Former intelligence analyst and trainer. Current Federal tech exec. Forever trying to merge the two.
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"INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY!"
You say that. But have you read the indictment?
The suggestion that Menendez resign isn't simply about the possibility that he committed a crime. It's about the (very, very strong!) possibility that HE'S A FOREIGN AGENT WHILE CHAIRING THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE.
What’s a digital tool or product that everyone but you seems to use?
My answer: Venmo
I appreciate that the work is very hard, but can anyone tell me why weather.gov continues to be a terrible product? The answer isn’t “because there are commercial sites where people can get the same information.” The home page has three “here’s how not to die” product features—this is public health education stuff that needs to be taught—and all of them are in tiny text on mobile.
Who is working to fix this? Do they need any support?
Remarkable. Bitcoin mining in Texas has an electrical load almost identical to NYC’s entire load.
https://social.platypush.tech/@blacklight/111029089229039798
@[email protected] This article from a few months ago was actually quite interesting: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-09/solar-power-rising-heat-and-bitcoin-are-wild-cards-for-texas-grid Long story short, Texas is the State with the highest energy produced via renewables (~40 GW of installed power), but it also has a baseline of ~5.3 GW (with estimated peaks of ~10 GW) of power required just by Bitcoin miners. Give renewable energy to an oil-digging sociopath cowboy, and they'll waste sun and wind to get even richer in the dumbest possible ways, while they keep digging oil. The Bloomberg article (which was published in March) actually made an almost prescient forecast. "Given a spike in energy demand due to an upcoming record-breaking summer, and given how much of the energy baseline of the State is sucked up by miners, will Bitcoin collapse the Texan grid?" The answer, a few months later, is yes - to the point that ERCOT had to pay the miners for turning off their servers, instead of suing them for literally stealing energy when everybody needs it.
Does your city really want to attract and keep families living in your downtown and urban places? REALLY?
Remember, there are 3 KEYS, in THIS ORDER:
1) ensure family-sized housing (2-3+ bedrooms);
2) build local daycare, schools & supports;
3) design the #publicrealm for kids.
Brent Toderian