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>> ...or better yet, got market forces to work on it.

This is not an area where market forces can work. Market forces got us to where we are now. There will never be a healthy free market for carbon sequestration. It is an energy-negative activity. Absent artificial stimulus, it ain't going to happen.

Government is for doing what the market (ie Freedom!) cannot. This is a multi-decade problem for which open markets are ill-equipped. We need massive government intervention. This is an area where we need to take tax dollars and spend them directly on both reducing carbon output (now) and active sequestration once that becomes more efficient than further reductions.
In this day and age, most folks have free long distance whether they have a cell phone or not. One misconception is that calling a 800 prefix is completely cost free, on a cellular phone, you still get charged for roaming / air time in most cases.
Costs more, plain and simple. The state offered a generous subsidy and agreed to relax a variety of environmental regulations in order to attract Foxconn. Meeting those regulations would simply have been a financial tradeoff for the business.

The water has to be particulate-free for glass polishing. A particle the size of the wavelength of light leaves a visible scratch. I've worked with an optical polishing shop, and a lot of water is consumed just washing everything from one stage to the next.

From what I've read, LCD production is a dirty industry.
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In that case, the main competition is not GM or Ford but Porsche. If their electric line is good enough, many Tesla buyers that will remain loyal through a recession could wander off.
I actually think history will look back on the carbon blanket with thanks. Without the warmth of the carbon blanket the earth would likely be entering an Ice age, based on the cycle of energy release of the sun which is entering a long cycle of which the last minimum presented as an Ice age. By protecting ourselves with the carbon blanket we actually are protecting our civilization and giving ourselves enough time to tech past our survival being so critically linked to the sun.
In practice that's rarely an issue, because a) if it has a resource it'll implement IDisposable and b) my IDE screams when I don't dispose an IDisposable.

This is not as good as the Rust model, but it's not awful, either.
> I'm pretty sure euthanizing a dog by gunshot ... has never legally been considered animal cruelty.

I'm horrified that anyone would think this is true. In case anyone reads this and doesn't know better, shooting an animal is only allowed when justified, typically in self-defense.

Shooting a terminally ill dog is not sufficient justification either [1].

[1] - http://www.wfla.com/national/heartbroken-pet-owner-faces-jai...
> Is there more to GraalVM than just using graal with a particular JDK release?

Yeah there's a whole world of different ways you can use Graal.

https://medium.com/graalvm/graalvm-ten-things-12d9111f307d

They're choosing to use the JIT from CE Graal (which they've built themselves), via the released version of JVMCI in a released JDK.
> It's not immediately clear how much of that water will be returned, but at least it won't be consuming 7M gallons daily.

Even if they did, Lake Michigan is estimated to contain one quadrillion gallons of water. Foxconn will have long ceased to exist by the time anyone even notices the water is missing.
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I watched it. All one hour 42 minutes of it.

From the presentation: "guilty until proven innocent". How can you NOT feel threatened?!
"respectfully" wasn't meant as an excuse, but to mean just that - a suggestion offered with respect that the OP is free to do whatever they damn well please.

I completely accept that I could have worded it more softly / indirectly / anecdotally. Tone on the internet is hard!
> It says something when tech-savvy people agree to sacrifice time and effort and probably profits to protect their users from their own software.

Or the competitors' software.

Consider some business that was doing what GDPR requires already: users could delete their data, they could request a complete copy of it as well as an explanation what it is used for, and it was only used for defined purposes that the user signed off prior anyway.

Sadly, that reduces flexibility somewhat, but they're doing it because they consider it the right thing.

For them, GDPR levels the playing field and makes sure that they never have to stray from this conduct just to remain competitive with companies that aren't so nice to their users.
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Semmle (and its open source product LGTM) is a really great tool in this space.
It can certainly give us what we should actually do.

Reduce all carbon emissions to zero, effective immediately, to minimize the damage caused by the feedback loop we started here.

The policy we implement will of course weigh in the various problems with that approach and delay the zero emissions goal.
Real AI will never exist. No matter what definition we have ever set up as being “real AI” we have excused it and changed it once computers actually solved it. Current AI is capable of creating “original” decision as is it capable of solving new problems “spontaneously”, yet you still will not call it AI. Not because it doesn’t live up to your defined standards, but because you want to define a set of standards that it doesn’t live up to. People get protective of the concept of intelligence and almost axiomatically define that anything a computer can do is not truely intelligent and therefore not “really” AI.
> “I’ve often heard people wonder about how they are targeted so accurately and it’s no wonder because its all hidden in the small print.”

> Publicly, gambling executives boast of increasingly sophisticated advertising keeping people betting, while privately conceding that some are more susceptible to gambling addiction when bombarded with these type of bespoke ads and incentives.

Meanwhile, in the real world, hardly anyone clicks on a banner ad ever. A perfectly polished targeted turd is still a turd.
I am not convinced of this.

I think I would need calculated study into the interrelated variables involved before I would begging to entertain this idea.
And rightfully so. If the collection points to me, then it's PII. Anonymized it might be "is between 18-25 years old", "orders fast food once a week", "tips between 0-10%".

Just because something it murky, doesn't mean businesses get to ignore it. The entire point is to force companies to actually think about what their data is and decide if they need to store PII. If they do it have implications. Have a reasonable explanation for choices, and are willing to rectify issues pointed out by consumers and/or DPA.
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Because Hacker news has a large population of systems programmers, and we are desperate for something to liberate us from C and C++. We have watched programming languages advance apace in other areas, helping engineers be more productive and produce a higher quality output, but in the systems space nothing has come along that provides enough benefit for a low enough adoption cost for it to be a worthwhile choice over C and C++.

Rust shows some promise of being that language, and so we hold out hope and enjoy reading about it.
In New Zealand, the government buys drugs from pharmeceutical companies. There is no reason why the US government cannot buy carbon offset from the free market, using the revenue generated from a carbon tax. There will be monitoring/inspection issues, to ensure the carbon is actually being sequestered, but this doesn't make it impossible.
"...I will pay later..." this is so damn hard to grasp when you are young and pulling all nighters every day.
Note that the original author is 86. He does not fly and that is great. But he is also heading into a very energy-intensive period of life. Most of a person's lifetime heath costs come in the last few years of life. Health care is expensive for a reason. It consumes massive amounts of energy and generates enormous piles of waste. Will he forgo medical treatments as willingly as he has forgone flying?
That is a very nationalist outlook of the world and one of the reason we have such a huge problem with the environment Globally...

It is all one Planet..
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> Modern climate change is slower than the K-T mass extinction event

We haven't seen how fast our change can get. We are not over out own mass extinction event yet.
What you describe is a general aritificial intelligence[0]. From what I can tell, the industry is ridiculously far away from that - it's not even certain whether general intellgence "smarter" than humans can be achieved with computers at all.

Nonetheless, the media likes to generate some hype and fear every now and then, and has done so for decades, usually without even a basic understanding of underlying technology.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...
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Sure. 5M gallons is a rounding error to Lake Michigan (total is a bit over 10^15 gallons). The 800k gallons that end up evaporated and aren't returned is a rounding error to a rounding error.
still less absurd than DST nonsense in EU, I wish i will experience in free years that we will have all years same time and won't stress little children and other people with this nonsense
tl;dr Consider designing games that follow the "three reads" design strategy.[0] Which is to say, match presentation emphasis with import. ex, internet browsers contemporarily hide our menu bar because it is relevant less often than the great big dom rendering I asked for.

[0] https://www.canva.com/learn/typeface-fonts/ (warning, js heavy scrolling)
I find gallons to be an unintuitive unit of measure, so I like to convert to cubic feet because it gives a better visual sense of the volume.

7M gallons is 935,800 ft^3.

This would fill a football field 19.5 feet high.

If you made that into a cube, it would be 97.8 ft per edge.

If you convert to a flow rate, that's 10.83 ft^3/second.
This reminds of only learning about the existing of light level geolocation that uses only an accurate clock recording ambient light level to determine longitude and latitude of migratory birds - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_level_geolocator
What if that is the fear of death.
That would be the death of everything now would it.
> It generally boils down to just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

Funny you say that... I have asked the same question regarding why some people are obsessed with pushing for technological singularity and AI that can replace human decision making.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16955549
It can be done, maybe not on literal desert but on what is currently marginal farmland. People do it on smaller scales and offset at a rate of less than $10/tonne.
I think it’s actually good that this happens in the states because it gets attention (see above article) and things can be done to enhance the situation. I have no clue how these things get handled in China and elsewhere. I have a guess though. BTW: Recently I’ve learned on HN that rivers in China and India are mostly responsible for plastics in the oceans.
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Does I matter from where the intervention comes from?

We probably can't just do one thing and wait.

We probably have to try all the things.
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It may be just me, but I spent about 3 minutes trying to see the outstanding writing, but nothing I read kept me past minute 3.
>first generation of 'true' ai will probably be ... too simple for practical use

AI tends to either not really work or go way beyond humans - look at the Go programs that didn't work very well and then in a short period we have things like alphazero that given the rules of Go or Chess surpasses all humans in a few hours of playing itself. By the time they are passing Turing tests and thinking in a human manner they are going to be scary smart in many ways.
> Targets for 2040 and 2050 are required.

Unless politicians of 2030 decide it's 2050 and 2060.

This is one generation of politicians making commitments the next couple generations of politicians will have to honor.
What’s the upside for a legal firm to target you? You’re not going to pay fines to them, right?
I'd be interested in reading coverage of Brin's comments without having to wade through the smart alec dickhead style of The Inquirer (is it a sister publication to TheRegister?)

Edit: direct link to the letter posted elsewhere on this page.
Amazon employment practices are disturbing, there is exploitation of workers and the fact that employment is not a choice is not addressed in the capitalism narrative, there is coercion and there is an unequal playing field between capital and labor.

And this kind of exploitation directly causes a race to the bottom as competitors cannot be competitive without it. Bezos is rich, difficult to understand what he gains by treating workers this way. It's seems more and more like an ideology, a culture.

The only way this gets fixed is strong regulation, a social culture that abhors exploitation and consumer choice.

For consumer choice to be effective you need to start an intense awareness campaign that will compel people to think twice before buying from Amazon. But its a long term and expensive process with uncertain results.

It's incredibly difficult building something like Amazon, and Bezos deserves all the success and money, but a few billions less for him so we have a healthier treatment of workers and healthier society should be not require a debate and reveals something fundamentally broken in our society.
> Or even multiply that by 2 or 3 for punitive purposes

The only place and time where the concept of punitive damages and GDPR overlap is the United Kingdom between May 25, 2018 and March 29, 2019.

[edit: and Ireland. They might want to reconsider, given that they host many of the European HQs of US companies.]
I have heard the narrative that 90% of people farmed 120 years ago and now look at things. I just do not buy this is going to work this time.

I live in the US and at some point we will have to talk about UBI. But right now we can not even have constructive conversations about simple things.
The guy is guilty for that, the problem is the way damages were calculated and that they guy ended in prison instead of paying the damages.
Forests can be carbon sinks, but they'll need water and sunlight, as well as fertile soils.
Because carbon offset is a shell game. Paying people to not emit at X so that other people can emit at Y opens too many loopholes. The desire for profit by cutting corners and cheating will creep in. Emissions need to be directly curtailed. W don't need "if you want to burn, pay someone else to not burn." We need "thou shall not burn", or at lease "thou shall burn less tomorrow than thou didst yesterday."
> Facebook is one step away from buying my kids their Christmas presents because I’m too busy to choose them.

That's actually a sorta neat business idea: If all these data krakens know everything about my friends and family anyway, they could make gift suggestions. I'm absolutely horrible at choosing gifts, mostly because I despise getting gifts.
Again, there is no precedent in history of any of the members of the EU doing what you keep saying they will do. Personally I trust their track record more than I trust your comments because one is a proof by example and the other is just absurd hypotheticals.

Or to phrase it in our own words: You can keep saying that they'll fine your niece millions for a hobby project but that doesn't make it true.
It might depend on when you think it started.

Does usenet fit the bill ? (no ‘likes’ per se, but the number of answers in a thread would be a good proxy)

Or blog rings where people would link to your pages and you’d monitor link numbers and page views ?

or just the number of comments on your “guestbook” section of your blog ?

I am not sure if those were more or less legitimate to accumulate than likes. My parents sure didn’t understand what we could be doing on the internet (I passed it as a research tool while still studying) but friends would proudly show their blog numbers, there was a hierarchy of well respected posters on boards, and there was a clear social effect IRL during off meetings.

In a way I think the numbers game started the minute something could be counted regarding stuff you did online.
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Take 2 years vacation. Go travel somewhere, see the world.

And remember that start-ups are just Unemployment 2.0. Nothing had really happend...
0.25 I think and MS convinced the judge that the value MS lost was 25$/disk because the judge missed the point that the guy was not selling any license.
You don't need AGI to create and disseminate effective propaganda for example. Current AI techniques, (ML etc), are readily applicable to the task. I think Brin's point is that these currently available AI techniques are only going to get better. Doesn't really matter if we won't get AGI for another 100 years or whatever.
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The irony is that if instead of passing legislation to try and "protect users/citizens from their own lack of understanding", a government would instead invest heavily in educating their users/citizens on privacy matters in order to minimize the unknowing populace, i.e. the "fodder" for shady data selling companies (like Facebook/Google). Then you would have companies arguing undue interference with their businesses (I don't know the correct term). And my guess is that's the way big companies prefer it since they can lobby easier when it's not laws but instead "education initiatives" and other fuzzy programs. And they could also counter-invest heavily in another set of "public education programs" where they could try to inform the users/citizens about how valuable they are when they don't understand/care about how their data is monetized. And with the advertising power/know-how these companies wield that match would be easily won against some random government propaganda.

I could imagine a major ad campaing where this question is posted all over the city:

"What ethical boundaries do you think are being overstepped through advertising?

Think for yourselves, don't let the government tell you what to think!

Sincerly, your friends the advertising business"

That's a hard fucking question for me to answer concisely, so I wont do that. Sry.
Except perhaps that BigCorp employees might exit their corporate network from an non-EU address, but they are still EU citizen and hence protected...

If you want to block them, you would most likely have to ask them their nationality or require them to attest that they are not from within the EU...
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From that discussion:

>If they can just execute on this, the world is theirs

People in these parts seem to fail to understand that:

a) the 300k - 400k of refundable reservations is a minuscule fraction of auto market share.

b) That the demand for $35,000 automobiles is not endless, let alone the $50,000+ that the Model 3 is selling for currently. Most people can't or shouldn't be making $1000 per month payments on a car.

Tesla has a ways to go before the "world is theirs".
This is the interesting thing. If it had been france.us - would the policy be different? .com is a special case, as if a number existed outside of an allocated country code.
He cloned a disk, bit by bit, also the cover /label on the disk was cloned. The disks were not cracked so the user had to input the serial number from the bottom of the laptop
As someone in their 20s I'm always amazed (and i'm sure my peers in the same age group are) by how many people become somewhat famous on Instagram. The people doing it usually don't have jobs that could find the kind of lifestyles they portray, so where do they get this money from?
I was thinking about GA (Google Analytics) the other day, and how I can follow the GDPR guidelines. The articles I read, both from Google and other sources said to not use user IDs to identify users without consent, to anonymize IP addresses, and to not send PII information to Google, such as in URLs. Ok, that sounds simply enough, but then... I started thinking about it more.

1. User profiles can't be sent to GA. For example, hacker news has /user?id=JohnDoe for profiles, and that contains a username, which is personal data that should not be shared with GA. Ok, so I could rewrite my profile URLs before sending them to GA without the usernames.

2. I haven't heard a single source mention referrals. If I'm on a user profile on my site and click a link, that's going to send /user?id=JohnDoe to GA as the referral. I would need to overwrite the referrals before sending them to GA as well.

3. What about 404 pages that I make up? What if I visit https://www.example.com/JohnDoe? That's sending my personal name to GA again. Hmm, ok, the site could exclude GA from 404 pages.

4. What about search boxes? What if I use the search field on a blog? https://www.example.com/posts?search=JohnDoe. Hmm, that's my personal data being sent again. Ok, we need to make sure any data from search boxes is now stripped and not sent to GA.

5. What if I manually add a query parameter or modify one? A homepage might have https://www.example.com/?page=2, but what if I change it to https://www.example.com/?page=JohnDoe. Hmm, yes, that's personal data being sent again. I guess I need to validate the page parameter to ensure it's an integer before sending the URL to GA. What if I then type in a personal phone number as the page number?
His apparently doesn't. Same for mine: If you asked me whom of my friends and family use Facebook, I could not name anyone. Only indirectly: Whatsapp is pretty dominant.
Basically he was making counterfeit restore and Windows installation CDs, which you can just download for free, and distributing them with refurbished PCs he was selling. M$ claimed damages of $25 per CD based on the $25 they charge for their refurbishing program which provides a copy of the install media but also included a new license and participation the M$'s authorized refurbishing program even though no licenses were illegally provided. So now this guy is going to federal prison over what's really a copyright violation.
As other posters pointed out this is less than 3 Olympic sized swimming pools. They will also return less than 2 Olympic sized pools back to the lake.
We already created super AI. It's called the stock market. Look at how it's tricked the richest(capitalist) and smartest via engineering jobs into toiling away at getting a number to go up.
Man made climate change might have been a scientific issue 50 years ago but science has been clear for several decades and politicians should have reacted very differently.

Only science can give an objective answer about what we can and should do. Politicians should inform people about the scientific facts and not waste time and money with insane debates of the facts and too optimistic targets.
You should start using the search feature to open apps and see how easy or difficult it makes things for you. Though I do launch apps from the home screen, launching by search is something I use quite often so I don't have to track or remember which page an app is on.

I don't use the app for Facebook, since a browser gives a lot more control (on things like blocking ads, trackers, and still having messenger in the same tab). Sometimes I use mbasic.facebook.com from the browser for a messenger-integrated experience, but it's somewhat painful in certain ways.