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- Rare things become common at scale (2014) https://longform.asmartbear.com/scale-rare/ 47 comments
- Doing Things That Scale https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2020/01/17/doing-things-that-scale/ 8 comments
- Do Things That Don’t Scale (2013) http://paulgraham.com/ds.html 37 comments
- Things I wish we had known about scaling http://martin.kleppmann.com/2014/03/26/six-things-about-scaling.html 4 comments
- ‘I’ve seen things no one should go through’: the overwhelming scale of loss in Brazil’s floods https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/24/brazil-floods?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other 14 comments environment
- ‘I’ve seen things no one should go through’: the overwhelming scale of loss in Brazil’s floods https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/24/brazil-floods?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other 2 comments climate
- "Do things that don't scale" Practical examples from real founders https://www.foundersecrets.io/ 17 comments startups
- [Evan Lazar] Here's #Patriots head coach Bill Belichick's 300-plus word answer on how the Pats' draft grade scale works. The gist is that they use a combination of letters, numbers, and colors that signify different things. They don't rank 1, 2, 3 or give a guy an "85" grade. https://twitter.com/ezlazar/status/1388354445596057602?s=20 78 comments nfl
- How do we know what the magnitude of earthquakes was before the Richter scale was a thing? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/j2f7g9/how_do_we_know_what_the_magnitude_of_earthquakes/ 146 comments askscience
- Doing things that scale - Tobias Bernard https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2020/01/17/doing-things-that-scale/ 44 comments linux
- Sensex Jumps Over 250 Points As Markets Scale New All-Time Highs: 10 Things To Know https://www.ndtv.com/business/bse-sensex-today-live-share-market-updates-sensex-nifty-rise-in-early-trade-infosys-shares-in-focus-2162982 6 comments india
- Why do certain things like gravity, electric force, and other intensities scale inversely to distance squared instead of cubed? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/adxyuj/why_do_certain_things_like_gravity_electric_force/ 6 comments askscience
- Did you know that before the scaling debate got really ugly there was one thing the /r/bitcoin community had a strong consensus on? https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3h5f90/these_mods_need_to_be_changed_upvote_if_you_agree/ 48 comments btc
- The downside of “Do things that don’t scale” https://medium.com/into-the-forest/why-investing-time-on-our-bootstrap-admin-panel-was-not-a-good-idea-da30cb2bae18 12 comments node
- Erik Voorhees: "Changing Bitcoin's proof-of-work to prevent miners from mining is the most absurd and reckless thing I've heard in the scaling debate." https://twitter.com/erikvoorhees/status/843832284797173760 170 comments btc
- Worried about making a "small" game... do I need to scale things up? https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/5y0sqs/worried_about_making_a_small_game_do_i_need_to/ 38 comments gamedev
- I have a thing for finding big trees (bike for scale) https://i.reddituploads.com/af53f631b6cc4caf8cc58ea0e006ada6?fit=max&h=1536&w=1536&s=454daddb7de52fcb4e7075f643bd0d43 3 comments bicycling
- What are your favorite examples of "Doing Things That Don't Scale?" http://www.kickofflabs.com 14 comments startups
- Climate Change Needs the Politics of the Impossible - The powerful thing about this example is its scale: the global economy of the British Empire was nearly as entwined with slavery as ours is with the fossil-fuel economy. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/06/climate-change-needs-the-politics-of-the-impossible.html 21 comments science
- Fox News Dismisses Government Shutdown: "Worst thing that happens is some museums close." --- In reality: hundreds of thousands of government employees could face furloughs while checks to disabled veterans could be scaled back. http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/10/01/fox-greets-first-day-of-health-care-exchanges-w/196197 198 comments politics
- Do Things that Don't Scale http://paulgraham.com/ds.html 4 comments sysadmin
- I made a thing that plays musical scales using the Web Audio API http://brandly.github.io/scales/ 8 comments javascript
- It's one thing to read about or see different images of the galaxies around ours but I never could grasp the scale of it until I watched this mind blowing animation.. http://www.wimp.com/galaxiesanimation/ 19 comments science
- The scale of the universe - putting things into perspective http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347 541 comments science
- 7 things one can do to scale up a web application http://sunilarora.org/5-quick-things-one-can-do-to-scale-up-a-web-a 72 comments programming
- Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way http://axonflux.com/building-and-scaling-a-startup 3 comments ruby
- Scientists have isolated and harnessed that rarest of things – an organic blue food coloring found in nature – and figured out a way to produce it at scale. For the first time blue and other-colored foods may not have to rely upon synthetic dyes to give them their vibrant hue. https://www.sciencealert.com/newly-isolated-blue-found-in-nature-could-mean-an-end-to-synthetic-food-colorings 301 comments science
- “Gatsby seamlessly scales from basic React usage to complex React patterns ... It takes all the hard things away and offers you a playground to learn React” https://www.lekoarts.de/en/blog/how-gatsby-scales-with-your-expertise-and-scope 47 comments reactjs
- SPVN - Scale the Things We Know How to Scale https://speakerdeck.com/dgenr8/spvn?slide=15 14 comments btc
- Why Apple Is Losing Its Aura - "Jobs had a business strategy that deliberately limited scale in favor of Aura — great engagement, beautiful things, access to tools and content that let you create your own identity." Tim Cook's Apple is all about scale. The thrill is gone http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671716/why-apple-is-losing-its-aura 18 comments business
- The Scale of the Universe 2 - the biggest and smallest things we can see in the universe! http://www.htwins.net/scale2/ 4 comments science
- Obama's Drug War - One thing is clear: Obama is in no hurry to scale it back to any significant degree, much less end it. The drug war is now too deeply rooted in our nation's political and economic structure to be cast aside. http://www.thenation.com/article/156997/obamas-drug-war 29 comments politics
- Deonna Purrazzo on defending herself against body shaming: "That’s the unfortunate beauty of the internet is when people come for you for such silly things. What I said, I mean, I feel in my heart and soul. I’m so much more than what my body looks like. I’m so much more than a number on the scale.” https://www.sescoops.com/news/aew/deonna-purrazzo-opens-up-about-standing-up-to-body-shaming/ 96 comments squaredcircle
- Comparing Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields to Baker Mayfield and Joe Burrow on a sure-thing scale: NFL Young QB rankings, Week 8 https://www.cleveland.com/browns/2020/10/comparing-trevor-lawrence-and-justin-fields-to-baker-mayfield-and-joe-burrow-on-a-sure-thing-scale-nfl-young-qb-rankings-week-8.html 34 comments nfl
- Sir David Attenborough says it’s ‘too late’ to reverse climate change | 11-year-old had written in to ask what the worst thing to happen in his life would be ‘if we don’t tackle climate change’. Sir David replied: ‘I think civil unrest on a great scale, and mass migration on a great scale." https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/30/sir-david-attenborough-says-late-reverse-climate-change-11244918/ 4109 comments worldnews
- "What the Friedman paper shows, is that under conventional assumptions, the projected impact of Senator Sanders' proposals stems from their scale and ambition. When you dare to do big things, big results should be expected." http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/responsetocea.pdf 7 comments politics
- Bush Used the IRS, FBI, CIA and Secret Service to Go After Opponents - And here’s the even more incredible thing: the Bush cabal didn’t just use the IRS for its political hackery – it mounted a full-scale government-wide assault on its enemies, marshaling disparate agencies in its smear efforts. http://www.alternet.org/bush-used-irs-fbi-cia-and-secret-service-go-after-opponents-where-was-fox-and-gop-outrage?utm_source=feedly&paging=off 29 comments politics
- [Strang] Someone came forward with critical new information on [a Chicago-area youth hockey coach sexual abuse case] this week. The thing that tipped the scales for them? Kyle Beach’s interview. Just another example of the tangible impact [Beach] has had on others in hockey community and beyond. https://twitter.com/KatieJStrang/status/1454866122126278657 91 comments hockey
- Taipei can't talk peace with a gun held to its head If China wants the United States to stop selling arms to Taipei, the best thing it can do is scale down its military threat to the island http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/taipei-cant-talk-peace-with-a-gun-held-to-its-head/article1344356/ 24 comments worldnews
- the decision on whether to confirm Benjamin for surgeon general should be about one thing only: her qualifications. Not the number that pops up when she steps on the scale. To make this about anything else is sexist and size-ist http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-can-people-stop-talking-about-regina-benjamins-weight-now/ 3 comments politics