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For example, the Middle Eastern hand gesture for "stop" is totally different than American hand signals. The confusion probably caused at least a few of the hundreds of Iraqi civilians shot at traffic checkpoints by US soldiers. https://savageminds.org/2008/09/28/how-not-to-signal-stop/
Secondarily, well-run public companies do not focus their teams on the share price in the short term. They focus on long term growth that compounds from strategic thinking and focused execution, not chasing stock price that can go up or down randomly based on conditions out of their control.
1. Escaped goat. Goats are amazing climbers and there is really not a fence invented that can defeat them if motivated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkuNn8iXOwM
2. Predator attack. Many grazers use livestock guardian dogs, but it happens.
No. The most effective companies in the world are the ones with the fastest feedback loops, and in the absence of directly measuring customer use of the product, sharing searchable records of defects is the best way to accomplish this.
This is particularly the case in services companies like software. We will not only collect written defect reports but we circulate them in real time throughout the company so that issues can be fixed as fast as possible. At any good SaaS company, the Zendesk tickets, Salesforce records, and recorded customer calls from tools like Gong are often funneled directly into Slack or email alerts for anyone to see without even having to go search for them.
Tesla insisting on unrecorded verbal communication is a shady practice only mirrored by con artists, HR hacks, and bloodsucking lawyers.
There should be alignment of interests between environmental groups and rural people who don't want their communities destroyed by wildfire. Neither of them want the forests burned down. Instead, these groups pursue a singleminded focus on attacking anything that doesn’t comply with their dogmatic pursuit of wilderness untouched by anything other than recreation.
Most ranchers who do brush control grazing get paid for doing so. This is the opposite of the federal policy today, where ranchers have to pay for grazing rights on BLM land. Not to mention the fact that some places we used to graze sheep on like Yosemite or Sequoia National Parks have a blanket ban on commercial grazing.
Instead, what we have is wildlife conservation groups killing bills to expand grazing in CA. https://mountainlion.org/2021/04/29/ab434-california-state-p...
Historical controlled burns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_use_of_fire_in...) worked because they happened frequently and kept fuel in check while encouraging trees that were resistant to or even dependent on low grade fires. Fuel loads are dramatically higher than historically however.
Now we've also got massive areas of forest dieback due to climate-driven bark beetle outbreaks. Trees that do survive burns but are stressed by them are more vulnerable to pests, just like drought stress. https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/topics/bark-beetles-and-climate... So controlled burns even done effectively may still result in unwanted tree dieback.
A much safer potential cure here would be a massive increase in targeted grazing on federal land to reduce understory fuel loads, but this is also a nonstarter politically in many areas especially in National Parks. We are still maintaining this myth of virgin wilderness untouched by the hand of man.
State and federal government simply isn't competent enough to handle this given the political realities in a democratic system. Basically what's going to happen is that the most vulnerable communities will get scorched out of existence, and we're just going to have to live with the impact of more wildfires until nature sorts itself out. Americans just can’t psychologically accept being told they don’t get to develop anywhere they want.
They mention the topic of the Gaza flotilla raid in the video. If you read the actual article on this topic, it's pretty balanced, and mentions in the introduction that Israel was condemned by the UN Human Rights Council and their use of force was called excessive and unreasonable. Hardly a Zionist propaganda piece.
You sound like someone who was pushing a particular point of view about politics, which is precisely the kind of edits that are set up for organ rejection given Wikipedia's strict stance on neutrality, sourcing, and the fact that politics are naturally contentious / prone to edit warring.
There are between 1.5 and 2 million anonymous edits to Wikipedia every month. https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-wikipedia-projects/contrib... A lot of them are in reality vandalism, spam, and garbage by passersby, but they aren't all reverted.
I would venture to guess that since stop signs, lane markings and traffic signals were all deployed after cars started killing people, there were a significant number of people annually run over by horse-drawn vehicles, thrown from horseback, or run over by pre-car vehicles like trolleys and trains. Urban streets looked something like this: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM24987
Betteridge's law of headlines says no.
Even extremely well-planned and progressive cities like Portland (which has been expanding light rail for 30 years straight) haven't budged above 15% commuting by public transportation. No city outside SF and NYC have meaningfully addressed this. https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/pu...
This is why electrification is so important. North American civilization is dependent on cars and trucking and will always be so when our countries are continental at scale.
Holmes is a textbook psychopath, i.e. "deficient emotional responses, lack of empathy, and poor behavioral controls, commonly resulting in persistent antisocial deviance and criminal behavior" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4321752/
Holmes, unlike most nonviolent corporate psychopaths, is only going to jail because she violated one of the only real cardinal rules of late stage capitalism, which is don’t intentionally defraud investors. She’s also one of the few psychopaths dumb enough to publicly and directly admit that she was maintaining a charade of a person who believes that other people and their emotions truly exist.
Sounds primeval, though I’m sure it’s actually something boring like a jet ski passing overhead.
The Wikimedia Foundation resists requests from foreign governments to unmask editors, but sometimes they’ve already publicly identified themselves or been discovered because of state surveillance / control of ISPs.
Governments using this tactic to silence the most active Wikipedia editors and create a chilling effect is a really serious threat to Wikipedia, and we need better technical tools for helping Wikipedians stay anonymous.
The biggest thing HN folks can do here is contribute (code or dollars) to projects like Tor. Unfortunately since Tor is really complex to use and the source of so much spam and abuse, it’s just not very effective today at protecting people from state actors.
Unfortunately as far as I can tell it only actually stops after the "remote connect" trial period ends one year after you buy a new vehicle that opts you in automatically. There are probably ways to physically disable the data collection modules for this, if you're comfortable tearing apart your car's dash. https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/2020-data-transmittal.63...
You can have serious acute injuries from running via physical accidents or mismanagement of hydration. You can also die driving to the market to buy toilet paper, but the risks in both cases are extremely manageable.
Life threatening or debilitating chronic health problems from running high volume are rare, and far outweighed by the overall health benefits of regular exercise. Most of the ideas that persist out there, like running being bad for your joints, are complete myths. https://www.health.harvard.edu/healthbeat/will-continuing-to...
The only thing to get screened for if you want to run marathons or more is a family history of heart defects, to avoid the very small possibility of sudden cardiac death, which is a risk with basically all intense exercise, including things like shoveling snow or other manual labor. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6070620/
In other words, people training for ultramarathons really are probably working harder than other people, even accounting for lifestyle and income disparities.
Bernd Heinrich is 83 and recently wrote a whole book (highly recommend) about running and aging, Racing the Clock. There's also the Bay Area legend Eldrith Gosney who is the same age and still kicking. https://ultrasignup.com/m_results_participant.aspx?fname=Eld...
Key takeaway here is you should never plan your life around the value of stock-based compensation. The story is also very specific to people who thought that stock comp was real enough that it was a sure bet they could buy homes in insanely expensive markets like the Bay Area, Seattle, etc.
Meanwhile, cargo bike sales are climbing steadily.
The viable solutions are 100% to encourage the kind of alternatives you listed to give people meaningful tools to decrease overall single family car use of any kind.