JamisonM

It seemed crazy to me from day-1 they didn't have a "I want to always run my furnace fan" option since it is such a common requirement. And it seems to not exist to this date so when I want to turn my furnace off and circulate air I have to set the temperature to some goofy setting so the fan will run.

The last time I used the Google Home app I couldn't set my fan to continuous but the Nest app still allowed it. Seems wild to me that they don't have this basic stuff nailed down.

Seems like lower corn prices, higher beef prices, some marginal environmental benefit, and lower fuel prices is kind of reasonable trade off all-told if that was where it netted out.

I can't speak to the exact circumstances in your garden but too much organic matter can have the effect of "tying up" nutrients in the organic matter in a way that makes them inaccessible to crops - if you grow to large a microbial biome in the organic matter they immobilise nitrogen.. I am not an expert on this so I only understand it in broad strokes.

I am a bit of gardener and my anecdotal advice is - I don't know what sense you are using the word "mulch" here so I am not sure about that but too much compost can be an issue if you are not letting it break down long enough and not incorporating into existing soils well enough. Too much compost will grow wicked-hot radishes, but your leafy greens will be ugly and taste like garbage in my experience. The thing about gardening is it is all small sample sizes.. it ain't science and it is hard to know what's up without a good old fashioned site visit!

What is the implement you bought?

Zero-till farming will come to parts of the mid-west in fits and starts as farmers realize that the current methods are unsustainable, in most places there is no need to "plow it up".

In western Canada farming practices involve more crop rotations and less tillage, the net result has been increasing organic matter in many areas. I farm in an area with a surplus of organic matter, and too much can be a problem, so we still engage in a lot of tillage under normal precipitation conditions.

https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/agriculture-and-environment...

I am a disinterested observer in all this but the issues seem to be in the concentrations involved in the production of the materials, not in the wearing of them.

The grandparent comment seems to imply that wearing these materials is a cancer risk but it really doesn't seem like that is the case. Am I wrong? I can't find anything that indicates it is an issue.

(I live in an old house with some asbestos-wrapped ducts, I think asbestos is bad and should not be produced anymore but I also think that the duct wrap in my house is not endangering my family.. this seems like that sort of a situation to me.)

It is not a big deal if Argentina defaults on its bonds because they were already paying a huge premium because everyone expects them to default on their bonds, South Korean governments municipal to federal do not pay that premium because they are considered reliable - if there are doubts no one knows how to price their bonds - so they don't get bought. It has nothing to do with now vs then!

If you want an example of now vs then go try to buy some cybersecurity insurance for data breaches or flood insurance.. in those circumstances things have legitimately changed!

Yes people overthink it but it was essentially a resource economy boom-bust cycle situation, the belief that the good times will last forever is a hell of a drug.

Everything you are saying here is orthogonal to the developments described in the story. A provincial government refused to honour bonds in a tiny development in their region and it caused a contagion across the country.. none of this has anything to do with the current rate of interest or the orderly federal default of Argentina and its re-issuance of bonds at generous rates.

I think the issue here isn't that the people winning elections have changed their views, it is that the people with bad opinions are winning elections. (In this instance the politician in question believes that the protest movement that helped bring democracy to South Korea was a North Korean operation.)

Institutionalist right wing politicians understood the value of trust, the new right all over the world is generally not institutionalist anymore, so they break things and then wonder why everyone is freaking out. When the useful idiots start to actually win elections we learn what idiots they are.

99fang in 2009, ByteDance in 2012, Vine in 2012.. I don't know your definition of "a while back" but if you have some background on this I would be excited to hear it!

I have not seen such a definition in the wild myself.

This is an incorrect definition of relative poverty as on that basis then number of people in poverty will never change - no one interested in serious analysis would use such a definition as it is not useful.

"Filling quotas" vs "hiring as many people as I can for clout" are different things and I suppose both are possible, but one imagines that both are enabled by the fundamental metric of generating revenue as justification.

You hire ahead of growth, so you need to overcorrect when contraction occurs so it makes sense that if revenues are now shrinking so are the staffing levels.. it kinda feels like these explanations are projecting some weird politics on to very basic business logic.

If the marginal return per employee is still good then "lowering the bar" makes sense, not lowering the bar would be throwing money away - right?

And during the pandemic certainly some of the new talent showing up was good, things changed and people stuck in jobs they were actually "too good for" moved on.

I wouldn't assume it was "filling quotas" - it was filling positions and the positions existed for some reason, they were making a lot of money and there was probably more work to do!

I didn't take that as the unsaid implication of the comic at all.

The network techs at my telco tell me that Cell towers hate trees and that is why I have no service at my home except intermittently on the second floor since I live along a well-treed river at the edge of a coverage area.

It makes some sense to me, just as antenna folks jokingly call humans bags of water trees are ... bags of water with infinity tiny appendages that are constantly in motion in the slightest breeze.

>> The idea of the "existence" of a trans person is subject to debate. There are a significant number of people that believe that "being" trans is actually not something of substance, that it is "all made up".

> The political debate is about language changes (e.g. "LatinX"), access to sex-segregated spaces, participation in sex-segregated sports, what to teach young children, etc.

IDK what this response is supposed to mean exactly but I certainly have people in my life that think that being "trans" isn't "real". And as far as politics goes this is certainly also fairly common position to hear from prominent people.

"what to teach young children" certainly seems to be an issue, an issue where politicians are sheepishly pretending to do one thing while actually doing another through ambiguity. This all seems very easy to understand. It certainly reflects the idea that trans people either don't really exist or their existence is something so terrible that children can't be exposed to even the idea of their existence.

I would argue additionally that once the person in need of blood has recovered they can simply donate blood and in so doing enjoy the benefits of reduced PFAS levels and hopefully save someone else's life with that blood!

If my recollections are accurate South Korea had a lot of fibre laid by power companies that turned out to be useful for internet precisely because it was a corruption situation where there was an infinite budget and no oversight and they ran optical lines for power meters for no good reason and it turned out to be a win in the end.

People always be linking to the Corruption Perception Index, there may be no worse resource for assessing actual corruption: "The CPI scores and ranks countries/territories based on how corrupt a country’s public sector is perceived to be by experts and business executives."

Singapore's consistent ranking near the top is always hilarious to me!

> Your existance and your selfconciousness as a human being is not in any way affected to some words somebody is using to describe their views.

IDK, if every time you encountered someone they referred to you by the wrong name, after being corrected every time they do so, that wouldn't affect you? I think that if someone consistently feminized my name and used feminine pronouns for me over the course of multiple interaction I would get pretty pissy, downright hostile.

I think you might be mischaracterizing the issue a little bit, not maliciously but still a mischaracterization.

The idea of the "existence" of a trans person is subject to debate. There are a significant number of people that believe that "being" trans is actually not something of substance, that it is "all made up". Being an immigrant is different, nobody questions that an immigrant that themselves attests to being from country A and is now living in country B is making that up.

Bostock was a ruling about sexual orientation, not about gender. I think if you are citing the 2020 PEW poll on this topic it is probably quite obsolete as it seems clear that the partisan valence of this issue has changed quite a bit very recently. And even before 2020 the truth is that disputing the legitimacy of transgender people is a low salience issue for a lot of people but very activating for others (much like immigration) so the proportional impacts of what seems like an unpopular opinion is inflated.

You should continue to support the LGBTQ community and ignore "organized LGBTQ"!

Vote out folks engaged in this absurd "grooming" moral panic but don't pay any attention to people that want to cancel your grandma for not articulating the perfect version of inclusion!

I don't think it is bizarre, it is a pretty clear effort at highlighting the fact that you are a transitioned trans person in an effort to hurt you and let all of the people seeing the message know what's up, and harass further.

It doesn't seem very complex. It is very different from calling Putin a dictator, that seems clear!

I feel like she knows what she's doing, or she wouldn't bother doing it.

I wouldn't have, I was hoping for some specific stories because I would really, really like to know more about "normies" on these platforms getting banned!

I don't want names and addresses, I just would love to know examples of what they did.

I don't think we have a long term solution for nuclear waste, but I have always held that we don't have a long term plan for the wastes from fossil fuels either and they seem much harder to manage so I think it is a win.

I would much rather live downstream from a nuclear waste "temporary" storage area that has an indeterminate lifespan than downstream from an oilsands tailings retention pond!

This speaks directly to the "the board is the problem" argument, if Facebook is the same then the board is not the problem.

Can you elucidate an instance of someone you know getting banned from Facebook with the actual content they posted? I am genuinely interested because the only person I know banned from Facebook was hurling obscenities at someone's every post and comment over a period of time and got turfed. I would really like to see what benign content can trigger it.

"[Stallman] seems to sincerely believe his all-or-nothing stance"

Richard Stallman has largely been not averse to pragmatism, he is the sort that is willing to clearly articulate his stance as to what he thinks is right, but has also been willing to endorse all sorts of incrementalism. For example:

http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast-dev/2001-February/00...

"In response to the change of license, Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation says, "I agree. It is wise to make some of the Ogg Vorbis code available for use in proprietary software, so that commercial companies doing proprietary software will use it, and help Vorbis succeed in competition with other formats that would be restricted against our use.""

(I am desperately trying to avoid inserting a Bernie Sanders analogy here..)

Meta nee Facebook "solved" this problem by being set up so Zuckerberg would always have effective control of the company, no? Have they arrived at a better place?

What does "stake-ownership management" mean?