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FWIW what GP wrote is not true of all banks in AU. I have made several transfers to new payids recently and they have all gone through immediately.

> Still, regulated how? What you're talking about is criminal activity. Are regulations the antidote to that?

Perhaps similar to pawn shops, which (I think) have to keep records of who sold you what. If you are a smelter, you should be able to account for where you get certain expensive metals that you are on-selling.

> I hope we soon get to the point where companies that do not properly invest in cyber security get wiped out

How do you determine this objectively?

It does wrestle a lot of control from the individual though. It's not hard to imagine possible abuses of power. Tracking everyone's movements is just the start. What if some government decided to deny service to someone? Or not let certain groups travel to certain places. Imagine opportunities for havoc due to hacking

I'd still like driverless cars, but privacy and freedom of movement rights protections need to be thought about.

So anyone living under a corrupt/violent regime are guilty of that regimes actions? Neat.

> which we give up and decriminialise

Or governments will continue to have those laws on the books and prosecute them with discretion (which is what happens today). It is very convenient for those in power when every person is already guilty of something.

If you are ever expecting to be in a situation where a) you have incriminating evidence on you phone, and b) have reason to believe the police will likely try and get access to it at some unpredictable time in the future, I think you'd just be wise to not use biometrics at all.

I'd like something similar for Netflix. Let me click a "never show me this again" button. It would unclutter the interface so quickly.

I suspect the reason we'll never see such a feature is because it would be quite revealing how little content Netflix has that is of interest to any one person, and how much filler they have.

Can you provide more info around nuclear fuel running out in 100 years? I had been thinking we had an abundance of nuclear fuel available tIo us. I have not heard of a 100 year limit before and am interested to learn more.

It's less about the difficulty of the process, more about efficiencies. I don't have time to find numbers, but I believe it's a pretty lossy process to split water, and then turn it back into electricity in a fuel cell type device.

There are also (probably) a lot of costs involved with trying to contain the hydrogen, and making and industrial sized fuel cells. Maybe quite a few unsolved problems as well e.g. do fuel cells eventually wear our like batteries?

Basically, we could do it, but the current techniques are possibly more expensive and too lossy compared to other options, like molten salt, pumped hydro etc.

My opinion, fwiw, is that batteries have won the day in the automobile space. The infrastructure investment required to make hydrogen work for automobiles must be astronomical vs incremental improvements required to the existing electrical network.

Couple this with the fact hydrogen distribution and storage have some significant problems, plus recharging at home/work/parking is super convenient.

The only real thing stopping battery powered electric cars from being the obvious first choice in many markets is the cost of battery packs. Conveniently this has progressively improved yer-on-year. It is simply a matter of time.

For many applications, efficiency is not that important. The important metric would instead be $/kwh.

A potential use for this would be to use the hydrogen as a way to cheaply store the energy to be used when the sun is not shining. I.e. Pair it with fuel cell tech to generate electricity at night.

In this scenario the price of the tech should be compared to solar + batteries per kWh, and I could imagine that at scale hydrogen storage could beat out the cost of betteries.

Wait until the conspiracy theorists see this!

Love the idea. A little feedback: layout needs tweaking for mobile. FWIW: I'm on mobile Firefox for Android.

Thanks for such a thoughtful response.

Great idea to on-board culture as well as all the other more obvious things. Thanks!

Do you use a specialized tool for the online training? Is the training material your own?

Great point that onboarding is not just about getting to know the project, tools, and environment. There is the extremely important personal connection side of things.

Interesting that you have a prepared project, rather than have them work on contributing to a something "real". Is this a function of your company doing client work? I'm at a product company, so can see more benefit with having a contribution to the product, but I would like to understand this aspect more.

This seems like solid process to get someone from being "non employee" to being an "employee", which is super important. When I initially posted I was thinking more about the "new employee" to "assimilated team mate", without thinking of this very important aspect. Thanks for pointing this out.

Do you have a similar process for this "into team" stage of onboarding? Are the tools you mentioned useful?

That's an interesting point, trying to accommodate a new hires preferences into an existing teams flow. The reverse is often the expectation, but a healthy team is made up of many members, so accommodating individual needs is going to be important.

I look forward to reading the doc. Perhaps you could post a link when it is published?

heh, its a recursive cultural meme :)

> It might not be true, but it is so revealing of the mindset of people who think that way.

Is this sarcasm/irony? Or are you doing precisely what this post talks about? Or perhaps I am parsing your words incorrectly?

The CS Lewis quote from the article:

> Wishing that black was blacker, conviction that false stories reveal deep truths about opponents

Yes, all engineers are white </sarcasm>.

Or how about this one: Yes, all black engineers on the maps team live in New York.

Truth is that it is just an example one of the thousands of edge-cases that exist in these types of complex products, and some of them will look like they have some sinister basis.

It's pretty simple. There have been far fewer cases and deaths than in the US. As for the vaccine rollout, it is largely a function of the early success in controlling infections.

The initial vaccine doses destined for Australia were diverted to more urgent areas (which was the right thing to do). Then as domestic product of AZ ramped up, a scare campaign ramped up (media love to make people worried) and the body for recommending vaccines gave advice for under 50s to not take AZ (whilst there was no actual alternative). Because covid lockdowns were effective, and Australians were seeing such low rates, there was complacency amongst the population and they were willing to wait for their vaccine of choice. Now delta is looking like it is making lockdowns less effective, and there is ample supply of Pfizer, people are scrambling to get vaccinated.

It is not really a fair point to make, as it is really easy to search for numbers on this.

https://www.energycouncil.com.au/analysis/evs-are-they-reall...

Added to this is the fact it is certainly easier to clean up a small number of dirty power plants, than millions of portable ones.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=power+plant+efficiency+vs+car

It amazes me how many naysayers are always on these threads about electric vehicles.

It seems to me that the transition is inevitable. Slowly but surely electric cars are becoming cheaper and more capable. It is really hard to imagine that they will not soon be cheaper than ICE cars.

But they just seem so much more convenient and nicer to be around that diesel and petrol cars. No more breathing in exhaust fumes! No more petrol stations! Less servicing!

For a site that supposedly caters to forward thinking technologists, there sure are a lot of people refusing to see the obvious conclusion to the current trend.

It would be more of a fools errand to try and halt (or slow) the inevitable world-wide transition to electric cars.

Japan were world leaders in electric drive trains with hybrids like the Prius. A perfect way to gracefully transition from ICE to all electric. This was almost 35 years ago (1997). But they squandered that lead by focussing on the dead end technology of hydrogen.

Why put all your eggs in the one basket?

It would be more helpful if you could explain which parts are untrue. A lot of it gels with what I have been hearing experts say I.e. the vaccine is great at reducing the severity of the symptoms/illness, but delta is spreading via the vaccinated as well as the unvaccinated, and as such herd immunity is looking out of reach.

>> OnlyFans can then use Coinbase or an off-ramp to go from crypto to fiat.

> They can't because then KYC kicks in. This is exactly the problem with crypto at scale.

Isn't KYC only a problem for people trying to hide their income? Onlyfans (and other legit businesses) would not have this problem as they would not be trying to hide their earnings.