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Zecaron Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

There are people sitting in prison RIGHT NOW from Reddit posts. Now think about the damage admins editing posts can do. You're right, it is beyond acceptable.

Zecaron Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers by 2100

> A lot of care was taken in the wording of the last IPCC report to communicate what findings have which level of confidence.

The level of confidence is near zero, and if the IPCC was being honest and unbiased that is what they would say. As I said previously upthread, anybody who claims they can model our climate with any level of accuracy on the order of decades is being completely disingenuous. We can't model weather even a month out. The history of global warming alarmism has nearly a hundred-year long trail of missed predictions. But they have it right this time, right?

Zecaron Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

Go read r/politics comments for 5 minutes and then go read r/the_donald comments for 5 minutes, then come back and tell me which subreddit has the most hate speech. Also let's not forget that r/politics mods sold the subreddit to Shareblue for $2 million.

Zecaron Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers by 2100

> And they did not have the science and data to support them, now we do.

We know more than we knew then. We don't (and can't) know the outcome with current climate science. It's currently impossible for us to model the complex system that is Earth's climate with ranges into the decades. We can't even model weather a month out. Claiming climate science is settled is incredibly disingenuous and it bothers me that more scientists don't step up and say "hey here's what we think might happen but it's impossible to say for sure".

> We'd rather be wrong on this, you know.

Oh I definitely believe you on that, it's just that taking away rights from people to accomplish climate goals is not a zero-sum game and it needs to be treated with care and caution, not alarmism.

Zecaron Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers by 2100

The problem is that there have been alarmist articles like this posted for nearly a hundred years proclaiming gloom for days that are now in the past.

Zecaron Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers by 2100

Here's a thought exercise; we are moving into renewables with absolute breakneck speed. At this point, it's essentially cheaper to use renewable energy than fossil fuels. Market forces are moving us towards clean energy at an accelerating rate. Left alone, our economies will rapidly approach 100% renewable energy due to price alone. So ask yourselves why propaganda outlets like the Washington Post (DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS--give me a fucking break) or the NY Times breathlessly run article after article every day preparing citizens to give up their rights to choices; choice of what house they're allowed to live in, what kind of car they're allowed to drive etc.

But you can't criticize the golden calf of global warming^H^H^H^Hclimate change right? What's the saying, show me who you're not allowed to criticize and I'll show you who holds power over you.

Zecaron Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers by 2100

https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0

June 29, 1989

UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.

Zecaron Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook

You want the state in charge of managing communications between friends and family members?

Zecaron Malicious Deep Fake Prohibition Act of 2018 [pdf]

> Already now we have had memes with misattributed quotes and photos edited to associate Clinton with the devil, satanic rituals and so on

Right, like my favorite one is the idea that she took $150 million from Russia in exchange for a shipment of our uranium. Those funds went to the Clinton Foundation a _charity_. Sheesh.

Zecaron Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook

The part where he is on video claiming to be a Vietnam vet.

Zecaron Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook

The part where he is on video claiming to be a Vietnam vet.

Zecaron Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook

> Which part of it is inaccurate?

?? I don't know, perhaps the part where the guy is literally on video claiming to be a vietnam vet? You folks are utterly baffling. But go ahead and downvote.

https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1088285433673515009

Zecaron Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook

Absolutely. Last time I looked they refused to update their fact check about Nathan Phillips false claims of Vietnam service.

Zecaron Finding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure

Dropbox deleted my honeymoon photos

Zecaron Finding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure

> storage is their core competency

Not so sure about that. I post in every one of these threads, but they deleted our honeymoon photos on my wife's account and then deleted my account several months later without notice. I wouldn't trust them with a swap file. Move fast and break things is a terrible mantra for a file storage company.

Zecaron Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing

Want to get people to pay for the real thing? Offer it instead of pushing agendas and narratives and telling people what to think.

Zecaron Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway

> Are they carefully manipulating everyone's results?

100%

Zecaron NY Insurers Can Evaluate Social Media Use If They Can Prove Why It’s Needed

> It’s a serious matter with an obvious solution.

This is a bold statement. Why do you think the solutions are obvious? Do you believe this is a subject without nuance?

Zecaron 'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of foes

Yeah uhh hey I appreciate your enthusiasm but this literally is not how modern public key encryption works, or will ever be changed to work. All ciphers in general use don't have any sort of a realistic time-bound to being cracked or computed

Zecaron NY Insurers Can Evaluate Social Media Use If They Can Prove Why It’s Needed

In fact they do not

Zecaron NY Insurers Can Evaluate Social Media Use If They Can Prove Why It’s Needed

Mass shootings are vanishingly rare. Your odds of being in one are microscopic.

Zecaron Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by a website

I use Super Stop and I'm in a habit of hitting shift+escape on basically every website I visit. It kills all AJAX calls and content loading. 9/10 websites load perfectly in the first second and stopping them after that just prevents popups, tracking, etc. It would be nice to have a plugin that automatically stops websites after some preset interval.

Zecaron 'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of foes

> my exact point is that we can create a cost to cracking each phone — in hashing power and time spent

This is not at all how encryption or security works

Zecaron Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip

> (3) The restaurant does not adjust wages after tips have been received

In many cases they do. If you receive zero tips for a shift, they are obligated to pay out minimum wage. If you receive $200 in tips for a shift, they pay out a lower figure, usually around $2.

Zecaron Oat Milk Could Change the Way You Drink Coffee (2018)

This is an advertisement. Time was duped but do we have to be also?

Zecaron Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard

Dropbox deleted my honeymoon photos on my wife's account. They also deleted my account a few months later. I wouldn't trust Dropbox with a swap file.

Zecaron Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway

Google is at it's core an ad company, not a search company. So they have backed off crawling the entire internet and only crawl what has a business return for them. Combine that with carefully curating the results they publish, it can barely even be called a search engine at this point. I get more relevant results from DDG at this point.

Zecaron Mobile customer location data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters

No it doesn't. We don't sell to any tech companies. We do like, manuals for baby seats and stuff like that.

Zecaron Mobile customer location data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters

There is a huge amount of tech in the print industry, believe it or not

Zecaron Inventory of Homes for Sale Is Rising in Silicon Valley and San Francisco

All investing is gambling.

You're going to reply with a chart of the S&P over the last 100 years engaging in the cliche fallacy of thinking that past returns dictate future results.