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Chevron Board of Directors:

Michael K. (Mike) Wirth
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Ronald D. Sugar
Lead Director Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Northrop Grumman Corporation

Wanda M. Austin
Retired President and Chief Executive Officer, The Aerospace Corporation

John B. Frank
Vice Chairman, Oaktree Capital Group, LLC

Alice P. Gast
President, Imperial College London

Enrique Hernandez, Jr.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Inter-Con Security Systems, Inc.

Marillyn A. Hewson
Retired Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Jon M. Huntsman Jr.
Vice Chair Policy, Ford Motor Company

Charles W. Moorman
Senior advisor to Amtrak and Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Norfolk Southern Corporation

Dambisa F. Moyo
Co-principal, Versaca Investments

Debra Reed-Klages
Retired Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, Sempra Energy

D. James Umpleby III
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Caterpillar Inc.
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Chevron executive committee members

Michael K. (Mike) Wirth
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Paul R. Antebi

Paul R. Antebi
Vice President and General Tax Counsel

Eimear P. Bonner*
Vice President, Chief Technology Officer

Pierre R. Breber*
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Mary A. Francis
Corporate Secretary and Chief Governance Officer

Joseph C. Geagea*
Executive Vice President

Jeff B. Gustavson
Vice-President, Lower Carbon Energies

David A. Inchausti
Vice President and Controller

James W. Johnson*
Executive Vice President, Upstream
Navin K. Mahajan

Navin K. Mahajan
Vice President and Treasurer

Rhonda J. Morris*
Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer

Mark A. Nelson*
Executive Vice President, Downstream & Chemicals

Bruce L. Niemeyer
Vice President, Strategy & Sustainability
Colin E. Parfitt

Colin Parfitt*
Vice President, Midstream

R. Hewitt Pate*
Vice President and General Counsel

J. David Payne
Vice President, Health, Safety and Environment

Jay R. Pryor
Vice President, Business Development

Albert (Al) Williams
Vice President, Corporate Affairs
Newspapers are businesses.

Reporting costs money. Free news is generally paid for by the funder. Given the above, how is paywalled content hurting the news industry?
I completely believe humanity can and will deal with climate change. It'll take a few wars, an anti-capitalist revolution in a first world country or two, and a massive shift towards equality and justice for poorer people, but it will happen.
> Not to worry about Chevron, because they did not give a single cent of the 9.5B$ to the Ecuador government, or indigenous communities who got toxic waste dumped in their drinking water, or Ecuadorians who discovered oil pools on their property. 30'000 people are represented in that case, with 1000 separate complaints.

Chevron was in Ecuador through a subsidiary that had a partnership with Ecuador's state-owned oil company, which owned the majority (62.5%) of the partnership. Chevron's subsidiary completed environmental remediation required by the Ecuadorian government and signed a settlement agreement with the government in 1995 releasing it from all environmental claims.

Oil extraction is an ugly, dirty business, and it's not uncommon for countries like Ecuador to sacrifice the health of their citizens so that state-owned oil companies and their international partners can profit, but given the facts above, maybe the Ecuadorians should look to their government and state-owned oil company for recourse?

> The case was already active before Donzinger and Chevron had already successfully bribed its way out of it.

That's a big claim. Any evidence to back it up?

> Also note that the conviction, while ruled "fraudulent", was not overturned.

Why would you expect a court in a banana republic plagued by corruption to overturn a fraudulent judgment?

> The judge who convicted Donzinger has requested him to hand over his laptop and phone to Chevron, obviously in an attempt to further discredit him.

No, he was ordered to turn over his devices so that Chevron could locate his assets. This sort of thing happens when you lose in court and the opposing party wants to collect on a damages award.
When you have multiple threads running concurrently, you're going to have to deal with coherency and synchronization one way or another.

What does `now` even mean? It's presumably a sampled count from a running clock. With concurrent execution, there's no guarantee about the relationship between two thread's samples of the clock unless you synchronize them. One thread may read the clock, then get preempted for a while before doing any actual work. According to the preempted thread's point of view it's still in the present and running calculations without a care in the world, but from the preempting thread's point of view it's frozen in the past to be thawed out in the future.

Do you really need to be that picky about coherency of this hypothetical multi-threaded expiring data structure? So what if the size reads slightly larger on average? It seems like the reasonable direction to err on, since elements are getting deleted out from under you anyway, and so there's an inherent race condition between when a thread would call size() and then call another function dependent on the result of calling size().

If you need it to truly be cycle-by-cycle coherent with the hardware clock, then you'll need to add synchronization. The size() function will no longer take a predictably constant time, as it will either block on a mutex, spin some number of times on a lock-free atomic, or remove expired elements itself.

As other folk have also pointed out, though, the time complexity of the STL member functions are only a self-imposed rule. A function like size can do whatever you want if you're writing the implementation.
Before I got into programming I did stenography. I was able to type at 240+ WPM with 98+% accuracy, it took me about a year and a half to attain that speed. When I got into programming I sold my steno machine and haven't done anything related to it since.

I'm sure there are some programmers or writers using stenography successfully, but I don't think it's practical personally. My bottleneck when programming is not typing speed but how quickly I can decide on what to type next. I can type at 130 WPM on a qwerty keyboard, it just is not a bottleneck.

Moreover, it's not easy to learn. Assuming you're a decent typer on a regular keyboard, you are going to be slogging through typing for at least a year, and then who knows. Some people seem to be incapable of achieving the high speeds that you're seeing professionals reach. There were people at my school that were there for 4+ years, seemingly unable to reach the graduation speed/accuracy requirements despite practicing more than I ever did.

The speeds are also misleading. People see 240+ WPM and think that's the end of it, but that speed and accuracy is typically measured differently than it should be. The WPM count does not typically include the proofreading and editing after the fact. Meaning you can have typos, you can leave words out, it's fine as long as you can properly decipher the typos / what was actually said based on context.

There are stenography standards you can learn, but to actually achieve the speed you're looking for people end up making their own language constructs to shorten things (called briefs at my school). Maybe you're a court reporter and you hear a lot of phrases such as "Did there come a time" - you might shorten this entire sentence to one keystroke. Everyone ends up typing in their own bastardized version of the standard unique to them.

I left stenography because I felt like it was destroying my body. It takes a toll on your hands, shoulders, body.

Ultimately the entire process of getting good at stenography is very time consuming, I don't think the juice is worth the squeeze. Just my two cents, good luck to you if you do decide to pursue it.
#include <sys/syscall.h>

is generally the easiest way to make a syscall without hardcoding numbers into your assembly program.
> Modern QE, for example, is not traditional monetary policy anyway, but ok.

Nonsense, QE was done already 100 years ago and more.

> Nor is playing with such a huge percentage of the GDP

Not that new in history of money and bad measure anyway.

Your understanding of monetary policy is fundamentally flawed. Your idea that if the central bank just collapsed nominal spenidng to 'destroy' the 'bubble' is about the worst possible thing you could do. That is literally how we totally unnecessary had the Great Depression. Congratulation 'Bubble Burst'.

But I guess you have bought into some of the leftists conspiracy and nonsense propaganda about central banks so there is like not much to talk you out of it.

> phallic rockets.

Ask yourself who is actually obsessed with thinking about phallics.
It's pretty hard to learn a new keyboard layout on a regular keyboard, let alone replace the typing experience with chords (multiply this by the number of languages you use). The real difficulty for me was putting in the time every day to practice, while maintaining a job. You have to be pretty dedicated to pull this off.
Much better.

Consider yourself lucky not having to deal with raw IDL without VS tooling and ATL template metaprogramming.
Calls are even lower latency, you skip the "walk to their desk" bit.
> what value is there in what one says about it?

I'm not trying to make a contribution to a scientific conference; I'm just some dude, trying to have a conversation with smart people, and so become better-informed.

I probably seem rather defensive; I'm no expert, and I know there are experts around here. I'm OK with being slammed down by experts. I can take the punches, I have nothing to prove. But I am sorry that those experts might be hurt by my remarks - I'm just some inquisitive dude on the internet, raising questions.
Its working for me on Safari 15 on Big Sur but doesn't appear to load on Safari on iPadOS 15.
In that case, should we expect to find more shrinking among human male brains than among human female brains?
"...fined $5,000 for leaving an operating room before the start of an emergency ankle surgery to go eat in his parked car, where he fell asleep and missed the procedure."
Benefits of Using a Light Theme
Absolutely agreed. I've often found myself seeing that someone has misunderstood something, and wanting to write "if the source of your misunderstanding is (a) then [several paragraphs] whereas if it's (b) then [several different paragraphs]. Asking them whether it's (a) or (b) by email adds another cycle and often isn't understood anyway. It's just far more effective to communicate synchronously (face to face or by phone).
That is great to hear. Re: using it in other modes, well, not sayin it's in the works, but watch this space ;)
Investing in NFTs – all you need to know
This is cool. We often get our engineering students to slice 3D models of various blood vessels for CFD analysis and anything that improves the currently clunky toolchain is welcome.
Oil companies can take political prisoners now. Wild.
It is based on *BSD Unix and the MACH/XNU kernel. Which makes it more stable and less chance of DLL Hell.
Moreover, if they struggle with earth gravity, how will they survive launch and landing?
In the other hand, the standard for enforcing civil judgements is much lower.
This is cool. Appreciate the trip down memory lane with the python2 syntax as well. I think the effect might be more incongruent in python3 code where pseudo expressions like print have been formalised into functions.
World is failing to make changes needed to avoid climate breakdown, report finds
Hah, it's okay :) I'm the opposite -- a large number of the things I have some above average skill at, I honestly never worked at improving, it just... happened. So I empathize with "no idea how to share" :)

FWIW I also did 8 years of music as a kid (mostly woodwinds).

I don't look at the keys, and I _think_ my form is okay but I have no idea. I, too, never learned the "right" way, I've just been typing on a keyboard for ~75% of my life so over time it got faster.

One thing I notice when I compare my typing to people who are >90wpm is the sound is different. My typing sounds very "staccato", whereas you lucky fast people... it seems to sound quieter? smoother?

shrug face
If it's working for you then great. NAT adds latency, makes the router more complex, and breaks peer-to-peer stuff (e.g. there's a game I like to play where you can have games on a LAN or over the internet, but what you can't do is have a game between two people who are behind a single IP address and other people on the internet, which became a problem when two of my friends moved in together); even in systems that have workarounds for NAT those workarounds generally add latency (e.g. your video chats might have to be routed through a central server rather than directly to friends). As IPv4 addresses become more scarce, you'll probably get put behind CGNAT (or have to pay extra to avoid it) which again adds more latency and cost. But sure the reality is that using IPv4 from behind NAT is tolerable for most people, so there's not a huge impetus to migrate.
I thought PlayStation Home had promise, but Sony didn't invest enough into it. It was very limited, and didn't have enough for people to do.

I did enjoy wandering around the TARDIS though.
I was more thinking about the "second screen" multitasking that's quite common. With VR, the second screen is like build-in.
> “We do not share information with the Chinese government," Beckerman responded

This sounds pretty clear cut to me
Not sure, but it looks similar. One thing that Live Listen does very well is latency, which is quite important for speech in person.
It can. Here's an example of using Plover (now part of the openstenography project it seems):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=711T2simRyI

(I know this is not the only presentation in the existence but it's one that I found; there's one by the author of Plover within some longer presentation about it.)

Honestly, doesn't seem super fast to me :-).
Asynchronous is the real difficult part. A lot of companies already have offices in locations with good engineering talents and they usually work as a independent unit. It’s just really hard to coordinate a project when you have 0-1h of possible overlap time for meetings
Playback and caching is part of the implementation of the <video> element.
I have owned both the cheap cold water amazon ones and TOTOs. Highly recommend either. If you don’t mind cold water the cheap amazon ones work really well.
At first I was doubtful, but when I read the code I understand that the author was just searching exhaustively through a finite set. What a fraud.
Modern warfare is much less likely to involve the nation’s poorest dying for the sake of the richest. There’s a recent article about how the average American soldier is now better educated than the average civilian. The specialist weapons we’re talking about shift the balance towards capital and away from labour in the killing production function.

Is that a good thing? I’m not so sure. The age of mass armies was also the age of democratisation. If war is waged by defence firms and brilliant technocrats, then maybe defence firms and brilliant technocrats will run the country.
Taken from the Ars comments:

Article Quote:
When Miller showed his results to Urey, the latter suggested a paper should be published as soon as possible. (Urey was senior but generously declined to be listed as co-author, lest this lead to Miller getting little to no credit for the work.)

As if Urey doesn't deserve enough respect, the story is better than described:

Sub-article Quote:
After Miller showed the impressive results to Urey, they decided to submit them to Science. Urey
declined Miller’s offer to coauthor the report because otherwise Miller would receive little or no credit. Knowing that a graduate student could have a difficult time getting a paper like this published, Urey contacted the Science editorial office to explain the importance of the work and ask that the paper be published as soon as possible. Urey kept mentioning the results in his lectures, drawing considerable attention from the news media.

The manuscript was sent to Science in early February of 1953. Several weeks went by with no news. Growing impatient, Urey wrote to Howard Meyerhoff, chairman of AAAS’s Editorial Board, on 27 February to complain about the lack of progress. Then, on 8 March 1953, the New York Times reported in a short article entitled, “Looking Back Two Billion Years” that W. M. MacNevin and his associates at Ohio State University had performed several experiments simulating the primitive Earth—including a discharge experiment with methane wherein “resinous solids too complex for analysis” were produced. The next day, Miller sent Urey a copy of the clipping with a note saying “I am not sure what should be done now, since their work is, in essence, my thesis. As of today, I have not received the proof from Science, and in the letter that was sent to you, Meyerhoff said that he had sent my note for review.”

Infuriated by this news, Urey had Miller withdraw the paper and submit it to the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Ironically, at the same time (11 March), Meyerhoff, evidently frustrated by Urey’s actions, wrote to Miller that he wanted to publish the manuscript as a lead article and that he wanted Miller—not Urey—to make the final decision about the manuscript. Miller immediately accepted Meyerhoff’s offer, the paper was withdrawn from the Journal of the American Chemical Society and returned to Science, and was published on 15 May 1953.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Prebiotic-Soup--Revisi...
It is always DNS, except when it's not.
Yes, it is like flying a toy drone in your room vs. flying a drone on the Mars. In the first case if you see it heading into the wall you can correct it immediately. On the Mars it may be already too late when you find out it is heading into some boulder.
I try to be dispassionate about such things.

If I don't own shared or options in the company, and the company wants to hinder it's developers in the name of security, I'll voice my concerns, and then adapt to the new rules. If I own stock or options in the company, this lost productivity will factor into my long-term expectations for the company. If I think that the diminished developer productivity is going to sink the company, I'll jump ship to a new company.

Another factor is personal growth. If a company brings in security restrictions that make it impossible to do my job, such that I'm sitting around all day waiting for IT to approve my IDE installer, then I might feel that I'm not able to advance my career, as I'll have no projects to show off.

On the other hand, if everyone at the company is equally hindered by security restrictions, then it might be an opportunity to get really efficient at jumping through hoops, and delivering productivity where others fail.
I predict that VR will really take off at the same time as 'The Year of the Linux Desktop'.
i was thinking the same thing, but looks like it was mostly the US government:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
> A sideways rocket would... fall to the ground. Just like anything that doesn't have a way to oppose gravity.

Well, a helicopter pointing it's rotor horizontally also falls down. Why do you assume that the rocket should point horizontally? (Technically, of course, rockets _can_ and _do_ point horizontally, after going fast enough to maintain orbit.)

> But those are the very point of this discussion. Does the force, enough to hold up the entire aircraft, come from essentially pinging tiny tennis balls off the wing, or does it perhaps come from a complex interaction of the air with the wing, involving ideas of boundary layer separation?

There are multiple factors at play. Deflection of air downwards is a side effect of those factors that creates lift.

From your previous post:

> It is indeed the air that pushes the wing up, but you have to ask yourself why the wing would need to be shaped in a certain way if it's merely deflection. If it was that, you could just have flat boards at an angle and be done with it.

Creating lift can be done perfectly well by a flat board. The wings are shaped as they are to minimize the drag/lift ratio at the speeds and angles of attack the wings will operate under. And for that all the complexity of the airodynamics and air/wing interactions come into play.
Why would you not want an OLED panel? Are you using the TV for signage or something?
I would, with no real foundation, posit that it was somehow related to human eye movements when recalling memories

https://neurosciencenews.com/eye-movement-memory-15857/
If anyone is interested in learning about conlangs, jan Misali has an interesting playlist[0] with reviews on various contructed languages including Toki Pona.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLn6LC1RpAo&list=PLuYLhuXt4H...
This is gonna be a great comment for you to rediscover when you're older, as it will age like milk.
> I can't own two Taco Bell locations unless I live in one. And forget a third.

Yeah... that is the point. Someone else can own that other Taco Bell.

"store wealth" doesn't mean to buy a Taco Bell, fill it with gold bars, then board it up.

It just means buying property that makes money (like a fast food franchise, residential rental, office space, pool, etc).
FB has done a lot for dev space as well. PyTorch, React, etc. But still gets so much hate
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> If your mom plays Beat Saber on an Oculus device, I think knowing the Oculus brand is kind of unsurprising.

Indeed. It’s rather more surprising that my mom is playing a VR game and purchased equipment for it in the first place.

For that to happen she must’ve been aware of the Oculus brand.
> I don't really care for activists

I've never heard anyone express this opinion before. Can you explain why? Like, _any_ activism?
I don't necessarily disagree with your second point, but it adds nothing to the topic, and risks clouding the first point.
Sony Playstation Gaming Reports Record Quarter 13.4 Mio PS5's Sold
It will be relevant, because there will be people interested in typing. It is like how there are pencil artists even though we can all use Photoshop.
This is definitely happening as has been for a while - Poland was first on a big scale now but in places like Czechia too.
It’s a round-trip latency difference. Standing in the same room, we can get perhaps 100, but certainly 50, responses in an hour from a small group. Video conferencing might be 15% less and that relatively slight difference is already frustrating. In asynchronous written form, it probably takes 3 days to get 100 “turns” and maybe a week or more if there’s timezone “smear”. The written async responses can be higher quality on average, but where reaching consensus in minimal wall clock time is important, face-to-face wins.

Why is Slack “better” than physically mailed correspondence? It’s roughly the same phenomenon, just on an even shorter timescale (including that Slack isn’t better for everything).
Then maybe it should have been named "How to work more efficiently" instead of click-baity "The 4-Hour Workweek"?
Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement
The author mentions $10000/kg, not per pound. This number is reasonably accurate for recent launch within one order of magnitude.

Starlink launches were claimed to cost $35 million for 16 tons, this means SpaceX is still around $2000/kg even internally. This is the lowest cost of "real" missions with payload adapters and deployment mechanisms.

Atlas 551 is ~150M for max 18.8tons to orbit so best theoretical price is > $8000/kg.

Dividing the space shuttle program cost of $196B by 133 successful launches and a max payload of 23tons you get around $64000/kg.
They succeed not by convincing you they are right, but by convincing you that knowing the truth is really impossible.