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The most important theme of this story is the unbridled corruption that started with the landfill decades before it became a mall. The impact from this site affects the local community that government officials in Ohio could not care enough to represent (read as poor and minority). Then the corruption that allowed the mall project to go ahead. After all that has happened it is still not condemned and designated as a superfund site. Now developers still want to repurpose the site and the government officials in Ohio are not blocking this. Ohio, have you no pride?

Ignore the pedantic trolling over what was sinking: the land or the buildings. It is meaningless.

Funny thing about that.... I never pay any attention to the likes or dislikes or even the comments. I sample the video and if I like it I watch and if not move on to the next. Can't be even the leaset bit bothered by the social interaction noise. I'm surprised to here that others actually take meaning from it.

So I read through the comments more and many deal with quality of content - for example instructions that are flat out wrong. I viewed a video on how to change spark plugs in Honda 6 cylinder car. The content creator gave the instruction to put dielectric grease right on the tip of the spark plug. I found a comment that pointed out how utterly stupid this was. Yet the comment was pushed lower by many comments praising the contect creator for his helpful video. So I have to conclude that down votes are a usefull tool. Even if they are misused.

There exists volumes of research about the negative and positive employment effects of having a minimum wage. I am glad to see that finally a market mechanism (supply and demand) is the catalyst that is driving wages in general higher - including the minimum wage.

How on earth in any reasonable estimate of what it costs to solve this problem does he come up with a crazy wack-a-doodle estmate of 50 Million? Also if they just fixed the problem when notified (prior to releasing the story) and kept a low profile we would be less likely to be reading about it. What a moron!!!!

Also, if the owners of the web site had spent a couple of dollars on a Pen-Test they would have found this low hanging fruit long before it got into production.

I think the real insight here is the underutilized resource. By all measures the model works and it fills a gaping void. It does have its flaws - many individual contributors working hard for marginal returns while a fortunate few are reaping all the rewards (why does that sound familiar?). What did not work in this example is the company itself and people who were running it.

The content has been taken down.

Is Palantir the new Cyberdyne? .... and Foundry is Skynet?

I read the posting "How doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us, but it should be" and it reminded me of a RadioLab podcast I listened to on the radio a couple of months ago while I was driving around one Saturday afternoon. Being in my sixties it was very impactful as I am facing the reality of my mortality. Statistically speaking my day will com sooner and not later. The pod cast was actually recorded in 2013. It includes a segment where they interview Ken Murray the author above. It is a very illuminating story. The medical profession knows what the rest of us don't. Everyone should listen to this no matter your age. Everyone should face this question because you are either old and facing this in your life or you have parents or grand parents and you should all look deep inside and be prepared.

Seriously?

Disruption:

"One major implication of NASA's $2.89 billion award to SpaceX in April for the Human Landing System is that the contract provided significant funding for the Starship rocket and its Super Heavy booster. This advanced launch system will directly compete with NASA's Space Launch System rocket, which is built by traditional space contractors and provides thousands of jobs in all 50 states. If Starship works, which seems increasingly likely, it will launch more payload than the SLS booster, for substantially less money, all while being reusable. In short, it should be superior to NASA's SLS rocket in every conceivable way, except politically."

I'm not sure what all this pedantic nonsense is regarding the grand canyon and flooding. But I can tell you from personal experience that this indeed works beautifully well. And the more progress you accumulate, the more velocity you experience. It is a virtuous cycle.

There is a common theme in most of these stories: UPS. It would be interesting to know the annual dollar value of "loss" (read as theft) that occurs at the hands of Brown Truck Pirates.

>“[Humans] may be descended from ancestors who were better at the concealment of their true motives. It is not enough to conceal them from others — to be really convincing, you also have to conceal them from yourself.”

Too often do I find myself in leadership roles that I don't want and am not happy about - simply because I find it hard to resist the competitive drive to be elevated.

It never works out.

There is no mention of the companies involved. That would be almost impossible to track because those companies no longer exist and their operations ceased a long time ago as they have been bought and sold many times. https://www.icis.com/explore/resources/news/2000/12/20/12916...

Grantham is always brilliant, but this interview is landmark. Markets for assets have become unhinged. He articulates the dynamics with perfect clarity.

Analyzing the impact of tree planting is good to mitigate side effects... but it is interesting that western industrialized society at the same time creates incentives for bio-mass energy plants which have to mow down great swaths of standing forests in order to have enough fuel to operate.

With such rampant deforestation of important global carbon sinks, caused by agriculture and industry, reforesting programs are an important component to counterbalance the impact of western agriculteral and industrial impacts.

See Michael Moore documentary: Questions the true cost/benefit of different green energy technologies and programs.

Perfect explanation. This is an example of market contango where the spot price is actually below the futures price completely due to the weather event which has triggered a collapse in demand on the grid. And because of the nature of power generation, for many suppliers, it is actually less costly to remain running and sell at a loss than to shut down.

The implications of this are endless. But the application of open source technologies to enable the development of this project at the speed of light. Brilliant!!!! Absolutely brilliant!!!! It is also a testament to how capable these technology have become in such and amazingly short period of time. The rapid pace of advancement is exponential. Be afraid... be very afraid. ;)

It probably depends on the p-value.

Start with defining Vision, Goals, Objectives

Also you need a wall onto which you can cast an Ontology with Nodes and Edges. Then deep dive research into relevant topics while simultaneously refining your VGO. Every foray into a topic should yield additional nodes and edges to your Ontology.

Continuously check and adjust. Refactor and pivot when new knowledge and data points in a new direction.

Search on "Green Hydrogen" yields an impressive list of articles on this subject. The science and economics do not appear to weigh substantially in favor of hydrogen as fuel. This article, amongst others, argues an interesting opposing view: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-hydrogen-hoa...

I can't really say it better than the author herself: "It seems scarcely credible that the secrecy on such a high-security meeting could have sat upon such a shaky foundation without for example some form of two-factor authentication using the kind of hardware available only to governments."

I find that using black electrical tape works just fine and fits within the space between the display and the keyboard without any problems at all.

I would really benefit from this product. I'm working across three computers and I have book marks all over the place. A central repository that enhances searching and categorization would be awsome.

Perhaps your position might be better understood if you shared your own story about a project that you have invested so much time and energy creating and building. You may have tread a different path when confronted with such obstacles. The community would be enlightened by your experience.

Here is the link to they study.

https://moniotrlab.ccis.neu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/r...

The findings are multi-layered and complex. But it is clear that some products/devices actively share data about consumer behavior to 3rd parties for analytics. It is part of the product design (and revenue stream). TVs appear to be worst offenders. Most consumers of TVs don't have the wear-with-all to understand the impact to their privacy and make effect product choices based on that criteria. Much less the motivation: Consumers want the latest technology at the best price.

Brilliant!!! Absolutely brilliant!!! So much detail and functionality. Recognition to James Yoder for this amazing product!! But also consider what this represents: From 1957 to now... how much our world has changed.

@aurizon. That's a very intresting idea. My thought on this was to use data from opioid overdoses, opioid deaths, opioid arrests to identify goegraphic clusters. Then isolate USPS data for parcel delivery from China to an address that lies within the circumference of the geographic clusters. Filter on optimizing factors and features - higher volumes and occupants of those addresses that are known to be associated to illegal drugs (prior arrests etc.). Then investigate those packages.

I agree with both of you (@MollyR, @joeblow9999). I thought the most compelling theme from the whole presentation was the concept of "Public Pedagogy" and the almost Kafkaesque way that the big media companies erase women superheroes from movie merchandising. Lets accept the premise that the motivation is to protect their investment in the manufactured identities created in genres targeted towards girls. All these characters are created so that we can identify with with them... its that affinity that makes us want to buy merchandise. Making a good movie dammit is probably not the priority (but it helps).

Could not have stated it better!!