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The fact that bitcoin mining on its own is now consuming as much electricity as the country of Argentina with no end in sight, as we are accelerating toward a climate change cliff, is sickening. Given this fact alone it's hard to see cryptocurrency as anything but a selfish crackpot scheme to generate a few dollars at the expense of humanity and our planet.

Good point. The theory is that mass is increasing not decaying. Here's the paper: https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2013-08-cosmologi...

A few years ago, a published article suggested an alternative to the universe expanding is increasing mass. Older objects increase their mass and therefore are red shifted. Why is this alternative plausible theory recieving such little attention?

Edit: changed mass decay to increase in mass. I misremembered the theory.

Does anyone else see the irony that hand waving is being disputed with hand waving?

Sorry, I strenuously disagree. I'm also a manager and think setting boundaries is essential, up, down, and sideways.

I wonder if this benefit extends to handwriting on a tablet?

Hah! Rule the world? Have you read the news lately? If human intelligence is judged by results, we'd score quite poorly. We are well on our way to causing a 6th mass extinction, which may very well include our own demise.

Thanks for this detail. Was there any goal setting at the start of the review period so you understood what you were going to be evaluated against?

What are your thoughts on 360 reviews? I've heard the process can be very devisive?

I've had a similar experience with OKRs. The issue becomes how often to review and update? On the surface, OKRs seems like it would be a helpful tool but in practice it seems pretty cumbersome and only moderately useful to guide goal directed action.

Thanks for this comment. Can you please share more details on how the process is structured at your company?

People management. Goals for staff. Thanks!

I don't understand how the plaintiff has a case here as there are no damages.

I use Oracle DB for managing my daily to-do list. I'll never miss a task again!

I think they keep pretending internally but many think in the back of their head that it's all bogus and the real reason for the cut is slashed ad spend.

In any case, this situation reminds me of the time when Google exited China and said they were leaving due to censorship concerns. The real reason for leaving was that Baidu had gained an overwhelming share of the search market. I think at the time of Google leaving China, they had less than 5% market share.

These fees aren't for bloated admin. They support resources like the library, general student use fitness facilities, techology, and other student focused items. I get why students want to stop paying these fees during the pandemic since they can't use many of the resources. The issue is that most of the costs for these resources are fixed, mainly personnel and facilities. If you cut the fees, the university would have to lay off many of its staff, librarians, IT support, etc. The facilities would also fall into disrepair. There's no easy solution here.

You can buy a high quality nespresso machine for about $100. I agree the capsules are wasteful, but so are lots of other things, such as bottles and cans, cardboard boxes, ziplock bags, driving a car, and flying. What's especially wasteful about nespresso capsules? It seems like another version of straws that's easy to target but doesn't really address root problems with our consume until you drop mentality.

Control the situation as in suppress the protests by whatever means necessary? Violate the protestors' constitutional First Amendment rights? Please explain.

Except companies have been staffing call centers from work at home for years. For instance, Jet Blue staffs most or all customer service through work at home and even has a clever method for handling surge capacity through part time staff available on call.

Why would you give up buy.com for "rakuten"?! What is rakuten anyway? Is this an established online retailer? First time I'm hearing of this company.

Herd immunity? Assuming such a thing can exist for Covid and it doesn't mutate every season like influenza.

Get real. Any credible research on the topic of "voter fraud" suggests it's not a significant issue and efforts to combat "voter fraud" are really just disguised efforts to suppress voting by low income and minority voters.

Except when every ICU bed is taken and there are no ventilators available, the mortality rate is probably in the 3-5% rate.

This is a bogus argument. The protestors are advocating for behavior that will literally kill people, including medical personnel. The protesters are no different than those who call for deadly riots or civil war. They deserve to be shut down for jeopardizing public health and safety.

This is essentially a cult. Sounds about right.

1% death rate assumes reasonable medical care. If you let everyone get infected, you'll have people dying on the streets. I bet this % jumps to 5% or more. We'd easily see 15m+ deaths.

Maybe in a year or two. In a month or so, covid will still be ramping up in various parts of the world.

COVID-19 is going to wreck economies. We are all thinking that closures and social distancing will end in a month, maybe two. This process will unfold over many months, perhaps years. Every city and country is handling this differently. We have containment measures in some US cities and states and then Florida hosting an event with 50,000 visitors. Sure, we can reduce infections in North Carolina, but then these 50,000 will disperse and bring infections back again through out the country. The only end game here is everyone gets infected, we develop a vaccine, or in unison we lockdown every country and city for a fixed period of time, say 45-60 days (never going to happen). And if COVID-19 mutates? We restart the whole process. I bet many of us are still in lock down mode come fall 2020 and even into 2021.

Treat it like cancer...

I've been using Riot.im/Matrix and been liking it so far. Matrix is FOSS. The UI is a bit confusing but I'm sure I'll get over this soon.