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You're assumption, unfortunately, is incorrect.[1][2]

1.) Ocean City, MD opts to burn recyclables in Covanta Incinerators (selfish, awesome): https://www.oceancity.com/ocean-city-has-no-plans-to-return-...

2.) Covanta Incinerators are bad despite what the company claims (selfish, shocking): https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/too-much-pollution/
Dell SupportAssistant was preinstalled on my machine. It was the easiest way to find Dell's customized driver updates since they are difficult to find (which of the many network drivers does my machine need?). It's sad that it has problems, but it's supposed to make maintenance easier. HP has something similar.
The main codebase... of a video sharing site. With no SLAs, and (at the time) no partner video-hosting agreements.

The most awful thing that could happen to 2006-era YouTube: they could stop delivering ad impressions for an hour or two. Oh wait, no; 2006-era YouTube didn't even have ads yet.
If it has a SIM card, it is tracking you. If you leave Bluetooth or WiFi enabled, then it is being tracked. All the Librem 5 can do is 1) give trusted RF kill switches, and 2) not add additional tracking on top.

I will probably still buy one if it materializes, and is functional.
You can use an older version of the same codebase here: http://arclanguage.org.
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This slide deck highlights some important tradeoffs. Thanks for sharing it!

However, it's not an argument for ignoring the problem and hoping it all works out. Knowing the consequences of what you do is important and better than not knowing, especially in large-scale endeavors. (Too many mistakes happen due to obliviousness, as if not taking time to look means you can't be blamed.)

Also, supposedly "inherent" tradeoffs are only relative to input data. If you can find a better source of data, you can do a better job and don't have to make tough decisions. (The math in this slide deck is assuming you're making do with what you have.)

In particular, it doesn't apply to the original article. As far as we know, there's no reason why Facebook can't make a camera work well for everyone.
that is the moral stain? what about every surveillance tech company? what about the soaring cost of living pushing people into homelessness?

nope. uber is the only problematic corporation here.
Makes sense, and agree with the last point, “I'm not sure how a science based on observing every wavelength of light we can get our hands on, the vast majority of which no animal on Earth can detect or use, and also gravitational waves, is "confined to human senses"”. Thanks for the explanation.
Doing things behind others’ backs is generally unethical. This decision should have been made in the open.
The Search for the Extra Pedal (2017)
> To cement their authority over the YouTube codebase during the integration into Google, the early engineers created a specialized permission set called “OldTuber”. OldTuber granted you the ability to completely bypass the new Google-oriented code enforcement policies, enabling anyone holding it to commit code directly to the YouTube codebase, with only the most glancing of code reviews from anyone. No need for code readability. No need for exhaustive tests. No need for maintaining code coverage. If you broke the site by improperly wielding OldTuber status, it was on your head and you would lose the privilege immediately, if not your job. So you just had to be a good citizen and never break the site.

Oh man. At our org, we called this "being a cowboy." We have a lot of process to prevent cowboys now. Oh, the good ol' days haha.
> It is ok to be white

Then why are we taking offense to the phrase? Worse yet, why are we taking offense to the phrase despite knowing that the alt-right wants us to take offense to the phrase because most onlookers will see it as anti-white (which is a reasonable conclusion, for the overwhelming majority of people that don't follow internet culture).
I have a librem 15. The screws inside the case seem to come loose every once in a while. Also I wish the body was a little more rigid (I'm guessing the librem 13 doesn't have this issue since it's lighter and smaller). Otherwise I like it. The speakers also aren't very loud so I often have to make the volume higher than 100% to hear clearly. I think the trackpad is fine using libinput (I haven't tried other drivers).

I didn't want to use PureOS so I installed NixOS and everything seems to work fine.

I used to have an issue where the fan would get stuck on high after resume, but I think that was fixed when I updated coreboot to the latest version.
While I agree with the sentiment and most that’s being said in this article, it’s exactly that: most of it has already been said and discussed on HN, and I don’t feel like it adds anything new.

Besides that, Uber is hardly the first nor will it be the last moral stain of the valley.
> > Today's space telescopes provide no direct view of anything

> I have no idea what that means. They literally observe the sky...

They mean you can’t look into the telescope and see the object, eg like going into my backyard and observing Mars or Venus, that you need to do elaborate post processing to resolve the target object from other collected signals and shift it into a visible form.

This is contrasted with early astronomy, where you could literally just look at objects.

I don’t know that this is a deeply significant point, but it’s at least understandable: if it’s not something you can look at, then you might be assuming your theory to interpret the evidence which supports your theory — that you’ve just begged the question.

I think the comment speaks to the breakdown in science education, but it’s a valid observation about failures in complex human endeavors.
Related to the coffee cup discussion the other day, wouldn't greater adoption of municipal high heat composting solve some of recycling's problems?
As opposed to the swedish vegetables that flourish in the swedish winter?
Luckily the law isn't an algorithm. Medicine is not perfectly packaged and shrink-wrapped, but a law can be written saying there must be a material basis for a difference in price.

Let's keep in mind where we are today, which is that price is entirely arbitrary and capricious, and they are allowed to do that.

I think people seeking medical care deserve much better than "arbitrary and capricious". Substantially similar services should not have two orders of magnitude differences in pricing. That should be illegal.

EMR coding already provides the basis for establishing a non-discriminatory pricing regime. The problem is the billing system takes the EMR coding of the procedure performed, and then convolutes it with a pricing matrix which discriminates on what kind of insurance you have.

I walk into CVS and try to fill a prescription.

- That'll be $78 dollars they say;

- OK, I have this benefit card, it is not insurance but it provides a discounted rate, and I paid nothing for the card. It's like a coupon code. That'll be $55.

- OK, I have this prescription drug coverage insurance card, which carries a $200 deductible and a $20 copay. I've already exhausted the deductible. That'll be $20 and insurance pays $3.07.

CVS is selling the same drug, from the same distributor, to different customers at wildly different prices (before an insurance contribution) based on some sort of shell game.

To say nothing of the cases where insurance companies agree to pay more for one drug, like insulin, in exchange for charging less for other totally different and unrelated drugs, just because in their insurance pool it helps them optimize the number of patients which ultimately will pay the annual out-of-pocket maximum.
Wall street is in NYC I belive
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Interesting, our experience was exactly the opposite. I got the kids a set for Christmas (maybe 2016?), and I don't think we ever got it to do anything interesting. I could never tell if it was charging, phone, app, interference, or something else related. Maybe we just got a dud.
This is not comparable imho.

No medical or financial company has this vibrant engineering IT culture like the web startups 20 years ago had.

Everything was new and exciting, and things moved foreward exactly due to the flexibility of all involved, the uncertainty, the flat hierarchies, and the fact that many rules either didn't exist, or only existed on paper.

This is what happens everytime a new market emerges, where structures need some time to settle.

Once they have settled down, procedures become standardized, but they also become so boring that all innovation is lost.

What happend at Youtube 12 years ago is exactly what happens right now at some Cryptocurrency start ups. The start ups that are succesful are exactly those start ups where people like this Youtube engineer do not get fired. If YT had such an authoritarian attitude in 2009, they would never have become succesful.

It's easy for the blog author to say "I have no idea why we weren't fired" but I bet back then it was all fun and games. (Getting fired isn't even that bad, what really harms people is when everyone around them starts to tell them things like "You could have ruined everything!")

And something similar to the excitement and fluidity within the Youtube of 12 years ago happened 80 years ago in pharmaceutical companies, or 200 years ago within a Bank, when such structures were still freshly formed.
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That article is for CVT's, which don't use shiftable gears. Google-fu leads to this forum post from 2009, which references Acura directly:

https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1473068&cid=30...
of course there was oversight. Those with experience had privileged access. Basically meritocracy. Today innovation and movement is stiffled by large corprate and legal structures where engineers only recieve commands.
How many contractors (lawn, roof, carpenter, whatever) have you ever dealt with that are wizards at what they do but don't have the cycles to return a phone call or keep you updated on your appointment to save their life?

All of them. Including the three guys currently laying a new floor in my sitting room as I type this who were supposed to get back to me two days ago to let me know when they were going to come to do the work, but just showed up this morning ready to start.
IE7 did have tabs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_7
Ideological and ad hominem arguments don't help me understand your thinking. Are there specific facts or reasoning you disagree with that transcend the author or ideology?
My current experience with a distorted Agile approach is that it is used as an excuse to not have a big design. The idea is to not block on a big design UP FRONT. Not have no design at all. So the platform I'm working on now has been torn down to the foundations and fundamentally rebuilt at least twice because the lead(s) on the project never looked further than one sprint out. Somehow it is expected that an organic design will spring from nothing. Very unfortunate.
I hated Panda Express when I lived urban California and there were 1000s of small Chinese canteens, but now I go twice a week. If they had real China (hehe) I would eat there more often, but I just get to go.
The "selling fear" narrative seems pretty far fetched and cherry picked. Crime happens regardless of your opinions.
Reporting it might actually make a difference since it will at least help people be aware of their area safety and attempt some organized effort to address it.

Yes, the way to address it might be buying security devices and yes, Amazon could profit from this (but not necessarily).

Either way, crime will happen regardless and this has nothing to do with Amazon or Ring. It's not like they are actually putting criminals in the streets or making up stories about crime to boost sales. The article make it almost sound like that.

The dichotomy here is whether you want to know if crime is happening around you or you want to be oblivious about it for whatever reason or belief. That sounds more like a choice, not like an imposition.

If you're going to demonize reporting facts or news about crimes, and you are going to raise concerns about the potential conflicts of interest between reporting and profits, you should start first with a sound judgement of journalism as a whole.
As far as I know most newspapers and media outlets are for-profit businesses, so their motivations might be as obscure. And this includes, The Atlantic, the publisher of this very article.

And that actually reminds of a wise spanish saying that seems like a good fit for this journalistic piece: "El ladrón juzga por su condición" ... That means "The thief judges by his condition"...
I think that what he means is if Facebook-owned apps are at each end, then end-to-end encryption means less because Facebook has access to both end points. You don't have to MITM a connection if you have access to the ends.
This is true.

It's likely that beside the rice and maize, most of their carbs come from vegetables. It's one of the reasons why high-performance diets are usually heavy on the broccoli!
> Now whether there is really weakly interacting matter out there

Not "out there". It's supposed to be >80% of the matter of the universe. We supposedly are eating some every day.
So, is this like Google voice but more for small businesses?
I was maybe a bit too cavalier here. I think I understand what the author means - the data that they gather is understood in the context of the model that we think is best.

But, it isn't as if cosmologists are rigidly holding to the model. Here's a paper looking at extensions to lambda CDM https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05356. As I mentioned, changing GR is being looked at as an alternative to DE http://www.resceu.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/workshops/resceu08s/presen...

People aren't challenging some things though - I don't think anyone is seriously working on cosmologies that don't include a big bang, because without one I can't imagine how you explain the CMB.
Which is exactly the error I have been pointing out? Or are you saying that people being forced into prison for no fault of their own is being counted as violent crime in that statistic?
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Indeed, but anything I've read on it suggests stopping thoughts. "If you notice yourself thinking, let it pass by and bring attention back to the breath". This seems contrary to what is written here.
I have a few coworkers who recently got Ring devices. Now I see them constantly checking their phones and watching the security footage. The level of paranoia this device creates is pretty remarkable. These are rich tech workers living in low crime neighborhoods too.

Having a security camera isn't a bad idea at all, but one that gets you to check it constantly like it's instagram can't be healthy.
Don't forget the intestinal worms
I mean, Google just paid a ton of money to acquihire this team, and then the acquihired team is going to turn around and fire all the people Google paid for? That doesn't sound like an arrangement Google would be happy with.

(Which is to say, with more generality: people who get acquihired are basically temporarily invulnerable to office politics.)
Chinese everything they make seems to be like this. The landfill now holds nearly everything I've bought from China over the decades, I now realize.

After reading the excellent book "How Asia Works," I went around my place inventorying the source of my possessions recently thinking it'd be full of stuff from China. But no.

True, I do have several things that are only one or two years old from China that aren't dead yet, and a number of older steel items from China that have in fact lasted ('cause you can't fake consumer steel - I always try to bend that stuff in the store. If it bends it gets bent back and goes back on the store shelf.) The exception: one ancient Neo2.

The vast majority of what I own now - other than clothes - isn't Chinese and is 30 or more years old. These are all items that predate the Chinese goods invasion in fact. Quality goods.

For example it turned out that all my (surviving) dishes were American Corelle, glasses French Duralex, Swedish chair, etc. etc. Yet I mostly bought Chinese goods all along. Nothing, except the Neo2 lasted, (except for all-steel items) and I bought that Neo2 used recently. The rest of what I wasted money on is Chinese landfilled junk now.

I grew up admiring China (my Grandmother saw Mao in person, at a banquet she attended in the Great Hall of the People, and liked everything about China she saw except for his wife's speech at that banquet.) No more. Please, let's just drop trade with China. For so many reasons. The race to the bottom is won and done.

I know, the original article was about defective American aluminum testing; and yes there are occasional problems with goods from everywhere, but China takes the cake - and its goods crowd out better, greener, more durable competition.
"Some companies are probably working on it" doesn't help much when I'm deciding whether to invest $1,000 in a product ecosystem. For it to impact my purchasing decision, I need some details and a release date at minimum.

At the moment, I basically have to assume it's not coming, because anything else would be foolish when there's this much money at stake.
Good piece, but this made me chuckle:

> It’s easy to tack the word “agile” onto just about anything. Agility is harder to misappropriate.

I'm pretty sure it'll take more than an extra syllable to save an idea from being dumbed down by marketing people.
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The visuals in the article are amazing. Thanks for posting.
15 minutes? Even 5 minutes is long. With an average 7 person scrum team, they should take no more than 3 minutes.

I disagree talking about yesterday provides no value. Talking about yesterday, in my experience, dramatically improves people's ability to accurately identify and prioritize what they have to do today.

Plus, it provides a forum to communicate unexpected interruptions that may need to be dealt with by the scrum master.
Justice Department answers to Trump. Doesn't mean he can tell them to just go arrest someone. No matter how many times he tries.
About this:

"It is pretty obviously not that useful to ask a dog to sniff the sky or a homing pidgeon to navigate to Alpha Centauri, or something."

That example might be bad, but there are others that are valid. For instance, in healthy human women, the menstruation cycle seems to be the exact length of the moon's orbit. Is that a coincidence, or do human bodies have a way of gaining data from the moon? If so, what is that data? Maybe the mechanism is as simple as a springy protein that can absorb tidal forces and convert it to an information signal. Or perhaps something novel is going on.

There are potentially a lot we can learn about the universe by making simple observations here on Earth.
>Our most renegade web developer, an otherwise soft-spoken Croatian guy, insisted on checking in the code under his name, as a badge of personal honor, and the rest of us leveraged our OldTuber status to approve the code review.

I love this so much, it's so punk-rock. It's like John Henry's signature on the Declaration of Independence.