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by goodpoint 6y ago
Covid did wonders for the environment in the societies that choose to encourage remote working. Yet, doing short trips by feet or bike is equally sustainable - and healthier than sitting all day.
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by goodpoint 6y ago
Electric cars still have a significant environmental impact due to the space they take in a city, the production and recycling of the cars, and road maintenance. The efficiency of combined use of trains, electric buses and bicycles dwarfs e
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by goodpoint 6y ago
...until you consider the looming environmental collapse.
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by goodpoint 6y ago
Not at all. Legalese is human language and it's the opposite of programming: the shorter the text the more fuzzy and unclear it is.
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by goodpoint 6y ago
> Companies can't stop you from unionizing Companies have been fighting unions for a century. In some cases leading to massacres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike
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by goodpoint 6y ago
I'm not saying that the end user is blameless BUT responsibility comes with agency/power: - the end user has no way to measure the exact impact of his/her actions. The government does. - the end user does not have advice from
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by goodpoint 6y ago
Not joking - I've seen this happening in different companies: A team is poorly managed and becomes unproductive. Some scrum taskmaster is dropped to "improve efficiency" and wastes everybody's time micromanaging every en
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by goodpoint 6y ago
It's pretty common to punish corps with a slap on the wrist followed by the threat of doing it again every few years if the behavior does not change. The fine is equivalent to $5 and 57c comparing google revevue VS average US gross inc
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by goodpoint 7y ago
What a disaster is ansible.
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by goodpoint 7y ago
Is there a way to implement a mesh using only the public IP addresses?
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by goodpoint 7y ago
> I’ve stayed at an iPhone 6S that I could jailbreak to observe outgoing and incoming network information and block IPs where necessary, and redirect to TOR in the background. Do not redirect traffic from applications that have not been
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by goodpoint 7y ago
A simple tarball would do, or a package or an installer.
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by goodpoint 7y ago
This world does not need more corporate-owned, corporate-driven "open" source.
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by goodpoint 8y ago
I'll make sure to stay away from Denmark.
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by goodpoint 8y ago
"smoking gun" is an understatement. neo-liberalism: "a modified form of liberalism tending to favour free-market capitalism." The movement has been very right wing, pro-corporate and pro-billionaire since the beginning.
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by goodpoint 8y ago
> so easy for corrosive attitudes to spread citation needed
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by goodpoint 8y ago
> the most dominant hen, that pecked its way to the top of the pecking order at the expense of other hens. Individual selection doesn't necessarily work to the benefit of the group but wait... our entire economical system is based o
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by goodpoint 8y ago
How about toxic managers? For example the ones that hire the wrong person, or allow toxic environments to build up? Or the ones that promote people based on optics?
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by goodpoint 8y ago
Telling people with anxiety or depression to "relax" or "just be happy" is pretty insulting. A person with asthma or a broken leg is usually not told to just breathe or just go for a walk.
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by goodpoint 8y ago
> But global warming is a far bigger problem, which poses far larger threats to the world. We should do whatever it takes to cut back on CO2 It's not so simple: the ongoing environmental disaster is caused by many different sources
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by goodpoint 8y ago
I've been in many companies including famous ones and I never seen scrum or agile deliver any value. It's just optics.
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by goodpoint 8y ago
> It's just not that easy to "everybody needs to adjust" Education exists for this. > It seems a priory quite plausbile that there's a significant genetic component to this. a priori There's a very popular tr
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by goodpoint 8y ago
> What's more valuable than raising happy kids? Submitting some paper to arxiv? Yes. This world would benefit from having less kids, no doubt. Also less helicopter parents and more science.
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by goodpoint 8y ago
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