nic_wilson

The EPA recommends home owners mitigate with radon levels of 4 pCi/L and above, and the EPA recommends home owners mitigate ”consider” mitigation at levels 2-4. Often you will see people post radon results in the 10+ or even 50+ range, which may lead you to think 4 pCi/L is not too bad, but in fact exposure to that level is the equivalent of 8 cigarettes a day or 200 chest X-rays/year.

Or participate in collective bargaining!

It may have already been noted elsewhere but it seems important to note that the author was (is?) the CTO of private blockchain start up and choosing to not disclose this in any of his crypto criticism seems very dishonest

https://twitter.com/dystopiabreaker/status/14701269278180679...

It’s been a over a decade since I read any Marx but I thought alienation of labor was about the worker being alienated from the value of their labor (e.g. I get paid $10/hr to produce widgets that the employers sells for 10x the input costs and I receive none of that value) - I don’t think it was about the emotional connection the laborer had to the (non-economic) value of what was produced.

If you don’t mind sharing, I’d be curious what specific traditions you practice?

I’ve been a bike commuter in Minneapolis for almost two decades at this point. It’s much better than it was. In the early 2000s I’d say most cars were not used to or expecting to share the streets with other forms of transportation. Back then it was not uncommon to have motorists hurl insults or trash at you from their window. Today it’s not that difficult to route your commute to most places entirely on bike specific infrastructure. On the other hand, over the last five years and especially since the pandemic I’ve noticed a huge increase in distracted drivers who are driving dangerously and unpredictably. All this is to say, a lot of people have done a lot of hard work which has made this a better place to live and bike in, but there is still a long way to go.

I have biked year round in Minnesota for my commute since I was a child, not dead yet decades later.

Is this a fifth season reference?

We are seeing issues with requests to Auth0, which I believe is hosted on AWS and has historically gone down when AWS has had issues

My almamater, Grinnell College, has a still active social network Grinnell Plans, which extended from .plan usage for social networking on the college's Vax computer system.

https://www.grinnellplans.com/documents/faq.html

I remember reading about Crytpo Kitties in the NYT in 2018. How much are Crypto kitties worth today? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/style/cryptokitty-auction...

This has been going on for over two hours with no update from Google aside from the single sentence "We are experiencing an issue with Cloud SQL" in the status dashboard.