Who sold during the run up? If none it's a mistake. If some insider did, it's definitely a scam.

Maybe using the cloud native databases or serverless would work better and cost less overall than IaaS and your IT staff still running 'classic' databases and webservers.

This may be true, but it is:
a) Expensive to do that transition work
b) Doesn't necessarily improve the product you are offering to your clients (ie that work may be better invested elsewhere)
c) Further locks you into Cloud

Sticking with "lift and shift" and using cloud versions of "commodity" services (eg RDS for Postgres, or Elasticache for Redis) at least means you can lift and shift away again relatively easily if it makes sense. If you buy into more "cloud first" technologies that becomes harder. If the commodity services (where they have more competition) aren't cheap enough, are the services where they have more lock-in going to be?

I have heard of it most often with cornfield subdivisions in older towns becoming exurbs/suburbs: before the house is built the land is technically still a farm and the owner can drill a well, but after the house it built it is a residential property that is served by city water. But there are a lot of weird variations on that kind of thing.

I have had a number of coworkers in different real estate regulation jurisdictions fall into a trap with ground coupled heat pumps: in many jurisdictions a ground-coupled heat pump is classified as a well, and those jurisdictions had regulations saying that in residential areas wells can only be installed on unimproved land. Once the foundation is poured it is no longer unimproved. Check with your builder and building code office to determine if you need to drill the hole first before other construction starts.

One can fill 100 ton railroad cars with sand/rock, move them up hill in summers and store them up in the plateau. Then roll them down in winter... Did some back of the envelope calc. It's not likely to beat batteries in cost. But energy storage for months possible

The author list is longer than the paper. Every last technician who touched a switch or tightened a bolt is credited.

Developers Developers Developers

Speaking personally, I stopped itemizing when the standard deduction went up. It's now so high that my "big three" deductible items (charitable giving, mortgage interest and state income tax) no longer come close to the standard deduction... so I don't even bother trying to add up all the little ones.

You can push megabytes of data about and hope to make some money on advertising attached to it or you can push kilobytes of data representing about money and directly take a percentage of that money as it whizzes past.

Musk seems intent on turning Twitter into grifter-central, so perhaps won't be for "everyone" but I imagine it will capture at least a niche.

As far as US football goes IMHO Mike Ditka of people was right about helmets and concussions: the more advanced helmets get the harder players learn to hit with their heads. Make the helmets 30x more concussion resistant and players will learn to hit things [1] 35x harder. Ditka advocated going back to leather earflap helmets to reduce concussions and while it was said in a "back in the day we were real men" mode I'm not sure he was wrong about that.

[1] yeah, I know, there are rules changes in place to prohibit direct hits with the top of the head. We'll see how that works in the long run [prediction: it won't]

One thing about the FDA is that it uses very specific and, to the untrained reader, peculiar language in letters of this type. Which can lead those without the specific pharmaceutical and legal background to underestimate what is being alleged and what the consequences could be. "Unapproved new drug" and "misbranded", and "adulterated" are as bad as it gets in FDA letters and can lead directly to referral for criminal prosecution of both the organization and its officers as individuals. Civil penalties can include shutdown of the entire business, as well as oversight agreements, massive fines, etc. If you or an organization of which you are an officer or you as named individual [1] ever receives a letter of this type run do not walk to an attorney admitted to the Federal bar for both regulatory and criminal law and do exactly what they say.

[1] the FDA can issue orders barring specific individuals by name from working in the pharmaceutical or food industry for periods from one minute to life - any individual, not just an officer of an incorporated entity

"Ironic that stores get persecuted for finding ways to defend themselves against shoplifters,"

Just a reminder that false accusations of criminal activity and false filing of criminal complaints are themselves crimes. And of course using false information to have even licensed store security personnel detain Citizens is not only a crime but can be prosecuted as abduction.

"Retail Group Retracts Startling Claim About ‘Organized’ Shoplifting

The National Retail Federation had said that nearly half of the industry’s $94.5 billion in missing merchandise in 2021 was the result of organized theft. It was likely closer to 5 percent, experts say."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/1...

Likely to be one of the shortest books.

Standards XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/

I should clarify I searched and found about a dozen articles from various publications discussing this claim. Some are just cribbing from the others, but a few have more in depth discussion. Almost every one of them has that same softening sentence though.