- 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
- Of Course Instant Groceries Don’t Work: Nationally scaled, near-instant grocery delivery is a bad idea, and people keep trying to invent it anyway https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/10/instant-grocery-delivery-startup-issues/671927/ 14 comments technology
- How the Infrastructure Bill Will Help the West Manage Megafires: Fire authorities and researchers finally have cash “to radically increase the scale of the work we’re doing.” https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/11/infrastructure-bill-joe-biden-west-wildfires-management-firefighter-pay/ 9 comments politics
- We are building the Earth in Minecraft at a 1:1 scale! This is the Taj Mahal. We are working to conquer the Earth block by block. https://www.reddit.com/gallery/o63x0n 262 comments india
- The Census Scales Back A Critical Step: Checking Its Own Work https://www.npr.org/2020/08/29/905846761/the-census-scales-back-a-critical-step-checking-its-own-work 7 comments politics
- A 29-year-old mayor is giving his city's poorest residents $500 a month. He thinks his policy could work on a national scale. https://www.businessinsider.com/basic-income-stockton-could-it-work-nationally-2019-12 22 comments politics
- An entire nation just got hacked. In a country of just 7 million people (Bulgaria) , the scale of the hack means that just about every working adult has been affected. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/21/europe/bulgaria-hack-tax-intl/index.html 4 comments technology
- An entire nation just got hacked. In a country of just 7 million people (Bulgaria) , the scale of the hack means that just about every working adult has been affected. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/21/europe/bulgaria-hack-tax-intl/index.html 21 comments worldnews
- How does optical activity work at the atomic scale? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/9li88t/how_does_optical_activity_work_at_the_atomic_scale/ 6 comments askscience
- Distributed computing with message queues. Working on scaling. https://www.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/5ath17/distributed_computing_with_message_queues_working/ 6 comments csharp
- A new distributed search network...Needs some more peers to help handle the work load and scale the network. http://search.yacy.net/ 4 comments software
- I wrote a code for work that will convert measurements (in decimal format) on a 1" to 10" scale accurate to 1/32nd of an inch. Any input? http://blog.tynation.com/2011/06/just-code-for-work.html 11 comments learnprogramming
- Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands is an encyclopedia of every major European noble family (and most minor ones) from AD 500 to 1500. Even as a work in progress, its scale is staggering. http://fmg.ac/projects/medlands/contents.htm 8 comments history
- Something has changed for Modi. Perception management isn’t working anymore - The scale of the fresh Covid challenge is too big to be managed with BJP’s polemics and sophistry. https://theprint.in/opinion/politically-correct/something-has-changed-for-modi-perception-management-isnt-working-anymore/646560/ 111 comments india
- Until the people of the US protest on scales of that of Hong Kong, nothing will ever be done to tackle climate change, corruption, kleptocracy, housing prices, work hours and conditions etc... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48655634 17 comments politics
- How about a network wide Ethereum fundraising event for teams working on scaling? https://twitter.com/econoar/status/1075224578526371840?s=19 18 comments ethereum
- Edward Snowden’s Big Problem With Bitcoin Is Privacy, Not Scalability - “You cannot have a lifelong history of everyone’s purchases, all of the interactions be available to everyone and have that work out well at scale,” https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/edward-snowdens-big-problem-bitcoin-privacy-not-scalability/ 7 comments privacy
- Valve now has a full-scale, working 'Portal' turret http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/9/20/3363370/weta-workshop-valve-full-scale-working-portal-turret 3 comments technology
- NASA Space Shot: Endeavour at Work (JPEG Image, 3032x1986 pixels) - Scaled (17%) http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/217314main_iss016e032317_hires_full.jpg 30 comments science
- Micrometer-Scale Mechanical Switches Work at Just 50 Millivolts ( computing is last use for these, other uses better ) https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/devices/micrometerscale-mechanical-switches-work-at-just-50-millivolts 13 comments electronics
- Inequality amplifies effects of working hours on carbon emissions by increasing overall scale of consumption. The findings also suggest that policies aimed at reducing inequality while simultaneously reducing pressures for longer working hours are likely to be socially and ecologically beneficial. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214629621004734 11 comments science
- Shiba Inu Developers Working on Layer 2 Scaling Solution ‘Shibarium’ https://beincrypto.com/shiba-inu-developers-working-layer-2-scaling-solution-shibarium/ 18 comments cryptocurrency
- Astronomers simulate galaxy formation without dark matter and find it still works. The research bolsters a controversial claim that dark matter doesn't really exist, and is instead the result of the laws of gravity working differently on different scales. https://astronomy.com/news/2020/02/controversial-simulation-creates-galaxies-without-using-dark-matter 17 comments space
- "We are not robots" — Amazon workers stage large-scale protests across U.K., Europe: Labor activists across Europe use Black Friday to raise awareness about Amazon's working conditions, alleged abuses https://www.salon.com/2019/12/01/we-are-not-robots-amazon-workers-stage-large-scale-protests-across-u-k-europe/ 8 comments technology
- Charlie Lee now breaking his agreement with LTC miners: "I didn't agree to that. Just agreed to work on a scaling solution when blocks are half full." This is what will happen with segwit2x as well. https://twitter.com/SatoshiLite/status/883706423103729664 89 comments btc
- I want to scale an image in Java. It seems like ImageMagick on the command-line is the only approach that really works. Now, that can't really be true, can it? Or? http://code.google.com/p/tmphoto/source/browse/trunk/src/java/no/priv/garshol/topicmaps/tmphoto/images/JAIProcessor.java 16 comments java
- Smart working, dipendente scivola dalle scale durante il turno: «È infortunio sul lavoro». Risarcita di 20mila euro https://www.leggo.it/italia/cronache/infortunio_lavoro_smart_working_ultime_notizie_oggi_17_aprile_2021-5904962.html 145 comments italy
- Leclerc's pole position lap from Spa, brilliant camera work from the F1 TV crew, communicates the scale and speed so well. https://streamable.com/nnsej 15 comments formula1
- Scientists say they have developed the world's first vaccine against dengue fever seen to work in large-scale trials. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-28243587 38 comments worldnews
- Climate Envoy John Kerry Seeks Restart to US Emissions Talks With China | Diplomat points to global scale of the crisis and the difference the two countries can make by “working together.” https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31082022/climate-envoy-john-kerry-seeks-restart-to-us-emissions-talks-with-china/ 20 comments china
- Large scale space habitats, popularized by Princeton’s Gerard O’Neill, have been written off as science fiction for decades. But a new study is optimistic that advances in space infrastructure could make them a reality. "It’s certainly what SpaceX are working toward ... this genuinely is possible." https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/reaching-for-the-high-frontier 71 comments space
- "A dirty business: Immigrants clean schools, kindergartens, grocery stores and restaurants in Finland. Many companies exploit their workers with impunity. The scale of exploitation is wide. At worst cleaners work without pay and sleep on the worksite." https://www.hs.fi/sunnuntai/art-2000006562417.html 25 comments europe
- For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends – The experiment of a 'continuous week' was shift work, on a colossal scale. And it failed. https://www.history.com/news/soviet-union-stalin-weekend-labor-policy 37 comments europe
- Trump finally admits it: He’s weakening the postal service to sway elections. It should disgust every American that a U.S. president — to tip the scales toward his own re-election — would openly work to destroy elements enshrined in the Constitution: the promise of honest elections. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/13/21366689/postal-service-post-office-donald-trump-delays-funding-suntimes-editorial 1090 comments politics
- Physicists have discovered how to manipulate and control individual molecules. The new technique is the most sensitive way of controlling a chemical reaction on some of the smallest scales scientists can work - at the single molecule level. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/uob-smc090718.php 6 comments science
- The U.S. does not pay IT professionals enough money to prevent hacking-I know, I work for the U.S. government and it's sad know more than most of our IT professionals.Please see the pay scale and remember most employees start at a GS-7 and make their way up dictated by a time table, not performance. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/pdf/2016/rus.pdf 6 comments politics
- [Rodrigue] The Rams are also continuing to play out the Allen Robinson situation, after granting him permission to seek a trade. They'd work a sliding scale on taking on some salary correlating to any pick terms. If Robinson stays, Snead mentioned getting him more versatile opps earlier on. https://twitter.com/JourdanRodrigue/status/1640451684223815680?s=20 19 comments nfl
- For those wishing to lose weight and keep it off, here’s a simple strategy that works: step on a scale each day and track the results. A two-year study found that frequent self-weighing and tracking results on a chart were effective for both losing weight and keeping it off, especially for men. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150617134622.htm 97 comments science
- Documents from the archive of whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal wide-scale spying against Turkey by America's NSA and Britain's GCHQ. They also show the US worked closely with Ankara to battle Kurdish separatists http://www.spiegel.de/international/documents-show-nsa-and-gchq-spied-on-partner-turkey-a-989011.html 30 comments worldnews
- OMG SPACE aims to illustrate the scale and the grandeur of our solar system, as well as illustrate through the use of infographics our work in the exploration of our solar system with various spacecraft. http://www.omgspace.net/ 3 comments space
