thanks for the downvotes. what a leftist liberal light-skinned cesspool hn has degraded to. this community should be ashamed of the unwelcoming and hostile circle it fosters.
side note: feyerabend is a variation of the german word „feierabend“ which consists of the two nouns „feier“ and „abend“, „party“ and „evening“ respectively. we use that word for „home time“ after the work day. i.e. „feierabend! i’ll call it a day and go home“.
panama papers was a joke. while there was some meat in there that nobody pursued — not even the laughable conglomerate of teethless establishment journalism — its sole purpose was to focus the electorate on the most populist election topic: tax evasion. so, the boundary pendle-swings within the bounds of political correctness.
xkcd. what a great and representative resource... for the sheepish alarmist hn crowd.
it‘s the same hockey stick bull crap that gore used to make you cry.
all the models normalize the raw data into oblivion and all the models are not properly adjusted to preindustrialization fluctuation of the climate.
also, the models being used have been developed to understand current data and co2-influences — not to extrapulate predictions.
guess what. all other climate changes in earth‘s history happened w/o humans. plants need at least 150ppm co2. they flourish with more. we‘re pumping co2 into green houses to make shit grow.
we are at around 400ppm and had 1200ppm in the past, no problem. now these folks run around headless wanting to lower it further. complete mindlessness.
global average temperature is a joke. the earth‘s climate consists of many, many little subclimates making it so that everywhere you need a different weather forecast that often doesn‘t even hold up.
it‘s a system nobody can actually simulate.
the other question is how do you deal with measurement errors today — and back in the day when they used quicksilver? quicksilver deviates by at least 1 degree. have the scales been correct? was the person reading the temperature looking at the thermometer correctly?
it‘s all bullcrap based on error prone data, nicely „normalized“ and „corrected“ every year because their whishful predictions don‘t work out.
climate „scientists“ are gonna tell you they cannot explain the entire climate system, yet they give you nice animations scaring the heck out of you. and that‘s all there is: scare. you‘ll happily pay ridiculous prices for ridiculous co2 certificates and that revenue goes into private pockets.
i whish everybody would scale back and throw themselves into the topic. but everybody i talk to just shuts down and elects to follow their church.
water and co2 are the most important ingredients for life. nobody is going to die because of it. don‘t let yourselves be fooled.
disclaimer: yeah, i‘m receiving millions from the oil and coal industries. BILLIONS even!
i have this weird theory in my head that tim is allocating financials internally to either
A: save money and try to let a product die (mac mini, mbp, ipod)
B: invest to signal hope that a product is in fact not dead (mac pro, also mbp)
both approaches will eventually lead to an iphone-ipad-only apple because in case A things just fade away with the occasional life sign as to not lose too many customers.
case B, on the other hand, gives people what they were yearning for for years and keeps „professionals“ and press stimulated but at a ridiculous price point so that, b/c of low sales, the product line can finally be killed.
obviously. got my own server as well. but i‘d like to know some side-project kind of thing. those are hard to find for me - in the age of seo-ridden search results trying to sell you everything and their mother.
well, constructive criticism for me is just calling out bullshit as well. if the receiver elects to be pissed instead of reflecting over the reason, i‘m not sorry.
example: if my web service is bloody slow and somebody tells me „that‘s some slow bullshit“ i can go and investigate the claim „slow“ or bitch and mourne „can‘t you say that in a nicer way? be more constructive and suggest improvements?“. well, yes i can. but i don‘t have to do your job.
since facebook and politics discovered the internet, it‘s full of emo‘s unable to handle anything. everything needs to „be nice or i‘ll need some psycho counseling and you pay for it!“. it‘s ridiculous.
edit: you‘re welcome, members of the motherfucking vote brigade. oh how i love you butt-hurt generation-z-kind.
it appears to me their current leadership also would have said <<they‘re one of our biggest platform drivers. let‘s just put flash on idevices. screw „the right thing“. also, money money money!>> when adobe was bitching and mourning.
sure, there have been issues under jobs. but those were of different quality. cook counts beens and has no balls. schiller goes on stage and says „courage“. ive has nobody measuring his and his teams ridiculous design decissions — flat it must be!
i would bet money steve would have put the iphone 6 down, notice it wobbles, pull up his eye brows and sent the team back down the design bunker telling them not to emerge until that bullcrap is fixed.