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Comment Lunch time meetings (Score 2) 150

From the article the worst thing is lunch time meetings, I can do 8pm meetings occasionally, and even done 10pm weekly when working with asian clients, but the amount of lunch time meetings in that graph is just obscene and a very american thing, I don't think anywhere else in the world people do that, we need down time during lunch to eat properly and have some rest or even, gasp, socialize a little.
To me lunch time meetings are just unacceptable, even when working from home.

Comment Re:A datum of clickbait : (Score 1) 122

This table you pointed to refers to mining not enrichment, which is what the article refers, the link below show a breakdown of enrichment by country and russia is about 40% with US being only 11%. I recall sometime back reading that 1/3 of the fuel the US uses in its plants today come from russia.

https://thundersaidenergy.com/...

Comment Re:Be more open to immigration (Score 1) 90

That is interesting, what holds you from immigrating now? only job offers/opportunities or some other factor?
Living in the Philippines would also have the advantage of being much cheaper, at least today, who knows in 25 years, but would likely still be cheaper to live there and occasionally visit Japan than living in Japan.

Comment Re:Be more open to immigration (Score 1) 90

First I didn't say anything about poor, the point is young couples or couples with young kids, poor or not that is what they need right now, and moving and settling in would expensive no matter who you are, so money incentive would help.
Second, being poor doesn't mean they would stay poor, it is very common for immigrants to a new country to arrive with little money and build a good life by working a lot.

Comment Be more open to immigration (Score 3, Interesting) 90

The country should be more open and actively incentivize immigration, clearly the Japanese population is not interested in reproducing anymore, which is causing the demographic bomb where the old people will not have an income source of anyone to take care of them, no matter how many robots they build, so be more welcome to young outsiders, specially young couples and families with young kids, give them language courses, cultural adaptation lessons and some money to sweeten the deal, that will help, just don't make the mistake of bringing young single men, that will be worse in every way.

Comment offearth backup (Score 1) 76

The only reason I would say this would make any sense would be to have the ultimate offsite backup, but even then would probably be cheaper just to have 3 or 4 of the same hardware spread on earth.
A few things they seem to have not considered:
- 1st, and most important, cost of launch, even with starship costs of launch all the hardware is REALLY heavy, it could still be >10x the cost of the hardware itself
- 2nd, power generation, solar has come a long way and in space it is much more efficient by area, but the amount of solar panels that would be needed to power even a modest datacenter is insane, and how to deploy it is not trivial by any means, and it can get to the point that the size creates quite significant stray current only by traveling through earths magnetic field, I remember a couple of decades ago an experiment that produced electricity by extending a big wire in space and the voltage generated was high enough to break the insulation layer and damage the base which snapped off the cable
- 3rd, heat dissipation in space is a b*tch, people think is cold, but forget that it is just a vacuum, which is a VERY good insulator, half the time you are being heated by the sun (if you don't choose a sun synchronous orbit which would be all the time) and there is no medium to dump that heat, you can only radiate it away, which is hard, and based on the ISS issues, also non-trivial and when a problem happen you are literally toast
- 4th connection bandwidth and latency, even with the best laser connections we are talking a few dozen gigabits at best per channel, compared to terabits per fiber on earth, and depending on your orbit you can have "low" latency but need to reroute the connection constantly with a LOT of jitter or have a "fixed" connection with insane latency, both have big downsides unless you are doing simulations or AI training only using local data and sending back only the final result, anything else the latency would be annoying to the end user
- 5th impacts and kessler syndrome, with the necessary solar panel and radiators area this would be a HUGE target for mircro meteorites and orbit garbage impacts, basically impossible to steer out of the way and just create more and more small objects with time
- 6th de-orbiting, how would this would de-orbit? ISS would be a object in comparison and even it is complicated to get down safely, imagine something that is easier to be measured in acres instead of square meters/feet, and the amount of metals in the atmosphere could be significant to the point of causing issues to the high atmosphere

I could probably go on, but I think it would be much easier and cheaper going the microsoft route and just put the datacenter under water in a cold area of the world.

Comment Re:Not really a new feature in Firefox (Score 1) 47

I wanted to burn mozilla down when they decided to remove tag groups feature, had to scramble to get a add-on to do the same, and had to replace it a couple off times since then because the developers got tired of keeping up with the changes in firefox.
Now I use panorama view add-on which is good enough, still not as good as the original from long ago, but gets the job done.
I've never understood the reasoning form mozilla to remove it, it may not have been a widely used feature, possibly their own fault for not educating users about it, but for the people who use it, it was important and the users were generally power users that had sometimes hundreds of tabs open and categorized in different subjects to help organize their life, and from what I can tell based on the add-ons available the code itself was not that big or complicated to maintain, considering what is needed to maintain a modern browser.
Anyway, I just looked at the "new tab group feature" from the link and it is a far cry from what it was in the past and honestly much less usable, I'll keep using panorama view for the time being.

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