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One thing that scares me is that this amount of plastic consumption is only increasing as we dump more and more plastic. I’m not sure when it will reach that point that it’s clearly too much even if the amount we consume isn’t harmful for now. Many of these plastics take thousands of years to break down completely.

Thank Science! :p

I’ve never had a job that open sources more than 1% of all the code I’ve written. For most it was 0.

He probably could have been equally as effective by saying "hey, let's make this icon more generic so it's more inclusive" and ended it at that. I don't think he is wrong in his request, but the necessity people feel to say "This offends me" over just using other more concrete rationale is what causes these kinds of incidents.

We need to learn to use less divisive and accusatory language when making requests like this.

This data is based on less than 6 months of distribution in Ontario and doesn’t give us an idea of what it’s been like since last March. I’ll be more curious to hear about a full fiscal year before saying much else.

The amount of downvoting on opinions you disagree with in this thread is disappointing. It’s funny that the discussion is about listening to others we disagree with, but simultaneously valid ideas/comments are being grayed out and pushed down into obscurity

If nothing else, please ask your customers why they are leaving/cancelling. It makes me feel like a company doesn’t care and won’t get better if they don’t ask leaving customers why.

Yes, I've tried Impossible too at a couple of places and am a fan. My favorite was Umami Burger's Korean-style toppings.

Semi-related, but the Beyond Meat burger at Canadian fast-food chain A&W has been a big hit too, it seems. I got one at a mall recently and was amazed that everyone in line at the time was there to try the beyond meat burger. There’s a serious appetite for this stuff so I’m glad to see a big meat company paying attention.

I understand maybe 30% of 3blue1brown’s videos, mostly due to his excellent visualizations, but he really gets me excited for math in a way I’ve not experienced before. How does he make such awesome visualizations? Does anyone know what tools are being used?

I used to work at a company that called these customers ‘zombies’ because you were afraid that any next marketing communication would ‘awaken the dead’ and trigger an unsubscribe. They’d even go as far as to not send marketing emails to ‘zombie’ accounts that had been long time inactive. Bringing this back to Netflix, I imagine they would be concerned about a 0 activity customer leaving at any given time. Probably hard to forecast future revenue for them too. In related news, MasterCard announced they were going to start forcing subscription providers to contact you monthly with a bill so this might be the beginning of the end for easy revenue from inactive users.

Seriously. I worked in research for a while and we would weight data to fit demographics but there were limits to how much weighting you could apply before the data sample was considered insufficient. I really wonder how much this algorithm is ignoring general sampling rules like ‘n > 30’ to crank out this list.

The question really isn’t about whether serverless runs on servers or not. It’s about whether the workflow still feels like dealing with your own servers or not. In some ways, yes it still feels like that and in other ways, such as scaling up and load balancing, it doesn’t as much.

> People are awarded credit points for activities such as undertaking volunteer work and giving blood donations while those who violate traffic laws and charge “under-the-table” fees are punished.

> Other infractions reportedly include smoking in non-smoking zones, buying too many video games and posting fake news online.

This reminds me a lot of that Black Mirror episode where everyone upvotes and downvotes each other in contribution to a social credit system that prevents a girl from traveling and being treated kindly by anyone

You’re right but should it come down to a lawsuit your butt is covered. You’re probably never going to go after someone unless they reach financial success with it anyway. Also, what about disincentivizing anyone who might know how to exploit content not properly copyrighted online?

It’s probably a lot like the piracy problem — Don’t spend a lot of time fighting it because those people don’t pay, but secure the legal rights to your works well enough to fight anyone with more sinister plans than making just a copy or two.