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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.

How might this apply to content on a personal website? What I'm gathering from the article/discussion is that a Copyright message in my footer may not be enough to copyright all my works. Therefore, I should generate a small copyright notice at the end of each blog post as well that more claims explicit copyright over the article. Do I understand that correctly or can someone clarify? (Thanks in advance)

I imagine that the longer you’ve been coding in the real world, the harder it is to justify doing all this studying for interviews to get a similar job, especially if you aren’t motivated by money alone.

Recently interviewed with one of the big ones and they were enamoured with my Swift and iOS dev knowledge but I’m not great with identifying graph questions. After many long internal discussions and even a letter of recommendation they passed/asked me if I was interested in other semi-technical roles at the company. In moments like this my sentiment is ‘take me or leave me’.

Yeah I had the same issue. If my device locale is English the voice reads it like an apathetic 10th grader who refuses to try the accentuate properly while read French aloud in class. On the bright side it was a trip down memory lane to high school.

Do devs really hate agile? I’ve really enjoyed it in workplaces despite it not always being perfect. I’ve never felt micro managed either, just regularly managed. I understand that maybe some want more free will to pursue problems the way they feel is right, but it’s a job at the end of the day and you are a human resource being paid to deliver results. Make sure you’re being compensated enough, at least to not feel like you’re being exploited.

Thanks. Trump is certainly a symptom of something that existed before he took the stage. I don't think that absolves him but the problem isn't going to go away just be putting him out of sight and out of mind.

(p.s. the Thanks is generally for your response. Just want to be appreciative for peoples thoughts while discussing this topic)

I wish I had the definitive answer but in my books that line has been crossed in this context. I don’t think it’s as gray as we might want to pretend it is right now. The state of discourse online seems like some level of indicator something has happened recently that is descending us into chaos. Personally I do blame Trump and RPG.net seems to share a similar sentiment.

Hopefully we can be more reasonable than that, but you’re right that’s it’s totally subjective.

Fair enough but personally I don’t care how many feathers are in your cap if you promote hatred the way Trump does. that’s just me though. Also I’m canadian :)

I’m surprised by some of the response; I actually think they were pretty articulate about exactly what they were banning and it certainly wasn’t all political speech. Trump stands for so much hatred and bigotry and it’s hard to vocalize support for him without implicitly/explicitly supporting that stuff yourself. We need to stop pretending like this is political discourse.

Intolerance of intolerance is the only acceptable form of intolerance. I think that this intolerance for others through trump support is what they are banning first and foremost.

Just released this today and looking forward to making it even better with feedback. I wanted to make something a little bit more productivity oriented than most AR apps and was inspired by some of the latest developments in ARKit2 i.e. world saving /sharing

Thanks in advance for checking it out!

The only thing that the iPhone 6 can't do which I know of is ARKit, which seems to be one of the most hardware intensive things phones are capable.

I agree that appears to be the way they are going. If they are working to extend the life of devices even further in coming years that seems to support this direction.

I wonder if they could make a whole new company/brand that’s competes at the low end. If it ran iOS though, would that be enough to cannibalize too many iPhone users than would be acceptable?

Wondering if they could accomplish the same thing many car brands do i.e. Honda <> Acura

Both my parents and my grandmother use iPhones now and I do notice the limited functionality they are comfortable with but I believe the problem goes beyond the iPhone and into general tech literacy. I taught my dad to use 1Password then noticed he never uses the biometrics to log in, then reveals the password and memorizes it instead of copy pasting. He definitely set up touchID and has interacted with text before yet in this context forgot they both exist. I wonder if some of these examples like the map direction example are about the same. People who know better just forgetting parts of functionality depending on the context of the problem.

When it comes to pension funds, investing in anything volatile like hedge funds is an incredibly irresponsible thing to do. I’m kind of flabbergasted it’s even allowed in the first place. Pension funds should have steady, modest gains year over year and minimize risk of dips as much as possible.