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> they'll be dismissed due to poor decisions and performance.

This is a joke right? Poor leaders get into their positions by blaming everyone they work with, they will just blame their poor performance on you.

> I was even proven correct, but I ignored my boss and in doing so sealed my fate.

Your boss was a bad leader, firing you for making the right call doesn't make them a good leader. You have picked up their bad leadership and taken it with you.
A branch is not a subsidiary. Like a branch of Tesco, it is the same company. There's a clue in the company number prefix FC: foreign company.

There is no separate legal entity "Amazon UK". So why should a Luxembourg company get UK card rates?
Ok, so which comparatively-paying job is a better choice for her then?
Well, almost. Censorship is generally backed by some sort of threat of violence.

If I refuse to propagate speech I disagree with, it might be hypocritical of me, or just impolite, but it's not censorship.
I read an article recently—which I'm afraid I can't find anymore—that posited that part of what's going on is that Putin, and some of the rest of Russia, has a rather surprisingly expansive view of what it means to be "Russian", combined with the belief that if one is, by that definition, Russian, it is good and right to be part of Mother Russia.

It also pointed out that by extension, this means that anyone in Ukraine who does not believe that they are Russian (and thus does not want to be part of Russia) is either effectively insane, or some kind of seditious traitor (I don't remember the exact way that logic went in the article at this point).

I don't know to what extent what it described is true (my guess is "somewhat, but not necessarily absolutely"), but it does seem to help explain some of what's going on.
Energy politics in the public discourse was often dominated by environmental concerns, and there wasn't a singular focus on CO2 as we have now.

Gas has been a popular choice, because it is a lot cleaner than coal / light oil / wood from a local pollution perspective. It burns cleanly, so switching to gas heating significantly reduces pollution in cities.

Nuclear energy is NOT clean, because it has the huge unsolved problem of what to do with the radioactive waste. Nobody wants radioactive waste anywhere near them, and there just isn't any place where you can put radioactive waste where it will be safe for a few hundred years.

But the biggest reason for our fear of nuclear energy is Chernobyl. It's been 37 years, and Chernobyl is still a danger.
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Also, what're you going to do to earn your storage space and compute cycles in this "virtual afterlife" that's assumed will exist? Especially if "uploaded people" images can be copied, there's going to be a lot of "digital people" for whom no one has any use. Talk about your exploitable underclass.

How many people who consider uploading as a desirable thing think they might end up playing an NPC in a "Grand Theft Auto" game? Over, and over, and over again...
Great point. In my circles I have far too often seen people criticizing other governments of propaganda, while also accepting the narratives we live in without question.
I believe you've just summarized this guys philosophy....Here's a great way to live

https://www.tiktok.com/@masood_boomgaard/video/6988551554286...
Reminds me a bit of:

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that
your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

― Albert Camus
Similar systems are actually being build, but with a bigger scale (like big office buildings). There is no freezing involved, just heating the office space with warm water in the winter (cooling the water to ~10°C) and cooling it in the summer (heating the water to about 40°C).
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This reminds me of a startup I've worked for, CEO highly praised new board member ("[..] worked hard for months to get him on board [..]") in all hands meeting, 2 weeks later CEO essentially was out.
The govt, municipalities etc. Public spaces are public and the whole thing can be decentralized so it s not compute and bw heavy. It should be very cheap compared to e.g. roads
We have never had a public town square larger than a literal town square, excepting maybe ham radio. Every other space has in some way been moderated or fashioned to purpose. Even public TV, news and radio are groomed to certain standards.
The problem with a country like Germany is that it's too big for Europe (as a continent), but too "small" for the world. Similar thing for France. Of course that the European Union was meant as a solution for this problem (and for the accompanying wars caused by it). I'd say that while the EU has been a great project from an economic pov from a political and geo-strategic pov this war in Ukraine is showing its huge weaknesses.

Imo only the US, China and partially Russia (and maybe India) can be really autarchic, all of these countries that span almost an entire continent (or a big part of it).

Not sure if there's a solution to all of this, from Europe's point of view. Ideally by this point we should have had a genuine political and societal union (I'm from Romania myself, another EU member), but that has failed, it is failing (of course that the powers that be refuse to acknowledge that). Without that genuine political and societal union one cannot have an autarchic Europe.
I completely agree with a part of the comment that DE gov't probably didn't consider a long war or a long bad relation with RU.
If they did, there wouldn't have been blocking Spain's proposal to supply EU with Algerian and Moroccan gas. And they would have been looking into incentivizing solar, geothermal, etc. with immediate effect.
Since German heavy industry is very dependent on Russian gas, if it's not coming, it's almost guaranteed a global economic meltdown much like 2008. Since it's not coming from banks liquidity this time, we are unprepared for it.
No, it is literally a private company. Which is why we are having this discussion based off of SEC filings.

Edit: sorry, I mixed up public company and public good. Twitter is a public company, but not a public good.
Aren't all gods?
part 1

https://thespacereview.com/article/4357/1
Agreed but I'm not sure how we can change it at this point. Our lives in the US are way too good for revolution. This move by him is strictly about not letting Twitter ever block his accounts. He can pump & dump and mislead investors for billions that will make him a lot more money than his Twitter stake cost.
Adding redundancies is bad from an economic view centered in the next few months.
I thought "why would someone name anything that?" until I went to the website and found that this guy had for some reason changed the capitalisation to something much more creepy.
I’m not sure either (there is of course uncertainty). But in Tesla and SpaceX, he shows good management, while my (outsider) impression of Twitter’s is that it’s dropping the ball.

Also, I think Twitter was undervalued compared to its potential, and Elon wouldn’t be buying part of it if he didn’t think he could turn a good profit.
I’m a very fast and experienced cyclist — and riding on 55mph roads is very, very uncomfortable.
> There are no side walks where I live. The roads have 55mph speed limits and are lined with drainage ditches

This was my walking commute to first grade at 7 years old in somewhat rural Slovenia. I believe in you.

edit: okay I guess the speed limit was 60kph for the most part because that was the default back then for named towns
I certainly agree that Elon Musk has a habit of flaunting SEC penalties, but I don't think this alone will lead to any real conflict. Things would be rather different if he started flouting them, of course.
> There is a huge difference between the rule of law in proper democracies ("Rechtsstaaten") and arbitrary political decisions in totalitarian states (such as Russia).

I'm tempted to agree. However, I did raise a specific counter-example. In that case, a "proper democracy" (Mossadegh was democratically elected and presumably used entirely legal means to nationalize APOC assets), and then the long arms (CIA, MI6) of another set of "proper democracies?" undertook a violent coup to take back the assets. I'm not aware of how/whether those "long arms" interacted with the large system of checks and balances that you mentioned.
Some people needs to be gamed to do something. I find turfgame.com to be my carrot to get out more but that one is best in Sweden and as long as you live in a halfway big town. You take zones, your neighbour blocks you and takes them back.

Others are happy when they can compare number of steps to their co-workers I guess.
These are not just war crimes. No.
These are not isolated random events. No. These war crimes are part of large systematic operation - genocide against Ukrainian nation https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kremlin-editorial-ukraine-iden...

Incitement to genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement_to_genocide has been going on in Russia for years and Russian population has been systematically prepared by state controlled media to commit genocide against Ukrainian nation and other nations bordering Russia.
I hate this "steps" bullshit. Imagine writing this whole article and not once saying what that means in terms of miles or kilometers.
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Ever since my work has issued me a USB-C MacBook, I've gone through 4! Hubs.

First was a Satechi, which overheated and broke just past a year which was the warranty period. I left a bad review on Amazon, and they replaced it. That one broke... just past a year.

Work then gave me another brand that I forget, and those too lasted only a year each or less.

I've finally settled on having two Anker Hubs and splitting the amount of cables going into each.
> inflation in the UK is about the same as in the EU and USA, if not better.

If the policy is working so well why not pursue the trend and put up more trade barriers to improve your economy.
I’ve had similar experiences with my school district.

They used to use managed iPads with Google classroom. They now use managed windows Lenovo with multiple layers of spyware.

I bought my iPad and don’t allow installation of any apps with system privileges. This required a sit down with the principal, vice principal, county school board rep, and “tech manager” (who was just a random teachers aide with no training or specialized education and didn’t know much about equipment).

It was a real hassle, but they agreed to a personal device and they give out a school “loaner laptop” for exams. The loaner has goguardian and lots of other stuff installed.

Some surprising things I learned:
-the school principal chooses the technology without any real evaluation criteria. He said multiple times “I’m not a tech expert, I just do my best” and claimed to not know how all this stuff works
-my child was threatened with expulsion if they didn’t comply with the policy and only got around the school policy through a loophole because it was me who wouldn’t sign the contract yet it was the child who was being punished (contract required me to maintain the laptop, pay penalties for any damage, even if accidental, assume liability for theft, pay for my own insurance through a single vendor negotiated by the school, and learn and carry out administration since the school didnt have trained admins and only had an 800 number for tech support)

I hope they never make a competent policy because it is so kafkaesque and draconian. The standard laptop is completely locked down and monitored by the school by people who don’t have any training on when to access data, including video from inside my home.

I have quite a bit of experience with hardware and software and it’s hard for me. I can’t imagine how typical parents are supposed to protect their kids’ rights.
The issue is that despite the internet appearing to be an infinite sea of nodes that can all participate in a global village, the reality is that “the media” is the very finite set of nodes that have control of users’ attention.

We’re surely all guilty of facilitating this. Forget the global village of a billion voices - the number of news sources I regularly read isn’t even dozens.

Anybody can still put up a web server, but it’s the attention channels that matter, and those are well and truly under control through non-internet means (money, regulation, threats, lobbying, …).
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Good! For me it is working on stuff, that others seem too think is too hard, that make a difference. The last few years it is about improved food production systems. Tight nutrient loops with better food, in every aspect, as the end result. It seems to be working too.
It's probably good that Twitter is banned over here at the moment. Overnight, my feed filled up with a nasty mix of ethnic cleansing and "collective guilt" calls coming from Ukraine in response to the massacre. All directed at people who've been on their side by all legal means they have available. I don't know how to react to that.
> There are no side walks where I live. The roads have 55mph speed limits and are lined with drainage ditches

This doesn't sound very bike-able at all
I want to become danG. It’s the all about the journey.
My main focus used be purposeful work as well. Now I'm more focused on doing things that make me feel good such as traveling, socializing and exercising. Since work is no longer my main focus, I work a lot less and enjoy my work a lot more.
As a trans person, I've spent most of my life wandering, evading some kind of self-loneliness. But in the last two years I've started comprehending that is not only about the way we spend our time, but also how we use our body-mind credit too.
Living as much about the present as it is about the future. So it is important to understand that overworking today may impact your mental health tomorrow.

With this in mind, the one thing for me is peace of mind. I want to have a nice live and enjoy the world around me in a healthy way. Giving my best to ensure that it not only does apply to me, but apply to people around me.

I really do not care if this means improving a banking system do deliver better prices to clients, cooking or teaching people. If I can excel and do some good, it is valid.
Massive. But I don't think thats the point of this.

I imagine you'd pair this with an energy source(say solar), so that you are able to smooth out/absorb excess energy and release when its needed. You could use it as an energy supply of last resort.
Thanks for the in depth response! I mainly toy around with Twine (interactive fiction) but have been wanting to branch off and learn some game creation. I have Unity w/ Adventure Creator and RPG Maker 4. I'm not an artist by any means so being able to import assets like with the Unity marketplace is great.

I've been looking for something that would be akin to Wadjet Eye making games- I' assuming they have an entire template they use and mostly replace art assets although I could be completely wrong. Some of them have very different Stat/etc systems.

Anyway, I just want something fun to dabble on that won't frustrate me too much. I'm familiar with Renpy and have done some work with it but like you mentioned I've overlooked Visual Novels for P&Cs. I guess I could do the conversations/story in twine/renpy and worry about the mechanics of moving around/interacting with a world down the line.

I only know Golang and some python, so the c# for unity was intimidating. I was really hoping to find a decent go game engine but I haven't found anything relative. There is a golang game engine I forget its name.
Because it's a situation where an approximate measure works better than a precise, but fussy one. Timing your walking is not exactly comfortable, while pedometers... just work.

(One could also make a point that effort is also relative to size, but truth be told it really doesn't matter - just having a rough idea that you're moving is ok)
Why do these analogies always leave out the part where the US commits genocide time and time again against Canada so that Canada sees such pacts as the only way to survive against renewed US calls for genocide in Canada?
So, at 100 steps per minute at a brisk pace, 7,000 steps is only an hour and 10 minutes of walking, minimum, per day. This is the recommendation? That we all spend two hours a day walking? Such practical health advice for today's modern world.
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I feel the same, just quit my job a month ago and it’s so good! Let’s build something together! https://ivkin.dev
You can walk around your block with your dog, from the back of the parking lot to the shop, and around your big house.

TV doesn't make walking impossible.
There are several digital encoding schemes that add enhancement layers on top of an older, established base layer. It's a key concept of backwards compatibility. Not including cases where additional channels or domains of information are added (e.g. surround sound, 3D video), and only looking at cases where the perceptual quality of the existing channels or domains is improved (e.g. HDR, resolution), here are some examples:

* Progressive JPEG (1992)

* Spectral Band Replication (2001) in aacPlus -> HE-AACv1 (2003), mp3PRO (2001), WMA 10 Pro (2006)

* JPEG XT (2015) - enhancements on top of 1992 JPEG.

* Scalable Video Coding (2004? 2007?) (search for "SVC Annex G")

(Keep in mind that software patents aren't about ideas, but specific techniques being used together to achieve an effect, so this isn't intended to be a list of prior art, but rather a list of the same concept being used elsewhere.)
Quite a wrecking ball creating Tesla and SpaceX. Lots of destruction there. /s
Kind of curious about this (and this is something mentioned in the study itself). It seems that the observations about step count are just correlational and not causal.

I wonder if the step count thing correlates with some other factors that are more causal? Like in the case of older adults, maybe those who walked more didn't have other physical conditions correlated with earlier mortality that prevented them from doing so?

Also the meta-analysis linked to doesn't seem to say that mortality risk is _reduced_ by _increasing_ step count (implying an intervention) as the article implies. Rather just that people with the higher step counts had lower mortality rates.
I’ve heard there’s a lot of Smalltalk (not necessarily Pharo) used on Wall Street. There’s a fairly extensive page listing companies who use Pharo at:

https://pharo.org/success.html
>what counts as luxury

Paying money to shoot in the dark for miracle theories is a luxury. If you dont have enough food, and you are paying to research how to get more food - it's not luxury research. If you are paying to study string theory instead of importing more food because "you never know what we might learn, maybe world hunger will be solved" then I consider that a luxury. If we disagree on that it's okay and we can move on to other points as that is a fringe point.

No one funded general relativity, they funded Einstein. And the government did not fund Einsteins early theoretical papers AFAIK. To use him as an example is disingenuous. He had already made significant and applicable contributions (which is an understatement). He was definitely funded by a government (as part of a team) to create new technologies which in turn won WWII for that government.

I am not aware of any scientific evidence that government funding is necessary to produce groundbreaking theories. In other words, it's possible that genius happens and self-motivates without prior good-faith funding. I do see historical precedent for huge technological advancement through paying theoretical physicists to stop working on theory and start working on application though.

>I can't think of anything worse than governments directing technology development.

Why? Governments historically have funded an incredible amount of successful bleeding edge technologies. Especially in the defense sector. The atom bomb is one of them.

Part of my point here is that we need to take the effectiveness of what our government is capable of with technology in terms of defense and apply that level of competency to other areas - incentivizing the relevant researchers to be hands-on with application development