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Not even close. An electric motor is 4 times more efficient than ice. An ice car can easily store 10 times more energy than an electric.

F150 can tow 13,000 pounds and has a 27 gallon tank (almost 10 Tesla’s).
the decision may or may not be dumb, but appealing to the popularity of a decision is never logically sound. There have been incredibly unethical things done throughout history with far more than 1/3 approval.
Yes, I meant iron phosphate. (I’ve had sulfur on my mind from Bye Aerospace’s 925km range 8-seat electric aircraft, working with Oxis Energy.)
"No politics at work" to me is a crazy rule. It will almost always boil down to "Don't discuss what makes management unhappy". There are no clear rules at all. For example - let's say I don't like how Amazon treats open source and I say we should use more AGPL. Is that political? I would think so - copyright law and the DMCA have been political issues for years for many creators. Obviously I would think most people on this forum wouldn't consider AGPL vs MIT "political" even though the very subject of the matter is how the government should respect copyright law. So for most, AGPL vs MIT would fly under the political radar. What is really being said is "don't discuss the issues pertaining to minorities" and how people don't view that as insane is worrisome. There was an uproar last year about how Zoom would shutdown your stream if you talked about uyghur muslims. Can you imagine how different the reaction to this news would be if DHH implemented a no politics rule after some employees were discussing uyghur muslims?
By the mere fact that the car wasn’t pitting as often. Car was likely inspected afterwards.
I moved a few domains from namecheap to Cloudflare recently after the namecheap domain configuration settings wouldn’t load (some JavaScript error).

I contacted their support and after 1 hour of no one possibly accepting that it was a bug (just insisting over and over I clear my cache, use a specific version of Chrome etc) I got fed up. I’m a front end dev. I could see clearly one of their APIs the page depended on was serving a 500.

Anyways I transferred my domains and haven’t missed anything. I was already using cloud flare for DNS though.
> so we emailed and asked the submitter to repost it.

Do you still do that? I've always felt that the difference between "hey, this submission is cool, we auto-repost" and "hey, this submission is cool, here is a link so you can manually repost" is confusing and unnecessary.
Exactly, it's a profit sharing program that encourages good year over year results, not something that rewards you with assets that may be worth a whole lot of money, but only in 10 years.

I guess it comes down to numbers though. How much money was this profit sharing incentive giving to most employees? And how many users did they lose this week?
Windows 10, 64-bit
History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3078-trust-is-fragile
I don't think cats are to address greenhouse gasses; they're focused more on reducing pollutants that affect local air quality and human health.

The main greenhouse gas from a car is carbon dioxide. The amount you create is directly proportional to the amount of fuel you burn.

I don't know why modern cats are expensive; it might have to do with the price of platinum, palladium, and so on, and the relative amount of those materials. A cheap generic cat might have the bare minimum amount of catalyst, and might not do a very good job.
Hardware is one thing. My sister has an iPhone 6 which will soon lose support from Apple and apps running on it. Why can't we install Linux on it and save us the e-waste as a bonus?
> The living proof of that is that the only tariff changes Apple ever made in their whole mobile history was because ... of a real threat of an anti-trust lawsuit.

Not only that, this change highlighted the App Store and Play Store cartel[1] that engages in price fixing[2]. Google also dropped their prices to match Apple's, but not any more or less.

Instead of mobile app distribution prices being dictated by the free market, they're dictated by the cartel. Prices have only changed once in a decade, and not in response to the market at all, but by the whims of the app store cartel.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing
What makes you think that? Wouldn’t the people who were routinely annoyed at work be more likely to take a 6-month severance deal?
Eh. This thread is about employees of 3+ years, in which case, even if the profit share is very lucrative, they've received that profit share 3+ times. On top of that, I doubt Basecamp pays poorly. If you're even vaguely burnt out or bored, 6 months off sounds like a dream.
Why make your kids earn a profit for someone else? They should be learning and hanging with friends. You didnt learn more working fast food than in school. You hated it which motivated you. Not everyone needs to experience fast food to know its not a great career outcome.
> What's changed that prevents you from doing that today?

What's changed is that technologies involved in modern video streaming are designed up front to prevent end-users from recording the stream, and are backed by regulations making some of the workarounds illegal.

MAFIAA may not be able to close the "analog hole" completely, but it doesn't stop them from achieving the next best thing - making it so hard to exploit that almost nobody bothers. This is a positive feedback loop, because the market in general doesn't like to serve small niches unless it has nothing more interesting to do. Thus: no VCRs for Netflix.
Sounds good for Basecamp's remaining employees, they can seek out new colleagues who don't throw a tantrum when being politely asked not to bring their politics to work.

I mean, look at the state of this whiner: https://twitter.com/dankim/status/1387378826364260354

"In my entire professional career of 20+ years, I have never once cried at work until today."

An absolutely pathetic child of a man. Asked not to rile colleagues up with divisive political discussions, and then literally cries about it.
I agree, but I don't think windows falls into that category. For what it is worth, win10 is in my experience pretty great (in this regard). And windows by and large have also been that way.

My 8 year old sony laptop had kludges to be supported by windows 8 (which it came with...). Sony quit the laptop game before win 10 and I figured it would be a nightmare to ever get off win8.

Turns out Windows 10 was way easier to install than what was ever officially supported (especially if you wanted a clean install) and there are no issues keeping it up to date.

And even that is dwarfed by desktops.
Exactly. Health insurance in US will tie people down even if they want to leave. For example.
Have you been in an apolitical workplace? I see this idea a lot, and it's very hard for me to reconcile with my personal experience, where I've never felt like I'm endorsing or propagating the politics of the higher-ups. It's hard to see how I could be, since there's not a single person in my management chain where I know who they voted for or what kinds of political ideas they favor.
> you still don't have the useful property that a and "aardvark" are equal

That sounds more like a footgun to me. The blogpost slug "aardvark" and the username "aardvark" aren't equivalent. The type carries crucial semantic intent.
> The body font is odd, I deactivated it in the dev tools and preferred the default.

Is it actually hard to read though or just a preference? I don't mind changing things if they're objectively worse. But if it's just personal preference then that's a different matter.

The reason I say that is I do actually find that font easier to read than your typical sans-serif. Which is why I picked it. But maybe I'm not a good data point being dyslexic -- perhaps I'm just wired differently when it comes to what's readable?

> There is a letter spacing of 0.08em, which makes things very wide. I first deactivated it, but then it felt cramped. So I modified it to .02 and it looked about right.

Cool. I'll have a play there. Thank you

> Text shadow on titles makes them look blurry. Looked a little better when I reduced the blur, but probably would look better to remove it.

There's text shadow all over the place. I'll remove all of it shortly and see if that makes a difference. Thank you
It does not turn into a wealth tax. A wealth tax is a tax on the entire value of the property. A capital gains tax is a tax on the gains. The only, extremely narrow situation in which they’re the same for a particular investment is when someone has a $0 cost basis on their investment. Runaway high inflation will have them trend closer to one another, but we don’t have that.
Except Craigslist doesn't take the pay from the gigs and then give a wage to those performing the gigs. Actually, Uber/Lyft/etc would be way less controversial if they operated similarly to Craigslist.

When I order an Uber I can never get a ride from a 1980 Ford truck or a snowmobile because those vehicles don't meet Uber's standards and I'm actually scheduling a gig with a representative of Uber who adheres to Uber's standards and acts in line with Uber's policies and takes pay from Uber that is disconnected from what I pay them. There is virtually nothing "independent" about the driver except they independently chose to work for Uber. Yet the driver still bears the costs of equipment maintenance and liability, which happens to be the exact costs that business newbies overlook the most. It's exploitative.
> Have these guys filed for any patents?

From their IPO Prospectus:

As of 31 December 2020, the Group had 10 issued patents, with the majority granted in the United States. As of 31 December 2020, the Group had also applied for a further 52 patents, which are pending. The majority of filings are primarily machine learning and AI focused. Of the Group’s patent portfolio, many of the patents are related to multiple focuses, and are related to cyber security tools and AI augmented workflows, mathematics and autonomous response, email security, cloud and SaaS, industrial and endpoint security
As a quick example...

class ServiceWrapper:

service = ...

v1 = ...

v2 = ...

@static

def my_job():

return service.call(v1, v2)

vs.

def create_service_wrapper(v1=..., v2=..., service=...):

def f():

return service.call(v1, v2);

return f

The class can scale to multiple methods sharing parameters, but the semantics of the factory fall apart if you want to return more than one parameterized function.
Another great Bartosz Ciechanowski creation. Also check out his past work [1] about light & shadows, cameras & lenses, color spaces, floating point, etc.

[1] https://ciechanow.ski/archives
Web.com's fireproof backups (OVH Fire Aftermath)
If that's really their intent why not do a layoff round with a bigger severance package for 10-20 ppl to get back to 30 people, it would be less painful than this PR disaster?
I used to start and abandon projects to chase a new shiny idea, and I still do! So I started maintaining a blog, https://makeall.dev/ , it looks like a graveyard of unfinished projects but I'm hoping to improve its quality.
Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Extended
Not really, only if it the IP was used to delivery spam.

But IP reputation can be established with a bit of warm up and human interaction.
Right. The thing we saw before was expectation of the latter influencing expectations of the former, but that might be finally starting to change.
A bit like saying Exxon led paper pushes back against claims of climate change.
This is kind of an anti-dumping measure by Taiwan.
> no one should be allowed to say or do anything at work that makes anyone uncomfortable in a personal way;

Agreed. But frequently calling that out IS what is deemed "political" by the person who was "just expressing an opinion", and "i just have a different ideology from you"

> ; no one should really care much about other peoples’ politics.

Some people's politics is other people's human rights. Would you want to work with someone who you knew in their heart was racist and thought that people of your race were inherently less capable than their own. (Even if they believed you individually were okay)
DHH's blog post: https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e

See paragraphs below "So I replied:" ...
https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/26/chainalysis-raises-100m-do... 2b for a company cexs use to filter out dirty crypto
Hey thanks for this.

May I ask where did you get ahold of their IPO prospectus?

Edit → Got it. Downloaded the 222 pg doc from here - https://ir.darktrace.com/
> China has the great firewall. I'm not an expert on it, but I assume whether Apple allows alternative app stores is entirely beside the point of whether people in HK would be able to download and use a networked app.

The HKMap.live situation happened before the Chinese Firewall was in place in Hong Kong (2019), so that's really not an excuse. Regardless, the great firewall doesn't necessarily prevent person-to-person sharing of an app for instance. Ultimately, you should absolutely put the ball in their court to actively have to fight the spreading of the app as opposed to being a willing participant. BTW, Tor, that thing you ignored in the rest of your post, was designed exactly to fight against things like the Chinese Firewall.

> I also still think that macOS is a more secure OS by design vs Windows, so that may be another reason I'm picking on Windows.

This just makes no sense. If you are making a case against a change, you don't point to the worst implementation of it just because it's the worst, especially when the party that would actually be implementing the alternative has already successfully done so on another platform. It's like a state arguing against marijuana legalization by pointing to a completely different country instead of many of the other US states that have successfully legalized it without catastrophic results. iOS is also "more secure by design". So why do you assume iOS would become Windows and not macOS? There is no logic here, just the desire to use an outdated and more convenient comparison point. If you honestly believe that iOS without the AppStore would become Windows and not the Mac, then you have a very bizarrely low opinion of the engineers on iOS.

> I was very clear that I wasn't comparing the situation with the app store to actual literal murder, but that comparison weaves throughout most of your reply. My point was entirely about the implementation and not at all about the regulated activity.

Yup, and I have provided several great examples of why the situation is very different, including many examples of things that are not "bad" but Apple could not want on the store. Like Tor. And FireFox. All of which you ignored. I also showed examples of how it doesn't have to be a free-for-all that everyone must be subjected to, and that there are other ways to do it. Also ignored. I addressed the main substance of your argument, while still finding it hilarious that the best analogy you could come up with was an "abstract version of the purge".

Listen, I am honestly glad that the circumstances in your life are such that Apple's decisions may not have a meaningful impact on your ability to escape censorship or fight for your right to be heard, but I hope someday you'll understand that these real scenarios that have actually taken place matter as much as your hypothetical worst-case scenarios that involve Apple implementing a slightly different system in the most un-Apply way, as opposed to the way they've done so with tremendous success on their other platform.
I'm reiterating the experiences of my friends who work in the service industry and whom in some cases have been unable to pay rent reliably the past year.

Having to make the choice between going to work at a job where you have health concerns and losing your home is not a fun situation. You're correct that this is not a choice I've personally had to face, but it is a choice that many people have had to deal with. The issue, that you keep ignoring, is that people who "kept working" did so in many cases not by choice, but by necessity. Yes, the privilege that some (including myself!) had to continue working safely is nice. But you shouldn't use that to discount the opinions of people who had to continue working unsafely, but did not want to.

And you are continuing to ignore those people. Anecdotally, those people make up the majority of those in service industries that I know. They weren't happy to have to continue working. They were scared. Were it economically feasible, most of them would have preferred to stay home and not work. But that option wasn't available to them, because not working would mean losing their homes too.

And it is ridiculous for you to try and weaponize my privilege to ignore those people's opinions.
“ increase regulation of cryptocurrency services”

Hmmm.
Is it a competitive job market? I've been interviewing SWE candidates at my current workplace for some time and it feels like the org is competing for developers more than developers are competing for jobs.
>My rent is up 80% since two years ago.

There's no major* rental market in the US where this is the case.

* - There could be some oil boom in a 300 person town I don't know about I guess.
> Setting a part in a jig, brushing a dab of glue, and setting a second part on top is much faster than the same process but fastening a couple screws to the appropriate tightness. It's also less error prone and creates a better bond between the parts.

In my imagining of this, a robot is doing it. Which makes me think the opposite is true: the tightness can be controlled and errors can be managed better with a screw, than with glue.
New Hampshire is like that - no sales tax on most things, but there is tax on things like hotel rooms, restaurant meals, gasoline, and, in effect, liquor (since you can only buy it in state owned liquor stores).

Tourism is one of New Hampshire's main industries. Is it a coincidence that these are things often purchased by tourists? I think not!
You can easily spend more than the equivalent of 2x your annual income by renting, in terms of higher monthly cost, than by purchasing a home.

Take for example a $300,000 house w/ 4% mortgage. That works out to roughly $1,400/month. Even if you only make $75,000/year, it makes perfect sense to buy that house even if rents are a little lower than $1,400/month. (and current 30yr average rates bring that down to about $1225/month)

In my area, a small 2 bedroom house in a reasonably nice area will cost about $300,000, so the $1225 to $1,400/month rate applies. Renting a 2 bedroom apartment with less sqft for common spaces, in a similar area, will cost about $1800 to $2000. This is significantly more than is required to make up for property taxes levied on top of the mortgage when actually purchasing.

So I'm really not sure where you're getting your 2x figure. That's the sort of statement, absent context & explanation, that really doesn't add much to the conversation.

(On top of this, apartment complexes in my area have been nominally keeping monthly rates the same, but disaggregating utility costs from the rent, charging separately for heating, water, sewage, and garbage collection... at least for a year or two. After people get used to those additional fees, the complexes begin raising rents again too. I don't blame them too much, there's plenty of rental demand, but it changes the balance between renting & purchasing even more)
The book Working in Public has a good section about funding models for open source.
Yeah, DHH is very outspoken politically, and fairly progressive. Of course there was going to be a selection bias where they hired similar people. This shouldn't have come as a surprise to them, and they should have realized the backlash. Shockingly bad foresight.
Sure, but they have outsize influence in US tech circles because of the CEO's books about org management. The company also has a philosophical opposition to venture capital and the incentives it creates. Such as the common focus on DAUs, MAUs and IPOs instead of sustainable profitablility.
Interestingly they target mostly Windows users. If you are Linux or BSD user you are less likely to be targeted.
It really sounds like JF / DHH really didn't want to have to deal with the issue - minimal disciplinary action and then push all discussion away from official channels.

But I guess that it reveals what probably should have been clear about Basecamp - it's a vehicle for the expression / gratification of the founders - financially, emotionally and intellectually.

And the loss of staff / possible impact on the company (and customers) was a price they were prepared to pay.
This article makes a great point about what might be considered "politics at work":

> What that view misses, I think, is how confusing rules like these are to employees. One Basecamp worker I spoke with today, who requested anonymity, wondered the extent to which parenting issues could be raised at work. “How do you talk about raising kids without talking about society?” the employee said. “As soon as I bring up public schools, then it’s already political.”

Or what if you're black, is talking about your race or your own lived experiences considered political?

I don't tend to talk about political stuff at work too much personally, but recently we've been talking about the pandemic a lot (like everyone else). Is that political? Sure seems like it could be construed to be political. Even public health advice from the CDC is considered to be political these days.
The investment horizon for the average American is 45 years, 2 weeks doesn't mean diddlysquat.
20 people leave Microsoft, sure not a big deal. 20 people leave a company with 60 people? That is huge.
I did some digging. There are still people working on it, but the updates aren't going to the front page. All the work seems to be buried in random e-mails on multiple mailing lists, and this GitHub repo https://github.com/tldp

I think the one or two people who are still working on it have been abandoned and need our support. I think if we can find who has access to the web servers, we could convince them to let volunteers put a fresh coat of paint on it and start publishing some new articles with a lower barrier to entry.
Your replies down thread indicate an extremely narrow interpretation of 'expenses' here, namely only those financial costs directly related to employment. Taking that interpretation, you're probably correct that nearly all jobs offer net-positive pay counting only the those inputs from the employee. You're right that someone with better off in immediate financial terms with basically any job than no job.

However, that's something other than the 'sustainable' wage in the GP comment, since that doesn't count costs of the labor input! Each of us has only so much labor to sell in a given month, and need to get enough in return to support, you know, continuing to live and sell our labor. Sure, being employed at wage that does not provide a basic level of dignity is less worse than being completely destitute, but it's a bit disingenuous to argue that being less-worse-off is 'sustainable'.
I'm of the opinion that if you're business model relies on paying people so little that they don't even want to work for you, maybe that business _shouldn't_ be viable. No one is forcing you to own a business, just like no one is forced to work for you.
You are welcome to enjoy it but as copyright represents a substantial decrease in the liberty of society I think a shitty one round fight represents a particularly poor exemplar of why society ought to give up that liberty.
I'm guessing it might be that 1/3 of those employees were upset that they found out about the initial policy change via a public facing blog post, possibly felt that the behavior of one of their main leaders was increasingly toxic and poisonous, didn't want to be associated with him and got a buyout. I mean, if I was working for a raging asshole who suddenly said "if you don't like me, here's 6 months salary" you bet your butt I'd take that. =)