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If a critical mass of the employees both share your view and act in kind. But if you have that much power organized already, you've effectively already got the internal power to make the change you want to achieve rather than resigning.

If you do not have that critical mass, and resignation is the only moral choice, then all you achieve is eliminating that voice from the inside and eliminate any inside power to influence.
> Please - quit your overpaid tech job and actually work to change the status quo. No one is saying you have to accept the status quo.

False dichotomy. You don't need to quit your job to work to change the status quo. Indeed, you can often effect change much better from inside an important organization than from outside it.
I'm talking about the year 2003 in Spain. Perhaps I should have mentioned it.

802.11g was still a draft. There were serious issues to use cards from different vendors to talk to each other, and 802.11b cards were common.

Anyway, 802.11a frequency didn't play well with walls (or other solids), added to the shorter range compared with 802.11b (and g), in 2003 b was king and g was introduced early because of the higher speed.
Probably, that's why I said suspicious but didn't do finger pointing.
While I approve with the general direction of your comment, I think that characterizing Google merely as "a company" is disingenuous. Obviously it was not "just a job" for those who resigned.

There is nothing that I do at my job that could potentially disrupt the live of many; hence I don't feel an overwhelming sense of responsibility.

Now if I would be part of an enterprise whose name is said, typed or thought by billions every day, yeah maybe my sense of responsibility would be heighten and yes, maybe I would think it warrant a greater tribune or more sensational language.

Overall, that the essay was quite constructive, no?
> I would venture that almost no one else in this thread would watch that video and call that an all-caps HUGE amount of noise.

I listened to the video and while I wouldn’t go all-caps, it’s way more noise that I like to listen to. So I downloaded the audio track and measured the RMS noise and signal levels, getting about a 30dB SNR. That’s a somewhat bad number, which matches my subjective experience.

A few years ago I converted some old audio cassettes with voice recordings of deceased family members to MP3. I heard all sorts of weird noises, but I spent a while getting rid of them with EQ and notch filters. I don’t know if anyone else in the family cared about the work I did cleaning up the audio, but I did.

Everyone has different standards, and it’s not quite fair to say that nobody in the audience cares about these things, just like it’s not quite fair to say that everyone in the audience cares.
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I get that, but I'm not even viewing the website because it nearly crashed my computer.
Please do, but doing so in the name of LGBTQ+ and not simply as a fellow human/coworker is hurting the label, as @maps said.
> Young people starting out in the labor market often have The Fear that they will never find a job or never find a good job or another good job.

Young people fear it. Older people know it.

> Quit.

Not everyone is a 20-something silicon valley kid with companies falling all over themselves to throw money at them.

Hiring is effectively broken these days - especially in the software world.

If you're not from a top-flight university, maybe a little older, or in any other way less flashy/attractive in the job market, it can take months or sometimes years to get decent job interviews.

You can't just walk away from a decent income because idealism.
In US, since post great recession. (my observation).
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Perhaps Tesla marked the car for removal on Nov 18th, but it doesn't take effect until an update is pulled.
If the car detects damage then this is exactly what happens in limp mode. https://mechanicbase.com/engine/limp-mode/

Can't us computer people just agree to stop using car analogies?
It sounds like the correct approach was eventually selected - set boundaries for what a shoe "is" - sole thickness, etc - and ban prototypes from competition. The first limits tech progress somewhat, but also ensures all sponsoring companies have a fair shot. The second ensures that less affluent nations and non-contracted athletes have a fair shot.

Cycling has similar rules - World Tour riders must ride bikes that meet a laundry list of criteria (double-triangle frame, saddle placement in relation to pedals to limit aero, etc) and all equipment must be available retail. Within those boundaries, innovation still occurs - material tech, aero testing, etc all happen, just within a smaller defined set of rules.
And that's what posts like this are slowly doing. Changing public opinion towards our way of life.
Speaking of fun technical rundowns, I've idly wondered:

- Approximately which year's average desktop PC is equivalent to a current Raspberry Pi?

- What year's worldwide computing power is equivalent to a current Raspberry Pi?

I'm sure folks can come up with other comparisons to make. I know it's not very useful to the world, but it's fun to think of just how much astonishing compute power we have these days.
> carbon removal technologies that would allow us to set a price per ton of carbon released

Interesting idea. This reminds me of the "Future Cost Function" used in my country to decide the marginal cost of another MWh of hydroelectric generation. Since this country generates over half of its power from hydroelectricity, and the amount of rain varies seasonally (and also depends on the conditions of both the Pacific and the Atlantic), there's always the question: should we use more of the water from the dams, or should we save the water for later and use the thermal generators instead? If we use too much water, and the next rainy season doesn't rain enough, the reservoirs could run dry (which is really bad, since we don't have enough thermal generators); if we save too much water, we're wasting money on expensive fuel (and in the worst case, the reservoirs could get full and have to throw away the excess water, without having the chance to use it to generate electricity). The "Future Cost Function" model simulates the future cost of the thermal generation for several scenarios, to arrive at a cost for the water which minimizes the total cost (given that less costly generators are dispatched first, so a higher cost for the water means more and more costly thermal generators will be dispatched).

What you propose seems similar: you are suggesting to use something we can easily measure (the cost of removing one ton of CO2 from the air) to decide a price for something which would appear to have a zero price otherwise (the cost of emitting one ton of CO2 into the air). I would go even further, given the similarities with what I described above, and somehow put a "target concentration" in the formula, so that initially the cost is higher (to fund removal for the extra CO2 which is already there) and automatically winds down to near zero if the concentration gets near the target (or even overshoots it).
Could you link to the chair you're using? I've been eyeing https://www.autonomous.ai/office-chairs/ergonomic-chair myself
The oil and gas industry is essential to the well being of billions of people. It's literally the fuel for the world’s economy.

Without it we would have substantially less food, travel would be all but impossible, and the technology sector would grind to a halt.

Eliminating the industry would cause harm on a scale the world has never seen. An entirely predictable and preventable catastrophe done in the name of a naive environmental absolutism.

Maybe let’s come up with solutions that don’t require pushing millions of people into poverty because they can no longer heat their homes or grow their food.

Also FWIW, the moral accountability argument here is pretty shaky reasoning. A great many people use Google products for evil. That doesn’t make Google morally responsible for it.
Why is it that the eyes are often slightly off on so many of these? Many are fine, but the majority seem to have a slightly lazy eye.
Not necessarily, high end chocolate is often a brutal low margin business. Generally, food companies increase profit margins by lowering quality.

Massive companies also have low average profits, but it’s not low quality driving down profits so much as growing to the edge of unprofitability because high profit margins are not inherently as useful as total profits. If say Budweiser increased their price by say 10c a can their overall profit would decrease even if their profit margin would increase.
More undergraduates emerge each year, with eco-oriented training, than there are places to fill, in the USA. Good "jobs" in this space are often filled with people with advanced training and some level of being independently wealthy, working for below-cost-of-living, no children, etc.. It is ordinary for big dot-orgs to ask for free work, even when there is a budget, here in the US. Behind the scenes, certain groups have pooled money and invested it, while fundraising and asking for volunteers. The truth is, this is partly necessary, because "money" is not being created, money is being spent. There is a long-term fundraising need for this work, and it shows in unexpected ways, sometimes tough to see in action.
Amazon just assumes that nobody will read the prep material and reserves a block of time at the beginning (as long as 90m IME) for silent reading and markup. Seemed to work pretty well.
There is a reason, the battery.
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What is this, Don Draper's "Why I'm quitting tobacco" letter?
Jesus fuck. I was in Svalbard 25 years ago. The change is absolutely mindblowing.

I really thought I was somewhat informed about the effects, but what happened there is way beyond anything you get from reading papers.

But sure, HN, go ahead, discuss if it's the right format/UX to deliver the message that we're fucked. Heaven forbid we talk about the message itself.
Most of them use Macs and work on FreeBSD in a VM (I'm not kidding)
HA! I appreciate your perspective and comment. I'm nearly 3 years into wall street and, while on the lower end of the payscale, I KNOW that if I pursue the more ambitious high six, low seven figure lifestyle, I will have to 'play the game'.

People who claim they have no choice but to play the game have already decided they will tolerate it as much as possible.
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To fight Coronavirus?
Software can’t do that.

You mean to ask what Software AI techniques may produce a viable product in the marketplace.
It does, if you're going from Leander/Cedar Park to downtown it's useful. It takes about the same amount of time as driving in rush-hour, but without the bs.

Texas generally sees public-transport as something for poor people and the state is full of armchair libertarians..
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These are hard problems, and there are many built-in assumptions with funding.

I live in a small city with lots of challenges. Our overall per-pupil spending is about $24,000. In what is probably considered the best suburban district in the region, the per-pupil spending is about $19,000.

There are definitely school funding issues, but money is being over-credited in these types of stories. The social and family situations are much bigger predictors than the school.

IMO, the schools are being expected to fill gaps in social services, and doing so is both expensive and ineffective.
> basically a distribution of FreeBSD that worked in this laptop series - you bought the laptop and a years support and basically three hackers just kept on producing patches and co-ordinating drivers and making simple tools and simple videos on how to keep your base running.

This is basically the business model of Apple Computers
Some good resources for finding organizations/jobs that have a positive impact on the environment:

* Climatescape: https://climatescape.org/

* Climate.Careers: https://climate.careers/

(Disclaimer: I know the people who created both of those, so I guess I'm biased as to their quality, but I really do think they're very valuable resources.)

There are also some great Slack groups for technologists who are worried about climate change:

* https://climateaction.tech/

* https://techimpactmakers.com/

I'm also part of the Sunrise Movement[0], which has significantly pushed US politics in the direction of actually doing something about about climate change. I'm working on various software projects for them, and would love to help anyone who's interested get involved in that. Feel free to email me -- my email's in my profile.

[0] https://www.sunrisemovement.org/
Why disable the TPM? One cool thing you can do is store your SSH private key inside:

https://blog.habets.se/2013/11/TPM-chip-protecting-SSH-keys-...
problem: pre-release shoes favor a tiny number of already-famous athletes

proposed solution: athletes must use gear that's been GA for N years (5?), i.e. enough time to profuse into the market and for competitors to catch up.

problem: wealthy athletes have an unfair advantage over less wealthy athletes.

proposed solution: only allowed to use gear whose total price is below X. (street price? list price? I'm sure there's a solution...)
We're not talking 20-30 years. Even by your more optimistic estimate of 4TWh of global battery production by 2030, it would still take 5-7 years worth of global battery production supply to fulfill just the United States' storage needs. Currently the US accounts for ~17% of global energy consumption, but that share is going to be lower in the future as less developed countries expand their energy production capacity. And on top of that, we're not going to be dedicating the entirety of our battery production to energy storage because we'll still be building electronics and electric vehicles.
... if you live close to the Expo line. That's the thing. The feeders don't exist.

Also, the travel times are as predicted by maps. And it matches my in-person experience. But I'm glad you told me my experiences are completely wrong.
Strikes are more effective than unorganized internal advocacy and quitting. They force management to consider the viewpoint of workers or they lose control and money.
How is search so goddamn bad? A ‘Case Study’
My crack at it: Greed is economic theory agnostic. When an artist only makes pennies per album sold while the publishers reap dollars, it seems pretty obvious where the issue lies. The music industry has been corrupt to the core for many decades, kept alive only by it's sheer objective value through people's love for music.
> Do you really want to pay substantially more for heating/cool, gas, and almost every good?

Until carbon taxes become ubiquitous, this seems like the only viable option to combat climate change. The current model is functionally subsidizing goods and energy at the cost of future and current environmental damage. While I certainly agree that government solutions (carbon taxes, subsidies for clean energy) are optimal, they are not currently in place - that they may someday does not excuse inaction (or actively damaging action) in the present day.

Improving alternatives and choosing not to support fossil fuel companies are not mutually exclusive.
I think this is all correct, but I'd just encourage people to think through the tradeoffs in play. Nothing can compete on time with an extensive point-to-point road network. But a city designed that way is going to be less healthy, harder to walk or bike in, more polluted, noisier, more spread out, and with far more transportation-related deaths and injuries.
agree - but, its not very constructive to put coal on a global average.. Certain economies are really changing, and other economies really are not. There has to be some constructive way forward that engages this...
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That oversimplifies things a bit — leaving a company is not as extreme as "leaving society".
> Paychecks have nothing to do with whether you as a person find the company's policies palatable or not

The very reason Google is paying employees is that they are contributing to the company's goals, either directly or indirectly. So it isn't really Google the abstract entity that is causing climate change, it is all the employees working under the "Google" banner — including the people complaining about climate change. That is what is hypocritical.

For the second part — "have them STFU" is a bit extreme, but I think Google does have the right to be held to a similar standard than the companies they are competing with and the rest of the country/world. If the response every time they make some progress is "you aren't going far enough!" - even though they are miles ahead of everyone else - eventually they'll just stop making the effort altogether.
I'd be very curious about any study about outcomes for good school-type kids (i.e., ones whose parents could afford to buy a nice house and send them to a good school) who go to schools in poor neighborhoods. Does anyone know of such a study?
Ha, right? Easy to talk about morality and such after they’ve already cashed out.
How often do you purchase new running shoes, and retire the old ones?
I think Norway should lead by example and immediately cease all oil and gas production. /s After all, they're enlightened Europeans who believe in the impending climate change catastrophe, so what's the hold up?
Well, if there were no government, people's first instinct is still to defend their property. They might lose or decide it's a losing battle, of course.
Today I learned that not everyone has an internal monologue
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It's a link to the court documents, hosted at that site.

www.theamazonpost.com/wp-content/uploads/Chevron-Ecuador-Opinion-3.4.14.pdf

I'm not saying the documents aren't legit (I don't know). But it's clearly a link to that site.
I'm suggesting that if you already have ownership rights in Chevron, you should tell them to stop polluting the Amazon. Which you probably do if you're invested in any S&P500 index fund, for example, even if you're not invested directly.

Incidentally, the Government of Ecuador did buy a 25% share in the Texaco Lake Agrio oil field, via Petroecuador. And they also did raid offices at various points of the longstanding lawsuit iirc.
The problem is is that the average is presented without the range and called normal or typical. you may live your life and never experience an average day.
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It's really not. This decision is a very personal one unique to each employee. Internal activism can be very effective especially if done in a way that gets more attention among existing employees. On the other hand, this is extremely risky to their employment (and in America that means their housing and healthcare) and on top of that it's a ton of work.

It's great when someone who quits has the resources to also try to bring some attention to the reasons why.
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I actually feel this way about attacks on employment in general, so I'll try to give some quick context about the belief.

I grew up in a lower-middle-class household. We declared bankruptcy once when I was young, and I was told to prepare to have "strangers come and take away furniture" (which, thankfully, never materialized). I never went hungry, but we did live paycheck-to-paycheck and frequently relied on the charity of our extended family to make ends meet. In short, money stress was a thing, and it was obvious from a very young age.

So I consider an attack on someone's employment to be a very serious road to go down because:

- Most people don't have savings, and it isn't necessarily their fault.

- Not everyone has a support structure, we were immensely lucky to have wealthy and generous relatives.

- 4 weeks of unemployment is plenty of time for bills to pile up if someone doesn't have savings, I've taken longer than 4 weeks to find a job every time I've looked.

- COBRA is insanely expensive and may be required if, for example, a close relative is very sick. Fighting with an insurance company as an individual is immensely difficult and interrupting someone's care to have that fight can be life-threatening.

- Desperation breeds poor decision making. That individual may take a pay cut or change careers and never recover.

- The various social consequences of being fired can make finding a job extra difficult.

Basically, I've seen my own family one fail-safe away from disaster, so its easy to imagine the bottom. In fact, that money stress from my childhood has haunted me as an adult -- even though I've never needed to worry about it from a factual standpoint.

I don't have any of these concerns if the individual is obviously wealthy, and I wouldn't go so far as to say one should never try to have anyone fired. But I do personally believe the bar to do so is very high.

Note: I'm not interested in convincing anyone of my point of view. Just giving context for why people think like this.
Every thousand miles or so. Which is to say three times a year because I walk/run about 10 miles a day, which I once thought was original behavior, but see Nikolai Tesla.
Given your comment is the top comment, could you clarify if there was any point behind your seemingly irrelevant anecdote other than performing a drive-by dump on Google?

Edit: it looks like the user was writing in good faith. I am sorry for over-reacting.
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A millifortnight turns out to be just over 20 minutes...
It is important to have your core engaged. This doesn't mean applying a maximal level of force, but you should maintain control of your spine.

It is OK to lean towards your computer, lean back, do all sorts of weird things -- if you do the work to maintain your spine and neck position. In fact, you should vary your position as you work, take breaks, etc.
Meanwhile half the signup flow of Teams still tries to convince you that using Edge is the only way to continue.
She got fired and yet, a quick look at the last decade's financials would support she was correct.
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Backgammon has gained some new popularity since computer programs appeared that were able to beat humans and more importantly, analyze the games afterwards.
The game is now played more as a game of skill than of luck: there are some backgammon sites that rate your play according to computer analysis, e.g. https://backgammongalaxy.com/.
If you're interested you should give it a try.
My T480 is fairly quiet unless it's under pretty heavy load. I do have the model with discrete graphics, which apparently has much better cooling (even when the discrete chip isn't being used).