sigstoat

> What you are not seeing is the piles of grounds that would be needed and the tangle of logistics to get the grounds from where they are produced to where they can be used.

so many of these ideas seem to hand wave over “we’ll need to implement a whole new waste stream worldwide. don’t mind that we can hardly manage >1 stream as it is”

considering the mass of a home, what’s the efficiency difference between letting the temperature stay in uncontrolled for 8+ hours and then trying to rein it in quickly vs just keeping it in place the whole time? remember to account for wear and tear on the relevant HVAC equipment.

going to be a rather unenthusiastic army if it is stocked with folks who thought they were getting cushy office jobs.

fly new hires some place and make them work in person with somebody for a week.

i think remote work is great, but some early face to face can fix a bunch of problems imo.

i did some contracting for a place that i think hired one of these guys.

in his case i think he more or less knew what he was doing, and showed up on calls, but delegated the work to some other people.

we’d hear people in the background of his audio discussing things really oddly similar to tasks he’d been assigned and had outstanding. he was putting in (bad) PRs at all hours of day and night, and never had any recollection of any email, slack conversation, or his own PRs.

the company fired him after six months or so.

> May I just say, that the most ridiculous thing in this news really is selling a 15% stake in a company for $100?

no kidding. i wouldn’t sell a 15% stake in a lemonade stand for $100. that doesn’t even cover the hassle of reviewing the contract and signing a bunch of notarized paperwork

> > I don't see how you can get away from having a defined serialisation format.

> Yep, that's exactly it. Your TLS certificate is not sent as string, and neither are your TCP packets, nor the images contained in them.

...all of those things mentioned have defined serialization. i expect all of them have had security issues because of problems with deserialization code.

i’m sure it seems like “everyone” is on twitter when you’re permanently online, but even the peak MAU figures don’t look anything like “everyone” in the US let alone the rest of the world.

any government messaging plan that revolves around twitter was irresponsible. same with whatever other single social media platform you want to name.

> Then make an example and disband the company and all shareholders lose all equity. Have people realize they will lose money if they don't pay attention to details.

do you not make mistakes, or do you not work with anything that matters?

the US criminal justice system, which isn't very popular, seems to be more tolerant to human error than you.

> With that, Americans also don't accept the United States as someplace people are from.

Nonsense.

> Even if you're family has been here for 500 years, people still want to know where you're family came from originally.

I can only recall one person ever being unsatisfied by the name of a state when asking where I was from, and they were satisfied when I named a city.

This is why jmkb referenced synchronization rights, which (as I recall) were invented when they seemed useful. jmkb is suggesting a new right might be created, not claiming that they already exist.

(even if it wasn’t sync rights, there was something else musically related that was created in response to technological development. wikipedia will have plenty on it)

will you be providing us with a list of acceptably cheap entertainments?

> We can probably expand this to things like coffee, but you could argue that it provides value.

why should anyone need coffee, when they can just take caffeine pills?

why read new books, we have plenty of old ones. those authors could be slaving away for the planet

i can take something like Octave (very GPL) and do commercial things with it all day. the GPL would only be relevant if i start distributing Octave itself. (or, in your suggested world, if i started distributing the hypothetically GPL'd genera)

i’ve had it come up with new function names, or prepend some prefix to the names of functions. i had to put some cleverness in on my end to run whatever function was close enough.