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Amazon is not the only large company that objects to apparently discriminatory legislation. Just look at Indiana or North Carolina for examples.

It's the market that is influencing social policies, politicians are just responding to that.

I was skeptical. But there is also a difference between coming across people flying the flag and a desolate place marked with the symbol. In both cases, the symbol means pirates, but in the first case pirates mean danger and in the second case pirates mean abandoned treasure.

Now how am I going to watch Olympus Has Fallen?

They are both examples of positive feedback loops that result in abrupt changes to the climate, yes. But, because they are different systems, the feedback loops behave differently. Methane trapped in sea ice is studied and modeled separately from organisms frozen in arctic permafrost.

I think you are equating "human civilization" with "humanity". I agree that some people are likely to survive a catastrophe, but I don't think that what we think of as civilization is likely to survive a 90% or 99% population reduction.

Or as lifeformed put it elsewhere: "Destroying all civilization doesn't mean destroying all humans, but just the structures that hold society together. A runaway heating scenario may be a pretty effective way of doing that - all crops die, wars for food, nukes get used."

Our systems of civil society are fairly robust, but at some point those major problems become greater than our ability to cope. Unfortunately, "almost no chance" and "no chance" are not the same thing.

The Clathrate gun hypothesis and the thawing of the Arctic ecosystem are two of the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" that the US government investigates. These are possible scenarios for abrupt climate change (aka tipping points). The other two involve antarctic ice sheet instability and megadroughts in North America.

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2008/09/17/impacts-on-the-threshol...

I'm not sure how anachronism applies to a fictional setting, but have you never played with words to coin a new one?

Pulling apart words and putting them back together is one of the more relatable demonstrations of intelligence, imo.

I think there is a real benefit for creators of physical rewards when they aren't obligated to fulfill or refund pledges that come in at the very end of the month. They can begin and end shipping earlier, and apply late pledges to next month's rewards.

And as a patron, I appreciate receiving my December rewards near the end of December rather than mid-January.

The problem that charging up-front was created to address was people pledging money, reaping rewards, then dropping out before paying any money at all. With this system, if someone signs up for one month, then drops, the creator still gets paid for that month.

Worst case: a patron could game the system and only pay half as much as other patrons for the same content. That would involve pledging and canceling repeatedly every other month. That is not a likely scenario, and still infinitely better than the previous worst case: patrons paying $0 for that premium content.

> A big problem (that we arguably created ourselves) is a patron could pledge to a creator on the 25th of a month (granting a patron 5-6 days of access), get charged, and then get charged again on the 1st of the next month (granting the patron 30-31 days of patron-access). Pro-rating didn't seem like a right solution for the first charge since becoming a patron unlocked all the content immediately. So imo we should just (like a Netflix or any other subscription) have your first pledge grant you 30 days of access, whenever it was created -- and have this forever be your "anniversary date" of charge -- if you pledge Jan 25th, you'd be charged again Feb 25th.

You could keep your charge date on the 1st of the month, and just not charge for that first month if they are charged up front. Let creators choose the length of their grace period: 3 days, 10 days, two weeks. Creators get paid, don't feel pressured to provide refunds, and patrons get a little sign-on discount.

The body of the article does refer to the Damore memo. Perhaps the title should be changed to reflect that?

I'm curious why you ignored the return request. Was the nature of the product one that made you suspicious of fraud?

Welcome to the Cartographers for Social Justice!

Positive stories are just as important as the stories of sexism and harassment. One tells us the problem exists, the other reassures us that something can be done about it.

> I had studied women in tech for two years as part of my master’s in Sociology degree

I don't think the author is extrapolating her personal experience to the industry. Her experience is a personal example of a trend she had previously studied.

> I had studied women in tech for two years as part of my master’s in Sociology degree

I think the author has more than her personal anecdote to back up her statement.

Numbers from the NPR Fact Sheet:

http://www.npr.org/about/press/NPR_Fact_Sheet.pdf

Wayyy different orders of magnitude. From NPR's self reported estimates, ~10% of the US population listens to NPR radio weekly. Only ~0.013% of web users commented on articles.

No telling how many regularly read the comments without contributing. Does anyone have lurker estimates?

Facebook isn't the only social option. Twitter replies are an opportunity for anonymous or semi-anonymous commentary. But, also an opportunity for garbage.

Well, it's not all he eats. Just for routine meals. He treats regular food as a treat or experience to spend your entertainment budget (of both time and money) on.

AirBnB is great when you can co-locate a household and a rental room. A permanent resident that rents their spare spacetime is an increase in efficiency.

The problem is when landlords terminate leases to convert to full-time AirBnB properties. That isn't efficient, it's adding another hotel to the 'cartel'.

That aspect of the game makes Pokemon Go better than other mobile game fads and mainstays. Flappy Go doesn't get you out exploring the areas around you, but catching Pokemon can enable spontaneous discovery of local shops/ restaurants.

Edit: er... Flappy Bird. I'm not sure what Flappy Go would look like.

You'd be surprised.