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This is why we will never have consensus on remediation climate change. It’s not just individual anarchists but whole governments who will adopt this “me or not you” attitude.
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>Or they structured the deal in the only way under which they could get any money at all.

Maybe starting a business for which the only way to get funding is by screwing over your employees is exactly the problem here?
But those were the people that could actually read and write. Most people were illiterate. Only those privileged with status and wealth could have access to reading materials (and they would be the only people that would even desire them), and they were only men.
If they want to build a more private web, they can start by nixing AMP and (more existentially) Google Ads.
Can't deny that there are some industries where more hours are better and that beyond the 4-5 hour range they don't suffer from diminishing returns. But I'd point to David Graeber here and just say that there seem to be a lot of people out there making themselves look busy for much of the day, and in the process wasting a lot of their lives and needlessly taxing their own emotional states. And together we've tacitly made a decision that this is all OK and normal.
Relevant Chromium Blog post: https://blog.chromium.org/2019/08/potential-uses-for-privacy...
It seems rational discussion is not what people actually want.

Hypocrisy is rampant in the discussion about climate change.

Irrationality and emotions are manipulation tactics, not solutions, therefore nothing will actually change with the climate.

The worst is when _real_ demonstrable solutions are presented and rejected because they don't "feel good" or make some kind of marketing splash.
In-house product development of a SaaS platform. You can check out it out at ardoq.com.

The company is imo a great place to work, but this is also in Norway where it's pretty common for people (usually older ones, though) to work 80 or 60%. That probably made this a lot more likely to happen.

I'll add that there was some fear that everyone else would want the same arrangement and that we'd suddenly only have devs working part time, but nobody else has expressed any interest in this. Different strokes for different folks...
>I think this is one of the biggest taboos in Western society:
Anything about a newborn/small child must be 100% positive
This is absolute bullshit

I’m about to have a child in the next 2 weeks and that’s not my experience. Pretty much all my friends and family with kids have been telling me about the “fun” and “positive” sleeping experience I’m about to have. They keep saying how the Nth child was terrible or didn’t sleep etc.
Presenting the choice as between fascism and "literal extinction" is exactly why public support isn't there.
I think early on with a new baby, both parents wake up more due to novelty than instinct. When you're used to not having a crying child in the middle of the night, suddenly having one takes some adjustment.

Since my wife nursed the kids, our arrangement was that she would be up with babies at night almost every time, and I would be up with them in the morning when they decided that 5am was time to be up for the day. Over time, I stopped waking up to baby cries at night, but I am now hyper-attuned to child noises from 5-7am.
If you do decide to have kids, I strongly encourage you to live near relatives.

Also, join something like https://www.peps.org, a parenting organization.

Having a deep bench of helpers and pre qualified play mates is crucial. It can't just be the parents vs their kids 24/7.
I actually have, and even better it can easily be setup with Helm on a Kubernetes cluster:

https://github.com/helm/charts/tree/master/stable/phabricato...
No it is not, Google is just proposing extra protections around existing mechanisms. That will continue to likely allow google nearly unlimited access to data.

Apple's plan is a complete departure from current setups. https://webkit.org/blog/8943/privacy-preserving-ad-click-att...

I don't really know if its viable, but its something.
I am not rich but I would pay a monthly subscription for a Google-like service that isnt as crippled or now politically inclined as Google is.

A service that gives me the same results as any other customer. If I want my results to be bubbled may it be by tags I choose such as "Programmer" bubble or "Medical Professional" and maybe even Public Libraries and schools could pay for access to such engines. If I remember correctly many schools pay for curated search engines as it is.

I would also pay money for a solid social network and / or IM service. If I dont see certain people on it even better. My favorite thing about the internet is meeting new people anyway.
>their concerns are not addressed by rules made up in the Capitol City

They are, depending on the concern. Rural voters have representatives and lobbyists in Washington and there are plenty of laws intended to favor rural interests. Part of the argument in this thread is that the Electoral College itself gives rural states out-sized influence in determining the Presidency. It isn't true that Washington is ignoring rural populations entirely, or that they have no political power.

Most of the issues you listed upthread as examples of how urban and rural lives differ are examples of issues which should be (and usually are) handled locally, not nationally. Gun control might be an exception (although personally I believe it should be entirely a state issue) but I think it would be absurd to claim that rural populations don't have a powerful influence on that through the NRA already, given that most of the country supports stricter gun control laws than would ever be politically feasible in the US.
Curious about the frequency of this negative feedback. The dessert-themed releases were iconic. Anecdotally, international folks generally seemed to love it even when they didn't understand a given name. Google campus has a neat collection of statues representing each one...

This really feels like letting the cart lead the horse. Someone will be unhappy with any choice. They could've added secondary designations (included in preferences and packaging) to solve most of the confusion problems.

But this anodyne, sterile style seems to be the best Google can muster these days.

Another example: I've watched their Stadia Connect videos in which they attempt to pitch their upcoming gaming service to the consumers. They too have come across completely sanitized and robotic -- reminds me of corporate entertainment news doing formulaic red carpet interviews.
Unfortunately you are right. But what can be done? There are dry PTFE lubricants available in market and they work so well compared to traditional Grease in dusty environment that I don't see people giving up these.
The chromium blog entry mentions a browser that blocks cookies. Which browser are they referring to?

> We’ve seen this recently in response to the actions that other browsers have taken to block cookies - new techniques are emerging that are not transparent to the user, such as fingerprinting.
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Those workers may also be more likely to stay in work to finish a piece of work off, rather than leave as soon as the bell rings.
Here’s another fuddy lie:

> Second, blocking cookies without another way to deliver relevant ads significantly reduces publishers’ primary means of funding, which jeopardizes the future of the vibrant web.

I think you could argue that targeted advertisement has jeopardized the future of the vibrant web.
https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-pull-requests
The totally literal reading would be that someone actually got chewed out by their father for being a Benthamite.
This is just their ordinary dishonesty. When Google wants to actually be fraudulent they do it the Google way, they hire thousands of genius engineers to work on their ad software and then have none of them complete the endpoints for refunds and then have all of them ignore it, even willfully, until $75 million is stolen and a judge is sniffing around... twenty years later.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-emails-adtrader-lawsu...

The question is, does that $75 million of fraud include the twenty years of missing banned-Adsense-account revenue Google paid $11m to conceal what they do with... or is that a distinct other fraud.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/adsense-lawsuit/248135/
You're not learning a "new" language. You're optionally adding types to JavaScript. You can write pure JS in TS.
My experience has been highly variable. It's just my experience, I'm a pretty weird person and tend to be an outlier. But I do think the observation of the variable effect of different job situations in my life is pretty interesting.

I had a period of time where I worked entirely on my own "startup" for about 12 months. I worked nearly 7 days a week for (what I recall as) a lot of hours but I honestly don't know how many. This work was SO much fun. It was definitely still work but I don't think I've ever had more exhilaration than created and launching the projects I did in that year.

I then worked at a startup where we worked a solid 6 days a week for about 10 hours a day. That really consumed my life and wasn't very rewarding in my opinion. I learned a lot and made some really great connections to silicon valley investor types but the job consumed so much of my life and the startup wasn't successful at all.

The next stage in my life was the time I coded the most. I worked for one of the huge silicon valley software companies and they fostered a good work-life balance for the employees. We generally worked 8 hour days and no weekends ever. Also, the work environment was pleasant. I became good friends with my coworkers. I say that because I think that all contributed to the 8 hours not feeling extremely draining. I had a lot of energy left after work. During those two years I launched two websites in my spare time that were pretty heavy undertakings. I also dabbled in other projects. I worked a lot of nights and weekend on top of the corporate job. I could go several weeks without a single day off.

After that I worked at a startup for 2 years and another quasi-startup for 2 years after that. I really disliked both of those jobs and seemed to have very little drive to work on anything on my own time. I actually started playing and recording a lot more music in those years, even started a podcast. :)

I recently switched jobs to a larger company with an established app and it has a similar feel of the other big-corp job I held. Generally, I work 8 hour days, a little bit of weekend and night work but only around releases and deadlines. I also get along with the people in my office very well, it's fun to be at work.

I consider myself as an "emotional" developer. I kinda say it sarcastically but there is some truth to it. When I feel good about what I'm doing, I can lock in for many hours straight and it doesn't drain me that much.
I don't think that will happen in 10 years, probably more like 20-30 years unless a miracle happens and all humanity starts working together.
Fascism does not have a good track record of accomplishing big goals.
The interview could've been deeper, but that would require more time. The story at the end is powerful stuff.

I'm going to buy the book.
low-poly (and often untextured) 3D models is already a style being used in indie gamedev, seeme like it came into vogue a year or two ago.

chiptunes are also a stylistic choice some games make over full hi def sounds and music.
In the modern colloquial sense, yes. In the literal sense, no - he was a Nazi, whereas the Fascists were an actual Italian political party.
How has openstreetmap.org remained free, if it's impossible to do without ads? Or torrents? Or GitHub? Or webarchive? Or any of the millions of other dual-licensed services or volunteer run services?

It will still get done, even without ads. The internet has, oddly enough, been the one to prove that to be the rule, not the exception.
Why? The Allies fought and won WW2 without fascism. The UK had a coalition government of the two major parties for most of the war.

We need a WW2 scale response, perhaps with similar restrictions like rationing - only this time of carbon or flights etc. Once some nations are active, others will join. Perhaps we need to see carbon and environmental impacts baked into import tariffs to "encourage" reluctant others to join.
Also, unregulated scientists doing experiments on the weather with exotic particles and no one cares.
It's (almost) funny to see how Google "reframe" the concept of privacy to preserve its business model !!!

- "large scale blocking of cookies undermine people’s privacy by encouraging opaque techniques such as fingerprinting"... so it means: one way or another, it's OK to gather as much information as possible to show relevant (targeted and weel paid) ads. But there are good ways (cookies) and bad ways (fingerprinting).

- "blocking cookies without another way to deliver relevant ads significantly reduces publishers’ primary means of funding". And what about delivering "standard" ads ???? Newspapers have shown non-targeted ads for years and nobody complained about that (I mean... except marketers maybe). If publishers stopped relying on targeted ads, maybe they may at last find some really new business model (like shared subscription) instead of just being lazy, using Google/Facebook products ?

- "If this funding is cut, we are concerned that we will see much less accessible content for everyone", meaning...? Oh... less things to show on google search engine and with AMP. As Google is not producing content by itself but using (stealing?) content produced by others, it's quite understandable that their bottom line is tied up to the content publishers providing free content. Actually, maybe Google should pay content provider to be able to include it in their serach engine ? (ok... link the link tax)

It seems to me that Google doesn't understand that users DON'T WANT TO BE TRACKED AT ALL. It has gone too creepy for years. It's not a matter of being tracked by one trick or another, it's not been tracked AT ALL.
But, admitting this would mean the end of GoogleAds. And Google seem to has lost any creativity to find new solutions to replace that product that users can't bear anymore. Sad... "do no Evil" if really gone forever :-(
How I "feel" about a scientific result is irrelevant to the result. (ie, if I am mad or happy, it doesn't _affect_ the result)

Therefore feelings are irrelevant to both the scientific process and the results found from using it.
But I haven't seen any complaints about the magstripe, just about visual blemishes.
Imo, it’s our kids that will help us to get through this. either directly or indirectly.
Nobody mention population.
> Pay for it with taxes, pay for it with premiums and bills. You’re paying for it.

Pay for what? CEO's billion-dollar salaries and luxury jets? I'm pretty sure Canadians aren't paying for that.
>Does anybody have a good plan for what to do when the worst disasters occur? Like food shortages?

Don't worry, I'm sure all the farming, gun-toting deplorables that the coastal cities detest will be more than happy to take the city dwellers in....
If it's like when I worked menial jobs then the bosses just do something to make you quit like scheduling you for only 1 hour a week, assign you to only do the shit work that was previously spread out, etc. I think that muddies the water a bit in terms of those stats
It's inevitable that we will end up in Hitler, continue boys :)
When biofuels are valuable, people clear forests to make biofuel. The carbon payback period can be up to 1000 years. It's called indirect land use change [1,2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILUC

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofuel#Greenhouse_gas_emissio...
I don't want to sound harsh, but you're wrong because you're missing the point, and badly.

The author talks about cancer diagnoses. This is an apt analogy, and there is a huge body of science for helping individuals cope with personal tragedy. Global warming is a global and personal tragedy. People will have their livelihoods ruined, and people will die. People already have, but (since this is a anglophile community) this forum is mostly insulated from developments in North Africa, the Middle East, Central America... how it impacts us is in the nationalistic/xenophobic movements around the resulting human migrations. Acknowledging this will prevent conflict and harm those that cynically try to take advantage of groups of people in vulnerable states through demagoguing.

The science should be cold an unemotional. The policy dictated by the science should be sensitive to the mental health of everyone as they absorb the magnitude of this disaster.
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Instead of fascism you could opt for any ideology that leads to conflict and war that has a gigantic death toll. Fascism isn't really known for sudden deindustrialization and everyone becoming flower hippies though.

But at that point I would opt for letting climate change hit. In the absence of catastrophic events we will need more energy today than we needed yesterday. So either we find a solution to increasing needs or problems will arise.
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> You’d think they’d simply migrate to one of their other redundant chat products!

Too risky. They are probably going to deprecate those for another chat product in 6 months.
No. We will only change faster once the situation becomes dire (crop failures, heat waves you can’t fight with AC, roads and bridges failing from the heat), and there will be much suffering due to the delay.

Prepare yourself if you can.
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I wonder if they could survive off of search page ads and website contextual ads? No user targeted ads. If they could, they could squash the invasive marketing advertisers with lobbying for privacy policy and then regain a total monopoly as no other tracking adtech is viable anymore.

I personally believe fingerprinting should be illegal, and that any company that relies on it is inherently unethical. I think Google could survive without it.

I am by no means a Google fan either, just recognizing they have some power here and that fighting for ethical policy might actually be a good business move.
The people in the world certainly care.
Hopefully it won’t come down to outright fascism, but the way our democracies work need to change in order to encourage more long term thinking on issues like climate change.

Politicians and voters too often act in short term self-interest rather than long-term economic and environmental interests.

“Give me that tax cut, big pickup truck, and cheap gas! Leave it to our grandchildren to figure out how to survive in the face of catastrophic global heating. Not our problem!”
TIL: you don't always need to read TFA before you can conclude with reasonable certainty that it is BS.
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Install ClamAV but don't run the daemon?
My point is that you want to go to places where you can convince the most people to vote for you, not necessarily the places with the most people. This means you'll want to go to places with lots of undecided voters, supporters who need to be convinced to vote, and non-supporters who you think can be swayed to your side. You also want to avoid places with lots of people who will be energized by your visit to vote against you.

Under your model where the goal of the campaign is to visit your supporters, you'll favor smaller cities that strongly support you over larger cities that support your opponent. A place with 5 million population that's 70-30 in your favor has 3.5 million supporters.
Integration and disaggregation of various parts of computer architecture is a constant cycle that depends on what’s the current bottleneck. For decades computers are connection of compute, memory, storage and network, and you can trade them based on what’s needed.

If transferring data is bottleneck, then companies start to integrate. But that has downside of not being able to grow resources at different speed, so once transferring data is no longer a bottleneck, everyone runs to disaggregate. And then it repeats.

A lot of current ideas were actually used in the past, but cycle phased them out, and they make a comeback right now.
Why was this downvoted? Save the fact that you just shouldn't use Facebook at all, I think this is great comment. It actually references text from the post, unlike many of the other comments.

It must have been a few Google bots...

I especially like this text they wrote: "attempts to improve user privacy are having unintended consequences"

Unintended consequences? Oh no! Google's evil business model is being messed with!!!
How is showing advertisements for your product not advertising? TV advertisements don't monitor every show I watch and channel I surf to, but they are still called advertisements.

You don't need to sniff my metaphorical underwear to serve me advertisements, and the definition of advertisement surely doesn't depend upon harvesting user data.
That's not how I read it. To me, it just sounded like trying to standardize all the different approaches everyone is using, so we don't end up with a mess like the User-Agent field currently is, because everyone tries their own hack on top of hack on top of hack trying to play a cat and mouse game.
I'm sure the emotions are genuine, but articles like this leave me with a sense that those concerned are waiting for others (especially "leaders") to make something happen. They want electric cars to be mandated so they can continue their addiction to the automobile despite the severe environmental effects of car culture regardless of the fuel source. They want government to force companies to develop carbon neutral everything so that they can continue their lives of consumption uninterrupted.

We control our own actions. Our continued individual consumption leads to CO2 emissions. It's in our power to radically reduce our own carbon footprint by scaling back our lives. Not seeking out environmentally-friendly alternatives, but by curbing our out-of-control consumption urges which lie at the heart of this entire mess.

However, this requires painful, life-changing choices for many. Foregoing the house in the burbs for a walkable/rideable commute. Shunning unsustainable locations like Silicon Valley, even if that means reduction in income. Scaling way back on air travel. Avoiding foods grown in rainforest whose consumption encourages deforestation (e.g., coffee). Living far below our means, in other words.

Stop blaming Trump. Rejoining the Paris Accords won't solve the problem. Far more radical adjustments will be needed to prevent even the mildest effects now being predicted.

I want to see people voicing climate change concerns recommending the only thing that audience members can directly control - live a far simpler life and start doing it now. Stop complaining about how impractical this option is. This is what every "leader" is doing, from CEOs to presidents. Act - just like you are expecting others to do so.
Id also argue that pixel art is the default fallback for people who don’t like 3d engine graphics, which I personally can’t stand. I love to see evolution of 2d graphics using our latest and greatest tech.
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Sorry, then why make the damn thing out of titanium? If it's purely for backup, give me some tried and true white plastic that's going to look fine after being in my wallet? It's simply silly to say "it's not supposed to be used" but also make it quite possibly the most aesthetically complex mass produced card in history. There is no reason it can't be changed to be more durable.