I've met several MBA's, and they are more 'partially literate' in that they can write huge quantities of stuff, but each paragraph has nothing to do with the last paragraph.
Similarly, they can read whole books very quickly, but they do so by reading just the first sentence on every page. This is what gives them the superpower of reading large technical emails, and responding to them in seconds about a completely unrelated topic.
The most highly educated person in my extended family has the worst spelling and grammar of anyone I've ever seen. Getting a hand written note from them is always a guessing game.
God, this annoys the crap out of me. People say I write novels in my emails, so I tried breaking things up once for an MBA. It resulted in a dozen or so emails that when concatenated would equal the "novel" they'd have originally complained about.
Lesson learned: MBA's seem to value incomplete communication, and email headers over a condensed explanation of what's actually relevant.
After reading your comment I looked up some stats and almost couldn't believe how bad the crime situation is in Albuquerque. It seems like this entire program is meant to help select retailers and former PD employees, and is ineffective in reducing crime in any meaningful way.
NIMBYs have almost nothing to do with blocking wire undergrounding. Parts of Manhattan Beach, for example, are undergrounding wires. The homeowners opposed to it don't want to pay "an average of $42,423" for the service.
Since you're not an American, I'm curious where you get your information. Here in the United States the states have their own rights. Of the top ten states for per capita deaths, eight have Democrat governors. Some of those Democrat governors decided to place COVID-positive patients into facilities with the elderly, killing thousands. New York government agencies are even fighting the release of information about their actions regarding the nursing homes.
Democrat officials in multiple states encouraged people to attend large gatherings in Asian neighborhoods to "fight racism" when the pandemic was getting started. So it goes far beyond being "rude to some people". Both sides have made huge mistakes, and it appears that the foreign press is giving one side a pass.
> Of the top ten states for per capita deaths, eight have Democrat governors.
This is going to change rapidly over the coming days, as the virus is rapidly growing the south.
According to JHU, for confirmed cases (not deaths, as in your comment): AZ (#3), FL (#5), MS (#8), AL (#9), SC (#10). (50/50) In approx. another week, GA (currently #11) will probably also become #10.
I've been deriving this data from the JHU data (which is on GitHub) myself for a while now: https://imgur.com/a/RpjEm9Z ; the full chart is remarkably busy, and not that great. I mean to try to clean it up into something more usable, but I've been swamped with my day job all week.
I expect deaths will generally follow in the coming weeks, regrettably. There might be some variance, of course, between states in deaths-per-captia, and that is a graph I've been meaning to make (since that might show something interesting about which states are better dealing with infections), especially after Chris Wallace's interview with Trump, and the remarks the President made there.
I'm not sure Google can compete as much as they'd like in shopping due to antitrust issues. They acquired a price comparison company in 2011 and registered Google Comparison Inc. They shuttered that shortly thereafter. If you look at various Google corporate registrations they've have a few of these shopping and product corporations that went nowhere.
If you know anyone in California who might be affected by this company please let them know to file a complaint against Naborly. They apparently have no idea what the laws here are, and they are also most likely in violation of numerous other United States credit reporting laws.
Edit: Their Privacy Policy says nothing about California, and it looks like they're most likely already in violation of California's CCPA.
Edit 2: Can't find them registered anywhere in the US as a credit reporting agency. I guess YC is now funding companies flagrantly violating US law.
Naborly are in Ontario; they are, it sounds, flagrantly violating Canadian law. A former privacy commissioner is quoted as saying that they would investigate Naborly over these allegations.
For examples of flagrantly violating US law amongst YC's prides and joy [0], consider examining DoorDash [1] or Airbnb [2].
The expectation was that Airbnb type properties would become available as long term rentals, and fewer people would turn dwelling into short-term rentals. But, those houses that were already in use for Airbnb remained so, and many houses in need of renovation that might have otherwise become rentals (long or short) instead sit dilapidated. Those cottages I mentioned end up difficult to move on the real estate market because they are just too small for most people’s needs - again, great for a weekend stay, not so great as ongoing living places. Our local market is a more “traditional” market than say California or what’s happened to Seattle and Vancouver, so of course our experience is going to be different.
I was actually wondering about this because both the Spanish Flu and the 2009 H1N1 pandemics left life-long brain damage for some survivors in the form of narcolepsy with cataplexy. The vaccine for H1N1 caused it in a very small amount of patients as well. After the Spanish Flu they called it "encephalitis lethargica". It appears that it damages the hypothalamus.
