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>Wind was one factor, but it did not suffer the largest outages of Texas's various electricity sources - someone in another comment shared a pretty good youtube video by Practical …

You mean the rest of the US that has been facing widespread threats of blackouts this summer? https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypnja/majority-of-us-power-... https://www.cnn.com/20…

The most recent issues for which the Texas electrical grid was in the news for, the near-blackouts earlier this month, were specifically because of unpredictably low wind speeds in…

It was, and is, a hugely meaningful factor. Sticking your head in the sand and pretending that it's a republican smear campaign doesn't help. Texas has more wind power generation t…

The big 4 accounting firms are also the big 4 consulting firms. Deloitte, PwC, EY, and KPMG all have both large accounting arms as well as massive consulting arms. There's also the…

I know that some consulting shops are sweat shops like you describe, but not all are. I worked for one of the major consulting Big4s and my experience couldn't be more different (e…

The large scale consulting firms collectively pull in hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue per year and they're mostly _okay_, you just don't hear about them because nobody w…

The point of this technology is that the 20 people behind cannot see the same thing you do. This isn't just "Jane is walking past, let's display Jane's information on the TV now". …

>The right to peaceful assembly is not conditional on legitimate purpose; same as the right to free expression. Yes it absolutely is. I have no idea why you think otherwise. The ri…

"Staying healthy" can be done with zero equipment and no gym membership. If you think otherwise, then your goal isn't to "stay healthy", your goal is to show off at gym bunnies. An…

>I also don’t want them to shut down gyms, or voting, or churches, or any other peaceful reason (dumb) people wish to assemble. You are attempting to equate assembly for the purpos…

I've worked for both a Big 4 as a tech consultant, as well as a FAANG. They both have their pros and cons. The first thing is that they really have two completely different culture…