Really? I've never heard this and a quick google doesn't bear this out. Also, it's not clear to me what they would actually do to you if you didn't...put you in prison? Release you as punishment?
Our work schedules are largely inflexible because of the need to coordinate with others. A teacher cannot shift their hours unless the students do so as well. The students cannot shift their hours if their parents can't provide care under the new schedule. The parents can't shift their hours if they have scheduled responsibilities such opening stores, making deliveries, etc. In short, a great many jobs require that others maintain fixed schedules in order to operate efficiently, so flexible hours is not a general solution.
I can respect cutting off conversations before they devolve into endless back and forths. However, I'm still going to take advantage of you giving me the last word to say: the fact that you can rephrase what I said to turn it into a no true scotsman statement doesn't mean that the argument I actually made was an example of one. I did not claim or imply that anyone who disagrees with this position is not a true Christian. I claimed that Christianity is not adequately defined as what some relatively small subset of Christians commonly believe. You would like to characterize the whole (Christianity) by the part (certain fundamentalist sects), which is actually the fallacy of composition. It may be that you won't read this response (I hope not, your resolution really is sensible) but I had to write it up anyway to get it off my chest. Enjoy your day as well.
Not even remotely. I'm disagreeing with your characterization of the Christian faith, not changing mine to exclude unwanted elements. Disagreeing on the meanings of terms is not the no true Scotsman fallacy.
Bad take. The Christian faith, outside of fundamentalist sects, is not built around clear-to-a-child interpretations of individual phrases in the bible. The bible is a product of the Christian faith, not it's source. In other words, it's teachings are defined by those sensitive adults, not the naive childlike readers of things they wrote.
Are you? Elsewhere you describe this beliefs as "one of the main tenants of religion" and say "The crux of Christianity is that if you don't accept Jesus...". It sounds like you are making claims not just about Christianity as a whole, but about religion in general. If you're trying to make claims about what Americans believe about Christianity, you're expressing yourself very poorly.
Being an educated Catholic, you're probably already aware that the Catholic church makes up about 50% of Christians. Throw in the Orthodox church, which says it knows where the church is, but doesn't know where it is not, and you're up to 60%. Throw in the Anglicans and the Methodists, who certainly share the relevant opinions regarding salvation, and now you're over 65%. The remaining denominations are a mixed bag but even ignoring the rest, it's hard to say how you could describe the Catholic church as a Christian outlier. Rather, it is all these tiny denominations which are outliers.
American Evangelical political influence has greatly waned in recent years and very little of our political discourse is now explicitly religious, yet our discourse is every bit as full of moralizing and condemnation as it ever was. I would suggest that strongly held moral beliefs always tend towards authoritarianism. Things we consider to be truly wrong we don't want being done, even when we aren't personally involved.
Not OP, but I am a Christian convert. I was raised an agnostic/atheist, but converted due to a combination of philosophical and emotional reasons. Contrary to what is commonly believed, there are not that many intellectually serious religions to chose from. If you are curious about it, I would suggest you check out The Experience of God, by David Bentley Hart (https://www.amazon.com/Experience-God-Being-Consciousness-Bl...).
It's not even exclusive to religions. Ethnic tension with and without religious difference. In fact, religious conflicts are not infrequently dressed up ethnic conflicts. People are tribal, and religious affiliation is just one means for defining tribes.
You have a greatly simplified understanding of what religion is and how it operates. Many religions, for instance, encourage people to act against social norms. Also, strange that you would characterize conformity as an artifact of our lizard brains. Reptiles are not generally noted for being highly social creatures. Conformity seems like it'd be situated closer to what makes us human than what makes us animal-like.
When my son was diagnosed with autism a quarter century or so ago, we would see claims like this popping up now and again. At first we would get excited, but over time we learned to ignore them. Desperate parents make easy targets for grifters and quacks so you have to expect this kind of thing. The worst part is when well-meaning family and friends keep excitedly sending you articles or giving advising you on these exciting new treatments.
If we reject the idea that captured carbon can remain captured, then no carbon capture mechanism works. I'm not sure your skepticism on that front is warranted, though.
I don't think you've properly understood the process. They free the carbon from the limestone, but capture it. They then use the resulting material to capture more carbon. Then they repeat the process. The first batch that was in the limestone originally is obviously of no benefit, but succeeding cycles are using carbon pulled from the air.
I guess I've been unwittingly practicing chaos gardening for a couple of years now. I do it because I don't have the time, the energy, or the know-how to do regular gardening, even if it seems easy to you. Instead, I just remove things I don't like when I notice them and wait for things I do like to spring up. Sometimes my wife buys seeds and we throw them around. I end up with things that roughly resemble flower beds that look nice to me. Why should I work harder?
They can't charge more because they are competing with others not affected by the overtime regulation. And at the current prices they aren't able to pay enough...at least not enough according to bystanders such as yourself, who seem to think it's better for them to lose their jobs than keep working at the rate they've been getting.
Ok, I see your point. If the farmer were to grow a crop that didn't require such rapid harvesting, the workers would end up doing the same labor over a longer period of time which could allow them to have lower child care costs.
On the other hand, it would then take them longer in terms of calendar days to get the same income, and all their other expenses are likely to stay the same. If they normally moved on to other jobs after the harvest, this would mean reduced overall income. Also, the difficulty of the job is factored into the pay they receive (the article specifically says their hourly wage is higher than normal farm labor), so they would likely be paid less for this less demanding crop. It still doesn't seem like much of a solution.
In this case the expensive resource is labor, so following your analogy, they should grow crops that are less labor intensive. Makes sense but doesn't seem like there's a net gain for the laborers there.
If labor is one of the primary expenses, and the profit margin is low, then increasing the cost of labor will drive the profit margin into the negatives. In other words, the man can't run a business that pays the level you think it should - it would go bankrupt. So what do you propose as a solution?
I agree, articles tend not to get read by those who need them most. A warning from the CLI and a banner on the app management page with a link to a detailed explanation would seem like a good approach.
edit: sibling post shows there is such a message on the CLI. The only other thing I can think of is an "Are you sure you want to do this?" prompt, but in the end you can't reach everybody.
It seems to me like there's room for improving your customers' awareness around what is required for HA and how to tell when they are affected by a hardware issue. On the other hand, it may just be that the confusion is mostly amongst the casual onlookers, in which case you have my sympathies!
Not a great summary from my perspective. Here's what I got out of it:
- Their free tier support depended on noticing message board activity and they didn't.
- Those experiencing outages were seeing the result of deploying in a non-HA configuration. Opinions differ as to whether they were properly aware that they were in that state.
- They had an unusually long outage for one particular server.
- Those points combined resulted in many people experiencing an unexplained prolonged outage.
- Their dashboard shows only regional and service outages, not individual servers being down. People did not realize this and so assumed it was a lie.
- Some silliness with Discourse tags caused people to think they were trying to hide the problems.
In short, bad luck, some bad procedures from a customer management POV, possibly some bad documentation resulted in a lot of smoke but not a lot of fire.
What is your biggest concern? I would think key loggers are a more common threat than attacks on the password manager directly, especially if you're running something niche. What else do you gain from keeping it air gapped?
I'm not a heavy Firefox user, but I've seen it as well. I don't remember the specifics, but on a couple of occasions a site would fail to function properly, I'd pop the developer tools open and see a Javascript error, usually about a null object. I'm assuming some sites are relying on Chrome-specific extensions because they don't see enough Firefox traffic to care. I haven't really seen much in the way of broken layout though, which is a big difference from the old "only tested in IE" days.
I think you're overplaying the social aspect. For quite a while, Chrome had a serious speed advantage over Firefox and the developer tools were (are?) considered much better. I'm not sure if either is still the case. They both seem fine for my purposes, but I use Chrome because it subjectively feels a bit quicker and I've gotten disillusioned with the practice of choosing software based on political considerations.
That's exactly the reason I was thinking they may choose to be selective. From what I understand, it's pretty normal for servers to refuse to federate with other servers. I don't know if they do this transitively, but if so, then the Dutch government might find itself forced to choose which side to take.
I don't know much about this area so maybe you can unpack this for me. Are you saying people are getting building permits, but not actually building? Why would that be happening? And what about the market is causing it?