> What you are not seeing is the piles of grounds that would be needed and the tangle of logistics to get the grounds from where they are produced to where they can be used.

so many of these ideas seem to hand wave over “we’ll need to implement a whole new waste stream worldwide. don’t mind that we can hardly manage >1 stream as it is”

considering the mass of a home, what’s the efficiency difference between letting the temperature stay in uncontrolled for 8+ hours and then trying to rein it in quickly vs just keeping it in place the whole time? remember to account for wear and tear on the relevant HVAC equipment.

>considering the mass of a home, what’s the efficiency difference between letting the temperature stay in uncontrolled for 8+ hours and then trying to rein it in quickly vs just keeping it in place the whole time?

The energy lost from your home to the environment is dependent on the temperature difference. A warmer house (during the summer) loses less energy than a house that's cooled the entire time. Therefore at least from a pure energy use perspective, it's always cheaper to only turn on the system when you actually need it (ie. when you get home) than trying to maintain the same temperature.

>remember to account for wear and tear on the relevant HVAC equipment.

Without an accurate wear/tear model of HVAC equipment this can easily go either way. You could argue that having the equipment run for longer cycles shortens life because it has to work "harder", but you could also argue the opposite because most of the wear originates from the system starting/stopping and/or thermal stress from it being on/off.

going to be a rather unenthusiastic army if it is stocked with folks who thought they were getting cushy office jobs.

fly new hires some place and make them work in person with somebody for a week.

i think remote work is great, but some early face to face can fix a bunch of problems imo.

Pre-Covid I worked in a team that onshored off-shore team members for about six weeks at a time. It worked really well for everyone involved.

i did some contracting for a place that i think hired one of these guys.

in his case i think he more or less knew what he was doing, and showed up on calls, but delegated the work to some other people.

we’d hear people in the background of his audio discussing things really oddly similar to tasks he’d been assigned and had outstanding. he was putting in (bad) PRs at all hours of day and night, and never had any recollection of any email, slack conversation, or his own PRs.

the company fired him after six months or so.

That's a reason to keep doing it, 6 months of income is a considerable amount.

At the same time it makes it shitty for regular folks working remote and like a normal person having bad periods from time to time. There will be way less understanding towards... You are trying to do the right thing, but the dial if turned too tight might blend wrong people.

> May I just say, that the most ridiculous thing in this news really is selling a 15% stake in a company for $100?

no kidding. i wouldn’t sell a 15% stake in a lemonade stand for $100. that doesn’t even cover the hassle of reviewing the contract and signing a bunch of notarized paperwork

I can think of a scenario where someone might.

Suppose you made it very easy for them to sign it over, with the contracts ready and someone in person ready to guide you through signing them. You could apply guilt and some made up scenario about needing those shares back so that the company can move forwards. Enough spin and pressure could do it.

> > I don't see how you can get away from having a defined serialisation format.

> Yep, that's exactly it. Your TLS certificate is not sent as string, and neither are your TCP packets, nor the images contained in them.

...all of those things mentioned have defined serialization. i expect all of them have had security issues because of problems with deserialization code.

Yes, of course. Everything that is stored or transmitted must have a defined serialization. And any piece of code as widely used as this is going to have security issues.

What is your point? That strings don't need defined formats? That they have less security issues?

i’m sure it seems like “everyone” is on twitter when you’re permanently online, but even the peak MAU figures don’t look anything like “everyone” in the US let alone the rest of the world.

any government messaging plan that revolves around twitter was irresponsible. same with whatever other single social media platform you want to name.

It’s almost as if the government messaging plan did not use a single social media platform, as the article very clearly describes.

> DriveBC has a dedicated website, but many access its automated messages through its Twitter account, a platform accessed by more than a quarter of Canadians in 2023, according to the company’s advertising data.

> Then make an example and disband the company and all shareholders lose all equity. Have people realize they will lose money if they don't pay attention to details.

do you not make mistakes, or do you not work with anything that matters?

the US criminal justice system, which isn't very popular, seems to be more tolerant to human error than you.

At some point we have to acknowledge that data is important and that it is easy to collect and hard to secure. Do it right or don't collect it. The 'we have been hacked' or 'we messed up' and now all your data is somewhere else is not OK. If we made their existence dependent on securing this data, don't you think they would start to take it seriously?