You mean the industries, that are liable for most of the initial suffering during the 1930s, 2000s and so on? A case could be made that some of it lead more or less directly to wars.
Accounting and finance should know much, much better to use something actually auditable. Pretty much all software in any way associated with those industries that I have seen is at best average by enterprise software quality standards but most is barely useable. In that sense, Excel is probably the better choice. :-)
Spreadsheets are insanely versatile and useful. I think if you were to redesign a lot of the things they do as custom apps, you’d end up with poorer version of a spreadsheet, like you’re saying.
I’ve experienced this first-hand when building custom business apps. You’re building your UI in React or whatever only to conclude: “Fuck, this is a spreadsheet.”
Actually, at OrgPad.com my colleague Pavel (~Paul) is writing a collaborative editor in ClojureScript + re-frame/ Reagent/ React. There is even a very rough video about it (in Czech though) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkFJ1zcRjQY where you can see the current state of work, including the debugger Pavel has written. We will have some basic tables/ spreadsheets in the final version and we plan on having some very cool table calculation abilities later. ;-) So yeah, we thought about it.
this is common whataboutism. What about the dark ages ? What about burning witches ? If we claim to be a compassionate society we should be anti-censorship and let ideas succeed or fail through the strength of their argument.
I'm more concerned that comments critical of anti-racism could be cause for censure in future, ala 'social credit system'. That seems to be a possibility with the internet being locked down, increased censorship, calls for de-platforming 'hate'.
I've read that most mining pools are consolidating now, and if they control a majority of computing power it leaves Bitcoin vulnerable to attack. Or what about the hard fork ? My skepticism is not w/ the tech (which is great) its with Bitcoin adoption by non-tech people who have no protection via regulation.
Yes, mining pools are aggregating. None are at 51%. But, the risk is bad actors, not the mining pools. Hypothetically, if a mining pool had 51% hash rate, why in the world would they tank the price of the asset their entire business is based on - They would lose hundreds of millions, if not Billions of value.
I listened to the press conference, and I didn't hear anything about imported frozen bats. I heard them say that wild animals that are known to be susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 from Yunnan province, where bats are known to harbor coronaviruses similar to SARS-CoV-2, were shipped to Wuhan, sometimes frozen. They want to look into those supply chains. Fomite transmission is something that's widely acknowledged to play a small role in SARS-CoV-2 transmission (it's why you hear recommendations to wash your hands and avoid touching your face). If wild animals (both living and frozen) that can carry this virus were shipped to Wuhan from a region in which wildlife harbors the virus, then that's something that's worth following up on.
About the lab, as they said in the press conference, no lab in Wuhan (or anywhere else in the world) had any samples of SARS-CoV-2 before the pandemic began. A virus can't leak from a lab if it's not in the lab to begin with. The closest viruses anyone has found are 4-5% different from SARS-CoV-2. The discovery of a new one was announced in the journal Nature Communications just yesterday. With enough wildlife sampling, SARS-CoV-2 will eventually be found in the wild. But it may take a long time - bats are strongly suspected of being the reservoir for Ebola, but I don't think anyone has actually found a bat in the wild with an active Ebola infection yet, in decades of searching.
people should be cautious and imho more importantly, people should be informed and adding processed soy, oils, sodium etc to meat alternatives in hope of reducing price is a horrible solution. If that's the only way we're going to get people offsetting meat consumption its a sad state of affair.
