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Reading the press release this is just allowing individual employees to order a regular meal via uber eats and have the company pay for it directly rather than having to expense it. The only mention of catering was a box of donuts.
Why do you think we'll lose our food, water, and land? Let's start with a couple of important maps. This [1] is a map of where US farmland is. This [2] is where US water resources are. So of course we need to consider these things in terms of climate change. I quite like the simulator the NOAA has set up here [3]. It lets you increase or decrease water levels and dynamically see the effect. Perhaps the most surprising thing though is this [4]. That's an article that illustrates what the world would look like if somehow literally all ice in the world melted, some 216 feet of sea level rise. And indeed the world would be quite reshaped, but the surprising thing is by how little. Suffice to say you wouldn't need to start building an ark. And as an relevant aside, sea levels have already risen more than 400 feet since the the most recent interglacial warming period started some ~20,000 years ago. [5] Somehow, life went on.

To be clear I 100% agree with you on changes, but not losses. And I am in no way playing devil's advocate. I think the things I've asked, and said, are reasonable. They're completely authentic in any case, and I am 100% open to changing my view. If anything I've said is inaccurate in any way, or any question technically unreasonable - please do share. Apologies on the excessive amounts of links here, but I find this is a topic where disinformation is excessive and so I think it's important to cite most facts.

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[1] - https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MEDIA/nrcs143_010966....

[2] - https://water.usgs.gov/ogw/gwrp/activities/images/StudyLocat...

[3] - https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/

[4] - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2013/09/rising-s...

[5] - https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/gornitz_09/
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Personally I have put on Flickr thousands of photos from my seven years of travels in Asia which are very dear to me. And suddenly I had been given a month's notice to leave or pay.

I had sympathy for Flickr as community like 8-10 years ago but haven't been using actively Flickr for couple of years - as it became slowly unusable. I had to write my own scripts to import all my photos as their tools stooped being developed 10 years ago. [1]

At the moment Flickr webpage is quite unusable (if you block aggressive tracking from Yahoo and other 3-rd parties on DNS level), Flickr app is unusable for privacy reasons - installation on Android requires access to identity, contacts and microphone) and logging to Flickr requires giving some weird permissions to Oath (whoever it is).

So with all the sympathy for the new owners of Flickr I think it is a bit premature to ask loyal users for ransom before putting it's house in order and showing what the new Flickr would be. It is just asking me to pay for the development in unknown direction.

I got the message and I will not be using their services in the future as they cannot be considered by me as serious and trusted.

[1] https://github.com/chew-z/Flickr3
I think you need a few prongs, but not keen on CEO jail time. CEOs likely don't have enough visibility into day-to-day to have an impact on data security. They set the tone, but they won't have time to personally validate the work is being done to proper security standards.

Few ideas, to be used in conjunction:

1) Fine the shit out of violating companies. Base fines with the same aggressive tactics they use to compute fines for piracy -- leak 1M records, pay $100 x 1M in files. And have to set up identity protection for your consumers -- all that good stuff.

2) Reward good behaviour. Set a third-party standards, if a company submits to that, and passes, give them 1 strike per year where they don't have to pay the files. Worried about how to set these? Don't me, EY or Accenture or Deloitte will set fairly comprehensive standards, as long as they are allowed to charge for the audits.

3) Protect whistle blowers and offer rewards. If you go through proper channels, you won't be fired. And if your company fails to act, and then you narc on them, you should get a bonus. A massive fucking bonus. You see shady, you report shady, you get a hero's bounty.
Quite honestly, I feel like most of the media websites do the same thing. Write negative articles for more clicks, virality, etc.

For example, this article could have been a piece on educating people on how to use Twitter correctly (follow your interests, don't respond to trolls, think critically), but instead focuses on how things are all dark and bad.

That being said, the solutions proposed here are actually sound IMO.
The population growth makes any comparison difficult. For example, the Napoleonic wars killed about the same amount of people as the Vietnam War.

As for razing entire cities, the Korean War saw the US essentially raze a country. To quote General LeMay

>We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea, too.
Unfortunately I feel the same way and it is hard to find any sort of happiness with this mindset. How do you handle?
I think partly zoning especially the way it is implemented in US is something that is pushed by bigger businesses to suppress the competition from mom-and-pop stores. Look at Japan where zoning seem to be quite lax, you see huge number of tiny groceries, coffee shops etc. in the most amusing but very convenient places. Here is states it is mostly big and medium grocery chains with ultimately less choices that could otherwise be available.
Red Hat doesn't have any btrfs engineers, they all moved to Facebook -- so they don't currently have anyone in-house to do btrfs work. SUSE does (one of the upstream maintainers is a SUSE guy). Facebook also runs btrfs.

Red Hat's plan for "replacing" btrfs is to write a bunch of additional tools around devicemapper/LVM. My experience with using LVM is that this is not going to end well -- if you thought btrfs was unstable you've seen nothing yet.

To be clear, btrfs does have its issues, but linking to RHEL no longer supporting something they never actually fully supported is a bit of weird thing to argue is a negative of btrfs. Red Hat doesn't get to by the sole arbiter of what is and isn't good software (and it should be noted that Project Atomic's snapshotting using ostree is simply not as good as using btrfs and the transactional-update integration into openSUSE Kubic -- btrfs snapshots are atomic for a start and rollbacks are a single syscall away).
Powerful corporate elites need a deterrent. If only more financial evildoers had joined Bernie Madoff in prison after 2008.
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Great to hear that, and looking forward to seeing Flickr improve!
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Neither Gandalf nor the Balrog could really be killed, in spite of Gandalf implying it, because they are both Maiar, the powers of the world, and their existence is bound to that of Arda. To kill them, Arda would have to be destroyed. Same goes for Sauron, even after destroying the One Ring. They're all indestructible in the same way that a planet is destructible.

Gandalf being sent back ("I was sent back") is an act of keeping the events in balance, not Eru intervening so that good would win, because in the end, even with him doing as much as he did, everybody loses. Gandalf knew this full well, and that is why he did not want to go to Middleearth. He was afraid. He did not want to go stop Sauron. Manwe ordered him and the other four Istari to go anyway and the other Valar backed him up in his decision.

Even if you take the position that Eru intervened, there is always that moment when Eru Illuvatar tells Melkor "know that nothing you do will ever be without my will and intent of you doing it".
I'm sure that this is the reasoning they use to justify it, it doesn't mean that we should use the same reasoning to judge them as a company.
> And people think Russian Facebook ads are what propelled Trump to the whitehouse.

It's not just "legal" ads that helped Trump. The bigger problem was the Russian propaganda and lies that (still) get spread virally over Facebook.
If only there were any previous comparable attempts we could learn from ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_City,_California
> "The notion that harassment and negativity are important for countering echo chambers should be the first to go."

> "First, tweets from blocked users should no longer appear in the replies to a tweet."

Being able to respond with an alternative viewpoint without having your reply made invisible is not necessary for countering echo chambers?

Even on HN and Reddit, many people use the downvote button improperly. It should be a button to downvote content that doesn't contribute to the discussion, or is spam, or morally bankrupt. It's not anything closed to this in practice. I think this is how the block feature will be used if you can just block someone to delete their replies.

I'm not a fan of removing likes from Twitter.
Yea our technological ability is not limiting humanity; our ethical or dare I say moral abilities are the limit.

I would waget that's probably what the Great Filter is. Survival in nature inevitably transitions into survival among other intelligence. Intelligence seeks to preserve itself, not its eventual mastery of the universe, and it'll be a hard battl to win even if 99% are good-natured, 1% will still undermine others for their own benefit.
It’s easier if you have one lookup key for a session, but often that’s not sufficient, consider the case of termination of a session by email address or by a session id. The other issue is you still have every service making high rates of network calls that require low latency since they’re often inline with the UX. So you’re relying more on a chain of IO between services which is nearly impossible to performance troubleshoot with today’s tooling.
> You struggle to locate the names of the streets--in their absence, Google Maps shoves a bunch of unsolicited retail venues in your face.

Remember, Google's an ad company; think of it from their perspective.

Google wants to push users towards businesses that advertise with them, so that business continue giving Google money and data.

Users are used to working around crap software, so they're unlikely to stop using Google Maps enough to harm Google's business.

So why would Google do anything to improve Google Maps for users if it even slightly harms their core advertising business? Their goal isn't to make the best map; it's to make money (by running a map service).
It's hard to imagine something more illegal than this when it comes to personal data protection.
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Twitter was dying since it began ... remember it's very difficult growth after inception ... and that it can't seem to make money no matter what it does?

I believe Twitter is a monument to the 2010's second dot com bubble, and
in the future, will be looked back on like pets.com is now.
> "Content creation" isn't usually referring to "family photos and social media".

I wish I agreed with you, but I can't but see that as elitist condescension against unsophisticated content.

> the target user of iPad Pro is more than someone taking pictures of their kids and pets on weekends.

I wish I agreed with you, but in reality the iPad Pro is marketed as a tool for "serious professionals" but in reality that's just an aspirational message and a large number of iPad Pro buyers will use them to take pictures of their kids and pets on weekends.

The same is true of DSLRs. They're supposed to be professional work tools but the overwhelming sales numbers are to amateurs taking photos for trivial reasons. (That said, the DSLR market has now matured to the point where they do target the amateru audience.)
>It should be a button to downvote content that doesn't contribute to the discussion, or is spam, or morally bankrupt

Yeah, this is never going to work, because it is all subjective.
Thanks for the recommendation. I haven't read a fantasy book in a long. This looks like an interesting one.
I'd work for pornhub but I'm not sure how I could explain to my friends and family that I code in PHP.
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Looks like a misleading statement in the article. He was undiagnosed before, so there is no reasonable expectation he would be taking any medication at the time. See https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/how-the-mental...
Funny I spent one and a half hour to open a bank account in person 2 days ago. Everything was freaking slow in the bank too.
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Street value was low enough that I think the guarantee of quality and purity is still a good value.
I recommend setting network.IDN_show_punycode to true in Firefox via about:config. This will help keep you safe from this phishing vector.
I get what you mean. Wheel of Time has its slow moments. But then the whole series had a really odd pace. The last 3 books after RJ passed away was too fast and too sudden.
Try to actually use your points on a flight or upgrade and you'll see problems - it can be extremely difficult to find availability, even if you are prepared to book a year in advance, and the BA tools for searching are buggy as hell.
Maybe they should disable the ability to comment instead? It seems to me that comments are often a big problem on social media.

When comments stay relevant and informative, like they do here on HN, for the most part anyway. They are an asset to the social media, but as soon as they become something else they become a big problem.

Maybe they shouldn’t be disabled entirely, but instead you’d need to be approved by the poster to comment? I could see a value in giving users the control over you would allow to comment on your tweet.
I disagree about being passive-aggressive because I don't think that I was, nor was that my intent.

In a world where a subtle, gentle way of saying "please do your homework before stating something like 'we are left with a feeling of general satisfaction'", backed by plenty of examples is experienced as passive-aggressive and rudeness, then I don't understand the world any more. It's certainly not the world I knew and grew up in.

Think not less of me for it: not all of us are such good communicators and I'm aware of my limitations, such as they might be. I did it the best way I could think of and that wasn't good enough at all.

My remedial action will be to be direct with you, as you've requested, if our paths should cross again.
> Donations aren't a source of income. Though I encourage you to try a tip jar like Patreon just to see how vanishingly impossible it is.

While I agree wholeheartedly with what you said, I still wonder about if Patreon might be a reasonable way to charge for services. There are at least a few people making a living off of Patreon. Of course, I've not really heard of anyone scaling it beyond that. It's possible to make a non-trivial amount of money, though.

What I really wonder is whether or not you could somehow look at Patreon as a normal payment processor for a recurring service. Possibly it's not appropriate for a non-service related piece of software (why am I paying monthly?). But if you had a service attached, I'm not really sure it's such a bad idea. I seem to remember they take 5%, which is not that bad as a payment processor with the benefits they provide. In fact, that's essentially what Youtube people are doing: sign up to my Patreon and I will make recurring videos.

But, the main point is that "I might write blog posts and you get to vote on new features" is not a business plan. Why do I want to spend a monthly fee? Writing new features might be a business plan (For example, Tarn Adams makes between $7-8K a month on Patreon for his work on Dwarf Fortress). However, you need to have an audience that wants new features and is willing to pay for them.
Back then I actually posted what is probably the earliest video of Android in action available online: https://vimeo.com/384481
That takes the social out of social media. Also gives way to a complete echo chamber.
I don't think it's fair to blame Twitter. When I first started using the internet (forums, usenet, mailinglists and so on) there where hateful speech, angry mobs, and just plain idiots.

The problem is that some people have come to expect that everywhere they go is a safe-spaces, where ass holes don't exists or can be swiftly dealt with.

Sure, Twitter needs to have a way to deal with things that are just plain illegal, and for the health of the platform they may need to add some additional policing. But let's face it, it's not the average internet user who are using Twitter.

The issues facing Twitter isn't that people are leaving because it's a hostile place. People leaving are either bots or realising that Twitter isn't good place it interact with friends and family. Honestly, most people don't need Twitter, but the media, which is full of Twitter power users, seem to think that it's THE platform. We need to look at Twitter more as a supplement to LinkedIn and not as a Facebook competitor.
Humanity is indeed driving towards a cliff and the current political and economic system globally is not sustainable, you'll have no argument there. Where we differ is that I see a thread throughout history, especially recently, that we tend to invent our way to solutions. History is indeed not done yet, so how about neither of us call the game just yet?
It’s no longer the Manchester Guardian. It’s positioned as a global English language newspaper. Coverage of domestic issues in Australia, the US and Canada, at least, is routine.
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Let’s also not forget that there are regions/countries where it’s either culturally not always the norm to use street names while giving directions (especially when driving), where in the real world a street name is hard/impossible to find on a sign (try to find and read a small low-contrast stone inlay somewhere up on a building while you drive luckily slowly), or where street names don’t even exist!

When driving in some countries in Europe a GPS will repeat that you should use <really long badly pronounced street names after an old white guy> for multiple steps when in fact the road signs don’t mention the street anywhere and just say “Center”. (Granted sometimes the GPS directions are correct and use signage info.) Or the street name may have changed 5 times, as you keep driving straight on the same road.

The problem, as with all things in maps, isn’t so clear-cut and the fixation on street names is very centric to certain countries.
It's a little slimmed down in the number of options on offer, it's essentially the "CC" version that's also available on desktop. But any limitations in features vs the full old-school desktop version is a result of design choices, not lack of power.
I forgot Aristotle's name, and I was in Mobile so I couldn't watch the video to look it up.

My point was, making an example out of Aristotle's mistake is only "legitimate" if you yourself don't make any major mistakes in your talk. Ie, if Alan's wrong about the 0.23%, and then makes fun of Aristotle for getting a number wrong, them you're [Alan] just making a fool yourself.

I don't question at all that Aristotle got the number of teeth wrong, lol.
> The problem is that some people have come to expect that everywhere they go is a safe-spaces, where ass holes don't exists or can be swiftly dealt with.

That's such a strange thing to say - isn't that a very reasonable expectation? Even in the outside world, the expectation is that you won't be dealing with assholes every minute of your life when you participate somewhere.

And the thing about modern internet is that it's really really hard to find ANY place where you don't have to deal with them. Even HN isn't immune to deliberate trolling and personal attacks.
That's extremely naive.

China is not 'cheating' more than any previous power. In fact, having been cheated badly they know that's there no such thing as playing nice.

As for 'Orwellian', there's a big difference between what you see on TV and reality...
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Is this the same vihart of YouTube hexaflexagon fame?

https://youtu.be/VIVIegSt81k
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Sending rich people to jail is the only real punishment, because fines don’t matter for rich people and large corporations.

ING was fined almost a billion euros in the Netherlands for willfully and knowingly laundering money for many years. A month after paying the fine they already made enough profit to have earned back that money. So who cares about the fine? It’s just the price of doing things.

Same with fines for rich persons. Who cares about a fine for parking in the wrong spot if it is the equivalent of 10 minutes work. But if you’re poor that fine represents perhaps a whole working day, which is a lot, and thus fines work for poor people.

The solution is of course to make fines depend on your income and wealth. So Jeff Bezos will pay 10 million for a traffic ticket, and Joe Schmoe who earns minimum wage perhaps 50 dollar.
Well one of the reasons (and it's a dumb one), is that getting a US work Visa is almost impossible for most, so they don't really have a choice, unfortunately.
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