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Genuinely curious: how does burning methane to generate electricity make an organization carbon negative? Do you have a reference for this?

I understand that methane is orders of magnitude more significant from a greenhouse effect point of view than CO2, but I don't see how it would be economically viable to burn methane "in stranded gas reserves" to generate electricity for Bitcoin mining but somehow it's not viable for other electrical consumption purposes.

My pessimistic view: making it too easy to report spam may highlight how much spam there actually is on Twitter. Something the company definitely does not want to do at the moment.

There's plenty of nuance you're missing still:

- Baseline cholesterol levels

- Inflammation

- Genetic predisposition to heart disease / diabetes

- Types of fat and quantities consumed

- What else does your diet consist of

Edit: and these are just some risk factors for heart disease and diabetes. There's plenty more nuance still if we want to talk about quality of life, energy levels, digestive function etc...

High-palmitic acid diets and dry, high-sugar diets are hardly the only two options.

I suspect the author hasn't even read Meditations. A couple quotes from Aurelius that would indicate as much:

> "Whenever you have trouble getting up in the morning, remind yourself that you've been made by nature for the purpose of working with others..."

> "Often injustice lies in what you aren't doing, not only in what you are doing."

Things like iMessage and Google Messages for Web mean SMS doesn't really fit the bill, either.

No bcrypt?

There's a chance that a push toward enterprise may even result in a feature a lot of us more savvy individual customers would love to see as well: self-hosting.

As a regular user of Android, Windows, and Linux systems Keychain is almost worthless.

Long-term 1Password customer here, no affiliation with 1Password or AgileBits.

> They have been doing some pretty unfriendly moves towards their long-term customers

From my point of view this was not hostile at all: I used 1Password with Dropbox sync for years and absolutely loved it as a personal password manager _for myself_. But sharing of passwords with family was a real pain. I gleefully signed up for cloud-hosted 1Password Families at launch and haven't had a bit of regret. Of all the subscription services I use, at $4/mo 1Password is easily the best bang for the buck.

For sharing, it's just sooo much easer than trying to use Dropbox: I can invite family members just by entering their email address and 1Password walks them through the setup. I can create new vaults with the click of a button and easily select who I want to share them with. I can revoke access to members just as easily I don't have to have a Dropbox account and I don't have to wonder about whether I've set the right permissions on my vault files or whether my free Dropbox quota has been reached. I don't have to share _my_ vault keys and passwords with someone else to give them access to a vault. I can still export and back up an encrypted vault whenever and however I want.

It's no accident that all of these features are the same ones that make their product so attractive to businesses as well: ease of access and sharing are both essential for adoption by businesses.

One more note: I still have my old standalone licenses and can still go back to 1Password 4/6 with Dropbox sync any time I want and not pay another dime, as 1Password still has links to download the older versions on their website: https://1password.com/downloads/mac/

Even more analogous, what if the resident wants the same temperature as his neighbors, but just because of the position of his unit relative to the others it takes less energy to heat. Is that immoral?

Social Security is on its way to insolvency thanks to slowing population growth and increases in longevity. It has to increase faster than inflation to keep up.

I got one of these for my kids around 2014 and was also hugely disappointed. I realized very quickly that it was just a gimmick to lure the Gen-Xers and Millenials who remember these from their childhood.

I, too, was disgusted that it took batteries but you still had to wind the knob, but I was even more offended by the awful staticky sound from the tiny speaker.

Like foone, I also got a kick out of playing with the switches and seeing what happened when you held the disc stil, but I was never curious enough to open it up. I'm glad I didn't, though -- I think the sight of an actual music box would have broken my heart.

> It started off about as common as humans having green eyes.

Elephant poaching has been around since long before the Mozambique civil war. The number of tuskless elephants may have been at 2-4% prior to the war, but that doesn't mean that lower levels of poaching didn't push it up to that level from some much lower naturally-occurring level.

2-4% seems like a _very high_ rate for a trait that could negatively impact a female's chance of survival AND kills 100% of her male offspring.

This is a fair point.

Treating things like Social Security and Medicare obligations as unfunded debt is akin to me declaring that I have a large amount of debt because I have to pay for food and clothe myself from now until I die.

It's money I will pay, most certainly, but it's only an obligation to myself to sustain my life at some reasonable standard. Much like Medicare and Social Security, it will be paid for with money I earn in the future as I live my life.

As a former driver of a full-size pickup, "hidden" is an overstatement. The safety difference really is quite obvious.

The physics of a larger mass and stiffer frame are already unsafe, but the poor near-vehicle visibility and maneuverability in a large truck make things even worse.

Anecdotally, I see more aggressive drivers in pickup trucks and oversized SUVs. But who knows which causes the other, or even if it's my own biases shining through.

> When you squash merge a feature branch that has thousands of lines of code, and 6 months later you have a bug introduced by this feature branch, it becomes extremely hard to find which line introduced the bug.

The article makes an argument that each commit should be "a single logical change." Squashing thousands of lines of code from a long-running feature branches into a single commit is obviously not what the author is suggesting.

I don't think this article makes the argument the author thinks it does.

If I take the author at his word that more people are creating large new fortunes at a higher rate, and I assume that the large fortunes of 1982 have not become significantly smaller (I admittedly don't have a citation for this, although I feel it's a safe assumption), and finally take into account that wealth inequality has been steadily increasing in the USA [1] since 1982, I come a reasonable conclusion:

"Winners" from the middle class are being promoted to super-wealthy status by consolidating wealth from their peers in the middle and lower classes, and it's happening at a much higher rate than it was 30 years ago.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...

My anecdotal experience: My wife and I both had LG phones, Nexus 5x, for about 9 months before they stopped being usable. Dealing with poorly made equipment and terrible warranty service was more than enough to ensure I wouldn't be buying any more LG products.

While I don't like a lot of their software, my experience with Samsung's hardware, and their warranty service for that matter, have been much more pleasant.

edit: On a somewhat related note, I recently bought a new Samsung TV. True to Samsung form, the software is terrible but the hardware has been very solid.

I'm sure it's more complex than I grasp as a layperson, but I'm utterly amazed at how simple this _appears_. I get the feeling that this is something I have a better chance of understanding than the average SaaS Terms and Conditions.

I expected to have to scroll through pages upon pages of indecipherable text. Instead it's no bigger than a large paragraph of text, and I can easily fit it on my screen.

Adding adequate street lighting near bus stops really isn't that hard.

A good business model will always have a hard time competing with a fraudulent business model.

Maybe I'm just being pessimistic, but seeing this in the light of their upcoming IPO and yesterday's Robinhood debacle makes me feel like this is an attempt to be seen as "legitimate" in they eyes of Wall Street.

The Play Store also seems to be having problems downloading APKs. CDN issues sounds pretty likely.

Wouldn't you want power to stay with elected officials who can be removed from office by the public rather than a private business that's primarily motivated by profit and only answers to shareholders.

I'm not aware of any languages so simple that renaming an identifier and its usages isn't a useful feature.

I can confirm it's not straightforward to get a refund from Apple for an App Store purchase, it was for me at least.

In the most recent case I tried to request a refund immediately after buying an app, only to get a vague and unhelpful error message. After a little Googling I learned that you have to wait a period of a few hours before requesting a refund. Of course I forgot to go back and request the refund later so I ended up paying for an app that didn't do what I expected it to.

I love that this took a perfect storm of having a statistician and sys admin both bent on finding the cause of a weird intermittent problem in their own way.

This could have happened a million times where the story was a lot less interesting:

"Hey, I'm having weird intermittent problems sending email."

"Hmm, we're using the wrong version of Sendmail. All fixed, case closed."

It seems so backwards that we would be furloughing hospital workers right now. Hopefully those finding themselves without work can lend theirs skills in locations where we don't have enough workers.

Impossible Burger doesn't have any dyes. The redness is from the soy leghemoglobin, which also gives it the meaty taste.

https://faq.impossiblefoods.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600189374...