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I think the overall workforce participation rate paints the reality much better than unemployment numbers. The drop was the sharpest in the entire dataset going back to 1950 and wh…

The reason we got smart meters in Austin, TX is because they weren't even recording readings just guessing what that reading should be based on historical data. https://texasmonito…

> Minneapolis, which had 912 uniformed officers in May 2019, is now down to 699. 23% of officers leaving in only a year and a half. What kind of impact will this have in 3-5 years …

If AWS has a regional outage this service is so far down the list of services to recover/restore that it probably will be overlooked. Accept the increased risk for the cost savings…

As someone who lives in Leander, I would say Westlake is the affluent area of Austin and Leander is the up and coming suburban middle to upper middle class area. Leander ISD has so…

During high school we had had an exchange program with a German college track high school. My family hosted a student for a month and then they hosted me in Germany. I was shocked …

The reducing cross-AZ data transfer savings on one service resulted in a low 6 figure per year savings. Its something we overlooked during initial setup and now its something I che…

I plan to do the same in a couple years, my hometown is unaffordable, with tech like Starlink coming online and the pandemic making remote work more common I can foresee a subset o…

Talking with the person checking me into the hotel he mentioned he had heard to food was good at a restaurant across the street but mentioned he couldn't afford to eat there. There…

As someone who recently spent a couple days in Kanab, UT the collision course of rural natives with Californian expats has made me accelerate my plans to buy enough land to escape …

As an Austin Energy customer a large portion of the blame for this on their poor infrastructure configuration and the number of critical circuits.

Currently running a generator to run the wood stoves fan, its not ideal but not amazing.

This is essentially the crux of the problem, multiple friends/and coworkers are staying in islands of power that have been interrupt free due to proximity to Fire/Police/Hospitals …

Currently in ATX we haven't had power for over 24 hours, wood fireplace is saving the house from completely freezing but the whole city of Austin needs to evaluate how they setup t…

Not trying start an off topic thread but game shows seem to push for bizarre. I recall german game shows being on par with the clips I've seen from Japanese game shows.

> 64 are believed to be Dangerous Goods containers I'm curious what these actually contain? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_goods