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The trouble is, the leaked internal documents point to Exxon actually genuinely believing the climate change doubt narrative they were pushing externally. So any argument to the contrary has to make clever use of tricks like selective out-of-context quotation, emotional appeals, and plausible-sounding but logically nonsensical arguments to trick the reader.

For example, this lawsuit. The overall tactic is to argue that Exxon knew fossil fuels could potentially cause catastropic climate change but decieved people by sowing uncertainty about whether they would cause climate catastrophe, which isn't even a contradiction, but let's put that issue to one side.

They then hit it out the park with a humdinger - in May 2019, CO2 concentrations hit 415 ppm, and 37 years ago Exxon's scientists predicted this in a graph. This astonishing accuracy shows Exxon's scientists knew exactly how much CO2 emissions and warming they were causing. Here's the leaked document this graph was taken from: https://insideclimatenews.org/sites/default/files/documents/... Some choice quotes from it that somehow didn't make it into the complaint: "There is currently no unambiguous scientific evidence that the earth is warming", "Overall, the current outlook suggests potentially serious climate problems are not likely to occur until the late 21st century or perhaps beyond at projected energy demand rates", and also apparently coastal flooding wouldn't happen for centuries even in the worst case scenario. There's quite a bit more too. The supposedly super-accurate secret internal report didn't contradict Exxon's external talking points, it matched up with them exactly.

(There's also weirdly gratuitous dishonesty. For instance, the Exxon document argues that if a rapid move away from fossil fuels was necessary to prevent climate catastrophe, nuclear power was the only feasible option and renewables such as solar were completely infeasable since it'd take at least 40-50 years to achieve significant power production using them. For some reason, the complaint claims that Exxon recognised measures such as energy conservation and shifting to renewable sources were the only viable options. I guess the prosecutor reckoned renewable power was more sympathetic and popular than nuclear...

The complaint also goes on to accuse Exxon of misleading the public by claiming that efficiency improvements in their products reduce greenhouse gas emissions because producing and using them still emits greenhouse gases. Do they want to actively discourage energy efficiency improvements?)
Different approaches: Daniel Micay's https://grapheneos.org is a step in the direction you're looking for.

With Android 8 Google introduced Project Treble which kind of enforces that AOSP work out-of-the-box on every (!) Google Certified device. This has kick-started a popular project, phh-treble, by a senior XDA developer that I keep a keen eye on.

You could flash AOSP today on any (!) Google certified android phone that launched with Oreo+ with very few quirks, if any.

https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki/Fre...
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The lag isn't a minor factor though. We are talking a decade plus of incorrect predictions. Newer models that have taken deep ocean warming into account are probably more accurate.

The oceans are now significantly warmer than earlier models predicted. There's no way that doesn't impact the outcome.
Welcome to corporate media where spin IS the substance! At least it’s not “terrorism”, “democracy”, “national security”, or “freedom” related.

Why can’t Facebook keep track of its own bikes? Cops don’t scale like gps does.
Yet in practice let's take a look at France (nuclear) vs Germany (leading solar/wind):

"French electricity costs are just 59% of German electricity prices. As such, according to the prevailing economic wisdom, French electricity should be far more carbon intensive than German's. And yet the opposite is the case. France produces one-tenth the carbon pollution from electricity.

Why? Because France generates 72% of its electricity from nuclear, and just 6% from solar and wind."

France is cheaper and produces 2x more electricity from clean sources compared to Germany, where costs keep going up.
Dang it. I noticed that my user agent was one of the biggest identifiers for me (1 in 200 users), and I realized it was because I was still on Chrome 76 while most users were on Chrome 77. So, I finally restarted my browser to allow the update to happen.

Well, apparently I leap-frogged to Chrome 78, which even fewer people are on. Now my user agent is shared by just 1 in 1400 users, and my fingerprint went from nearly-unique to unique. Go figure. :P
I dunno. I'd say new classification strategies like K-Means* really did it. Without that, all the power in the world doesn't get you anywhere.

* https://www-cs.stanford.edu/~acoates/papers/coatesng_nntot20...
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For someone so critical of Purism's dishonest PR, jaylittle should probably check his own hyperbolic grandstanding of being an "investor" entitled to internal information.
Because it's still above the tipping point. Cities not majority-minority or undergoing white flight will still enjoy the benefits of being perceived as having a mostly-white population (responsive and sympathetic law enforcement, for one).
I only use the term "Tech Debt" among engineering team. For communicating to a broader audience, I use:

"Improve product, engineering, and operational excellence".

The idea is that the broader audience focus is on the overall benefits and costs, not on whether we have debt. This phrase also allows me to make process changes that improves the team's efficiency outside of Tech Debt.
> Taking the example, what AB25 actually says is that a journalist on a 1099 has a limit of 35 articles per year per pub. To exceed that limit, the journalist does not have to be fulltime. They merely have to be paid on a W2.

That's the point here. They cease to become freelancers, which means the company has to pay for many types insurances, benefits and the other half of social security tax. This usually adds about 20-30% of additional overhead on each worker.

That might sound like no big deal and even favorable to the freelancer but that's not what the outcome will be. Businesses don't just reach into their pockets and start paying for these things. They either pass down the 20-30% in losses to the freelancers or just hire full time employees to replace the freelancers.

See for example the effects this type of heavy-handed regulation has had on other "freelancer"-dependent industries:

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/new-rules-for-contractors-ha...

In other words what the author has said is true: it becomes difficult or near impossible to make a freelance income from CA businesses.
I also object to associating everything bad with "corporations". This particular article is almost falling over with spin because its single author wrote it that way.

> Why can’t Facebook keep track of its own bikes? Cops don’t scale like gps does.

Things don't magically become easier because you're part of a corporation. Try replacing the word "Facebook" with "10,000 Menlo Park residents", does it still sound obvious how to prevent bike theft? I sure hope when my bike does eventually get stolen, you won't tell me the same thing.
Keep in mind that this is just about users visiting panopticlick. The statistics don't necessarily reflect rewl life analytics unless the rest of your country are also visiting this website.

Other bits of entropy are relevant though (such as canvas fingerprints etc.)
The problem with omnipresent cameras which are nowadays able, through facial recognition systems, to track any number of people fully automated?

Which problem do you _not_ see with that?
My job used to include writing PHP webpages that were exposed to the internet, and looking after the webservers they were running on.

I'm, not responsible for any public-facing webservers any more. My life is much better.

[Edit: I reckon using a well-designed functional language might reduce the risk - like, PHP was never designed at all, it grew by accretion]
This makes me think part of the problem with tech debt is that it means different things to different people. Some people might describe it as a codebase just not keeping up with this month's latest and greatest JS frameworks, but I think of it as something much more nefarious- low level shittiness and incoherency that tends to seep into long-lived large projects over time. Eventually the lack of refactoring to account for new features or behaviors turns it into a giant blob of spaghetti, where everything knows about everything and what should be minor, localized changes can have unforeseen consequences. This is harder to deal with IMO because it's something that appears so slowly that it's hard to stop in isolated instances ("WTF, you wanna rewrite this whole class instead of just commenting out that one line and adding one more tiny code path to fix this bug right now?!?"). That type of technical debt is more of a boiling frog problem where it's not obvious to everyone how bad it is until serious consequences have started to arise.
>This article is an interesting example of using careful wording to paint one side as maximally sympathetic and the other as maximally unsympathetic. It's the kind of thing that should be read in high school classes to help train critical thinking.

It's also interesting that your thesis applies to your own comment.
I think most kiosks and other locations that serve as pickup/drop-off spots have better hours than the delivery driver.

They tend to open at around 7:00, and close at 18:00 or 19:00, which is much easier to schedule around than a driver who might deliver between, say, 7-17.
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Sure. I still wonder and it would be interesting to find out which filesystems is the most resilient under the conditions you describe there.
Interesting coincidence that France stopped at 80%. That's the same amount that widely touted as being straightforward with current renewable tech.

I'd guess it's for the same reason, after that you're dealing with seasonal variations that would leave nuclear or renewables unused for most of the year.
I'm sorry.

I was running out of memory on the queue server, so had to restart the server many times while fixing it.

Instead of caching all the render results in memory, they are now being served from disk instead, which should solve the issue.
What’s really astonishing to me is Facebook can’t develop a mobile app to secure the bikes to prevent unauthorized riding and to hold their employees accountable for littering the city with discarded bikes.
The U.S. Copyright Term Extension Act, aka the "Mickey Mouse" Act, is an outrageous piece of legislation. The law effectively denigrated the public welfare and reduced the public domain for the benefit of a few corporations. It should be undone.
Most homes have multiple cars.

A single high-end car could support multiple homes without the grid for over 24 hours.

So I think even at adoption rates under 5% you would see enough capacity to shave those peaks and make it easier to respond to changes in demand.

See Australia's tests with grid-smoothing batteries. Immensely successful and it has paid for itself.

https://www.sciencealert.com/remember-the-giant-tesla-batter...
Which is one more point in favor of calling it that. Some tech debt can be put off forever, other tech debt has very high interest rates.
Well said, and often an artifact of "agile" where shortcuts are rewarded.
And yet both France and Germany plan to move to mostly renewable. Which the French government thinks will save them money. Something that probably wouldn't have been possible without Germany's far sighted leadership on this issue.

I wonder how you could attribute the carbon saved by all the people choosing solar and wind as the current cheapest options to the people who put their money where their mouth was when that was just a projection.
With PG&E shutting off power in California, I think we'll see a growth in battery packs (like Tesla Powerwall) -- at least among the ~1 million impacted customers.

There is now a much stronger incentive to get off the grid, with the shut-offs expected to continue for 10 years.
Ars reviewed a good short throw 4K projector yesterday, but it’s $2700 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/4k-projector-turns-a...
In the first 2/3 I just list a representative selection of direct quotes. In the last 1/3 I give my opinion and make it clear that it is my personal opinion. That's how journalism should work, my whole point is that it's not how this article works.
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Have you ever been a victim of property theft? The police caring is highly irregular. Feels like justice for the rich.
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This is one of those "while technically true..." sorts of articles. Clearly, the author has not argued very much with creationists. Creationists are wrong, usually know they're wrong, and aren't afraid to argue in bad faith. So, while it's technically true that humans evolved from apes, the question from a creationist is usually, "If humans evolved from apes, why are apes still around?" This article's argument lets creationists bog the argument down by deliberately not understanding nuances, and seemingly small truths that will undermine the creationist arguments.

If you're going to argue with creationists, don't do this one. Use the "well actually, humans and apes have a common ancestor" one. You'll do better against bad faith, willfully moronic argumentation.
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Those incentives are not really worth it. I'm not going to delay the delivery for days to save a dollar. If it is one extra day I might consider. I'm sure Amazon is doing experiments to determine time/value curve.
When you look at the cost of this ($199), you start to appreciate microprocessors and moore's law from the cost per transistor on a chip.
Thanks to lobbying by Disney, this has long been a continuously moving target[0].

Thankfully, efforts to extend the period yet again have failed[1], so the original incarnation of Mickey will enter the public domain in 2023.

But the damage has been done. After a certain period, older works just naturally loose their cultural relevance. Disney's main characters being the obvious exception but there's been (and will be) tons of collateral damage.

IMHO, it's disgusting what they've done.

[0] https://alj.artrepreneur.com/mickey-mouse-keeps-changing-cop...
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/a-whole-years-wo...
That's true for us as well with our legacy applications.

Our newer applications are using litespeed instead, and we've found it to be significantly better. You basically get the features of a nginx + apache + varnish stack in a single easily managed service and with better performance too.
What do you mean by “real growth”? No interest earned?

What I want is the ability to safely store value.

Saving money in a bank account wasn’t working for me, because monthly fees took literally my last pennies, which led to overdraft charges.

Saving money with bitcoin hasn’t just maintained and stored value for me, it has also grown tremendously in value.

In my case, it’s risky to participate in the traditional financial system anyway, so I don’t feel like experimenting with an alternative system is any more or less risky.
Wow! I'm glad I saw this today. The server we use to host our corporate blog was vulnerable. I updated the php-fpm to the latest and I think I'm OK now.
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In a way, one could argue that there is no such thing as "technical debt".

This term usually denotes technical decisions which lead to functional software at a cost of now difficulty in future development, debugging, performance etc. But that cost only matters only when it's actually collected, e.g. when later development is actually difficult because of those decisions. Which might never come to pass, and activities to"improve" the codebase are wasted unless one is 100% certain that it will happen.

It might be better to consider that practice "fixing non-functional bugs".
I'm not following how that has anything to do with what I said. Profit and loss are values calculated from other financials, not a starting point for them.

Also, what? Net assets = assets - liabilities. That's it. Profit has nothing to do with it unless you're trying to say that after you account for profits and don't spend them on anything else your assets will be increased. Maybe you're referring to something related to Return on Net Assets?
As someone who didn't back it (I got burned by the pandora people a few years ago and have shyied from helping people like this), it seems very possible the issues in producing a FOSS phone not only faces lack of will but really faces systemic challenges that have a price tag, like producing a phone with parts that don't require blobs just adds that many more constraints.

After seeing so many failures in this space, it's clear it might take something beyond the mere "backers-to-a-start-up-like-company" model. I'm not sure what that will take but it's happened enough that it appears it needs something more.
Salary?

Edit: silliness aside...

When I get paychecks, I have to either get them cashed at the bank that issued the check, at a grocery store, or through a friend or relative who has a bank account.

I request cash for payment, when possible.
at 5am, there is literally no traffic on the streets of Manhattan. There is a way to utilize the resources of the roads when there is no traffic.
Same goods, less labor. Growth in goods output is not required.
Not sure what you mean by "not near as polished" but reading it as "nowhere near as polished for mobile devices" perhaps.
>> I'm sorry.

No need to be sorry, believe me I understand how hard it is to build something like this. You are to be applauded for doing something both fun and hard.
Eating your own dog food is a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpo_(pet_food)#Marketing I’m surprised marketing guys don’t know that
I'd say it's in Croatian. In Russian, it's "пизда"
I worked for a trucking company for a few weeks during two summers in college. I did Manhattan deliveries once, which meant going in the middle of the night ~9pm - ~5am and doing the deliveries to avoid spending all day in traffic.

Was definitely an interesting experience.
Google keeps their search private, startpage uses a private API.
Ok, I thought we were talking about economics and thus economic growth. If you want to get into intangible things like general well-being then it's a different discussion entirely.
If anyone is following standard "recommended" practice, like in Nextcloud case, they get burned. This is true for all languages and frameworks.

If you dont practice defense-in-depth, you get rekt eventually.

I just checked my installation, its safe, since I didnt follow their "recommended" settings at all.

Since its a PHP app, what I do is put an extra nginx proxy infront of it, so there is nginx 1 (this one runs in its own lxc container with seccomp and has not even a /bin/sh in it, only executables and libc required for nginx, its only a network reverse proxy) - nginx2 (special instance for each php app, also same as nginx1 container with _nothing_ in it, but also a bind mounted ipc_socket which is also mounted to php_app container.

So the php_app container and nginx2 share only 1 ipc.socket bind mounted from the host. Now then, in the php app container, there is also lack of /bin/sh or anything else, not even the package manager, only what php-fpm requires, and the nextcloud .php scripts, are in there. _nothing_ else.

So even if this exploit would have worked, there would still be nothing standard to run in the php-app container (like /bin/ls), except the php scripts themselves, though thats bad enought to steal my nextcloud data.
Robert Del Naja is almost definitely not actually Banksy, although he is "friends" with him. (Although I personally think Bansky might likely be a collective)
Living things--even plants--are far more complicated than software. Science is so mired in race-to-publication and astroturfing that anyone uncritically accepting these "results" is doing so at their own peril.
Been wondering this for a while even though I have both installed
I've had stuff stolen from me plenty of times, and the police never cared because there was nothing they could do about it. My stuff was here, now it isn't, what are they supposed to do?

Obviously it's different if the owner of a stolen thing literally sees it out on the street, which is what happened in this case.
One can easily know what it is a reference to and think it's bad framing.
There is also the /e/ initiative: https://e.foundation
I wouldn’t categorize this as technical debt unless you’ve deriberatly choosen to implement the wrong abstraction first, to get the product out the door earlier, or some other short term benefit. Technical debt is a deliberate action with some upfront knowledge of its consequences.
Here's a perspective shift. Profit is just a term for the owners' wages. Grocery store revenue paid to anyone, employee or owner, are all at risk of not "closing the loop". Thus, profit is not the problem, though concentrating it at the top does usually slow the flow.

The real equalization problem involves everyone.
Right. Far sighted leadership of shutting down perfectly good, clean, nuclear power plants, and trying to replace them with intermittent renewables. That need to be backed up by more reliable alternatives, like strip mining old-growth forests for dirty brown coal to burn in steam generators, or importing electricity from France's nuke plants.

Just brilliant.
How did you end up getting permission to test this? It's hard to believe some high school would allow a random alum to invade their school and leave devices (that could literally be anything. Hell, maybe it's a time-release mustard gas distribution system or [even worse!] recording devices meant to fabricate and embroil the school in some kind of scandal!) in classrooms all over their campus.
I wonder if most people vote on policy or because they don't like the previous party in power anymore and think it's corrupt and/or they like the personality of the new party candidate.
> the majority of the benefit to society is gained simply by its publication and broad distribution.

You just made the perfect argument for a robust public domain.
Voter participation was 50%. Decisive indeed.
Unfortunately the article is down, but I am deeply saddened to hear there are issues with Librem 5. I mean, I know its behind schedule, and that’s fine. But I really hope it comes to market.

It’s actually funny. Seeing Gnome 3 run on a phone made me reach an epiphany: I actually don’t like Gnome 3 as a desktop environment, but it seems pretty decent as a phone environment.

I’m currently running an iPhone because Apple makes good hardware. But I am pretty much ready to take any compromise to get a phone that can ship conventional Linux out of the box. I know it’s not everyone’s favorite, but with the Linux desktop I feel in control.

The second best thing would be a phone running postmarket OS, but I don’t see too many promising options, and frankly I think in 2019 it’s unfortunate we can’t have a phone with mostly open source firmware.
It doesn't. It's a exceptionally well thought out comment that provides direct reasoning and examples.

If you think it does, then why dont you articulate why?
The trolling might be the case, but given how many failures occur in these kinds of projects lead people to calling BS or grift when they see it, even if the trolls are just too cynical. You can't blame them for being a little critical.
Sure, though he has "The Adam Smith Institute" being selective for him.