This is a news report that is not based on any peer reviewed publication, or even a preprint. It has no value. Until the researchers publish, we won't be able to look at their methods and data to figure out whether their result is credible.

The comment at the top of this thread created confusion by using the words "telegraph" and "announce" as though they were synonymous: "Putin telegraphed to everyone weeks in advance in no uncertain terms he was going to invade Ukraine. Perhaps they should use an example of predicting an event that wasn't publicly announced beforehand.

It is FLOSS, licensed under GPL. FLOSS provides the opportunity to maintain the software, but as the fine article observes, it doesn't provide incentives for people to do the work. The incentives, are the problem, not the availability of the code.

Meanwhile, Mattermost has a FOSS alternative with most of the same functionality as Slack.

Here is a list of other FOSS alternatives to Slack.

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This is the sunk-cost fallacy.

If the market price for XBT is persistently a lot less than 40K, and you need money to cover the cost of living, then it doesn't matter how much it cost you to mine them in the past. The $40K cost of mining is already spent, and you can't get it back. You will sell or spend the XBTs at current market prices and eat the loss.

It's absolutely their right not to do business in California.

But if they do want to do business in California, they need to follow California law.

The judge wrote that the proposition would have been valid if it were an amendment to the state Constitution. However, this proposition was not posed to the voters as a Constitutional Amendment, so it must be subordinate to the Constituiton.

You are completely right about the safety of nuclear power.

About China Syndrome, there is some important context. Right after the China Syndrome movie was released, nuclear power advocates quickly denounced it as utterly unrealistic, saying that it was impossible to have an accident like the one described in the movie: a loss of coolant accident that was caused by a malfunctioning gauge reporting excessive cooling water levels when the water levels were actually dangerously low because a valve got stuck, resulting in core melting.

Twelve days later, Three Mile Island had a loss of coolant accident caused by a malfunctioning gauge reporting excessive cooling water levels when the water levels were actually dangerously low because a valve got stuck, resulting in core melting.

No one was injured or killed by the Three Mile Island accident, but less than two weeks earlier, nuclear power experts had said that this kind of accident was impossible, and that killed public trust in nuclear reactors.

"The term [GPU] was first used by Sony in 1994 with the launch of the PS1. That system had a 32-bit Sony GPU (designed by Toshiba)." — Jon Peddie, "Is it Time to Rename the GPU?".

In other words, the important technology came from government programs, not innovation funded by capitalist private investment.

It's very odd that LSM LOCKDOWN is controversial. This is roughly the same feature as BSD Securelevels, though with some more fine-grained control. In theory, it's very useful if you want to protect your system against attackers who compromise a process that runs with root privilege. In practice, the kernel attack surface is so large that a motivated attacker can probably bypass it.

I'm quite surprised that they didn't. Prior to the launch, they said that they were going to market it as 'plant-based' and not 'vegetarian' or 'meat-free' because it didn't meet the requirements to be classified as vegetarian. They were aiming it at flexitarians that wanted to reduce the amount of meat that they were eating, not at vegetarians or vegans. I guess someone in marketing realised how big a market they were losing and decided it was a big money maker to advertise it as meat-free but didn't bother to see if this was actually a true description.

It's true for about 20% of people. You're probably not one of them.

This is a very important point, but I would make one correction: Pork and chicken have very similar greenhouse gas emissions footprints, both of which are much smaller than beef and lamb.