or more frequent attention?

Does a bidet or water jet change the cleanliness perception of a public or community toilet?

Thanks

https://bioresources.cnr.ncsu.edu/resources/the-effect-of-co...

"Recycled paper is an important raw material to provide sustainability of natural resources and reduce the environmental impact of the use of paper from recycled pulp in the packaging industry. Hence, recycled paper production is higher in terms of volume and utilization. Recycled paper products are used in the packaging industry partially or fully. Such usage leads to the presence of heavy metals due to recycled and chemical additive sources. The present study aims at determining the amounts and also identifying the sources of heavy metals such as Pb, Cd, Zn, Ni, and Cu contained in recycled testliner (TL) and fluting (FLT), which are main products used in production of corrugated cardboard. The metals in the structure of the paper used in packages directly or indirectly in contact with foods are heavy metals. Mean values of 2.6 mg kg-1 Pb (lead), 2.8 mg kg-1 Zn (zinc), 0.094 mg kg-1 Cd (cadmium), 1.8 mg kg-1 Ni (nickel), and 25.4 mg kg-1 Cu (copper) were detected in test liner and fluting papers using inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). The main sources of heavy metals are colorants, mainly consisting of conventional paint and pigments as well as spot and Pantone Matching System (PMS) colorants."

The apps that use the camera are all pretty clunky. If I could just walk around the inside of my house for a while and let it map it out, that would be nifty.

(put on tin foil hat) Then the iPad can track my movement around my house and play ads based on which room I am in.

Example - walks into bathroom and I hear "Try new lemon toilet bowl cleaner."