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Homes in rural areas have lots of land where you can compost yourself. Plastic recycling can be expanded by increasing the bottle fee and expanding some form of it to all plastic.

Ransomers also threaten to post the unencrypted data on the internet.

Not perceived: actual, effective latency is higher. Today's hardware is capable of better latencies, but most software guys don't care about latency all the way from firmware to OS to apps to websites. It does matter to some degree in games and vehicles but it's hard to find an industry that values latency outside of toys or industrial applications. Practitioners say this is because "99% of users don't care" but that's only because 99% of users have either (1) never experienced fast latencies or (2) have forgotten them because latencies have gotten gradually slower over the last three decades.

I feel the same way about rust’s standard lib, which is pretty sparse compared to, say, python and go. Finding libraries for common tasks is the most stressful part of an otherwise stress-free language (first world problems, I know). I get that it’s a trade off, and I get why the designers chose this path, but I would have preferred it the other way.

The pandemic will feature prominently in fiction for many years. Every genre from scifi, dramas, horror, comedies, etc will be touched by it since the event has touched every person on earth. Themes around loneliness and isolation will be more common than before. The aesthetic will be sweatpants.

The other big concept will be concentration camps, specifically the ones currently operated by the United States. China also has these, at a larger scale and with much, much worse treatment, but the megacorps that control western media are too cowardly to broach the subject until after they are banned from the country. Criticizing the US is less risky. Perhaps the next Nobel in literature will be written by a teenager currently laying on a concrete floor trying to console a toddler who was sprayed with a chemical prohibited by the Geneva Convention.

Emacs user for 20+ years here. I have written a nontrivial amount of elisp. I like emacs; and, yet, I still sometimes get confused by the difference between a window, a frame, and a buffer. Sometimes I encounter a phrase like “frame buffer” and just ignore it to avoid going down that rabbit hole again.

Corona would have ruined the coffee side of the business, so you probably dodged a bullet.

What's your local storage setup?

Human induced evolution is happening with wild salmon.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3352430/

Can you ELI5 what a music producer does? Was he also a writer or is writing part of producing? What is placement?

It's fine until they discontinue old.reddit.com at some point in the near future.

Robots won't accidentally infect you with disease, which is a big worry these days.

> I was warned to stay away from packages on the beach

Ah, the infamous square grouper.

More info on the water company:

https://institute.jpmorganchase.com/about/our-history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Company

https://www.jstor.org/preview-page/10.2307/25096785?seq=1

How, exactly, does one “empty” a person?

Haha, I was thinking about paying users with >100k followers, not the platform, to mention the soap tangentially or have the ice cream in-frame in a picture supposedly about relaxing.

I'm surprised the platforms haven't rolled out scalable middleman services for this.

Fox News has been the target of an ad boycott every year or two for the past decade. They did not lead to any meaningful change.

Every time they get rid of the most egregious hosts and replace them with new ones. The new ones start out moderate, then inevitably drift to extremism. The advertisers have plausible deniability for half of their employees and customers. The other half don't care or are cheering Fox.

Mutual fund companies do something similar with underperforming funds. They cull the worst performers and the remainder make the whole fund family look good due to the magic of survivorship bias.

Facebook is obviously drastically different than Fox. That said, they are a large company and organizational inertia is very hard to overcome. Right now FB is optimized to promote quantity of engagement without regard to quality. Turning down the heat and promoting civility would result in fewer posts, which would mean fewer ad impressions. That's not happening.

Does Unilever really need to run ads on Facebook? They sell soap and ice cream[1]. That budget would be better spent on product placement with influencers on some type of image/video centric site like Instagram, Snap, TikTok, etc.

Edit: Apparently they are pulling out of Instagram as well. Maybe that didn't meet their ROI expectations?

[1] https://www.unileverusa.com/brands/

What’s a HENRY?

Zoom’s engineering team is based in the PRC. This opens them up to pressure from the dictatorship which has made large scale industrial espionage a public policy goal. Somebody is listening, and likely transcribing, every call at organizations of interest. The source code, public statements, etc are irrelevant; if the PLA wants a Chinese national in China to do something, they will. The penalties for noncompliance are terrifying.

Early versions of Youtube nailed this. The video would frequently pause, degrade, or glitch due to buffering delays but the audio would continue to play. This made all the difference in user perception: youtube felt smooth. Other streaming services would pause both video and audio which did not feel smooth at all. Maybe they had some QoS code in their webapp to prioritize audio?

Here's a picture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_TelePresence#/media/File...

How does a red light help as a reference time? Does the light log every time it changes or is it for visual synchronization with other nearby cameras?

The database you described has existed for a while. It's called social media.

People voluntarily post their minute-frequency gps location, workplace, political and religious leanings, sexual preferences, views on current events, and an exhaustive list of friends, family, coworkers, and other associates. Not to mention hundreds, if not thousands, of geo-tagged pictures of themselves over the years, along with a list of the other people in the frame, as well as a written discussion of the events photographed.

Slightly off topic, but a few years back there was a group that gained access to PRNewswire’s servers and was able to read announcements of earnings, mergers, etc earlier than the public. PRNewswire had a scheduled announcement function that allowed precomposed announcements to be made public at a specified future time. The group used this information to make stock and option trades and was pursued by the government for both the hacking and insider trading. Today, the obvious target for this type of attack would be xoom.

Paramedics and police are at opposite ends of the union representation spectrum. Paramedics have no union and are thus treated like livestock. The police have the strongest unions in America and are thus largely untouchable.

Perl also did this in the late 90s. "Possible runaway quote on line 123"

> Squirrel was chosen because it is considered cute, but mouse is considered dirty.

That's a great example of the difference between translation and localization.

I looked for the "pricing" page to see what the actual features are.

The rabbit hole goes deeper: some early stage VCs and angels only invest in Harvard or Stanford dropouts.