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I think that in an ideal organization, staff autonomy is conditioned on the risks and rewards of staff-initiated contributions to the business.

High autonomy is higher variance. Some of that may be good - innovation. Some of that may be bad - customer or market failures. The outcomes are money consequences to a business, and given business has some to downside tolerance to that. In some businesses tech innovations have huge realizable upside.

Maybe a way to see the autonmy tradeofff is in terms of manufacturing complexity. A business whose products reach customers via endpoints on hosted service is different than one whose products are tractors off an assembly line. Maybe that's understood as how capital-intensive it is to bring a marginal capability to market.

I'll say further than in an ideal organization, with respect to autonomy, the job of management is allocating attention and distributing context, and that management and staff alike are serving a well articulated mission through the vehicle of the business organization. In a given instance, we all can take a compass reading on "true north" for business.

A non ideal business, for starters, has a self serving and self interested control structure that views autonomy in relation to power.

Both SV and traditional companies can be ideal or not. I think the difference comes down a culture of thinking about risk - reward, and the collective, cultural engagement with mission.
https://imgur.com/a/EPYU4kn I warned about this
...and you can only do that with education and contraception, since human nature makes people feel okay to break the rules so long as they aren't being watched. Punishing teenagers for doing teenage things has never worked out anywhere (not sure if that was the intent of your message, but just putting it out there).
What about deer? Those things dart into roads and runways. Can we teach vehicles to co-exist with deer and other low intelligence animals?
Optimizing for worker fungibility, in a vacuum, seems like a -EV "playing not to lose" strategy. It's understandable that this line of thinking is common though.

I also believe that to be the case as an employee. Ie, being a generalist is probably -EV for your career but it feels safer so it's kind of a contrarian position to say "be a specialist".
https://imgur.com/a/EPYU4kn I warned you guys about this yesterday
There are a few assumptions in play here that have become so ingrained in how we think politically that they may as well be laws of thermodynamics:

1. The left is generally good; the right is generally evil.

2. The goal of leftists is equality and harmony for all. The goal of rightists is to eliminate Jews/blacks/LGBTQ/etc.

3. Leftist rhetoric must be taken at face value, or at least as innocuously as possible; rightist rhetoric must be treated as a secret coded dogwhistle message that actually calls for war, genocide, or other unspeakable horrors. When a rightists uses conflict-related metaphors they are certainly to be taken at face value, whereas a leftist going on about "slicey bois" is certainly not a threat.

4. Accordingly, leftist violence must be considered either the relatively harmless or completely justified actions of a single individual or relatively small group of individuals with no coordination larger than a single cell taking place ("antifa is not a group, it's an idea"). Rightist violence must be considered to be highly coordinated, with individual attacks receiving secret coded dogwhistle instructions, directly or indirectly, from the top thought leaders on the right including the POTUS if he be Republican. ("stochastic terrorism").

5. Therefore, leftist violence is to be grimly tolerated at worst -- hopefully actively supported and encouraged as an essential step toward a more just society. Rightist violence is to be met with swift punishment not just for the offender, but their family, pets, and anyone caught displaying any sympathy for them. Anyone questioning the narrative that these are terrorist operatives taking orders from the top are to be shunned and shut out of decent society by decent people, and certainly not allowed to communicate.

I make no statements as to the truth or falsity of the above.I think it's a bit more nuanced than the extremes of either side will care to admit. But these are the rhetorical rules you have to deal with because if you don't, louder voices will drown you out and eventually shun you.
Seems implausible. Why would anyone design a system that way. I suspect it must be a more complicated combination of circumstances as it often is.
Well, if nothing else, glad to see there is a paper trail to track down the terrorists who plotted and took part in last week’s insurrection.
Oil and gas were/are massively subsidized. Solar is winning because it turns out that at scale it's just cheaper. Nothing beats cheaper.
I very much doubt that the book ends up on a web server as a result of some LaTeX-CI rather than being uploaded by a person.

I'm trying to be considerate and provide a uniquely identifiable file name whenever I make some available to the public. In my opinion, books require the full name and revision, and, as I've already mentioned, you can have a link to it (or a copy) with a short name if you'd like to have an option of a short URL for verbal link transmission.
"when the looting starts the shooting starts"
It's most intense storm in the last 50 years. Admittedly we should be expecting these with more regularity but it's still a bit of a black Swan.

Nonetheless in a system with wind and solar, wind over producing in storms should mitigate the effect of losing solar coverage.
If you read what happened you'd know that this could never happen if they built their system with the minimum care required. Twillio is absolutely not the culprit.
Capitol cybersecurity fallout: Stolen laptops, lost data, possible espionage
Where are the comments about how awful it is for people's private messages to be leaked? Or is this okay because the media told me these guys are the bad guys.
It’s not a legal issue. People and companies have the freedom to put what they want on their websites or not.

Trump just stood up and asked for his people to go to the capitol - one of his former campaign managers called for beheading members of government.

Calling out his lies - a la politifact and many others - hasn’t worked to deradicalize. Fact check verifications next to the content haven’t. So - just shutting off the calls for violence and lies are the next step.

“Opposition to Trump looks inept”(?) The opposition just swept congress and the presidency, crushed the popular vote, and even members of his party are strongly against his actions. Ineptitude is the Trump’s legal challenges against the election and the “4 Seasons Total Landscaping” fiasco.

Trump can raise funds in many ways. He can get checks. No one is required to allow someone to raise funds on their site - let freedom ring!
DNC emails were leaked by russian "security researchers".
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat, during Watergate
A lot of software breaks when you're not running 4kb pages. I run a POWER9 desktop, and the default page size is 64kb. A lot of ... interesting problems manifest.

Some filesystems like Btrfs and XFS (iirc) have elements that are page size dependent, and can only be opened on systems with the same page size as the one that made them.

Some stuff like Wine (and windows in general AFAIK) assumes 4k "alignment" and doesn't like it when it differs)

Of course, on P9 you can just change the page size to 4k and be done with it. Apple appears to have only implemented 16KB pages and nothing else, presumably to minimize silicon cost/maximize performance (?)
> “This technology could unlock an enormous amount of innovation,” potentially becoming a new platform as the iPhone was for smartphone apps, he said.

"Platforms", aka "Minitels 2.0"¤ are what is wrong today with the Web specifically, and the state of today's infocom technologies in general.

The whole point of Tim's "pods", is that just like the WWW, they aren't going to be just another private, centralized platform. Or has this word diffused to the point of losing all meaning?

¤ https://www.fdn.fr/actions/confs/internet-libre-ou-minitel-2... (fr)
"but.. but... inciting violence" is a very strange insult.
Security Researchers is a BS coverup title for criminal hackers - - - FBI should prosecute.
>Oh and Biden won less counties than Hillary, which was already low for her (hence her loss).

why is this relevant? electoral college votes (and population, if you care about the popular vote) isn't distributed by counties.

>Biden under performed in every state except for 5 key swing states

Can you define "underperformed"?

>Perhaps they were fake, or perhaps people that would never set foot in a voting place were fine with circling "biden" on a mail in ballot and dropping it back in the mail box. Still against state law either way.

If you're going to go with the election fraud claim, at least provide evidence rather than just beating around the bush. Also, please cite how "people that would never set foot in a voting place were fine with circling "biden" on a mail in ballot and dropping it back in the mail box" is against state law.

>Oh and very few ballots were contested due to signature mismatches. Funny because Obama won his senate seat in the 90's by having a team canvas all of his competitors primary ballots and had them whittled down until he was the only one running for the office that year.

How is this relevant? Is there a process for invaliding signatures that the republicans haven't invoked? Do democrat voters' signatures get invalidated at a higher rate than republicans? Is the "normal" invalidation rate high enough to surpass biden's lead in the key states?
Maybe we need a quantum leap in technology first? Operating on data that can't be immutably copied (i.e. quantum state) opens up interesting possibilities in privacy space.
They'll just insure it and be done with, like they currently do with regular trucks (which BTW have to stop every 9 hours and let the driver sleep, thus creating a very vulnerable situation wherre the truck is parked and driver is helpless). Truck robberies are just not a big problem already.
More economic nonsense from The Economist.

Governments have no money, they steal it from taxpayers.
It was the taxpayer who unwillingly spurred the rise of renewables and got next to nothing in return (because they would have gotten electric energy at market prices, the entire difference to a lower market price (used to subsidize renewables) was wasted)
The situation is (slightly) ambiguous. It looks like a backdoor. Anyone competent writing that code would be doing so because they wanted the backdoor. But there's no reason to assume Telegram's authors are competent unnecessarily, and competence in UI design doesn't imply competence in security. And it's also a rather obvious-looking backdoor, anyone competent would presumably try to hide it better. Then again, the NSA backdoor in Dual-EC-DRBG was pointed out before anyone started using the spec and not that well hidden, and the NSA are generally considered competent.
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> Do you really think Hyundai is going to use this tech for humanitarian aid

No, but like Ford or Mercedes or any other company like then, I believe they would sell this tech to humanitarian aid organizations that might use it.

> I want a strong US to counter the fact that the number one economy in the world is a fascist state.

If you don’t want people to say you’re motivated by nativist greed, maybe try having ideas that aren’t nakedly greedy and nativist? At the very least your nihilistic zero-sum America-first attitude is morally indistinguishable from Trumpism, even if in your head it sounds more noble and strategic.

First of all, China has the largest population in the world. They should be the biggest economy in the world, regardless of how evil their government is.

Second of all, if you were truly motivated by a noble desire to stop global fascism, you should be glad that South Korea has this technology instead of the US! The point should be that democratic countries counter China’s power, not that it should be US v. China. In particular, not only is South Korea more directly threatened by Chinese authoritarianism, but their government is far more stable and democratic than the US. The US has only been a democracy since 1965 and, unlike South Korea, our democracy is rapidly decaying.

But it seems that your nativism is leading you to greedily assert the US should be the most powerful country in the world because something something China fascists, despite the fact that we just saw an attempted fascist takeover of Congress by US citizens. It’s deeply hypocritical and indefensible.
One point I hope all take away from this startling turn of events is just how thin our veneer of civilization really is.

There are truly dangerous voices afoot these days, but I don't think Trump among them.
It's a platformer, not a puzzle game, though. The difficulty is precisely in navigating through the obstacles without hitting anything.
There is too much trolling on Twitter as the character limit does not allow for any serious argument. An ambiguous one-liner from a popular individual triggers thousands of replies and retweets. I've been thinking that we need a Twitter alternative, but with a minimum limit on the number of characters and no images or gifs. Setting a minimum limit to perhaps 300 - 500 characters will eliminate much of the trolling and the noise.
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When we're talking tech giants, like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and so forth, it strains credulity to think that there isn't some connection between what they do and currying political favor. Politicians are holding a big hammer over the heads of these giants, in terms of laws, regulations, and even tax and trade policy. On paper, they are private enterprises making decisions that are within their right, as opposed to governments censoring speech and prohibiting association. The reality is almost certainly more complicated, and involves nuanced levels of political pull, "understandings," and backroom deals.

These tech giants have made themselves into a lattice on which modern society attaches itself, and their pervasiveness will only continue to grow in 21st century America. We risk them being in bed with government. And when nominally private, major industry is aligned with government to effect political ends, there's a word for that, and we've seen that before.
No, a lock is easy to remove/destroy. It's at most a minute with the right tool (angle grinder), and the bike itself is left unaffected.

A tracking device though would be embedded inside the frame itself, and thus not be removable without cutting up (and thus likely destroying) the frame. The frame is the single-most valuable component on a bike.
If it is unoccupied it is burglary, right?

A less risky crime, both in the face of opposition by a potentially armed driver, and the potential criminal justice consequences.
You could supplement with your own generator. Do you consider fuel to be an enormous sum, relative to solar?
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I also don’t agree with their equivalent person on the left.

Are there many, if any, equivalent people to Bannon on the left? My theory is that the core of Bannon is neoconfederacy: under all the nonsense he talks is the desire to see the North burn.

In fact I am skeptical of most “career politicians”.

Bannon is not a 'career politician'

dunk on the other tribe

Yes, the Democrats are corrupt, but to focus on that, at the present-day, ignores the gravity of what the Republican party has become: the 'other tribe' is, really and truly, fascist and seditionist.
No. Incorrect, because those riots came from the left. Again, leftist violence is always a spontaneous eruption of justified anger. Rightist violence, even from the lone-wolfiest of lone wolf attackers, is always planned and coordinated from above by coded messages from Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, or even Trump himself.
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> CC system

What does "CC" stand for?
Perhaps we should stick to what we in society generally agree on: the rule of law and equal application of it.

Having non-mainstream beliefs or opinions isn't illegal, and I don't think people should be losing their accounts and data for things that aren't illegal.

We already take that approach for public utilities; your water can't be shut off because of your political affiliation or membership in some unprotected class like BDSM practitioners.

Perhaps web and infrastructure hosting (app stores and communications systems (ie social media) included) should be approached in a similar fashion.
I have to second that this is exactly my situation as well. Since my elementary school years some two decades ago, I don't think I ever cycled so little in one year as in 2020. Bicycle is my #1 transport but due to forced remote work and generally low level of activity outside home I haven't had the need to go much anywhere. (I won't even begin with the massively detrimental effects on my fitness level.)

That being said, I sincerely hope people who took up cycling during the pandemic will continue to do so 2021+ forward. More cyclists = more planning focus on cycling = better & safer cycling infrastructure.
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will the regulators allow this kind of tests on public roads?
But don't Germany and France both have actual laws against offensive speech on the internet that allows the government itself to compel social media websites to delete people's content?

Their feigned concern over Twitter excercising its 1st Amendment rights seems a bit hypocritical here.
It might be too late to make any significant finding... if there was any attempt of cover up, China had plenty of time to do it.

Either way, I wonder what kind of research they will do.

Edit: just to make this clear, yes I don't trust China and I think they tried to take advantage of this situation.
I think you over-estimate the CO2 emissions for solar panels and under-estimate the complexity of nuclear installations.

A quick google search [1] learns that the CO2 emissions of the solar panel are marginally higher than for a nuclear power plant, but more then 10-fold lower than coal plants. Vattenfall did a study, but it's from 1999, so relies on 20-year old solar technology.

In addition, building a nuclear power plant is amazingly complex. In Europe there are hardly any companies that have the technology and risk-appetite to build one without a solid (financial) support from the government. I recall that in the UK they are building one that is over time and way over budget [2] (spoiler: they started in 2008 and as of now still aren't producing any electricity, and the government-promised price of ~100 pounds/MWh was in 2016 already beaten by solar, implying that over the lifetime the nuclear power plant will cost the consumer 50 billion pounds on subsidies and 20 billion on construction)

And sure, you can't control the sun or the clouds. But with a bit of effort you can create a grid that evens out the impact of the weather. High-voltage power grids in Europe are increasingly interconnected and help fill the gaps in electrical power cross border. Excess solar energy from Germany can simply be transferred to the UK via the Netherlands.

[1]: https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=co2+emissions+sol...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...
I think a private business should be able to chose their customers and decline business for any reason

A much bigger issue is the fact that public opinion and discourse happens exclusively on private platforms who each have their own interests
Same here. But I've seen a ton of people on bikes this summer, and by the looks of it a lot of them were new riders. Bike stores were cleared out of inventory, and bike shops / coops overloaded with customers. There's been a definite surge in cycling where I live.
Hence why GP said "after a fuse is blown". The implication is some sort of irreversible, hardware-based mechanism that would disable the security measures while making it abundantly clear that it had done so, so someone would know if the device had been tampered with.
I'm looking past Trump. The tech cartel can not only decide which party wins elections, they can decide which candidates within the winning party keep their seats. And they are getting more and more desperate to shape politics as they run from anti-trust. For me its too much power.
The last part is sort of true, but there's a lot of ways for changing expectations to sneak in. The software often isn't designed for it, so it's hard to model what actions you can take and what you can't before “oops, please connect to the Internet to continue”. And once you've done that a single time, all your previous guarantees are instantly invalidated, because there's going to be a dozen unskippable updates and stuff happening in the background and so on and so on—or you can try to handle that by doing something even more awkward like moving the data off, then factory reset, then updates, then disconnect, then move the data back and hope for the best…

That said, this is something I did with a cheap laptop for a while—installed a basic Linux and Emacs and used it as a mostly-isolated Emacsing machine; I believe I never hooked it up to the network again, though I did sketch out some provisions for manually physically disconnecting sensitive filesystems in case I needed to do that very occasionally (while being aware that sufficiently clever malware could still work around this). But then the logic board malfunctioned much sooner than I'd expected, and I haven't been in a position to get another since.

And 100% air-gapping is not always desirable. Many 1990s-and-before machines that had networking capabilities were still the epitome of “local first” by comparison to the “deployment is primarily done through progressive Web apps” world of 2021. So you could have a few channels by which to talk to the outside world, but without the outside world getting its hooks deep inside you in the process: the television without the telescreen. (Security issues aside, of course—though some of that is mitigable with restrictive proxying, simpler protocols, etc. depending on how retro and how networked you are trying for.)
Could these "Researchers" be prosecuted under CFAA? Purposely accessing information known to be private?

EDIT: accidently wrote DMCA
> try to find an actual source of President Trump calling for violence on Twitter. Don't believe everything you read.

On 9:53 PM, 28 May 2020 he said:

> ....These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!

That phase isn't random and specific connotation[1].

[0] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/twitter-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_looting_starts,_the_s...
Because you want your users to be able to access the service if Twilio is having downtime rather than your service being essentially down for them. Twilio killing their account was probably not an assumed use case. The biggest expected impact was new user SMS authentication which you could run after the downtime is over. Better some spam users than losing those potential users was their thought I'm guessing. I suspect password reset also failing open wasn't thought of as deeply because it's a rarer path but it got bundled together with the SMS auth code path.

edit: I'm sure we've all had really stupid requirements pushed on us by the business side for the sake of user experience or increasing metrics. Or written bad code at 3am during crunch time.