This is a sad day for me. The obscurity of git.io, along with its nested obscurity of the ability to create vanity links, let me grab https://git.io/8. It looks like that'll go away one day, I wonder what will become of the domain itself; it's certainly a six figure property.
I remember there being a form to create a URL (which would get you a random git.io/xxx) but picking your short URL had to go through an API. At least that's how I created mine.
I recently bought a new Prius. Toyota even has bolt holes to allow easy installation of a "cat shield", and could install a nice steel plate there with minimal additional cost, but instead it was on me to buy and install an aftermarket product. Maybe it's a question of liability?
This is a little pessimistic.[1] As a percentage, few people are expected to die, and modern buildings are unlikely to collapse. At least in the Puget Sound region, buildings codes have been seismically sound for several decades, and old buildings and infrastructure have gradually been retrofitted[2]. There is _already_ preparation being made with the aforementioned programs, and notably the Cascadia Rising simulation excercise carried out between the Washington and Oregon governments and FEMA.[3]
This will be a huge disaster, but our government and institutions are not apathetic to it.
Does the Pugent Sound have anything like the Tualatin Basin?
Long ago a giant flood from the columbia river gorge filled a large basalt valley with hundreds of feet of clay silt. Today there are many hundreds of thousands of people living and working on top of the clay silt, including the entirety of Nike world headquarters and the majority of Intel's fabs.
When the earthquake hits, the entire basin is predicted to liquify, just like this:
I noticed this as well visiting several years ago. For instance, even though the process for hotel check-in and most other services was automated with these fancy kiosks, they still had two people behind the desk in case you needed help.
In the west, humans are becoming less employable as they're displaced by automation--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU is a good video if you haven't seen it, and it's from before AI/ML took off! Japan seems to have mitigated it by making automation an addition, instead of a replacement, in many cases. It's certainly not the efficient, capitalist thing to do, but maybe it's the better thing to do.
Thank you. I must say that this is the ONLY white paper I managed to understand, ever. Very concise. Kudos to the authors. I wish we had more like this.
Recently sequences of of the COVID vaccines were released[1]. It's amazing to me how such a short sequence of data will make such an impact on the world.
I had the idea to print a couple posters for the occasion, so I made this tool. I linked a redbubble where I uploaded a couple of my favorite designs, but of course you're free to build your own with the tool and print them however you'd like.
