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721.
by bertil 5y ago
> This is exactly the same case as with bitcoin miners. No: both types of organisation are looking at areas with cheap electricity and free cooling, but large internet companies are looking at area with stable polical regime and low carb
722.
by bertil 5y ago
No: EVs has less carbon footprint than ICE, usually several times less. Digital economy has a carbon footprint, but orders of magnitude less than the alternatives: paper for administration, casettes for music or plastic film for movies. You
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by bertil 5y ago
> a million times more efficient than Bitcoin That is still a million times less efficient than existing solution and still horrifyingly wasteful. Blockchain principle is that if you have as many people as possible waste an astounding am
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by bertil 5y ago
I strongly disagree with the points that you make. There are many ways to implement fair financial systems. Crypto activists chose to ignore them, refused to understand the sources of failures and just attact principles. Instead, crypto adv
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by bertil 5y ago
Toxicity is the right term if we stick to its original, biological meaning. Energy generation leads to large toxic outputs. Wasting energy leads to more toxic outputs.
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by bertil 5y ago
I read wun0ne point as how blockchain implementations has a disastrous environmental impact. The article doesn’t mention that at all, and openly advocate for blockchain.
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by bertil 5y ago
The largest and easiest argument against crypto is the environmental impact. It’s completely ignored in that piece.
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by bertil 5y ago
Like many articles on the same topic, this is very scant on the ecological consequence of burning things. Because things go “puff” and you can’t seem them doesn’t mean the problem is gone. That’s why ICE car drivers think what they do is fi
729.
by bertil 5y ago
I feel like the article is dodging the reality of what they are asking: How many people are employed by TikTok in Russia? What is their responsability and how do they influence product decisions? What would happen if TikTok refuses to compl
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by bertil 5y ago
Their profits would only be relevant if they underpaid the staff that could fix that problem (machine-learning specialists, because you can’t imagine addressing this by hand). They don’t. Whatever lack of ressource they might have isn’t fix
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by bertil 5y ago
I always say that my most important piece of work was learning about “tel:”. Someone had build this a operational report that listed people to contact—hundreds of them. Users would copy-paste the person ID and search for their phone number
732.
by bertil 5y ago
> YouTube with WAAAAYYYY more resources, data, people Alphabet, Google and to a lesser extent, YouTube, have a lot of ressources, but they might not invest it in this direction. A friend worked on a team responsible for understanding cre
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by bertil 5y ago
I feel like the biggest hole, companies operating bins claiming that they will recycle clothes while they will send them to third-world country to be landfilled or burned, isn’t addressed in that law.
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by bertil 5y ago
No, they are responsible for optimising the ad targeting. It's a really mature operation, with consideration like faster decisions means more time to run campaigns and less greed algos means more ressources for marginal improvements.
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by bertil 5y ago
I believe that this is a key aspect of data-driven leadership, and the Friday meeting that Google founders started and many other companies imitated: make it easier for employees to argue against decisions. No organisation is perfect, or ev
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by bertil 5y ago
The press is slowly starting to realise that harrassing a teenager might make them the baddies.
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by bertil 5y ago
The incentives are encouraging people in trades to learn about how to set-up such pumps and encourage their clients to get one. That sounds like it’s working as intended.
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by bertil 5y ago
There are patterns and practices that make working remotely possible: document with context, clear pull requests, share your intent more deliberately, written stand-ups, give meetings detailed agendas, etc. Those are good habits when you sh
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by bertil 5y ago
This is actually an area where automation has some significant potential. Taking orders with a menu on a webpage or an app is a classic at this point. I remember seeing not just vending machines, but a vending wall at Amsterdam Central trai
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by bertil 5y ago
Many people are tempted to compare the claim to the Russian argument in Dombass: it’s a much smaller claim (20k inhabitants), a consistent one since 1945. The population is notoriously isolated, too.
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by bertil 5y ago
I was about to mention that reactors often have fuel generators but I remember that the invading force is famous for selling the gas from their tanks to pocket the money…
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by bertil 5y ago
That’s dangerously close to attacking a Nato country…
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by bertil 5y ago
Cyclists get pissed at drivers because they dehumanise them, threaten and murder them. I don’t think that’s the problem that drivers have with cyclists.
744.
by bertil 5y ago
Why are you pissed at them for? Using the same road as you?
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by bertil 5y ago
> The employee says he's french, so either he didn't have a french work contract, or what he is saying is untrue. Most likely he is employeed in Amsterdam, where Dutch law applies. There’s local contract (for sales) but CS are
746.
by bertil 5y ago
I’ve worked there and I can confirm that the customer service was very impressive and able to deal with particularly gnarly problems, in so many languages and cultures. It was a very large part of the company. It was under-utilised to under
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by bertil 5y ago
I feel like his work with René Girard is the most interesting part of his life, with possibly his foundness to invest in apparent competitors (compared to other VCs). The creepy blood transfusion, the politics… trying to make him a boogey-m
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by bertil 5y ago
The aspect that worries me the most is the recommendation: Facebook and Twitter discovered a little late that they had the ability to to influence opinion with simple tweaks. That raised internal questions and that model is under close surv
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by bertil 5y ago
Fracking is a complicated problem: there’s both the mechanical effect and the chemials added there; there’s the dynamic between dependancies on foreign dictators and local harm… A lot of what has been done falls within the tamer side of oil
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by bertil 5y ago
The offense is for hurting a cyclist, who presumably will have characteristic wounds and the driver’s details. That sounds enforceable. In practice, most cyclists will tell you that cars never stay put after running them over, and that vide

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