I haven't been following this specific news story, but I remember from my environmental sociology class that fire prevention in forests eventually leads to unnatural states that are then prone to massive uncontainable fires. Have they been suppressing natural fire in this region for too long? If this fire is naturally burning, then isn't the best response to let it run its course unless human lives are threatened?
Is data going to be cheaper too? Otherwise, it's not going to change anything for most people. It'll just mean I can blow through my monthly quota in a day instead of a week.
Sounds like every IRC channel ever. The topic is some open source project or programming language, but eventually it just becomes a clique of regulars who stopped caring about the topic a long time ago, and now just tell people who want to discuss it to go read the manual.
I stopped reading Debt when he described the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin as "made of a copper-nickel alloy designed
to look vaguely like gold". The Susan B. Anthony dollar is the same color as all the other circulating coinage of the time excluding pennies obviously. Did he seriously confuse Susan B. Anthony dollars from the early 80s with the currently circulating Sacagawea dollars? I know numismatics is only tangentially related to the history of finance, but it's related enough that he could have taken five minutes to check. I remember when he got denied tenure by Yale he went on Charlie Rose and had all these conspiracy theories about union organizing. Maybe his research was just shoddy.
Instead of fighting over the same people for a decade, they could try hiring some junior people and letting them take on increasing responsibility. The guy who made Stardew Valley lived in Seattle, had a CS degree, and couldn't get a job! It worked out for him in the end, but not for the companies constantly whining that they can't find workers.
Don't you think if those FAANG companies could offshore those jobs they would have already? You think they keep them in SV because they love paying some Javascript guy more than a dentist just so he can afford rent? Please.
I had hoped Apple News+ would be a way to access and compensate all the great small niche magazines like the stuff you see in Casa Magazines in Manhattan. Instead it was the most generic stuff that's in every supermarket check out line. I know they have to appeal to a broad range of people, but you'd think Apple would appreciate all those music, art, and culture magazines. Maybe there was no easy way to include them, but for a company with that many resources they should have found a way.
As much as I like to believe people can teach themselves anything, if you look at places like Kaggle, there are really no self-taught people. It's just a parade of Phd holders and grad students. I'm sure there are one or two, but clearly for most people coughing up the dough for a Computer Science / Data Science degree is indeed worth it.
As someone who has worked in higher ed, part of the degree requirements are to reduce corruption. Otherwise low tier state schools and community colleges would just be packed with the top administrator's buddies. Requiring a doctorate at least means you can't give the job to your pal Joey from Bayonne or whatever. Well, you still can, but he has to grind a mail order doctorate first.
People only get the EdD because it's required to be a superintendent in most places. I'm scraping by on a part time higher ed gig, and it's just depressing how the full time staff just see degrees as an obstacle to getting a raise not a path to growth and learning. The average American already thinks higher ed is a scam. At least the people who work in it could try to believe in their own product, but even they don't.
I think Jobs learned from Atari that having an open platform for people to produce all kinds of junk for may not be in your or your customer's best interest.
Compared to other countries in the region US gun violence doesn't seem much higher. Gun violence is high in Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Jamaica, etc. I'm not sure it's fair to compare the United States to some nordic country on another continent rather than its own neighbors.
Everyone knows someone who was killed in a car accident, and many of us know someone who died of an opioid overdose, but do you know anyone who died of a gunshot? It feels like we do because of the way the news sensationalizes it. Imagine if the news did little vignettes about every person killed in a car accident the same way they do for mass shootings? I think the news "stands up" to the gun lobby not because they are strong but because they are weak. Standing up to the auto industry or big pharma might actually face serious pushback, possibly even from another branch of their own corporate structure.
Interesting. So why isn't an activist outfit like Generation Rent (the group pushing for this law) working on getting rent control? In the US everyone on the left takes it as a given that rent control is a good thing.
The reason this is not going to be useful is that every story I've read or personal anecdote I've been told about landlords involves the person's building being sold to a new owner. Usually the rogue landlord buys a rent controlled building that is barely worth owning so the current owner wants out, and the rogue landlord then proceeds to make the place as unlivable as possible for the current tenants in order to convert the units to market rate when they move out. I don't think many landlords are trying to trick people to move into their buildings just to harass them and throw them out.
Operation Sea-Spray by the US Navy was a good one too. Hopefully for the sake of our fellow commenters the US government won't test bioweapons on San Francisco again.
Nice link. Browsing the related articles is interesting. I wasn't aware that the CIA was alleged to have trafficked opium during their secret and illegal war in Laos. Good to know.
Yeah, obviously. I meant "beyond" in terms of fashion. One might work at Facebook destroying democracy and the fabric of society, but hey, they follow some food taboos so it's all good! To really go "beyond" veganism would be to follow a traditional Jain diet where roots and some fruits are also banned.
Oh, it's so nice to see all these rich tech guys are concerned about the plight of Amazon workers. Suppose if one of these Amazon workers applied to be a programmer at your company even though they didn't go to a top twenty school or have 5-7 years experience with the trendiest stack, but merely did a bootcamp, and published some apps on their own, would you hire them and spend your money (as opposed to Jeff Bezo's money) to better their lot in life? Or would you hit delete the second their pathetic resume touched your inbox? At least Jeff Bezos is making it possible for people to pay their rent and not end up yet another homeless guy on the San Francisco sidewalk.