I’m not expecting Chrome to because it already had virtually unlimited resources devoted to it. On the other side I’m not expecting my local water district’s to any time soon because the people in charge don’t care even if it was significantly cheaper to improve.

But in the middle is something like GEICO and that’s where I expect improvements if this thing is real.

It’s great, right? But you look at what your team has actually delivered since—-and it’s just not that much more than last year.

I think that’s where a lot of us are at the micro and macro level. It seems really great from the inside and outside but we are still waiting to see the dramatic change in actual concrete software output.

If you bought at exactly the right second of the crash, houses were where they were at the peak of the late 80s bubble.

Strongly doubt the xennials will be as rich in twenty five years as 70 year olds are now.

That’s an incredibly new, and probably temporary, phenomenon.

Across the vast majority of space-time the non-working elderly are poorer than their still working children and rely on them.

As late as the Greatest Generation senior discounts weren’t a sick joke.

Alfalfa is the cleanest case of a crop that would not be planted nearly as much if western water law (prior appropriation) wasn’t so colossally stupid.

This article could have been about shipping alfalfa to the Middle East and Asia, but instead it was about this.

Water use policy is about agriculture, agriculture, and also agricultural. Everything else is a distraction.

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Google consumes around three times as much water indirectly as directly, according to a paper published earlier this year by Alex de Vries-Gao, a researcher at the Netherlands-based university VU Amsterdam.

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My take: they should report this in acre-feet instead of gallons, and then compare it to a crop, alfalfa for example.

My back of the envelope says even at the larger number Google is using the enough water to grow about 23,000 acres of alfalfa. That would produce about 138,000 tons which would sell for about $34 million.

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There should be at least one class, probably more, that work exactly like that.

That’s where the industry is moving. Yes, get the fundamentals too, but don’t omit teaching what graduates will actually be doing out of some misplaced sense of purity.

We can’t even agree on what’s wrong with it. We aren’t going to be able to fix it.

Different neighborhoods, work from home, private transportation to work, or—admittedly to a lesser degree—AirPod insulation.

If we were really all this together quality of life in our cities would be taken far more seriously.

You should defend Israel and its actions directly on the merits. Why is that so difficult?