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Coordinated opposition campaigns against misinformed and dangerous legislation has been effective in stopping bad laws [1]. After a website blackout, including a Wikipedia shutdown…

There were proposals to do this, using encrypted containers of data that would let users authorize apps to use just the data they needed, but the idea got tied to Web3, which got s…

Unfortunately the legislation that exists requires surveillance tech be installed on new vehicles. https://www.gadgetreview.com/federal-surveillance-tech-becom...

And let’s not forget: fertilizer. About half the world’s population is fed with foods produced from the Haber-Bosch process, which makes nitrogen fertilizer [1]. This relies on hyd…

Wabi-sabi.

Is that the full dataset? “The output constitutes many terabytes of data and requires a high-performance computing system to run,” co-author Pawlok Dass, a SICCS research associate…

Ah! But I want you to own it. If you say it first... you own it. And I do not have to get you to agree to it.

Padding ties up capital, it reduces credibility, it delays deployment, it adds costs through delay. It is bad for organizations. However, it is a great solution if you're a worker …

As a project manager, it sounds like you're making excuses. Just give me a number, trust your gut! We have a fundamental failure to communicate, what we're doing. The game project …

Every company that uses SAFe agile has quarterly, or bi-quarterly, releases [1]. [1] https://www.servicenow.com/docs/bundle/yokohama-it-business-...

This is very fascinating and a photogenic demonstration of what is possible via gene editing. My hope is that this research leads to cures of genetic diseases that have previously …

We’re going to lose economic growth because of climate change, “Staying under the 2C threshold could limit average regional income loss to 20 percent compared to 60 percent" [1]. W…

The build a duplicate distribution grid is effectively what Ann Arbor is doing with its Sustainable Energy Utility, approved by voters in November [1]. [1] https://www.a2gov.org/su…

The barge company in question is Koch Industries (yes, that Koch Industries). Starting in 1982 they leveraged Deming’s ideas, realized 30% profits, and pushed it far enough to ente…

This reminds me of a thread posted on HN last week. Someone used LLMs to write cover letters and post on job sites for them. He was able to spam out hundreds of job apps [1]. To me…

The source of the conflict is summed up here. > The central thread here is collective action by principled people who will use copyleft primarily as a tool for rights of users and …

I’ve engaged National, state, and, local officials on climate change. I’ve influenced my congressional representative to co-sponsor legislation, and I’ve influenced my city council…

Responsibility needs to be taken on the hiring side. Some companies post jobs with no intent to hire [1]. 70% of hiring managers surveyed say this is a morally acceptable, 45% of h…

> The irony? I got a job offer before I even finished building it. More on that later Nothing succeeds like success. If you are on n attempt, and you are geared up for what you wil…

I mean, it’s not like we’ve ever seen this with the agile movement /s. I’ve gone through “agile transitions” in government contracting, at a high level it starts out with a high co…

This is very well said and succinctly summarizes my frustrations with QA. My experience has been that non-technical staff in technical organizations create meetings to justify thei…

I have personal experience with this in my professional career. Before Christmas break I had a big change, and there was fear. My org responded by increasing testing (regression te…

This is PM propaganda. Deadlines help people is a huge double speak management fallacy. It may not be wrong in some contexts, but it’s very far from what I would call generally app…