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Speaking from the standpoint of a user: I consider my attention a scarce resource that needs defending. To the extent a platform has the same assumption, its interests are aligned …

> Over fifteen years the channel has been rebuilt around one assumption: the receiver's attention is a scarce resource the platform is obliged to defend. … As a sender you are on t…

Straw manning? One of the earliest critiques of central planning was its inability to learn and respond to unforeseen complexity in the real world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ec…

Funny to see “rationing” used to describe bidding , instead of the clear rationing approach used first: each food bank got an allocation of all foods based on population served. Ju…

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One of them is interested. What’s the best way to contact you?

This is fun to see. Some of my family are Division 10 contractors: their GCs love them because they spot design coordination and code issues early and keep the project from getting…

I typically see “bodged” used more like “hacked”: fixed/made to work in a clumsy way, jury-rigged. So I’d botch my attempt to build a shelf by cutting a board too short; I’d then b…

Berkshire East is working on a micro pumped storage facility. Interestingly enough they’re already net producers of electricity. https://berkshireeast.com/the-resort/100-renewable-…

What does the iPhone 8 have to do with this discussion? The linked piece specifically refers to iPhone 6S and iOS 15.8.

Some smoothly disingenuous rhetoric going on there. WRT FaceTime - turns out video calling had patent encumbrances. Apple was sued for massive amounts as soon as they rolled out Fa…

I tend to read Harrison Bergeron as cautionary tale, not inspiration… https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Berge...

For anyone interested in ending CAF abuses: Institute for Justice has been doing strong work for years. They help victims of CAF recover seized assets while setting judicial preced…

> The people in power have F-35s. What is your collection of (admittedly, unnecessarily powerful) guns going to do against that? Military inventory, while powerful, isn't the end-a…

Left unexamined: how long ago and why did employers decide that a 4-year degree was the minimum qualification for general employment? And why should someone without a degree be exc…

Saw plenty of leaf blower usage in Frankfurt, FWIW. So maybe some areas/cultures are just more fastidious about leaves than others?

One whole section of the keynote was dedicated to how HomeKit is being subsumed by Matter, a standard all of the major home automation companies are collaborating on.

Similar experience here. If I'm ever on trial, I'd be happy for the people I sat with to be my jury.

A 20% reduction would result in ~£800k/yr.

Even more effective: drain water heat recovery, preheating the incoming water with the outgoing waste heat. Quick overview from one manufacturer here: https://renewability.com

1Password checks all these boxes (including nice-to-haves). Longtime satisfied user here.

> We also have reports of systematic hospizalization where ambulant treatment would be possible and recommended. Intubations which aren't required and actually harmful and traumati…

> "I was in Texas during 9/11 and they were firebombing all the hispanic people's cars" That's odd, I was living in rural TX when 9/11 and don't recall anything happening like that…

It's hard for 'the market' to solve political problems.

The argument of the YIMBY/"fix zoning" team is that our current regulatory environment restricts what the market is allowed to provide. Based on what I've witnessed in my NEC metro…