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PBS Terra on YouTube recently did an episode about the blue haze over forests in (IIRC) Tennessee. Trees emit VOCs that make the air hazy. The blue haze from trees was being replaced by brown haze from industry.

Maybe tree smog is safe to breathe, but trees do create smog in at least some places.
Ah, I know it, I tried it long ago, but I prefer sacc.
A lot of the points in this article are misleading or only look for gaps in one direction.

For starters, as far as lost sequestration goes, even with the grain removed from the equation, a dense field of corn produces a similar amount or more biomass than the same field would laying fallow.

Another point that is constantly brought up is the methane emissions of cows. Cows do not produce methane in a vacuum, they produce it by digesting grain, so the comparison must be made relative to that same amount of grain being digested elsewhere or decomposing on its own.

Their point about the need to adopt things like silvopasture, no-till, or crop rotation sound great, they but fail to acknowledge that in vast portions of the US they are already the norm, not the exception.
That is a resasonable question, but I think it would have been mentioned if it is a significant issue.

Tunnelling through the Alps is also bedrock tunnelling, and not near-surface bedrock, either. The Gothard Base Tunnel, completed in 2016, cost $12 bn and is 35.5 miles long [1].

The London Crossrail tunnels are not in bedrock, but there was some significant engineering in threading around and between existing infrastructure, and in protecting it. For all I know, bedrock tunnelling may be easier.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-switzerland-rail-tunnel-...
Consent-O-Matic is actually no more developed as it was for a research paper that has since been completed.
Who in their right mind decides to put a small, untrackable object into the orbit?
[1] No need for a Windows licence;

I'm pretty sure I have several Windows 95 and Me licenses around somewhere.

[2] Speed of startup;

I think my Windows 95 VM starts up faster than Wine.

[3] Much lower resource usage;

About even here, I'd say.

[4] Better integration with the host OS;

I like my separate "writing nook", thanks.

[5] No need to maintain a copy of Windows inside a VM with updates;

Hardly ever any more updates for 95 coming out nowadays.

[6] No vulnerabilities in the host OS because there isn't one;

There are vunlerabilities in every piece of software I use, to my knowledge.

[7] Windows that freely mix with native windows, not in a single seamless plane for all of them.

As I said above, writing nook :)
That would be useful given that many schools are standardizing their distance-learning based on Chrome OS, so (as much as I might want a more open OS) it might help streamline students' experiences on this.
The problem isn't about the existence though. Accessibility and convenience to use this type of technology are the issues here.
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Your chat bot is quite intrusive.
Maybe they are all stemming from the same thing?
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We can certainly measure mineral depletion in soil that agriculture drives. This affects the resulting nutritional value of agricultural products.[1]

In general we over focus on stocks rather than flows when it comes to natural resources. That is to our, and the planets, detriment. Much of modern agriculture, for its productivity, wreaks havoc on the soil and the surrounding ecosystems. It's something that can be solved by technology, but not without getting over this stocks vs flows conceptual hurdle.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/science/a-decline-in-the-...
I feel like this is a negative thing. Sure, they might help you find specific content, but they tend to only give you one side of the story (un-diverse results).
The unionisation is being misunderstood. The US seaports were unionised, but conversion from stevedore to container was achieved, by negotiation. The motivation was high: continuance of the work on site demanded it, for a 24/7 function which was relocatable (and did, to prove it). This altered negotiation positions.

The tunnels are different. its periodic work, not continuing (across the years) and there is no "substitution" of moving to another place. There is only dig the tunnel or not dig the tunnel.
As far as I'm aware, it actually kinda is (at least compared to other major cities with lots of tunneling).

London for instance is built on sedimentary rock (mostly limestone?). The metamorphic bedrock (mostly mica?) Manhattan is on top of is obviously much harder than that.
I believe that is probably has something to do with what the state provides vs what the labor has to get for themselves. Cost of living is also expected to affect the rates that are charged.
This is just some bullshit there. I'm not android dev by any means, but I went to "location tracking" part https://github.com/augustgl/tiktok_source/blob/master/df_min...) referenced in the first sentence and it just seem to use official Android api and nothing else:

import android.location.Location;

This doesn't deserve to be on frontpage.
Yes. The longer term environmental benefits are staggering and there are immediate quality of life and health improvements. There are also second order effects in jobs planting and maintaining trees and park areas, increased biodiversity, and better awareness of the need to take care of the earth which takes care of us. Regrowth is great but won't (directly) help those cities as much.
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I wonder if tunnel working is dangerous enough that the healthcare costs become extra significant.
There's another factor that's not mentioned here: the US has some bonkers expensive station design.

Take the newish Hudson Yards station. Its platform is about twice as wide as the original subway station platforms, and it's far longer than it needs to be too. On top of that, it has a full-length underground mezzanine above the platform, which is unnecessary. Overall, the effect when I first used it was "why is this so unnecessarily massive?"

Oversized stations are even more problematic when you consider that the MTA wants to build all of these by mining rather than using cut-and-cover, because cut-and-cover has too much disruption to surface tenants. And mining is far more expensive than cut-and-cover, so the extra volume you need to dig out for excessive station sizes hits your purse even faster. For as high as the actual tunneling costs are, it's the station costs that truly make the subway extensions stratospherically expensive.
On that note, a Porsche 911 Turbo races 1 mile against a VW Beetle dropped from a helicopter. I won't spoil the ending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiAbcw5s9_8

But based on the Beetle's terminal velocity here, this strategy for setting a car's top speed will only work for cars that can't drive particularly fast.
If you look at the Wikipedia article, you will find more detailed information, but the common cold is caused primarily by rhinoviruses. However, some are also coronaviruses and even influenza viruses. There are hundreds of viruses that cause "the cold."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold
The question is whether it's fair market value. So if there were competent people willing to do the work for $60 an hour, then $70 would no longer be fair market value.
If we had an education system like in Germany that tracks kids into $30/hr trade jobs, sure.

You could reframe it as, “every German tunneler is paying a $40/hr non tax compulsory payment to someone’s kids in Germany’s ownership class.”
> Most developers still in 2020 struggle to cleanly merge code

Sounds like the hiring bar is too low.
If we could get people to trade in dirty diesels for scooters, electric cars/hybrids and bio-gas powered cars that would be a big win for clean air in cities! Ie very good that Lithuania shows the way here.
That seems horribly misguided.

and education should really be separated from the entire phone mobile ecosystem with all the behavioral manipulation that it entails
Presumably tunneling through a mountain is much easier than underground because either end is just open. Very easy to get your boring machine into position / service it when needed (by just pulling it back out into the open air). Also probably less issues with damp, etc.
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Atomic commits are a red herring because deployment isn’t atomic or irreversible. You still have to think about how the system stays healthy while a new build is halfway deployed. A deprecated API still needs to work until you’re certain you will never roll back any consumer and start calling it again.
I'm sometimes a villain. I try to avoid it. I try to accept and acknowledge it when I am. Hard as it is, I have even apologized for what I have done to people who did not expect, let alone demand, an apology.

There are people who don't act in good faith. People who will harm those who love them because those who love them deserve it. Thinking about it as agreeing to disagree is a categorical error.

This is orthogonal to familial obligations one might observe. It is healthy to recognize that difference. To recognize that observance does not require assuming good will. By not making one's self vulnerable in the way that such an assumption makes one vulnerable.

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This looks really nice! It's a beautiful form factor. My only gripe is that I'd like the option of getting their 8GB model in this, but I suppose they must have a good reason for only offering this SKU.
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Extrapolating from other coronaviruses, it's probably that you CAN catch it again but it's "very unlikely" to produce serious consequences after the first time.

So basically only first time you will experience more serious symptoms like a fever, the subsequent infections would be trivial common cold.

We'll see.
Where on earth do you find someone who's qualified (and prepared to take the risk!) of constructing a tunnel that people to go in... for $30/hr? Surely a professional like that can get a better job anywhere else?
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> I don't know how good OVH is with outage and availability.

I've personally observed failure rates similar to AWS EC2 and EBS. You need to plan for failure, like any cloud provider.

> the raw compute is cheaper

Dramatically so. 20% of the price.

> There's also storage

You can get local NVMe, cheaply, with literally 100x the perf you can get with the most expensive EBS volumes. AWS does not have a storage offering that comes close, not even their instance store NVMe.

> what happens to his disks

VM images can be backed up automatically without downtime (on a schedule, not live.) They offer an EBS equivalent.

> OVH doesn't have regions everywhere

They have enough. us-west, us-east, eu-west, APAC, others. I'll grant that the US regions are operated by a different corporate entity and a different web interface, and that is annoying.
> I don't like the work "privatized."

Too bad. The meaning fits.

It's unrealistic to propose that a new bridge would be built by private money. There's plenty of private investment money floating around in the Bay Area, and it hasn't come close to happening yet. And you have completely failed to respond to the concern that your proposed toll-refunding mandate would make a privately-operated bridge an even less viable investment than the non-starter it evidently already is. You're just dogmatically asserting that the free market will always provide, when it looks pretty clear that the free market would just say "no thanks".
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This appears to be encroaching on Apache Arrow's territory (which notably is headed by the creator of Pandas): https://arrow.apache.org/
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No this is still terrible. The bare minimum here must be

'If you cancel, all of your private presentations will be deleted.' with a tick box that says 'I understand - delete my private data'. I should not have to go do a bunch of extra legwork to ensure my private data doesn't become public when I cancel my subscription, and in particular, non-consensual cancellations (e.g. cancellation due to non-payment) must not make my private data public.
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we are way past 'some' inequality. and a lot of that capital sits in places where it doesn't do much to stimulate the economy. then there are the vast swaths of the economy that aren't actually productive or actively detrimental (here's looking at you, financial services, payday lenders, and fossil fuels). further, more inequality means more economic capture (private interests in control of regulation), which decreases our ability to deal with those harms as a society. then you have folks like the koch bros. I like musk as much as the next guy, but I question whether we're at a net positive.
Maybe it works for psychological reasons.

If people believe that the temperature checks work, then they'll stay at home if they have symptoms and/or feel like they are getting sick.

But in western countries, I presume some people will have symptoms and then shrug it off as "nothing serious" and continue their life as normal, thereby infecting others.

So the main purpose of those temperature checks might be their psychological effect: The enhance compliance with the other rules.
> Could this strange state of affairs be the result of a political system that is highly polarized and less fundamentally democratic than the Canadian and European system?

Countries that regulate speech via law are more democratic than America? Yeah... no thanks.
Add it to the list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_ap...
Why is that surprising, because of its geographical region?
Loving Supabase so far. It is the full blown backend which allows me the fast dev experience without sacrificing the performance.

The only thing stopping me from doing anything other than some toy projects is the lack of pricing information. I understand that it is something the team Supabase team will be working on later, but without knowing what the pricing is gonna be like, I will not be doing any serious work with it.
Sorry, I don't have time to dig much out. The tldr is that we tend to overestimate the inputs like water and fertilizers and underestimate the massive amount of energy added by the sun.
> In 2018, Congress asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report within 9 months on the cost of rail – transit infrastructure projects across the United States compared to similar projects worldwide. After 16 months in July 2019, a report was produced but it did not provide the comparisons requested by Congress. Rather, the GAO in its report said making the comparisons was too difficult to obtain meaningful results and instead reported on improvements to be made by the FTA for better cost estimation. It appears even the GAO did not have the ability to identify measures for cost reduction of transit tunnels that have impacted the taxpayers by billions of dollars over the years.

Alon Levy has more in depth reporting of this failed report: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/07/22/new-report-on-...

And Matthew Yglesias has a good article on the congressional inference which is preventing this from being meaningfully analyzed https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/24/15681560/g...
Do you (or anyone else) have scientific numbers, sources and/or comparisons for:

a) quantification and definition of lasting cardiovascular/ nervous system damage

b) quantification of a significant number of people

c) comparisons to rates comparable to other respiratory diseases (like influenza strains or the bird flu strains etc. )

Understand I ask this not as a coronavirus skeptic, but as a science-literacy proponent who hasn't yet read any reliable source or study for the claim you're making.
No, the tick box should be a radio button

(*) delete all data, () make data public.
Well, personally I think deep fakes are a good thing.

The reality is that 'we' were too trusting of what is presented on screens as true. Its the main piece that is used to manage and govern us.

So, I welcome distrust on what we see on screens - that trust was always misplaced, and all about manipulation rather than information.
Another benefit isn't a security one, but a user-friendliness one: This forces all emails to your users to be initiated by them in some way, which limits future business decisions about sending email by automated processes. Good for users, but may be bad for business.
>but the data is sourced and the point seems to stand as far as I can tell.

Doesn't that describe most pseudoscience/conspiracy posts though? They rarely make up data outright, but instead they cherrypick data that fits their theory. This is why I asked if this theory was already a thing before the pandemic. If it's really the case that China (or any other major emitter) is underreporting their emissions, you'd think that someone at a reputable institution would have raised the alarm about the inconsistency in the past two decades. The lack of this is a reason to doubt the validity of this, at least to a casual observer.

With regards to actual explanations, the twitter thread provides many:

* chinese new year

* sanctions/tariffs

* different style of lockdown by china vs the US
And on bandwidth their markup tends towards infinity - same on Azure and GCP.

As a example, 20TB of egress bandwidth will cost you around $1,750 on Azure, almost $90/TB! Your typical server/VPS provider gives you that kind of bandwidth allowance for free, because it costs them close to nothing.

I have a feeling almost all complaints about cloud costs would disappear forever if they'd only stop gouging customers on bandwidth.

The likes of Hetzner and OVH are starting to offer more cloudy features, like load balancers and block storage. My hope is that eventually they become viable alternatives to the big 3, and they are finally forced to reduce their ludicrous bandwidth prices.
I know they don't currently do this, but if GPS satellites cryptographically signed their timing signals, could that potentially be usable to establish that, in addition to the particular camera capturing the images at a particular time, that it also did so in a particular-ish place ?

It's possible to record and replay signals from gps satellites with different delays, so maybe that could be used to spoof the location, but if the camera also has an internal clock, perhaps it could detect if there was too much discrepancy there? But I don't know how much that could constrain the location. Also gps only has limited precision, especially indoors?
Uh, maybe using cell towers instead of, or in addition to, gps would be better? Hm.
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Aren't subways generally public goods?
Doing it properly you should get about 80%, however a lot of the time it's not done properly.
Funnily enough I finally tried out Pidgin with a Slack plugin after years of not using Pidgin. While it's not the same experience, the memory use of 20MB of RAM vs 250MB+ that regular Slack uses is one hell of a difference. I'm definitely gaining a bigger interest in more 'native' languages. I figure Qt could produce a better memory experience than Elector on the other hand.
If you are referring to the actual Manhattan Schist type of rock, then yes that can have an effect on the cost of tunneling, but that wasn't really what your original post said - you just said "all the bedrock".

Switzerland recently completed the Gotthard Base tunnel which is almost all hard rock mining.
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