Shivetya (u/Shivetya)

Shivetya commented on We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We’re Going to Say So scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/seriousquestion

closeparen · 5 years ago

What would it look like if climate were an emergency? Evacuation orders with perhaps 48 hours notice to leave the suburbs and never return. Defense Production Act cranking out prefab multifamily housing for urban cores. Blackouts when it’s cloudy. Transcontinental travel only when you know somebody who knows somebody with a sailboat.

Keep dreaming.

Shivetya · 5 years ago

We won't know because it will be ever changing. The problem has always been is alarmist have exaggerated, set dead lines, and scare tactics, and never once been right. You can simply search old news papers less than ten years old or even early youtube videos to see all sorts of predictions by people we were told you cannot question and they are all wrong.

I've given up even trying to debate any portion of the climate because no opinion other than agreement is allowed. You must fully agree with all statements because even questioning minor parts gets your branded.

The damage done to serious debate is astounding.

Yet, read a paper from a hundred years ago, fifty years ago, twenty, or ten, and even five, and you will see what has been predicted before and never come to pass will be predicted again with the same vehemence if not worse.

Are there things we can change and need to change. Yes, and we have been making great progress. However doubling down each time you don't get it right will not make it better.

It was fun here while it lasted

Shivetya commented on A top-grossing scam on the App Store twitter.com/keleftheriou/... · Posted by u/keleftheriou

heavyset_go · 5 years ago

Apple and Google are poor stewards of the mobile app distribution market. It's time that their 13+ year stranglehold on app distribution is disrupted.

Shivetya · 5 years ago

Do you even understand the volume of apps they deal with? Apple claims 100k a week[0]. How do you propose to handle that?

People are complaining about a small number of bad apps getting through and at the same time we have quite a few stating that not allowing people to load up anything they want is bad. Can you imagine trying to sort through the mess if there was no gate keeper because there is an actual chance if people get their legislative wish list through.

Even if you could get an independent system up and running who is going to pay for it? The staffing is going to be very large and who determines what is a good app and what is not?

I am all for Apple having and managing their store by their rules. While I think it is dumber than all get out to allow for people to install any app they find I am certainly not going to stand in their way as long as the companies which make the phones and provide the software are fully protected from such a choice. After all if a rogue app does something bad who do you think the lawyers will come for?

[0]https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/09/24/app-store-rejecte...

Shivetya commented on A top-grossing scam on the App Store twitter.com/keleftheriou/... · Posted by u/keleftheriou

WesolyKubeczek · 5 years ago

Remember, the App Store offers you the most secure, curated, and safe experience you can ever have with your Apple devices.

Each app submitted to the App Store undergoes a thorough review process. Each app update is checked and approved by an Apple employee. It's not like some automated process which you can game left and right. Each app on the App Store is guaranteed, thanks to the strict review process, to adhere to a minimum standard of quality which is higher than competing app markets are offering.

You can trust Apple's judgement on the content that is published on the App Store.

Shivetya · 5 years ago

Plus depending on news source Apple supposedly can get close to a hundred thousand apps submitted each week.[0]

That staggering number of apps is bound to have leakage of the bad sort and as long as Apple has in place a means to report them then they should be given some leeway. If there is no process (I really don't know) then yeah we should call them out on it.

[0]https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/09/24/app-store-rejecte...

Shivetya commented on School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired cbc.ca/news/gopublic/tatt... · Posted by u/docdeek

piokoch · 5 years ago

I think this is not something bad in itself - such practice is well known, for instance truck drivers are being tracked routinely and nobody makes a big fuss about that. But this is unacceptable:

"telling employees to download an app on their personal phones that would check their location and ensure they were working their scheduled hours."

Why someone is obliged to install something on a private phone? What if someone does not have smartphone, what if that phone will stop working, who is to blame, who is responsible for fixing it, how quickly - will an employee sign SLA for fixing the phone?

Employer should provide a phone for an employee and then whatever employer wants can be installed there. If something does not work, well, it is up to employer to provide support.

Shivetya · 5 years ago

Decades ago we implemented a time card system which worked by having the employee use a phone at the location, many locations had one or more phones which could be used, to clock in and out of work. Since we used an ANI feed you could not spoof it; I cannot guarantee that is or is not possible to spoof now.

I certainly cannot agree with requiring workers to use their own phone for this. if the company wants that app then it should provide the phone or use another means to guarantee they are on site.

Truckers being tracked is because the penalties involved are very real and enforced for reasons of safety to drivers and other users of the nations roads. tracking someone cleaning buildings or homes is a bit on the absurd side as most of us agree

Shivetya commented on NSFW Server Designation support.discord.com/hc/en... · Posted by u/Mindwipe

pjmlp · 5 years ago

Can we please stop having US morality controlling Internet?

What about Discord blocking servers full of war scenes and car chasing with shootings?

Shivetya · 5 years ago

Considering how quick people are to jump on the morals of other countries, specifically their not accepting what we decide is good, its not like this is a fight anyone is going to win.

I really would prefer the ability to choose the content I want through each app. Perhaps they could have a country of interest drop down. I certainly don't want someone to just up and decide but in today's social and litigious environment I can see why some companies are making the choices they do.

Shivetya commented on Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first man went into space [video] bbc.co.uk/news/av/science... · Posted by u/spzb

robohoe · 5 years ago

Yep, both the Smithsonian Air and Space Center and Steven Udvar-Hazy Center are well worth the visit. They have the Discovery, SR-71, and Enola Gay on display. Oh and the Concorde! [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_F._Udvar-Hazy_Center

Shivetya · 5 years ago

The list of planes across all of them is beyond imagination even when you list them out[0]. Some very interesting planes that were taken out of Germany to keep them out of any other nations hands are there.

The National Air and Space Museum even has the model of Star Trek's Enterprise NCC-1701 used during the show. While obviously not real the effect of the show and its ship are well documented

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_in_the_Smiths...

Shivetya commented on The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/ecliptik

crazygringo · 5 years ago

So was the secret ingredient... the tiny amount of finely minced fresh onion?

Looking at the final recipe they came up with, that's the only one that seems like you might not guess.

Garlic powder is the only other non-standard ingredient, but I feel like whenever you're looking for the "missing secret ingredient" in a savory dish, garlic powder, onion powder and mustard powder are the first things you'd think of, along with MSG and very occasionally nutmeg or pickles/pickle juice. (While paprika can only be secret in darkly colored dishes, otherwise you can see its specks.)

Shivetya · 5 years ago

freshly minced onion does wonders in more than a few recipes, it certainly can add that final kick to tartar sauce if not any recipe with a good creamy base. you don't even need to add much.

Shivetya commented on Et Tu, Procter and Gamble? daringfireball.net/2021/0... · Posted by u/FabHK

zzzeek · 5 years ago

You can win at "whack a mole" by hitting harder. Pass some real legislation and fine P&G a billion dollars. Works better than any amount of technology-level detection.

Shivetya · 5 years ago

Legislation, and what do you do about other countries whose laws and activities are opposite of your own?

What China wants may be completely different than what we want and they have space at the table too

Shivetya commented on EU Parliament Wants Pirated Sports Streams Taken Down Within 30 Minutes torrentfreak.com/eu-parli... · Posted by u/curmudgeon22

Shivetya · 5 years ago

One merely has to wonder what other content will find itself behind a no court order thirty minute window all on the word of designated groups with an interest.

So how much investiture into sporting facilities do EU countries end up fronting? Is it as bad as the US? Do they get any funds locally for sports broadcasting involving local teams? I will by default assume their is monetary relationships between politicians either direct or friends and family arrangements but I am not clear on how localities benefit.

The entertainment industry, be it sports, music, or movie and television, had an outsized influence of politics and policy and that itself needs reigned in.

Shivetya commented on Google’s lawyer accidentally made a sensitive document public mattstoller.substack.com/... · Posted by u/PretzelFisch

busterarm · 5 years ago

That's exactly it. Rich people have the resources to fight for longer than you will hold your office.

There's a really eye opening report 2 years ago from Charles Rettig, commissioner of the IRS, where he openly states that his agency focuses audits on poorer people, because they have less resources to fight and are more likely to just pay up and move on. Most of the audit resources are targeted at people claiming the earned income tax credit.

Shivetya · 5 years ago

Sadly Congress isn't going to fix this because it requires a much simpler tax system instead of one that is filled from end to end with special carve outs and rules.

When our current President subscribes to using tax law shenanigans to avoid paying taxes you can damn well bet much of the rest of Congress and high ranking state leaders will be found doing the same. One of the larger avenues of abuse is through S Corporations which let individuals shunt off income thereby avoiding certain types of taxes. It is also used by leadership of various charitable organizations to redirect money for purposes many would think fraudulent; like using them to buy homes for use by organization leadership or cover business jet ownership