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> I’m increasingly convinced that carbon sequestration on industrial scales is the only serious way to solve this problem.

This is akin to trying to prevent the dust bowl[0] with giant vacuum cleaners. The environment is a system. We are a function of it, not the masters of it. We need to address the feedback loops causing this crisis that we are creating.

Even if that would work - As others have pointed out, we don't have the luxury of time to deploy industrial scale carbon sequestration. And even if we did - this type of thinking still discounts nature's value. [1] Why do we think it is easier to develop and deploy industrial scale carbon sequestration equipment when we have plants that are pretty damned good at doing just that? [2]

We need a total perspective change here. Nature doesn't need saving, the concrete deserts that are cities need green roofs and trees. We need to stop useless commutes and start working from home where applicable. We need to realize that lawns are an ecological disaster. [3]

But above all else, We need to make environmental damage illegal and stop allowing companies to profit off of it.

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

[1]https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/10/this-is-why-putting-a...

[2]https://www.thoughtco.com/which-trees-offset-global-warming-...

[3]https://earther.gizmodo.com/lawns-are-an-ecological-disaster...
”I was told that Wikipedia cannot hold original work, only copies of what can be found somewhere else”

I wouldn’t expect you were told that. Wikipedia _does_ require information to be ‘notable’, which ”generally means that the topic must have been covered in mainstream media or major academic journal sources that are independent of the article's subject”, but ”copies of what can be found somewhere else” almost certainly implies copyright infringement, so AFAIK, Wikipedia requires writers to write their own texts, rather than copy-pasting text from elsewhere.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#Content_policies_and...)

Also, if I had to review this text, I would say it needs editing for readability/understandability. The above already may be a sign of that. Another example: reading ”the worst case may happen with a small tree (for instance, 32 distinct keys of one bit)”, I am lost. I can’t think of more than two distinct one-bit keys (yes, that may become clear on closer reading, but I scan first, to see whether it’s worth doing the closer reading)
Except the "rest of the world" didn't shoot itself in the face with its own cyber weapons and had articles written about it.

US politicians and citizens are right to ask whether the current strategy is the right one.

Saying that you can either have this sigint or no sigint is obviously a false dilemma.

In fact your whole original reply is some bizarre technical justification for what is obviously a military strategy which has harmed the US and other countries and that can be changed by the US.
> Surfing over to https://www.saildart.org/[ALF,DEK]/ and clicking on ALPHA.LST on the left, shows code that looks like it's for an 8080 to me

Wow, thanks for that! Yes it is surely 8080 code (at least, 8080 mnemonics, definitely not 8088 which are different, 8008 initially used other mnemonics than in that LST, then the 8080 mnemonics were applied to 8008 too, but 8008 needed more hardware to use, so it should be 8080 in CRS then).

Also thanks for the STAN-CS-82-901. Now the story of programming CRS is quite clear. And even as a poor scan, it can be compared to doi.org/10.1145/2363.2367

Did I understand correctly, for CRS, what was uploaded were never bitmap fonts but always the "curves" of the letters? I believe 100 bitmap images in the resolution of 1024x768 were too much for the whole setup, even only for the cache?

And... I'm not surprised that Knuth managed to develop that firmware after I've discovered this story ("The Summer Of 1960 (Time Spent with don knuth)"):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2856567

As you see I'm also really interested in everything you can tell about Autologic APS-5, both how it worked and how it was used in TeX context!
I had troubles implementing that... due to the fact that it is not a direct transaction which didn't fit into things: https://gendal.me/2013/10/21/lessons-from-bitcoin-push-versu... ... and crypto isn't really all that anonymous either. The most anonymous is stolen credit card numbers. Not that we condoned that or anything:)
Looks like a service many people could use -- I wish you the best of luck in your business endeavor!

One thing I'd like to see though is an "About Us" page, if you're a company; or maybe a link to your LinkedIn profile if you're an individual...

Reason: I'd like to know more about the company or person that I'd be dealing with before establishing a business relationship... I'm sure I'm not alone, either.

Anyway, best of luck with your venture!
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He used an example of Japan as an illustration of why it is important to know the location of the person asking the question.

You seem to be new here (73 days). Note that 'patio11 has been here for 11 years and is one of HNs top posters. Not that longevity makes someone right, but 'patio11's posts have been high quality for many years, and one should assume that he is probably not pulling a reply out of his ass when he does reply.

While not every poster on HN posts high quality replies, most people here reply with a clear purpose. This is not Reddit -- I encourage you to assume that most replies are actually substantive. If you are not sure, check the poster's history -- this will help you get a feel for the potential quality of their posts.

Welcome to HN, and good luck with your endeavors.
I don't think they could, these backdoor requests pretty much only apply to companies that have control over the client and server and can break the encryption if they want to. (after all anybody could theoretically already encrypt messages beforehand anyway)

I assume whatsapp could provide an api and an open source client but then again they've got a strong commercial incentive to keep it walled in. And anyway, how many users would really switch to a third party client only for encryption? I figure these laws will be relatively effective in practise.
Fuel implies a chemical reaction that releases energy, which is almost always burning. (Some people extend the term to cover non-chemical reactions, but in any case Krypton is not used that way either).
Don't get too carried away - brainwashing with socialist crap is also a part of that "education".

The truth is it's just sad as everywhere else where education is compulsory and controlled by the state.
You remind me of Robin Williams in One Hour Photo, and that's not a good thing. Carefully curating your contacts and thinking that you know more about what reflects them than they do is strange to me, it would feel wrong to override someones appearance with what I think is a better portrait of them.
okay, you first.
this lockean discourse about natural rights and common law and republicanism isn't really a thing in Europe. It's very US specific, Europeans in general don't believe that their constitutions (if they even have one) are quasi sacred texts.

At the end of the day rights and laws are expression of preferences of the public. Europeans have different privacy rights because they want to have them. That doesn't mean they can't be good or bad, but they don't need to be derived from some higher realm of reason.
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Hi! I’ve been researching this question for a while and after going through a bunch of research reports I’ve decided to ask some entrepreneurs directly. So, here it goes. As an emerging business, have you ever needed a line of credit to meet your obligations or to fund growth? How easily have you been able to secure a line of credit, if you did seek it?
Current nuclear designs can also burn MOX, modified PHWRs can even burn Thorium as India has shown.
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Just yesterday was searching on the Google Play Store if there is an Android version of Overcast. There is no decent podcast app that has this particular feature of Overcast - cutting off silence.
Slightly better video and sound (from the same source material):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3msMuwqp-o&list=PLctkxgWNSR...
There is also realpolitik reason why it would not happen. widespread fission reactors means more countries have access to nuclear weapons.
I guess the point was that externalities like those risks (however small) are not part of the price customers pay. Instead those are footed by the taxpayer when something happens. That likely distorts the real cost of hydro-electric and coal as well.
> Will so many climate based doomsday scenarios, how did earth survive for so long?

See the other 5 mass extinction events.
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I think you speak here to an important potential misunderstanding about self-distancing. It shouldn’t be about eliminating emotions, it should be about seeing them clearly.

Even the first example quote about LeBron makes the point... he says he doesn’t want to make an emotional decision... he wants to make a decision that will make him happy.

Happy is an emotion too, and a totally valid goal. “Emotional” is really being used as a shortcut to “unconscious”.

Even (perhaps especially) as inputs to the decision, emotions are valuable. If you feel joy at the thought of learning Scala and Clojure, that’s an important piece of information! If you feel depressed and apathetic when writing Java code, that too is very important.

Make conscious emotional decisions, should be the take away here. And self-distancing, to see your own emotions clearly, will help with that.
Well, if we switch to more electric vehicles consumption will only increase since we'll be replacing gasoline with electricity.
I had an impossible burger slider yesterday for the first time — as a fan of the taste of meat, I’m very ready for the non-animal based meat future!
Sometimes I wonder how the Chinese felt about the blatant IP theft by the British ages ago. I however am grateful for the fact that tea became more accessible due to that. We wouldn't have Assam and Darjeeling otherwise.
what happens when X number of competing companies, from Y number of countries also launch giant satellite nets into space? Would there just be huge 'light' net visible at certain altitudes/locations/times of the year?
I think you're being a little harsh.

These things end up having unintended consequences, it isn't about 'fuck Google', its about identifying the root cause of a problem. X86 PCs come from a long line of non multi user, non multi tasking computers. Whereas DEC mainframes are perhaps the more natural choice for what Google wanted to do.
Please don't let your dog get into that habit. They might end up drinking from chemically treated toilets (like in-tank or under rim discs). Those aren't for flavour!
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I think you're far too optimistic about why certain companies succeed and others don't. It's much more random than that. Why does the restaurant succeed? Rugby review at the right time, a big regular corporate client, a good cook that works for less than she'd usually take because her mother lives right next door, ...
You’re absolutely right, although I believe the information density in today’s magazines is quite a bit lower.
> Yes, i have often said (including here on HN) that we should refer to them as the easy sciences, or less incendiary, the concrete sciences.

They are hard as in unyielding, not hard as in not easy. So hard sciences are hard because their results are easy to replicate.
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From the OP on another reply:

> Free during beta, then freemium with low pricing tiers (something like free up to 500,000 DNS queries a month, then $0.99/month). We will tweak later based on actual costs at scale, but it will follow this logic.
For what it’s worth InReach is not a satellite phone. There are no voice calls on it. It’s more like a satellite texting device, you can send and receive text messages via satellite (and also use this to share your location). It’s much cheaper than a satellite phone both for the device and the subscription itself.
Yeah, barking up the wrong tree is not going to help. To memory, the Siberian permafrost massively outweights all other sources of greenhouse gasses. If it is melting, we should panic.
Coffee too, surely
Even in person you'll probably get a considerable number of awful comments, there are simply a large amount of insensitive people out there. It doesn't help that they feel emboldened by anonymity.
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> I miss not worrying about the earth dying.

Acid rain, hole in the ozone layer, Chernobyl radiation legacy, global deforestation, overfishing, air pollution; we had plenty of environmental worries in the 90s
It's a publication for outdoor enthusiasts (and armchair enthusiasts too) who care about such details (equipment and its capabilities). Not all satellite products work in all regions, and readers might be interested in what worked in this case, as well as what someone might choose Also, it's not a sat phone, it's a sat messenger (no voice, only text messages), as well as emergency beacon (though the article does not go into enough detail about whether he used the emergency functionality or just the texting).
Servicing the debt usually just means paying interest on it and rolling it over. That's not going to cause hyperinflation.

One hypothetical scenario that goes into this direction though would be a severe supply shortage that drives prices up, and then wealthier folks (who are the holders of the debt) are able to price poorer folks out of the market.

I don't think that in itself would give you hyperinflation though. Something else would have to happen as well,[0] and then the question is down to the nature of where this extreme supply shortage comes from. The most common cause of that kind of thing is war, and in war societies tend to suspend some aspects of the free market and introduce rationing to deal with these issues.

[0] For example, consider the early Weimar republic where the government basically decided to cause hyperinflation because the alternative was to refuse payment of war reparations, and that wasn't politically feasible until the hyperinflation made it painfully obvious to everybody (both domestic and abroad) that Germany had to be allowed to at least partially default on those reparations. The point is, hyperinflation only happened because the government decided to keep injecting ever larger amounts of money into the economy -- but that can't be caused by existing debt. The existing debt is limited, so it could push on inflation for some time, but once that inflation has devalued the debt sufficiently, its "inflationary fuel" is spent. So I don't think existing debt can cause hyperinflation all by itself.
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And to emphasize here, those figures are likely both inflated if this article's hypothesis is correct. That being that primarily natural factors are driving the surge.

It's because of this, and practical reality, that I don't understand why scrubbing is not considered a bigger part of the discussion on these topics. For instance one new technological solution [1] proposes an atmospheric removal of CO2 that could cost as little as $94 per ton. Our current CO2 emissions due to fossil fuels are about 37 billion tons a year. That's $3.5 trillion, 4% of the global GDP, to remove 100% of annual emission output. And an even better aspect of these solutions is that they also scale indefinitely. For instance you could not only reduce our footprint to 0 but even reduced the concentration of various gases in the sky, such as CO2, if that was deemed desirable. The same technology (or an inverse) also has direct application to future geoengineering efforts on other planets.

Ultimately this is technology that there does not seem to be any physical barrier against - in other words we can develop it. And now seems like a great time to develop it. The current mitigation ideas of cutting back on x seem to be all we consider, yet they have immense barriers to execution. By contrast technological solutions would be something that would require no sacrifice and simultaneously also greatly expand our technology and developmental capabilities. And most importantly they all seem tantalizingly close.

Yet in spite of all of this there seems to be near 0 discussion of these options. This is something I find confusing.

[1] - http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/ne...
The Treppenwitz or l'esprit de l'escalier: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/l%27esprit_de_l%27escalier
I have no idea, maybe those people are unaware of others will turn a blind eye to what are in the project but complain a lot about the project name. Weird.
> The point of 'fun money' is that it isn't money that goes into savings.

This is wrong since they specifically talked about saving their fun money.
If someone did it, it’d likely be opt-in and only for a short, finite period (1 week?) with the data being destroyed after it’s used.
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It is very hard to get a large group of people to work efficiently towards some goal; very few organizations manage to do that. As far as I know such success stories are even more rare in the public sector than in the private sector. This means diverting resources away from private enterprise towards government agencies is not guaranteed to improve the situation.
earth will survive just fine. its habitability for humans and other current life on the other hand...
Nuclear reactors are already miniaturized. That's what we use on nuclear powered ships and subs. They're also safer than utility scale. SMRs can be mass produced under strict QA, transported and assembled on site and offer important safety guarantees.

https://www.nuscalepower.com/benefits
Street View would be amazing in there...
One thing I don't understand is why political leaders aren't all over this? Think about a nation going full green and the effect it could have on neighbouring countries? Or a president understanding, that this problem was of highest importance could be a leader of a global change! Think about the fame!

But what do we have instead? Ignorance, unwillingness, a dangerous continuation of the status quo on the state level andin the general polulation. Think about exxon who knew this was a problem since the '70 and there's no change in sight. A dark (or should I say hot?) future awaits us.
Everyone scratches their own itch. There is value in multiple implementations when they explore different approaches. This just means either a "perfect answer" has not been found or that the journey itself is seen as worthwhile.
That's what insurance is for [0][1]. Pay attention to the numbers. The second link is more detailed.

[0] https://www.iii.org/article/insurance-coverage-nuclear-accid...

[1] https://www.naic.org/cipr_topics/topic_nuclear_liability_ins...
Here's the original TED-Ed video on the TED site: https://www.ted.com/talks/shunan_teng_the_history_of_tea.
An overnight stop isn't going to happen. Even a decade would be an absurdly optimistic short time for that to happen.

That's longer than the normal farm lifespan of almost all food animals. Most ones reared for meat have less than two years.

Reproduction of farm animals is totally controlled today by segregation usually from birth.
> Will so many climate based doomsday scenarios, how did earth survive for so long?

Earth will be fine. Us, not so much.
Five years after the NSA discovered it.
HR drones focus on qualifications because it frees them from the responsibility of actually having to evaluate and corroborate that a candidate is competent in a field.
The west had herbal "teas" long before tea. So from my understanding the only new thing was which plant they used.
What you're saying sounds nice, but it seems to come from a world before Spectre, Meltdown, and all the new discoveries since. These have basically shown that it is impossible to build this sandbox on the modern processors that everybody uses from desktops to cloud data centers.

Instead, the only way of having a performant, secure system today is to disable hardware mitigations and ensure you only run trusted software, the opposite of your proposal. The sandbox still helps for other issues (e.g. buffer overflows).
So, let me get this straight.

You're saying Google should have foreseen spectre et al 20 years ago and therefore should have used DEC mainframes as it's infrastructure?

And further it's all google's fault that the cloud uses x86 infrastructure?

Wat?
More important than carbon scrubbing, we need energy innovation and to make environmental damage illegal and stop allowing companies to profit off of it.

See my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20013495
I would name this project yajslua instead of jlua.
One of the interesting facts I read about was the invention of chai tea (spiced tea) for the Indian market. Which was invented by the British as a way to convince the Indians to drink tea.

Traditionally Indians had drunk spiced coffee, not tea and it took a long time to force them off of it!
Not to mention things like renewable solar which is not readily and cheaply available

The energy input of solar (sourcing and extracting the rare earths, the manufacturing process, installing and maintaining them in situ) is non-zero, and solar panels have a finite lifespan. These variables are often not well understood, nor factored into discussions of solar as "renewable". I don't believe there exists an end-to-end solar operation, i.e. the entire supply chain solar powered by its own products. So solar is only cheap because its inputs are cheap, and they are cheap because they are powered by cheap oil.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that nuclear power does produce a lot of green house gases "passively". Just to mine it and transport it to other countries. Than most importantly there is refining which also produces a lot of green house gases.

Not that other renewable energy do not produce any green house gases.

Also regardless of how much waste is produced, there is still waste which will live on probably longer than the human specie.
Possibly a very ignorant question, this looks cool but why would I use it over Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 with DNS-over-https (or another encrypted method)?
A good part of fossil fuel is used to farm those stock, farm the food for those stock and move around / process / package both.
If you mean the fact that the US doesn't have proportional voting and a president can be elected on a minority of the popular vote, then I'm afraid those seem to be exactly what's causing the problem here. It magnifies the impact of the group that wants this theocratic ethnostate, and enabled the election of Donald, who would not have been elected otherwise.