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Comment Re:Research funded by venture capital (Score 2) 120

A bit of clicking and the research institute is funded by Octopus Energy Group which is funded by Octopus Group, a venture capital firm.

Suggestion here is to not report research paid for by venture capitalists for the same reason why /. should be skeptical of oil industry lobbyist funded research.

Obligatory: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... where research is published because it agrees with a political viewpoint.

We need to get past this idea that the only unbiased source of research funding is federal dollars. Because guess what? They're biased too.

Comment Re:The bottle was leaking for years (Score 1) 128

. It's difficult to fake skill, if your skill review is being done by someone who cares, and has knowledge to call you out.

It's also difficult to ACQUIRE skill when the dev world is so insanely fractionated and ever changing as you've clearly laid out in your job description. And that's the real problem: people with a BS in CS don't know their ass from a hot rock, no hiring manager wants to help them sort that out, and then those same managers 3 years later are butthurt that nobody meets their "experience required" job requirements.

Comment Re:the right time (Score 2) 155

China and India aren't responsible for the accumulated anthropogenic CO2, which is actually causing the warming.

That CO2 is 2/3 from trumpistanian, 1/3 a mix from mostly Western Europe with bits thrown in from Japan and the former Soviet Bloc, although today the last item has been reduced to practically zero.

If China and India would continue to output at their peak rates, they'll begin to catch up with the currently accumulated CO2 in about 50 years. There is also the part that a lot of what China and India output is actually output on behalf of consumers from the richest world anyway.

So would you say you're in favor of tariffs against China which would lower the number of Chinese imports to the US?

Comment Re:What kind of idiocy is this? (Score 3, Insightful) 255

This rule seems to be trying to discourage other countries from acting upon their own laws and morality.

This concept is trying to discourage other countries from applying their laws to Americans WHILE IN AMERICA. The example would be the DEA going to Canada, and arresting Canadians because they're in possession of weed.

Comment Re:This is stupid (Score 1) 44

A firm doesn't need to have plans consistent with climate goals in order for an investment in that firm to produce results consistent with climate goals. The reason oil and gas companies got such a large share of green investment is because they ... invested it in green energy.

Yeah in the past year they've all backed off, but that didn't mean that BP wasn't one of the biggest wind producers in America, or one of the largest solar companies in Europe, or that Shell doesn't have a *massive* EV charging network, or that Total isn't at the forefront of floating windfarms or that Chevron isn't building massive amounts of green hydrogen generation.

The investment here is in engineer, and fossil fuel companies are the undisputed leaders in execution of major energy engineering projects.

It's all about power and control. If you don't pledge fealty to the climate targets, you can't be controlled by them, and thus we must put you on blast as being on the naughty list.

Comment Re:And it was better! (Score 1) 70

It means that when there is crunch time for a release of a "product", in this case technical updates to an existing platform, you are expected to work after hours and be ready on a moment's notice to do some hardcore coding for extended periods, which can in fact be considered working hard.

Say this to any junior investment banker, and watch them laugh in your face. Neither is right, staff your fucking companies properly, but coders aren't working hard if crunch time isn't all the time.

Comment Re:Need some tough talk and perhap strict legislat (Score -1, Troll) 244

What kills me is vax deniers claim to have "done their research" but seem oblivious to what life was like before vaccines. Pretty much every one of us would know someone who had died or had lasting side effects from diseases that we now have vaccines for. We really don't want to go back to the way things were before vaccines or we'd have shit tons more horrible stories like yours, many of which would end a lot worse.

For a website for supposedly intelligent people, it's amazing how quickly we go straight to binary thinking. Maybe we take whole a byte and get away from anything we call a vaccine is always good vs anything we call a vaccine is always bad, and have some room for some things called vaccines aren't actually vaccines, and some things called vaccines aren't actually good?

Comment Re:More like "post smart"... (Score -1, Troll) 244

Because not vaccinating is simply one thing: dumb. And not vaccinating your childen is child abuse.

Yes, anything has risks. Not doing something alos has risks. The smart thing is to honestly and neutrally look at the data and then make a decision. Instead panicky, insight-less and idological approaches have replaced rationality. Pathetic.

Would you say that it's a good idea, then, to not allow the unvaccinated to stream across a horribly protected border?

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