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Professional ethics is not the right approach to fixing the problem with user data. As the Equifax hack shows, the problem is not limited to the tech industry, and it's a problem of incentives at the corporate level, not the individual contributor level. We need corporate regulation.

User data is an asset, because you use it to make money, and it is a liability, because it can be stolen and misused. Companies currently get all of the benefit but very little of the risk. If user data had to be insured then there would be a financial incentive to only keep what's needed, and to treat it more carefully.
That is almost word for word mentioned in the article:

>For example, technical organisations, like Microsoft and IBM have long used split career ladders, allowing their engineers to advance as individual contributors or managers. These practices recognize workers for succeeding in one area without transferring them to another.

I think there is an interesting component here, though. There are no C-level individual contributors, really. At the head of an organization, is a manager/leader. The skill of management really is rewarded/recognized in organizations more readily. I think that makes sense, since the coordination of individual contributors is the most difficult problem to solve.

OTOH, I'd say casually that most of the best leaders are those that were also excellent individual contributors. To really be the top of the management ladder, I think the empathy of personal experience is the more important than most managers give it credit for.
I think the original post did a good job of this. All you can do is present the information and let people decide for themselves.
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I'm sorry, but what's the current fedora association?
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That is a very uncharitable summary. The article discusses codebases being developed together or growing closer together over time, causing feature changes in one to need changes in another. It doesn't mention copy/pasting anything. They solved it by moving everything into a single repo.

Adding more repos would once again split up pull requests for features that touch multiple codebases, which is the reason they merged two codebases into one repo in the first place.
> As I understand it, if a company actually goes to trial and is convicted, they are not allowed to operate anymore, hence the plea deals and fines.

You know, I am a lawyer (a corporate one who freelances as a white collar crime journalist at that!) and I don't even know how this would work. I can't even think of a single criminal case against a corporation that I've reported on that went to trial. It just doesn't really come up. I suspect because it's much easier to charge the directors of the corporation with racketeering or fraud.

That being said, I can't imagine a criminal conviction of a corporation would dissolve the entity. We don't execute people for committing fraud so I'd be surprised if a judge would execute an entity. I'm also not sure what would stop a corporation from quickly winding up if it seemed criminal charges were on the horizon. After all, you can't charge a "person" with a crime if that "person" isn't there to defend themselves.
I saw the post on Reddit, and I was a little shocked. When I switched to Linux on my primary computer, it was like Steam automatically filtered out the games I didn't like. I immediately spent some money on other games with Linux support.

So, there's a market, and it seems to be getting larger over time. What's troubling to me is that the Vivox employee seemed to think the developer just didn't know that Linux was a smaller market, or hadn't bothered to make a rational decision.

Then again, I also play things like Adventure, and the odd round of Lemmings.
Scientists connect quantum bits with sound over record distances
Serious question - is this what is driving the construction of transit in LA?
>with the state of inflation in the economy.

Could you provide a reference there? A 10%+ increase over four years seems excessive.
This is discussed in the article:
"Some scientists have suggested that grass-finished beef, if managed properly, can be a more sustainable option: As the cattle graze, they stimulate grass to grow deep roots and pull more carbon into the soil, helping to offset the cows’ climate impact. But, on the flip side, grass-finished cattle also take longer to reach slaughter weight, which means they spend more time burping up methane into the atmosphere. Because of this, some studies have suggested that grass-fed beef can actually be worse for the climate over all, though the debate about this continues to rage.

For now, it’s hard to say with confidence that grass-fed beef is consistently more climate-friendly than conventional beef."
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Yes, perhaps I wasn't clear; you still need people in the bakery - or a bakery - to make the bread, assuming you want people to eat. So, the best people to do it are those with experience as bakers. There seems no reason why in short term you wouldn't use the existing means of production, and the existing skilled people. Obviously the ownership changes.

Your last clause, is the kicker, just as it is now in Western Democracies, the State is supposed to be "the people" here now too, but in both cases it instead appears to be some small cadre of an in-group instead. However, none of that seems particularly pertinent to whether you keep using a bakery and the bakers you have when you transition from private to collective ownership.

Consider an example, Woolworths - a general store in UK and elsewhere - collapsed and in some locations the workers bought it for themselves to run as a collective. The same people did the same jobs, largely, immediately after the change just that the profits [and liabilities] were shared amongst them instead of belonging only to the owners.
> I can tell at a glance if you are black. I cannot tell at a glance if you are rural white.

Sure, but that only works up until you open your mouth. I can tell poor-rural from wealthy-urban quickly.

Out and out racism is still at some level a problem, but the parent comment specifically states there exist socioeconomic problems that exist only for blacks attempting university that do not exist for other groups. I would love to know what problems exist specifically for blacks attempting university that are specific to that one group.

Having spent my youth in a place with a surprising amount of socioeconomic diversity I can tell you the wealth blacks had wholly different problems and outcomes than the poor ones did just like with the whites, and Hispanics. I couldn't tell you about other groups, we didn't seem to have any of them in the "poor" category.

And while whites haven't exactly had historical problems in the workforce solely based on skin color, this isn't a rule. My father is a blue-collar worker in the construction industry, and during the Recession he lost his "good" job and ended up working on a crew entirely comprised of poor blacks. I spent my summers and breaks working with him, performing unskilled manual labor. While not the rule, there was absolute "us" vs. "them" bullshit racism coming from the majority group.

This isn't a class of problem that is relegated to one particular group, and to pretend it does is simultaneously racist and patronizing.
Had to comment on all the FUD being spread in these comments. (Note: I am a volunteer with LA 2028 but I'm not on the committee so my thoughts don't represent those of the LA 2028 Committee, just my own as an informed volunteer.

1) Cost increases over the past year have all been to account for estimated inflation between now and 2028. This is deliberate--the committee wants to have a realistic budget to target revenue goals against, not a fairy-tail budget, even if it looks bad early on.

2) LA is not building many new facilities for the Olympics. Almost all of the facilities will be existing facilities, like Staples, the United Airlines LA Coliseum, the Rams/Chargers(?) stadium, the pools at Loyola Marymount, UCLA and USC, the tracks and fields at all three colleges, the port of Long Beach, Santa Monica Beach, etc. Athletes will be housed at UCLA and USC (again), and the media center will be paid for and built by NBC largely at existing facilities.

The facilities that will need to be built: a velodrome for indoor cycling. A rock wall for the climbing events, location undetermined, but which is expected to remain after the event. BMX courses in Big Bear, which the resorts there have said they will maintain after the event depending on location.

3) Tax dollars are not being wasted on this event. The purpose of the budget is to raise private funding, i.e., donations or sponsorships. LA 2028 is working with NBC (first time in history organizers have worked with broadcasters) to sell a joint package so that they aren't competing against the broadcaster.

The lack of tax dollars also means that it's not a choice between the Olympics and housing, etc. In fact, the Olympics are spurring the use of tax dollars on housing and transportation infrastructure, including the acceleration of nearly 40 years of public transit building into 12 years. The public transit lines planned have already led to thousands of new housing units being built in LA county in proximity to those lines.

4) The LA Olympics have been profitable. Every. Single. Time. The 84 Olympics are still the most profitable in history by whatever metric you use, especially once adjusted for inflation. The returns from the 84 Olympics are still being used to fund K12 athletics today. As in 84 and 32, LA wasn't the first choice for the Olympics and its plan every time has been the overwhelming re-use of existing facilities. (Even the LA Coliseum was built more than a decade before the Olympics as a war memorial.)

5) LA is capable of holding an Olympics next year, if necessary. The only other city with sufficient facilities to hold an event of this magnitude on such short notice is London, which has maintained most of its facilities from the 2012 Games.
It irks me that when a brush is retired, a gigantic chunk of plastic heads into the landfill.

I feel this way about toothbrushes. They've gotten very expensive and seem to be designed to last only a month or two.

I picked up a couple of eco-friendly ones in the supermarket recently. They're made of bamboo. They're also crap. Now I'm back on the plastic toothbrush treadmill.
Are you really so much happier bleeding out after receiving a knife wound than a gunshot wound?

Guns are extremely effective for suicide; while there’s a pretty good argument that removing suicide vectors actually reduces suicide (and doesn’t just displace it into substitutes), I think it’s a pretty reasonable point that battery and other violence are what you should really be dispatching on.

Unfortunately, with all that said, the US in aggregate is slightly more violent than a lot of other industrialized cultures, so I can’t say the concerns about visiting the US are completely unwarranted.

But I do get suspicious when people criticizing the US for its violence (as potential tourists) are then happy to visit less developed nations, which are typically significantly more violent per capita.
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Facebook has sold hundreds of billions clicks globally to advertisers, most likely trillions. Has there been one incident of the scenario you've described?
This is precisely why I feared building our own for a while. So we persisted with Ansible (and then later with Salt), making our peace with the tool as we went along. Where a module was desired but did not exist, we built our own modules. Where a feature was desired, or desired differently, or a bug was found, we patched the tool (and upstreamed our patches). Where there seemed no way to do something the way we wanted to do, we worked around the tool, by calling out to other code, or asking to be called from other code.

Ultimately, it turned out:

1. We had already grown a custom configuration manager within the tool.

Both tools support many ways of doing the same thing, so we had to pick one way and constrain ourselves to it (e.g, master-minion vs. salt-ssh vs. masterless). This happened quite a bit. And, as usual, with enough use emerges a pattern. Plus, some ways simply did not exist and had to be built.

2. We had already learned large portions of the tool.

Ansible and Salt are simple tools when used for simple tasks. When using either for not-so-simple tasks, one invariably meets portions of their code/behaviour one doesn't expect to meet.

3. Any sysadmin we'd hire would need to know the configuration tool in-depth, anyway.

And, to our surprise, the vast majority knew only the basics, if that. Since we are, on principle, opposed to using something in an important capacity without understanding it well enough, and we needed to be certain any sysadmin we'd entrust with the responsibility did know their tool in-depth, we learned the tools in-depth, ourselves.

4. The tools are NOT simple.

When we'd learned Ansible and Salt, ourselves, we'd found they were actually quite a bit complex. Made sense, they had to take care of so many conditions and variations and different situations.

5. Any sysadmin we'd hire would need to know programming and a programming language.

We already had extensions in these tools, custom modules written in a real programming language. And, in this day and age, anyone with a responsibility as important as managing our production servers has to be able to program anyway.

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Our current ops tool is only 1.2k (library) + 1.3k (config mgmt, sans static) LOC, the config mgmt is in plain Python, and is vastly simpler compared to knowing how Ansible or Salt work or how to write Ansible or Salt modules. The in-depth knowledge required is much smaller too (since we don't have to take care of all the many ways Ansible and Salt could be used or the platform differences Ansible and Salt need to worry about); just Python, SSH, SFTP, Rsync, Git, Sqitch, TLS, and the OS we have chosen, almost all of which one needs to know anyway.
Golfers score better when par on a hole is lowered
Today-I-Learned that the Apollo astronauts had to pay for their own bed while going to The Moon. "they earned eight dollars a day, minus a fee for a bed on the spacecraft"
Interestingly the recent late season rain has the Deep Tunnel almost full. [1] Two of the three main reservoirs are already at capacity, and the the last one is getting there.

BTW they do offer tours of the pumping stations, but not the tunnels [2]

[1] https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/05/01/heavy-rain-flooding-...
[2] https://www.mwrd.org/irj/portal/anonymous/tourinf
Taiwanese pilot ‘mistakenly fired decoy’ in encounter with PLA warplane
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> We need to build with high-quality American fakes, not high-quality Chinese fakes!

It's entirely possible that American manufacturers are forced to compromise quality like that due to the competitive pressure of low-cost Chinese fakes.
Giving up our growing space to grow lots of monocultured vegetables will be worse for the climate.

The co2 emissions from cows aren't the problem. Factory farming yes is a problem, but if cows are put on grass that grass is a co2 sink and gives off far less.

If you grow an acre of soy it's just as bad as it isn't sustainable.

Also the fact that being vegan has serious health consequences and animals provide far more nutrition.

The answer isn't going vegan at all but to have sustainable farming practices where animals and plants are grown together in a regenerative process.

Grass is one of the best crops to grow. It's a great carbon sink, and takes away methane. Builds its own fertility so no need for artificial fertilizers. No management, machines, pesticides etc. Grows everywhere. We just can't eat it. But ruminants (like cows/sheep/etc) can. They have a digestive system for it. They turn grass into meat and milk. Meat and milk that don't need storage until you need to harvest it. It also tastes better.

We used to have far loads more bison roaming the earth. But they didn't cause climate change because they ate grass. When you factor in the grass it's a net positive and not a negative like the article claims.

These studies like to look at things in a bubble, but the problem is far more complex than that.

Converting pasture to arable land to grow more plant based food will make the climate situation worse. You will reduce these carbon/methane sinks. You will need to fertilize and harvest the soil. Fetalization itself reduces the carbon/methane sink capabilities.

Eating beef can actually be a very sustainable option. In many cases, pasture-reared beef actually shows a carbon-equivalent net gain when carbon sequestration is taken into account.

Edit: Perhaps a comment or 2 would be nice on why people don't agree or why I might be wrong. Happy to read up and learn
No way. Never consent to a search of anything, always ask for a warrant. If you give consent, the police have the right to look for anything.
Sure there are issues but a lot of infrastructure and regulations already exist for dealing with this fuel. And it completely eliminates the problems with hydrocarbons: no greenhouse, exhaust is harmless, with cheap enough power it can be made literally anywhere. A lot of the problems with ammonia are easily dealt with in a fleet situation. People can be trained to safely refuel, you can have a centralized solar-NH3 production facility, etc.
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