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*parent post edited and elaborated while I was writing my reply

Can you elaborate? I do have children, and I don't view it as any platforms job to police their Internet usage. I appreciate parental controls, but if they have Internet access it's my job to teach them to use services safely and keep an eye on their activities

If the 20-somethings today are substantially healthier than the 20-somethings 10 years ago, then quality statistics _should_ capture the effect.

As I start to work with more genz folks, it is extremely pervasive that gym culture and health consciousness are much more core to their common zeitgeist than millennials. I imagine the same conditions core to their childhood and adolescence is also driving change in their parents and the rest of society.

Growing up natively with social media seems like a very reasonable correlation for me. Your life and habits are always under a lens, self consciousness or conscientiousness make sense.

I tried to reply to another comment that was since deleted. It said something along the lines of: >I don't get why Tesla would kill their battery-swapping while they are tackling other Hard Problems.

The practicality of battery swapping decreases exponentially as size and weight scale. The cost of building a battery swapping network for western-car-sized battery systems, even once solving the engineering elements (which are manageable), are likely a non-starter. Especially if the other principle technology rival is fast-charging stations.

How much added convenience is required to justify huge mechanical systems with many wear components and large maintenance costs over replacing a few charging cables every X months? Lots.

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That doesn't mean its worth it. There is always a tradeoff and I would rather live in a world where I know I am free from surveillance than a world where I am .000001% safer or criminals are caught 10% faster.

This is a terrifying step for the internet. These kinds of step lay the groundwork for censorship but fail to consider the impact of these changes in the event that the bad guys come into power or gain influence of these management systems.

A bit confused why you are trying to roll your own storage solution. Ceph is great for a lot of applications, but I am not sure it really fits the bill for what you describe. Especially when you indicate you are going to use spinning disk behind it. Have you looked at any of the storage arrays on the market? Your TCO is likely to be much lower and your performance/resiliency much higher if you buy something with $100's of millions of R&D behind it rather than all the hours and costs of rolling your own. Not saying its impossible to make it work, but it just sounds like something that will be a PITA going forward.

This is interesting to me. The lack of diversity in the tech industry is definitely something that will be harmful in the long run. Diversity is necessary to improve the relevance of new ideas in tech and to promote them to broader audiences from different cultures.

The trend towards making a pariah out of anyone with opposing points of view can be equally harmful to promoting diversity of thought. Making people afraid of speaking their minds can hardly help the flow of new ideas or positively impact the industry. While I likely don't agree with the political ideology of a speaker at the RNC, I definitely agree with the right of anyone to do so without being held captive by the threat of activism at home. Boycotting and protesting people with different political views may feel good in the short run, but it is unhelpful to promoting freedom and equality in the long run.

If they can't say what I find reprehensible today, how do I know that views I hold dear will be "allowed" in the future?

How is this "Speaking for others"? OP provided their perspective in comments. You having a different perspective is valid and is not threatened by the point of view of OP.

This is really cool. Basically "Startup as a Service"

I don't know xca and I hope that it is a good project. Seeing a sourceforge link after the flack from the last few months makes me somewhat skeptical of the content on the other end though.

Is this team out of Clemson?

I don't think the problem is with laying off unnecessary staff. I think this is a notification and backwage issue. If someone works for you for two weeks, then gets fired, you can't just not pay them for the time worked. Also, in most states, you cannot lay off employees without cause (meaning without a specific issue with a single employees behavior or performance) without sufficient notice.

What is the licensing on the source code?