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> individual action is important.

This is critically important, but the mindset of the population need to change for it to be effective. If everyone have the same mindset, things will start to change.

Imagine doing a simple thing like reducing your shower time by 25% or reduce your TV watching time by 25%. With enough people doing it, its impact will be significant.
I'd argue the idea of doing something is a strong one. If people become engaged, if they start thinking about the environment on a daily basis then that is already progress in itself. If that means starting with a kettle sure that's probably not an improvement in itself but I'd say the thought counts.

People who take/propose such small steps might later start thinking about other means to improve their footprint on the planet that have a bigger impact. They might start to identify themselves as people who care about the environment. They might start spreading the idea to other people. And one day maybe they will say hey I ditched an electric kettle and made a compromise and what did you do, what are the big corps doing?

So I hope you engaged the teacher in a positive tone and proposed how we can all have an even bigger impact.
that doesn't fix the systemic causes of the mess we're in -- population growth, and environmental impact per person.

climate change isn't the problem, it's the second major global-scale symptom of the problem (the first one was the ozone layer). it's highly concerning! but suppose we manage to slow or reverse or mitigate climate change, at great expense, without addressing the underlying problem --- then we're going to have less resources to address the next global issue:

https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-bound...
You are completely right, going vegetarian or even vegan plus cycling won't fix all problems.
But it would be a start, what do you think?
So why don't do it still aditionally, instead of just waiting for others to change?
> Having medical professionals decide whether an ambulance is appropriate, instead of patients, is one of the main things the article is slamming Tesla for doing.

Medical professionals who are under orders to ignore their medical judgement and always treat patients as lightly as possible.

Also, deciding for yourself not to take an ambulance is one thing (even if questionable). Being forbidden by your employer to call 911 is something completely different.
Thx for sharing, will definitely try it out :)
Meh, first time I heard about this and of course I wanted to try it.
But (as I could have imagined) it says it will only discover other devices on the same local network - but my mobile is in my work's guest network, whereas my laptop is in the internal network. So yeah, this won't fly unless I can think of some VPN trickery :(
> it's the citizens who vote

The citizens are easily diverted with racist flamebait issues and neofascism. Nothing will be done.
There's been countless examples of research papers on various topics being sponsored and cherry-picked by companies to manipulate public opinion.

Your theory seems extremely likely.
If nukes start to really hit Switzerland then it will look pretty grim everywhere else as well. Might as well just get it over with and enjoy the light show.
> Recognize you are not the special person you thought you were. Really see how incredible all the people around you are.

What helped for me (though I'm not sure how realistic I currently am - but surely more than before) is not to realise how amazing the people around me are, but how ordinary the people I look up to are - specifically, not locally.

For example, I'd like to be a good programmer. There are a few "big names" online that people listen to; that I listen to. At a certain point, you realise they too make mistakes, they too don't know things that you do, and they have sacrificed some things to get where they are that I am simply not willing to sacrifice - but if I were, I might make it to the same place. But I'm not, and that's fine - now I know what I get back for not being where they are.
I would not. Whether I want to go somewhere 20km away (the other end of my city) or not has zero correlation if other people have cars or not.
>> Why does “replace typical car with hybrid” help at all? Does regenerative braking save that much energy?

At least in my plug-in hybrid I get statistics on that. I have driven it 80% on electricity with average fuel consumption of 2.0 l/100km the 16 months I have owned it, that include 2 longer trips of 700km with average fuel consumption of 4.0 l/100km and some charging problems last winter. The car have 200hp, so would have been a lot more if not hybrid.
When using hardware keys remember to register at least two. In case one stops working or is lost/stolen you're locked out of your account. Backup codes help but they're another barrier one have to remember.
What you propose is perfectly decent and centrist.
With the current political climate and the power echo chambers have over people’s radicalization, however, centrists are practically unelectable.
Voting should be completely private, including the fact of whether a person voted or not. It's that person's choice, and not voting is just a valid of a choice, and deserves to be kept private.

This is how the ballot boxes get stuffed. The fraudsters figure out who doesn't vote, who's dead but still on the roles, etc, and stuff the boxes with votes for those people.

Here's an infamous example: https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/17/archives/followers-say-ji...
It doesn't take that many people to shift a society to a different behavior.. We used to slave and human-zoos not that long ago and everybody was like, that won't change soon.
Have you thought about going vegetarian yourself?
it is also somewhat ironically meant I think:

From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire

by saying he holds with those who favor fire, he says in fact that he favors desire, which he has experienced in the past. He would like the world to end in desire.

So he subtly changes the question from how do you think the world will end to how do you want it to end. But then being Frost, and somewhat ambiguous, he changes it back, deciding that hate will also suffice (to destroy the world).

I mean obviously it is just very playful.
As the OP points out, there might be one or two issues with morale too.
Perhaps it's a British thing, but fear of nuclear war was always intertwined in the culture with a deep cynicism about the clear inadequacy of the advice given to the population in the event of an attack; the 'core' in the article, viz a lean-to made out of a door with stuff piled on top, brings to mind the protagonists in 'when the wind blows' obsessively trying to remember to remain in this alleged sanctuary even as radiation poisoning destroys them.
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Hi I'm Rudy, nice to meet you! Now you have one :)

On a more serious note:

1. have one less kid.

I really don't like how this one is worded, I always read it as "get rid of one of your kids". Though, except going from 1 to 0, it's not that bad. I definitely wanted more than one, but I can settle with the one I have.

2. go carless

You get used to it. I even lived in small cities (~30k inhabitants) and while it's harder when your city isn't supporting a carless lifestyle (never lived in any that does that, sadly), it's definitely doable.

3. don't travel

Maybe a bit extreme to give it up entirely. But you can still travel less, do it with more eco-friendly travel options (carpooling, etc.) or go to destinations which do not require planes. I guess it depends on where you live, but in Europe there's definitely lots of wonderful places I can go to with a low carbon impact.

But I still am responsible for a lot more carbon emission than I should. I'm taking it slow (changing food habits, etc.) but there's still domains in which I am really bad (using too much tech, ordering things online..).
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I appreciate your cynical anti-cynicism, but most people probably do misinterpret the poem. And they don't have to be idiots either.

Also, the last stanza, and specifically the last line states the opposite of the meaning. It does not "clarify" it. "And that has made all the difference." In actuality, there was no difference. So it's not clear, especially not if someone isn't paying attention to what they read. A lot of people don't pay attention to this sort of stuff, and again, it doesn't mean they're idiots or they did something wrong. I didn't get it the first couple of times I came across this poem.

But go on, anyone who tries to explain something commonly misunderstood is some kind of a jerk or whatever.
I disagree. Most universities have, for example, both a chemistry department and a chemical engineering department. They are different (but related) disciplines, but both belong at the university.

In the same way, I think we need both "computer science" and "software engineering" - but they need to be different departments. They both belong at the university, though. (I'm not sure you go to a polytechnic school to learn chemical engineering.) The problem is, most universities try to teach a computer science degree to people who will work as software engineers (and therefore don't teach them as much software engineering as they should).
two of the main things people use to enter a lucid dreaming state (becoming aware that you're dreaming while you are asleep) are switching a light bulb on and off and the other is to read some text. both are fairly new things to our brains.

the light bulb one is easy enough. you just have to flick a switch every time you walk past one (this is during the day while you're awake) and then eventually you will remember to do it in your dream. when the light doesn't switch off in your dream, thats when your conscious mind will hopefully notice and you can start to take control over the dream

its a bit harder to do the same with words. when you find some in your dream, you have to focus on a few of them and try to memorise them, (which isn't easy when your mind is in that state) then look away for a few seconds and then look back and see if they are still the same.

ive only ever managed to test that out once myself but after a while the words started to change and others disappeared which made me snap out of it and realise i was in a dream.

tl;dr wordz is new init?
> Have no illusions. To achieve our goal of getting off fossil fuels, these
reductions in demand and increases in supply must be big. Don’t be distracted
by the myth that “every little helps.” If everyone does a little, we’ll
achieve only a little. We must do a lot. What’s required are big changes in
demand and in supply.

David MacKay

https://www.withouthotair.com/c19/page_114.shtml
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It's not that long ago I went vegan myself :_)
And more and more are also starting to take that option more seriously ^^
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I prefer something like the SpaceEmacs layer system, where yes, the modules are written by the community, but then they're curated and tuned to actually work well together.
I share your frustration with people who claim it's out own responsibility to change our habits and come up with things like limiting your showers and turning off the lights when you leave the room, but flying less or not owning a car (if realistic in the country you live in) is a completely different ball game and can actually make an huge impact of enough people do it. Of course it's also up to governments to make these couches financially attractive by for example cutting tax breaks for aviation fuel (https://www.aef.org.uk/issues/economics/taxation/).
> Nicholas’s study concluded that having fewer children is the best way to reduce your contribution to climate change

Environmentalism as a philosophy isn't all that coherent, and this suggestion in point 8 really encapsulates the heart of my problems with it. If we are saving the planet "for" someone else, who are they? If we are saving the planet for ourselves, do minor actions of deprivation make sense? The extreme logical extension of the philosophy in point 8 that isn't "if I care about the future, and if all life is equal, I should remove myself from the gene pool and build a society that doesn't value the environment".

Taking a practical view that we want to preserve the world for, say, 3 generations into the future, answers like nuclear starting 30 years ago make a lot of sense.
If you can't find anything fun to do in the bay area but visit SF, you're doing it wrong.
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Cool!

In the article they say "The factorial rule predicts that to watch six episodes in every possible order should require 873 episodes, but Houston found a way to do it in 872. And since there is a simple way to convert a short superpermutation on n symbols into a short superpermutation on n + 1 symbols, Houston’s example meant that the factorial rule fails for every value of n above 6 too."

I don't quite get this. Is there an inductive proof you can use as a construction to reduce the length for subsequent N? Would love to see a birds-eye view of the intuition of this.
However, I assert that something like 95% of computer science graduates are actually going to work as software engineers, not as computer scientists. So actually teaching some of that would not be amiss...
People in the country usually pay a lot less rent/housing. Paying more for transportation is to be expected if you don't live in a city.

If they don't like it, they could try to move to a city and swap their high transportation cost for higher rent.
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Same with me. I was seventeen in 1984 when it was first shown but didn't see it at the time. I finally watched it a few years ago and had a night of unusually disturbed sleep followed by two days that were mentally tinged with vague feelings of doom and contamination. Not something I'd want to experience again.
Individual actions are definitely a start, but yeah it sounds like almost nothing compared to corporations (or even governments, responsible for so many unnecessary plane travels).

Is there some data on the actual scale of individual vs corporate pollution / climate-changing faults? Hard to measure, I guess.
>You're not getting better, you won't ever get better, but you can slow the disease down with medication, exercise and diet, in that order.

We have a very different view on health and medicine. You might be right but I'll never stop trying.
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People here are pedants, you need to add the sarcasm tag to be clear
what about if there was some kind of global system of decision-making where others could influence or incentivise your day-to-day actions?

e.g. hypothetically would you support a global carbon tax* priced high enough so that driving somewhere wasn't by default a sensible decision?

* supposing, hypothetically, we had some effective way of reaching such an agreement and enforcing it
I depends on you location and driving in the city e.g. Prius can have less total CO2 emission than Tesla S if the electricity comes from fossil fuels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RhtiPefVzM
When ranking different actions one can take to limit pollution I also like to include actions which has a net-positive effects. There are so many small things which might not be the cheapest or cultural popular but they do directly help the environment.
There is a simple answer, really, but you won't like it.

"i'm very willing to trade you something of value in return for you making lifestyle changes that don't locally benefit you"

If it's true, then you can make the next small step. For example, for every vegan you have as a friend you can decide to eat less meat. Or for every friend without a car, you can take a bus once in a while. And so on.

That would be a valuable gift to these people, who decided to selflessly take the first step.
Exactly - which is why I take offence to people insisting it's a panacea. For some people in some regions it may very well be, but it's not for all, and trying to sell it that way is a little disingenuous.
If the code were as well-written as a (readable) novel, it would be reasonable to expect people to be able to read it. Unfortunately, we get asked to read code that's more like Joyce's Finnegan's Wake than Austen's Pride and Prejudice. One does not simply read code like that (or books like that).
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We are adults. We can just name the problem.

It’s capitalism.
How about Threads? (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/) I watched it just a couple years ago and ffs it got me into a sombre mood for a month at least...
If hate could crash Oracle, the site of its corporate headquarters would’ve been a giant “crack of doom” since the early 90s.
The enterprise world runs on a different strata of popularity.
My sense of humour does keep me going.

I assume you may have found me to be acerbic so far, given your repetitive comments on what you suppose to be my character. I apologise for this, I just get very prickly around woo, having friends who are now dead because of it.

Now you may get upset at me calling this woo.

So lets look at the website of the AIT institute (https://www.aitinstitute.org) and see what they claim AIT is a medical treatment for.

So, here is their list of things that they say AIT can treat; ADHD, Aggression, Anxiety, APD - Auditory Processing, Apraxia, Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, Brain Injury, Depression, Developmental Delays, Down's Syndrome, Dysgraphia, Dyslexia, Echolalia, Head Banging, Head Injury, Hyperactivity, Hyperacute Hearing, Hyperlexia, Language Disorder, Learning Disabilities, Oppositional Defiance, Pervasive Dev. Delay, Reading Challenges, Sensory Processing, School Behavior, School Performance, Sound Sensitivity, Speech and Language, Speech Delay, Stroke, Stuttering, Tinnitus, Vaccine Injury, and last but not least, the Vestibular System.

I must say, that is quite the array. I pointed my bullshit detector at it and the needle fell off.

You have said repeatedly on here that I am ill informed, arrogant and ignorant. That is ok, you are fully entitled to that opinion.

Especially since I think that you help to tend the horse of Pestilence as a side gig.

Now please have a lovely day, and do try to get through it without feeding people any more erroneous nonsense.

edit - Been poking through that site a bit more and I just saw the list of links to things they consider related. Is all homeopathy and antivaxx shit. These are dangerous bastards. In all seriousness, please stop promoting them.
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An English teacher in high school, emphasising that poetry was subject to interpretation, once recounted to us that John Donne was once attacked in a newspaper over his exposition of the meaning of a poem that he himself had written!
They're not talking about algorithms, from between reading the lines, but scummy businesses which sell fake software products.

Question is: why then are they calling them algorithms.
A concrete step we have taken with my girlfriend over the past few months is buying second-hand items. It's crazy how much you save, and to know you have not contributed to creating more stuff.
There is an awesome campaign in France right now, encouraging this kind of behaviour : https://riendeneuf.org
Science is never settled, already there they start the misinformation which is being used so often these days.

These kind of articles are so misguided yet people are so hysterical they actually think the individual can do things.

There is nothing individuals can do that would actually help besides creating solutions to the ever changing consequences of the world we live in. Even if we by some magical event could stop all co2 emissions the climate would still change we would still need to move or fortify against changing sealevels for example.

But right now everyone is coming up with all sorts of irrational solutions to a problem that havent been properly defined and even if it was going to be as catastrophic as some have built themselves up to believe, flying less is going to have no useful effect.

Only way out of this is through the very technology that have created the cars, products etc. to begin with. The genie is out of the bottle and cant be let back in again unfortunately.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5522483/

Shows Vegan and Ovo-Lacto Vegetarian neck and neck.

As another poster pointed out, in many areas living a pure vegan diet is far WORSE for the environment as you have to expend considerable CO2 getting the correct foodstuffs there.

There's also the open question about many countries where the land is only suitable for pasture as it's not arable.
Political action is much more than just voting and it's been the major source of social changes in the last 200 years.
> I'm offering the first 5 people a free mobile app/pwa

do you know it could take up to 10 years of your life?
When the Wind Blows is a allusion to the children's nursery thyme "Rock-a-bye Baby" [1]:

Rock-a-bye baby
On the tree tops,
When the wind blows,
The cradle will rock
When the bough breaks,
The cradle will fall,
and down will come Baby,
Cradle and all.

In the context of Brigg's book/film, its seems clear that the bough (tree branch) that breaks is the disaster of nuclear war and the cradle/baby is us/civilisation falling down. I guess that a child-like reference emphasises the horror of the subject by way of contrast.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-a-bye_Baby
Those cases are refreshingly black and white. Yes and yes.

You deliver an ultimatum, wait for the invader to withdraw. If they call your bluff, you level them. Just a city at a time if they don't have nukes. Wholly if they do. I mean if your going to rely on a nuclear self defense, when someone attacks you, you have to be willing to use it.
A further takeaway is to keep a hidden recorder when dealing with these academic authority figures. That way when they stab you in the back like that, you can expose them in front of your class.

Just make sure you have a way out when they give you a failing grade.
Doesn't seem too bad to me with a bike and a city giving priority to bikes. Surely less convenient than using a car, but I guess you get used to it.

Like you are used to do it in something like 25 minutes with a car, even though there could be near-instant methods of travel available (it's science fiction but still to the point: when you don't have (or don't have any more, for some time) a better alternative, you can overlook many inconveniences).
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I guess this kind of consolidation is inevitable in the containerization space and good on the Heptio crew for what I hope is a good acquisition.

That said I can't help but wonder what will happen to a lot of the open source projects that underpin a lot of the containerization world from people like CoreOS an Heptio, after their acquisitions have settled.
If you are really dedicated you can buy used equipment that will substantially lower the impact of production of new goods. Older appliances might break more and require more maintenance but are repairable for the most part. Additionally you can get pretty good deals on last years tech that is still pretty cool.
It has been disable by default and is not even compiled-in anymore on all major linux distributions ( RHEL, Debian, ubuntu ).

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fix ourself for littering, plant trees and use electric vehicles
The role of School should be to grow kids into smart and empathetic grown ups that understand how the world works and can find their place in it.

It's not just there to prepare people for the cubicle.

I don't think a classroom should resemble a workplace, much less a workplace of the future as we currently imagine it.
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