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The bigger problem is India, Nigeria and Pakistan.

India, Nigeria and Pakistan likely should burn more fossil fuels, as those three countries represent a large chunk of the world's desperately poor - with 1.33 Billion, 200 million and 200 million people respectively. It is hard to argue climate change is the biggest issue when your country has most of the world's people living in abject poverty.

Anyway, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di... shows that India uses 1.7 metric tonnes per capita, Pakistan 0.9 and Nigeria 0.5. China uses 7.5, so that's about break even for a booming economy. Lets be conservative and say all three countries double their carbon output, and that's an extra 2.2 billion tonnes of carbon in India, and an extra half a billion-ish tonnes for the other two. Lets call it 3 billion extra tonnes of carbon as a nice round number.

It is hard to see where the reductions will come from to cover just that increase. The EU is unlikely to drop much if any, and even The USA, currently at 16.5 per capita with 330 million people, would need to drop 10 tonnes per capita just to break even with India, Pakistan And Nigeria's increases. Dropping over 50% of carbon usage is a huge ask.

I think that the other two solutions need to be proritised, and fast.
Indeed. We recently replaced our 5 year old fridge. The compressor was running very frequent and hard, and it produced a lot of condensation, to the point that the evaporation bucket on the back overflowed.

I'm guessing it could have been repaired (gas leak?), but the absolute minimum for a tech to come out and try to fix it would have been 150-200 EUR (driving + 1 hour labor), plus parts/gas.

Part of the problem with repairs is that you often don't know what the final price will be. Sure you might get a quote based on a most likely scenario, but if that isn't the problem you just wasted all that money. And due to cost of labor, spending a lot of time troubleshooting isn't viable either.

We just got a new fridge instead, 400 EUR delivered at the door.
Sounds a lot like Thomas Midgley Jr[1], inventor of leaded gasoline - followed by a ferocious PR campaign against banning it, and CFCs - same.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
"The consequences of a Leave vote were hammered out by Remain-supporting politicians for weeks and weeks before the referendum. The government spent 9 million GBP to publish a leaflet in support of Remain which went to every household in the UK, before the referendum. Claiming that no one knew what a Leave vote meant, is gaslighting in the extreme."

You've talked about the Remain side, not the Leave side. The "no change" side doesn't need to provide a plan for how they would execute "no change" - it is the "everything changes" side that needs to define how they would change everything. My point was that the Leave side had nothing, just some vague largely unwritten appeals to emotion. Contrast with, e.g. the Scottish Referendum, when the "Yes" ("everything changes") side had a several hundred page document detailing all the steps that would be taken should they have won. You might agree or disagree with one side or the other, but having a plan gives people more opportunity to make an informed decision, and give people a reasonable degree of confidence that it could be executed relatively smoothly by people who knew roughly what they were doing, rather than have a process dragging on for years and years costing tens of billions with the people responsible still as clueless as they were at the start. If you fail to plan then plan to fail.
There should be a ban on medium articles being published on hacker news.
so in Slovenia the pension contributions are 25% + you have to add health insurance 13%?, plus income?

in the UK the above amount to almost nothig: but then, of course you need your own pension scheme and health insurance.

yes, it is a lot, but the point here is not just the amount, but what you get: with the Italian "Gestione Separata" pension fund you just waste your money (and is 27% of your income !).
It certainly undermines their argument. Whether they are biased or not they are implicated in a conflict of interest.
Thank you. That is pretty much what I had in mind when asking why to buy the Mac.

I get that Apple has some products that are really good, but for a professional environment I am still unsure if I would really recommend to buy them.
Many of the signatories are not climate scientists. Lead signatory is an engineer that worked for oil and gas his entire life.
That act of "creating a job" is just a money transfer from some people in the area to another. The only real thing to celebrate is the actual work being done.
I'm not sure that the entire careers of a Stallman or a Jobs are inseparable from them acting like dickheads at some point in their career.

It may be the case that having "Future Stallman" or "Future Jobs" be persuaded to rein in their excesses (rather than being tolerated and encouraged to be raging assholes, at least in some contexts and ways) might be of benefit both to the people around them, but also, the talented individuals themselves.

Maybe we can apply discussions of "the soft bigotry of low expectations" also to badly behaved white middle class people too, and they could do better?
> No one gets to be a Telegraph columnist without doing a ton of work

I can't speak for the 90s but watching the Daily Telegraph in the last years my impression is that the chief qualifications of their journalists and especially their columnists seems to be how much they mirror the weird political stances of the Barclay brothers, the owners of the DT.
Jevons is not universal. Power expended on illumination has been decreasing as people switch to LED lighting. Enough light is enough.
"The problem with John was not just that he was misinformed, but that he was misinformed and highly motivated."

Oh yes! This rings so true with me.

One of my biggest bug-bears in IT are the leaders who have the gift of the gab and know how to BS their way through life. They have that personality that allows them to talk about any subject and people will listen assuming that they now what they are talking about.

If they know how to use those skills for the betterment of a project then they are fantastic people. In other words listening to the devs and using their skills to manipulate the higher ups to get more time and resources. Usually it works the other way round though by ignoring what the devs say and forcing their own will upon them.

For example by insisting on switching to Scrum 9 months in to a 12 month project that had been happily running on waterfall up to that point.
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All of those ideas are generalizations of complex realities.

For example saying that people in Spain or Portugal love living the good live and not working is a generalization.

Today, when most work is actually done by machines and not humans, you could actually be way more productive not burning yourself out than burning.

In Germany they have more machines, because they have more capital and because they forced the Southern countries to destroy its industries. That happened with Spain and specially Italy for entering the EU. 32-36% of the Spanish economy was industry before joining the UE, now it is 12% and going down.

For example, In Spain they put quotas(limits) in the milk that every milk producer could generate in the north of Spain, that has a wet climate, like France, UK, or Germany. Those countries of course had not quotas.

This way European companies(specially French companies) could enter the Spanish market and have bigger markets, but the Spanish companies could not compete because they had to reduce production.

With bigger markets, they had bigger mass scale productions, more efficiency and could put prices that put out of the market Spanish companies.

On the other hand, the South of Spain was benefited as it produces things that Europe do not.

They also flooded the real state market with easy money coming from European banks that will lend outrageous amount of money to anybody with a pulse.

That made year to year profits of 20-30% in real state in the bubble, further increasing the desinvestment in industry, that could only give moderate 3-4%.

Of course lending to people that could not pay back was a bad idea, and when the bubble burst lots of banks from Germany, UK, or France should have gone down.

But of course the governments of those countries forced the Spanish government to buy the bad debt, making the Spanish Government bankrupt itself.

Reality is complex, but we love simple arguments.
I wonder how much of that is because the lion king's "hakuna matata" being ingrained into every 80s child. even if slavic languages got it translated as "no problem" in the song, the song's lead up dialogue makes clear it's more of a "no worries"
funny enough the page itself uses cookies?
Actually, since you ask, while the subject matter is fascinating I had the opposite reaction and found the writing style a bit distracting. While the author clearly has a command of the field, I found myself needing to re-read several paragraphs because I couldn't differentiate when the author was referring to traditional EM designs and Magnox' new design. I also had a tough time maintaining a mental map of the design configurations he was comparing. More figures would've helped. There was one particular use of "nevertheless" that really through me off. Maybe it's just a difference in how we read (i.e. a me problem).

They are obviously making huge strides for a hardware startup if they're already field testing, so writing style opinion differences aside, mucho respect and I hope they succeed as well.
The amount of people still defending m and claiming that this is merely mob justice is shocking.
with VAT, it should not be a cost for you, is it? (I mean, it should be a cost just for the "value added")
Your thought experiment is not equivalent to that described here as it does not have a similar complexity of interaction between actors -- in fact, it has no interaction between actors.

Your use of neural nets is also something of a red herring: you would have just as good a counter-example with two passive devices giving the same output on the same inputs.
That was in Holland, years ago. They too have been dismantled.
I could say that as a consumer I used my skill and cunning to buy something for 20% discount compared to everyone else, if I quote the price before VAT, but the fact is that I would have paid the same price as everyone else once VAT was applied. The whole idea of saying "we send £350m to the EU" was based on the same mental gymnastics.
I'm trying to imagine a scenario where humans 15,000 years (or even 300 years) from now exist at a level of technology sufficient to dig up deeply buried plutonium and have it be worth the effort, for good or evil. With even that much tech, they'd surely have other tools easier to utilize. Might make an interesting nuke-fi story.
The chicken thing can be a large human health issue. It might not seem like they are a heath hazard, but many extremely deadly flu viruses make the chicken human jump.
Sounds like a bad idea. It more describes a news app than a search engine (which should be able to find info about any string of characters you input into it, including obscure searches that you enter now and then)
If you trust the "experts" of the government, you are probably a big fan of Trump. And if Hillary had won, you would be a great fan of her.

Experts are not better than business leaders at running businesses.
Jet fuel from thin air: Aviation's hope or hype?
So he should get to decide where is name is being mentioned? As if it wasn't enough that he's dictating which video streaming codec is used for his talks.
Exactly what I was getting at :)
He seems to mostly play cash games in Asia. You will see him if you watch the triton streams sometimes. Not sure if he's in contention as an absolute top flight player any more with the use of solvers and GTO strategies.
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For the same reason there's not a whites only restroom.

How do you not understand that if your business offers something, it has to be accessible and available to everyone? Otherwise, it's discrimination.

> Life has always been unfair.

And laws like this ensure the world doesn't become even more unfair.
Once again highlighting the importance of getting anything important written down in a verified document. After a conversation with anyone about this sort of thing, send an email outlining your understanding to the decider and push for confirmation it's accurate.

They might still not honour it, but at least you'll have some sort of leg to stand on.
Ask HN: Carbon-Neutral Hosting Providers
We currently host all our client's production sites at Digital Ocean, and having been asked several times by different clients about carbon-neutral hosting, I reached out to DO about it but got back a very non-answer. Can anyone here recommend a carbon-neutral hosting provider with decently specced VPSs, preferably with European data-centres?
There's something very punk about innocently asking "oh you're a punk fan? Do you enjoy the 'The Greendays'?" and then stand back as they either ooze contempt or explode... :P

You can throw Avril Lavigne in there are a curveball but they'll probably know you're taking the piss if you do.
“We’re not experiencing a technical glitch, this was entirely an organisational screw-up”
None of these are quite right and it frustrates me because I can't seem to come up with a better translation.
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Promo link for 1GB free WARP+
Introducing Node-RED 1.0
Thank you for your comments and for sharing a bit of your history.

I think I didn't describe my situation well enough. I have 25 years of professional software development experience, so I do have a lot on my resume. I meant instead to point out that the questions suggest that Google doesn't often interview people who have been long-time self-employed.

Which, to be fair, isn't a common case.

I'm also unlikely to work at Google. I'm much more likely to work in my field, where I have enough of a name that I'm not going to be asked these sorts of questions in the first place.
MIT first needs to clean up the shit show they've allowed to foster in their midst with regards to taking funding from convicted rapists of adolescent girls first.
We wouldn't allow the American government to behave this way, but somehow it's okay if a big corporation takes control of a large portion of communication and enacts these draconian rules. But it's a private totalitarian state. /s
You must have much better eyes than me (or a bigger iPhone) - at 6 lines the font size is half the size of the text on Hacker News, which is already pushing it for readability, and a third of the default font size for Safari's own "reader mode".

The 6 lines comes from iOS Safari defaulting to emulating an approx 800 point wide display (on a 400 point wide display)
Simple: if people would want devices they could repair, they would prefer the products of companies offering such devices over the products of companies not offering such devices.

The problem here is that people don't really want these devices. Maybe they think they want them, but in reality the effort to have them repaired would be too much to them. As others have pointed out, wages are the real issue, not cost of spare parts.
You will find a certain argument that you are "reading" all poetry wrong, if you are not reading it aloud.
Quite off-topic now, but my new LG machine has a programmable end time instead of start time, making this kind of scheduling easier :)

That's a kind of feature that I didn't know I wanted before I had it.
Installing a full virtualenv with all related libraries just to run one script is kind of ridiculous.

The server might have the wrong Python version available (2.x vs 3.x, multiple evolutions of 3.x with big features added in each point release). Et cetera, et cetera.

Or you could just do it with bash or a static Go binary and be done with it. Portable, works pretty much everywhere.
The way to eat less is to reduce carbs and increase healthy fats. Carbs spike your blood sugar, which your body then works at removing, causing a sugar crash a couple of hours later where you are hungry, which is why people snack between meals. If you avoid carbs, you avoid the sugar spike and crash. Instead of carbs, eat healthy fats. Fats don't spike your sugar and they keep you satiated for hours on end. Keep your protein at a normal level. Protein increases blood sugar some but not enough to cause a sugar spike and crash and make you hungry.
I'd rephrase that into skimmers are often driven away by a block of text while readers are driven away by page-filling images. There is an optimum between these two which attracts people from both sides of the divide - a few targeted images can enhance a text and make it look less imposing to skimmers.
it will work by capturing CO2 ... from the air. In a separate process, electrolysis splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen is mixed with the captured CO2 to form syngas, which can be transformed into jet fuel = really expensive.

While companies are experimenting with high tech ways to capture CO2 from the air, there's already a very simple, efficient way to do it - growing plants. And aircraft are already flying on renewable fuels made from plant biomass.

"alternative fuels will become competitive, if the environmental costs are built into the cost of flying, but that will mean more expensive tickets. It'll highly depend on social pressure but there are no technical objections."
I hear you - but a question I have would be: How often do you use the rest of the search results Google shows you? 9.9/10 out I'm using results from the first page. Would it be bad to curate the sources of that initial search, and disregard the rest?
There is money on both sides of the argument though.

The following is from https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2019-07-24-the-d...

As climate scientist William Briggs observes: “Global warming alarmism is big business. On one side you have Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, Environmental Defense Fund, The Climate Project and dozens upon dozens of other non-governmental organizations who solicit hundreds of millions from private donors and from government, and who in turn award lucrative grants to further their agenda.

“You also have the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health, the Departments of Commerce and Agriculture, both Houses of Congress and many more government agencies, spraying global warming money at anything that moves and at staggering rates — billions of dollars.”

There are also innumerable “green technology” companies, from solar and wind energy manufacturers, to battery makers and electric car companies, to lithium miners and biofuel farmers, that benefit handsomely from climate alarmism, and donate freely to the groups that will advance their marketing shtick. There is arguably more money in green alarmism than there is in skepticism.
It's not nearly that simple.

There have been plenty of non-flagged stories on both UK and US politics where they deviate from the regular, with discussions that haven't descended into flame war and a sea of greyed posts. Not specifically relating to tech, but are exceptional in some way. e.g. Brexit and the various constitutional shenanigans, some surprise USSC or agency ruling etc.

Reasonable discourse has resulted with good points on both sides - along with a minority of both sides playing it like reddit - black/white voting, and absurd easily disproved comments.

The "day-to-day" and regular politics can stay in the reddit cesspit.
I don't think that a desire for slowing climate change or some kind of compliance with the international trend, is the driver of their renewable energies strategy.

China has only very little fossil fuel available, and coal tends to be labor intensive (another thing they are running out of) and very dirty locally. So to meet their energy demands and be less dependent on the oil market, they probably should invest in renewable sources. And it doesn't hurt that they can build up the production capacity for such sources through public investment.

They are also building lots of nuclear plants. Which is a lot easier when citizens generally don't feel like objecting much.
> After decades of research, it remains controversial whether any nonhuman species possess a theory of mind.

It should be important to note that whilst this result isn't particularly surprising, there is one giant glaring issue that can undercut this paper.

They define theory of mind based on past definitions and research, and base their methodology on methods that have arisen that seem to fit-for-purpose to those definitions.

Which would usually be fine.

However, during the Replication Crisis, basically everything to do with theory of mind was dashed to pieces. (Worth pointing out that more than 1/3 of psychological research was found to be un-replicatable.)

One of the main components of "theory of mind", "embodied cognition" was particularly badly hit by the crisis.

So whilst this paper may be unsurprising, it rests on the laurels of stuff that has turned out to be nothing more than a polished turd, making the result questionable until such time as psychology has managed to recover the massive amount of ground lost.
No, but some people get to be Telegraph columnists and into positions of power without having to do as much work and face as much scrutiny as others because of their skin colour, their familial wealth and connections, and because they went an elite school.
I can't think of an argument that makes sense to me to "not show". Showing the work captures the thought process which is really the only thing that matters from an educational point of view (in my opinion). Mostly because that's where one can step in and follow up after the exams and see which students have problems and find the root causes of the problems.
Of course most grading is done in a "grade and throw away" manner. Consequently, easier grading has a very high priority.

I really whish more educators would see exams as chances to evaluate how well they taught the material and to find areas they could improve.
Plenty of countries exclude small businesses from regulation.
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It forces organisations to comply with the law.

What's the point of a law that can just be ignored with no consequences?

> who signed something they likely didn't fully read?

I'm always surprised when I hear this. Signing a document to say you've complied with the law when you haven't complied with the law is a pretty big deal. Maybe I'm missing some context, but you should read the things you're signing.
New York judge dismisses blue state suit over SALT tax deductions
Which is pretty crazy. My experience as someone from the UK is EU regulation has consistently made my life better.

The big thing that sticks out for me is mobile phones: before EU regs, every manufacturer and phone variant had a different charging cable and roaming charges were insane.

Likewise, for all the hate it got here, GDPR has been amazing from my perspective. It was rare before to have a website that actually let you delete anything, it was just "deactivate your account" where they kept all your data. Now most sites offer true deletion.

Meanwhile, the public got sold on Brexit with a consistent diet of rubbish articles from the Mail and friends about bent bananas being banned.
That very much agrees with the "poor management" verdict. In the light of all this it's great that a famous hardware startup managed to come from Italy (Arduino).
True you could create a trash beacon for any frequency, but as you said it'd be very "loud". Disrupting service with seemingly innocent messages would be much harder to detect though
A definite step towards reducing wastage and focusing on improved functionality for products, instead of planned obsolescence and sealed units whose warranty is voided if you repair them.