MoosePirate

> In the event of a power outage, one provider could only give us 30 seconds of emergency power—versus five minutes with a standard UPS setup—because they used an inertia wheel.

If a generator fails to start in 30 seconds, that almost always means it will also not start within 5 minutes.

Does dropbox have automation that attempts to gracefully shut down systems if a generator fails to start? Are systems then kept down until the battery UPS system is fully recharged? If not, the difference between 30 seconds and 5 minutes doesn’t seem important.

This is why the only real solution is to not have total local control of zoning.

Given the choice, many will vote to restrict what other people around them can do with their property to benefit their own interests - financial, quality of life, etc. While externalizing the costs (higher housing costs, pollution, etc) across a large number of people who aren't allowed a vote. Hoping people will do otherwise isn't going to get results.

But given that the zoning impacts have just as big an impact on the low-paid worker who has to commute hours to the local hospital to work, it is entirely reasonable to allow those impacted parties a vote by moving zoning away from total local control up to a larger level. Recent legislative steps in CA are a move in the right direction, but need to go much farther to create more meaningful changes.

Basically, if you want a quiet neighborhood with large plots of land, you should be required to bear the full cost of that, rather than voting to externalize the majority of those costs across the larger population.

Disincentivize the rent-seeking investors.

Incentivize the investors creating and selling something of value.

Yes, this is what NIMBY means. "I am ok with more housing, just not by me."

The specifics will vary in every case, but in every case it will be some argument on why THIS is not the right place to build more housing. For every possible value of this. Areas that don't have extremely local control over zoning do a better job of combatting this.

How about P(get covid, infect others, they die)? Does that factor in to your calculations?

Yes, the point is that Republicans violated the principles you are laying out here under the exact same situation. So violating this principle again in the exact same way would be the only non-hypocritical way to handle this situation.

IPMI is bad. No argument.

Having the ability to remotely reboot servers is good, even in a “cattle” environment. Being able to pull temperature sensor data from servers is useful in a data center environment. Having an out of band console available can be helpful during incidents and outages, or with remote sites where there’s no tech that will be there. BMCs are useful in a large scale environment.

How are you rebooting your cattle though if not via the BMC?

But you could have two of them in the same area.

Zillow has a huge amount of data they publish at the Zip, City, County, State levels: http://www.zillow.com/research/data/

I have high hopes for this area. There are a huge amount of ad-hoc problems that are today solved most easily by throwing together an Excel file, even for a very competent programmer. There is currently no faster way to manipulate and do small scale programming on data. For decision analysis and modeling, you go straight from excel to a full-blown program, without any other compelling options.

A product with some interesting ideas in this area is Calca: http://calca.io/

Awesome product, I just bought it for my iPhone. Given that it's C# already, any plans for a windows version? I often do these types of calculations in excel at work, but this would be so handy.

Todoist (http://todoist.com/) is flexible, and can do both of those. They've got native apps for ios and android, and good integration with gmail. It has good support for recurring dates, subtasks, and some other niceities, but is also good as a basic list keeper.