#Scale

David Brunelle

davidbrunelle

I see that we're debating the value of "front-end development" again.Building user interfaces, on any platform, is hard work! Doing it well requires specialization.Undervaluing these skills results in frustrating experiences,

Katie Moussouris (she/her) is getting vaccinated

k8em0

So many illusions of control in these articles written about #SolarWindsNo regulation is going to stop this from happening.No new requirements for certifications & attestations of security will make us

J.

PresentWitness_

Inverted Signals In the inverted world, markets crash upwards. People have more sex and less children. They go to school longer and learn less. Police protect the criminals, etc. But

John Allspaw

allspaw

An excellent overview of @LauraMDMaguire's dissertation ("Controlling the Costs of Coordination in Large-scale Distributed Software Systems") is on the Resilience Engineering Association's site. Will give the url after som

Julie Fredrickson

AlmostMedia

Humans living in linear scale are always surprised by the BOOM. @EpsilonTheory is right. If America looks like the UK, in 30-45 days Covid shit gets too bad to ignore.https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-ireland-event-2/?utm_campaign=website&a

Trinh

Trinhnomics

Okay, we start today w/ US Covid-19 latest confirmed, deaths, ratios (deaths/confirmed & deaths/confirmed a week ago) & growth of deaths & confirmed.Latest Covid-19 7-day daily average increase of cases

Sridhar Vembu

svembu

1/ One of the psychological and spiritual effects of concentration of talent (which is what large scale urbanization ultimately is about) is the "rat race". Large urban areas don't give

SouthernValue

SouthernValue95

Bull case for branded hotels w/ successful loyalty programs ( $mar, $hlt )Airbnb pressures RevPAR at low end, esp. unbranded hotels. These units are dependent on OTAs to drive traffic,

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

About the sales for Bolton's book: Not buying his book might hurt Bolton's pride, and will hurt the publisher, but probably not Bolton.Here is how book contracts work. (Spoiler: It's

Timothy B. Lee

binarybits

There's an under-appreciated interaction between macroeconomics and manufacturing economics when it comes to renewable energy policy. A basic factor driving progress in renewable energy is the learning rate: the more

Seb Abecasis | Not the BBC

sebabecasis

Pith: Why Machiavelli wrote the Prince The term Machiavellian is now euphemistic for distasteful, manipulative behaviour, but according to James Burnham, author of the Machiavellians, Machiavelli was merely a pragmatist

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

ewrigleyfield

I asked how many whites would have to die of COVID, through all direct and indirect pathways, for white mortality in 2020 to rise to the best level that Black

beka valentine

beka_valentine

many people feel at a lost for what they can do to make the world better. politics seems like an uphill battle, unions seem like an uphill battle, etc etc

Eleanor Saitta

Dymaxion

As technology is deployed at scale and becomes infrastructure, its governance ceases to be engineering or design and becomes (geo)politics. There are no large technology companies, only non-state actors currently

Yet Another Columnist

Sime0nStylites

Some quick thoughts on why businesses (even some large businesses) are ill-prepared for Brexit (NB you can file this in the ‘visible from space’ category). Firstly, let’s consider the scale

Sandeep Manudhane

sandeep_PT

The Big QuestionThe biggest, and perhaps the only, problem of modern India is not enough good JOBS.INADEQUATE NUMBER OF HIGH PAYING FORMAL SECTOR JOBS.This is pushing youth talent into unemployment

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