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> If the people are screwing around then fire them

You try firing someone in markets like NZ, Aus, lots of parts of Europe etc. Some people have for sure identified remote work as a meal ticket for life, it's frustrating.

It's hard to imagine a better handling of the situation. If I was in USA Airbnb would be at the top of my "to work" list. Bravo.

The research is clear here. Modern CCA treatments (the only one with arsenic) require preservatives to be applied first which prevent leaching of arsenic. There has never been a study that I can find which shows a genuine risk of arsenic toxicity from eating from a treated garden bed where crops are planted at least a few cm from the edge of the bed.

And if that's not enough, choose one of the many other treatment options, or line your bed with a proven-safe polythene liner, or use untreated timbers that are resistant to rot like cedar/macrocarpa. If you have any real research to show that any of these options are unsafe I would love to read it.

> It's basically impossible to build them out of wood without lining them with something which may have negative health effects to humans or plants.

There are plenty of known-safe materials to line garden beds with. Even unlined treated timber has been shown to be safe with only tiny trace amount of treatment making it into the plant. You might be being too paranoid for your own good.

> In study 2, beautifying filters increased the hireability only slightly for White female applicants, followed by White and Black male applicants but substantially for Black female applicants

It's a gross thing to consider but I wonder if the filter lightened the skin of black female applicants. These results are disappointing but unfortunately not surprising.

You should read Stolen Focus by Johann Hari[0]. People all over the world today are struggling with focus and attention, not because they're not virtuous enough but because tech companies have been intentionally hacking our brains and stealing it away from us. If you don't have time to read the book he did an outstanding interview[1] with Bari Weiss on her podcast Honestly which I urge you to listen to.

I used to think of attention in the same way you do, blaming and hating myself because I felt like I wasn't disciplined enough. It's so important to understand that this is something billionaire tech giants have done to us, on purpose.

0 https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/stolen-focus

1 https://www.honestlypod.com/podcast/episode/2f84e8d4/your-at...

What link? Can you provide a little background for those of us who have no idea what you're talking about?

Yes I do.

The problem is that the definition of "hate speech" and "racism" have drifted wildly according to some (mainly on the left). I have seen people on the left accuse 100% of Trump voters of being racist. I have seen people accused of racism for opposing co-governance reforms in New Zealand. I have seen people accused of racism for criticising Will Smith when he physically assaulted a comedian.

So yeah, I oppose censorship of "racism" and "hate speech" because I don't trust the powers that be to maintain reasonable definitions of these terms.

I do 99% of my coding at work. At work we have Gitlab, Confluence and Jira and these all already contains mountains of context for all of our work. Pretending this context doesn't exist and storing it all in a Git repository isn't helpful.

So far you've only shown us anecdotal...

We already have that.

Why would I want .eth DNS? What is DANE? Not really selling it here.

No. Use your own URLs or face the very obvious predictable consequences. There is absolutely no reason to add another layer of redirection just to get around your 2-bit linter config.

> I find it hard to overlook that at least one thing that might be motivating him to buy Twitter is to tweet however he wants to tweet, regardless of US law.

This doesn't really track. First of all he already tweets however he wants. Secondly what difference would it make to the SEC if he owns Twitter here?

Let's be absolutely clear, Musk does not care about your free speech. He has a history of shutting down speech he doesn't like and will continue to do so.

Both of you guys who have responded to my comment have been rampaging through this thread with aggressive defenses of Musk. This is not normal behaviour.

If you don't want to consider a man who was instrumental in saving the lives of 12 boys a hero that's fine, there are lots of other adjectives that I'm sure you can find and they're all far more flattering than the one Musk made of himself in that saga.

Take a step back and think about what you're defending here. It's not a good look.

> is on a fairly clear trajectory of eroding the window of permissible speech on the platform which presents grave risks to society at large.

I really feel like a lot of you guys vastly overestimate the impact of Twitter on The Real World. Elon Musk included.

> Called somebody something bad on twitter once

I assume you're talking about the time he called a diver (and actual hero) a pedophile. It went a bit further than that - he hired a private investigator who tried (and failed) to dig up dirt on the man.

A huge number of website operators either don't have access to these logs or wouldn't know how to access them. And even given access, grep'ing a log file gives you far less rich information than a Google Analytics dashboard.

With multiple big scary warnings.

I owned a Pixel 1 and a Pixel 3 and they were two of the worst phones I have ever owned. You couldn't pay me to take another Pixel phone. I now rock a much cheaper Motorola which is fantastic.

No. Google is the operating system vendor. They either fix this with all Android phones or they haven't fixed anything at all.

In principle yes, in practice Google makes it much too difficult and scary for typical users.

Stop tending other peoples' gardens. Especially trillion dollar companies' ones. No sympathy here, we all know the drill by now.

It also helps to already be independently wealthy.

CNN today is not "somewhat centrist" unless your only bar is MSNBC. Over the past half decade CNN has veered into full blown left wing activism.

I'm happy for my service to quickly and correctly validate 99.999% of emails and I don't really care if your oddball edge case emoji Sanskrit 6-level-deep domain fails. Just do normal stuff.

Being asked to use "folks" in Australia was frankly bizarre. It's not a word anyone uses over there and would be considered a severe Americanism. Pretty sure that suggestion came from our Texas staff, not the Californians.

Uhhhh now calling a group of adult women "girls" is legitimately offensive, even in Australia.