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>Removal and reductions are not mutually exclusive.

Economically, they are. Carbon removal technologies do not prevent the emissions of CO2 (their production actually emits CO2), but reducing emissions cancels the need to remove emissions future emissions.

Budgets are limited so any investment in future carbon removal is not used to stop today's emission. Also, climate change isn't the only catastrophe we must avoid (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_collapse) so our efforts and resources are definitely limited.
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Yes that's how economics works. The worker comp claims for when a fast food worker gets burned is also "the costs of doing business", but people don't seem to have the same visceral reaction to it.
The only thing worse than climate change is the number of misanthropes.
Healthier substitute to smoking practically means a smoking cessation product. Impossible meat, likewise, is a meat "cessation" product.

If impossible meat makes vegans start eating burgers, you can't just argue "well, it's still better than meat".

> I'm definitely against marketing vaping to non-smokers.

But this is the whole point, they do attract non-smokers. They should explicitly detract them instead.
Facial detection has a lot of uses, and facial re-id (fusing tracks based on face vectors within a session) have lots of uses. Facial recognition, or what should really be called facial identification, where media is converted to a numeric fingerprint to look up in a database, really does not have a lot of use-cases that give me the warm-fuzzies.

IMHO, The only reasonable use for this kind of biometric fingerprinting is creating biometric models for validating key public figures against deep fake videos. This approach uses motion biometrics, so it's not even face-ID, but it is a form of "compare vector against existing database" so I count it. This is also super specialized and only applies to figures with hours of video to train on.

Also my opinion, any system which does identification of the general population is going to inevitably be abused.

Face detection, eye tracking, emotional and sentiment analysis, etc, has many uses in the videoconferencing space. The vector data only exists in the scope of a session.

The part that makes it nasty and authoritarian is any time you build a database/index coupling identities (even pseudonymous) with features, whether it be face, gait, voice, from CNNs, HoG, or even just browser fingerprints, this is the dangerous bit, and where laws should focus their effort.

Re-id in public (where you vectorize and fuse tracks starting with first glimpse) is a grey area and probably should be very scope-limited, e.g. active warrant, specifically signed by a judge to authorize use looking for only that person. Even then, kinda icky.

Disclaimer: I work in the video emotional recognition field
It’s not the type of weather, it’s the extremity, that’s concerning.
Interestingly enough: the highest temperature recorded in the 1930's is 4.6C lower than the current record.
Yeah, it's getting even better.

> VW will need to pay the bulk of the penalty, €502 million, despite being granted a 45 percent reduction for having cooperated with the investigators.

WTF? 45% reduction for cooperation? Which cooperation? They even tried to bullshit their way out during the investigation.

> BMW is fined the remaining €373 million.

Seems ok. Or not? Didn't they mention a third company?

> Daimler got total immunity as it was the first participant in the cartel to denounce its existence.

1. Get into a illegal cartel
2. Make a lot of profit by breaking the law
3. Snitch, make your competitors pay millions and keep your illegally acquired money

It's a joke and it will not get better anytime soon. BMW, Daimler and VW have too much influence on the german politics to be penalized in a substantial way.
Too many jobs are dependent on them, not only directly in their offices, service stations and factories, but also the whole supplier market.
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Unfortunately this disqualified PfSense for me as well.
I sometimes wonder what the world would look like if Woz got his wish to not bury the Apple II (Which had a huge amount of ports for tinkerers/electronic maker type enthusiasts).

I was too young for the Apple II, but as a kid I saw a father working with his in his garage. He was always inventing something, and connecting it to the Apple.

In a way, it was one if the first Raspberry pi's? Kinda?
>it's very difficult to tax carbon if it punish poor people. Inequality and carbon emissions are deeply intertwined.

The atmosphere belongs equally to everybody, so polluters should pay compensation to everybody. The only practicable implementation of this is a carbon tax and dividend. And rich people tend to pollute more, so it will make poor people better off.
I’m also a former smoker who switched to vaping as a step toward eventually quitting nicotine products. It’s been a huge improvement (I no longer smell / taste like cigarettes), and I hope it’s doing less damage to my body.

Poor behavior by Juul, marketing to youth, makes me wary that I’ll have this stopgap regulated away. I wish they’d stop bringing negative publicity to vaping as a whole. The temp ban on delivery doubled prices when they were only available in retail shops. I’m always concerned it’ll be taken from former smokers who want to quit.
The models are useless. Or very useful: you can choose any you like to prove a point.
Wow, the voice of reason in the first comment? Am I really on HN? Of course, you are 100% correct. There is nothing stopping one of the big players from offering a more "repairable" product to satisfy all of the supposed demand. Remember, R2R wants to force their ideas upon _everyone_. Doesn't that mean, that there should already be a huge group of people who are willing to buy repairable devices?
Instead of making new laws, R2R should be focused on repealing existing bad laws that hinder competition (patent, copyright, regulation, etc).
It always seems like Apple was half-hearted about this feature. Lots of Mac users use an external keyboard and monitor, even with their Macbooks. iMac and Mac Pro users had no Touchbar access at all.

Why didn't Apple sell an external keyboard that included Touchbar? That would have given developers a much larger user base, and would get more of their users hooked on it.
When you consider how long this thing was in development/production, 5 years doesn't seem very long.
Hi everyone,

I open sourced this because mail merge Add-ons for Google Sheets have lots of power (like reading your spreadsheet, connecting to your Gmail account, etc) and I want people to know exactly what we do with those permissions. Unlike most of the other mail merge Add-ons, Mailman doesn't require permission to read your Gmail account. Also, ours has the most generous free tier of them all.
Getting licensed for vaping is easier? (really asking)
It already is a mass extinction event, globally, by any historical standards. But yes, it could get worse.
> It made me really sad to think about the fact that we'll probably see mass-extinction events (for animals, etc.) in the near future or at least within my lifetime

It's generally agreed that we are already living within a mass extinction event[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene#Biodiversity "Humankind has entered what is sometimes called the Earth's sixth major extinction. Most experts agree that human activities have accelerated the rate of species extinction.The exact rate remains controversial – perhaps 100 to 1000 times the normal background rate of extinction"
Don't suppose you can share a link to details of the outage? As is typical for AWS I find, it's very difficult to find any reference to past outages beyond the default 7days PHD provides.

In answer to your question though, I have generally found AWS pretty good when it comes to issuing SLA credits.
Because it may cost a little money in the short term.

Or it may mean admitting politicians from a different viewpoint might be right.
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It's amazing how much easier life is when bad people go away. The hard work of your parents. Yeah sure. What was that? Emptying machine guns belts into college students, steam rolling them with a tank, and then flushing the flattened remains down the toilet? Or butchering children, selling their meat as steak and eating them during the cultural revolution? Or industrial organ harvesting? Or smuggling elephant tranquilizer causing millions to OD? Or today. Cooking up a virus that just committed one of the worse mass murders in history over soy bean tariffs? You are a monster. In the face of you, your children just went limp and want to die. Hundreds of millions of them. How tragic.

All for what? Marx? Your fairy tale and lies you tell yourself that you can do what you want to anyone and not have any consequences? That you are above laws and any attempt for a happy life and to restrain your barbarity is slavery? There are a few naive people in the USA who think they nice their way out of problems, that not standing up for themselves and rushing to self criticism provides credibility. No. They stepped in dog mess because they are still a foolish child and now spreading it all over my home.

Thank God I'm not in China. How horrible. I wouldn't go limp. I would live my life at night when everyone is asleep. Sleepwalk during the day. Pay lip service. Make my own money and probably keep it in a backup hidden. And then get the hell out of Dodge first chance I get. I would be a truly awful person, for no other reason besides Karl Marx, the one white European man who has reversed millennia of human rights and lawfulness and civility and horrifically murdered more people than any other.
You're correct. The numbers that are promoted for just about any camera out there refer to the actual size of the output, not the number of elements in the sensor. I'm not sure where the parent comment was getting his info from.
I don't know if things have changed, but the Internet I grew up on was built entirely on RFCs with that status.
The most harmful part of smoking is the smoke, not the addiction to nicotine. The critical thing to do is to get people off the actual smoke. However they achieve that safely, including with nicotine vaping, should be supported.
You can call plugs "famale" too:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32861597805.html

technically gender neutral... although I find the double head a bit indecent...
Exactly this. Plus some perceived unfairness because people who do not care about the environment have an advantage over you and also a better lifestyle.
I'd recommend a trigger comment word other than `notc`. It's hard to remember - not obvious why it would be `notc` in the first place.

But also it would be pronounced like "nazi"? Not exactly the association you might be looking for.
Anecdotally, I've seen this too. I think people look for something to believe in, and they take almost everything a celebrity scientist they agree with tweet or share as gospel without much scrutiny of the research. It's ridiculous
it's an electron app

proof: https://imgur.com/a/wia3N7n
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The points made by the Endsay here are key, and actually a good example of trade-offs in software engineering. It is definitely okay to incorporate an algorithm that is NP-hard into the core of a performant system as long as you can have some expectation that the input size on the NP-hard part will be small. Sometimes, it even allows you to simplify another piece of the problem via pre-computation that allows you to avoid making the piece of the system that accepts large inputs require a costly solution algorithm.
He certainly comes across as a nice guy. But he also has his own crypto-coin so pure soul might be a bit of a stretch.
Renewables are not more expensive. They are a lot cheaper if you account for the externalities.

A carbon price, with border adjustments for im- and exports would be an effective way to let the invisible hand convince every nation to become net neutral.
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There is a causal arrow from climate to weather. It just isn't as crude as "warm planet equals warm weather". It would be closer to the truth to say "warm planet equals more unsettled weather, averaging warmer over the large scale, but including unseasonal cold as (for example) wind patterns distort".
It’s worth noting this is separate from the “Dieselgate”
Haha indeed it is!
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This might be a reason why the immune system is kept outside from the brain.
Because it would lead to hindering economic growth, especially in developing nations, more poverty, and more tyrannical governments.

And if your nation adopts those policies, and another one doesn't and increases, you're much worse off. It's basically a prisoner's dilemma on a geopolitical scale, and there's no single guaranteed strategy to win it.
After I got my shot I was so tired for a week that I don’t think I could’ve if I wanted to.
You think that they don't attack Russian/Ex countries and "Syria" means that claim they are Ex/Russian related is arbitrary?

They famously released Syrian data for free, a month or so later added the Syrian language to the ransomware -

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/is-revil-the-new-gandcra...
No, is not. I know that US-based companies do it for greed: they want more money.

If China doesn’t do it for the money, then why? Bio weapons maybe, in any case pain, suffering, and death.

I prefer the first, thank you.
Hi everyone,

I open sourced this because Add-ons for Google Sheets have lots of power (like reading your spreadsheet, etc) and I want people to know exactly what we do with those permissions. There are a lot of other Add-ons in the Google Workspace Marketplace that do the same thing but this is the only one that is open source. Also, ours has the most generous free tier of them all.
sorry to undermine your efforts

but someone has to say this: as a Mac user, i won't be paying $100/year for electron app

will stick to itsycal, a freeware, "real" macOS app, i've paid $10 for

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We have insulation thickness standards in the US, varying by weather "zone", but for residential construction they seem to be lightly enforced, and efficiency tests are rare to non-existant. (For an illustration of how we typically insulate, see [0].)

It's only one data point, but I'm in New England and from my home office I've watched builders replace 3 1960's-era homes with large colonials. Each is insulated with fiberglass, no visible foam, and nothing outside the sheathing (exterior plywood) except vapor paper / tyvek.

Sure, it meets code requirements for inches of insulation, but it's far from air tight or efficient.

[0] https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/where-insulate-home
Isn't this also basically a telemetry that tells Google every time someone opens the browser?
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I didn't intend to speak to the relative scale of the problems, merely that we shouldn't ignore that it's still a problem and we should still be trying to improve. My original wording wasn't great at conveying that.
The strongest argument IMO is that the largest polluters are countries like China who will simply do nothing making our economic sacrifices nearly meaningless.

Then the relative economic benefit of ignoring climate change will further pump up the economies of countries like China who will then pollute more and gain more power, etc.

I don’t know what the solution is, if humans are even socially/politically capable of a solution, but make no mistake this is how it would play out if the western nations were all to take drastic measures against climate change.

Ultimately, the issue is that it is a competitive advantage to ignore climate change (right up until it’s too late), and global competition dictates our social evolution.

We may need green tech that is so overwhelmingly cost efficient that nobody will ever want to pollute again.
Wow! Good catch! The idea was to be: "NO Try Catch" and somewhat recall "NO T ry C eratops", but now that you pointed out it doesn't make sense sense and it's not intuitive.

What do you think about "notry"?
IMO the focus on CO2 emissions is a distraction from the greater sin of ecosystem destruction. Science has a bias for finding single, measurable factors, and its easy to measure CO2 and the greenhouse effect is real.

But on the other hand, the atmosphere and oceans storing more energy is not strictly what's causing our problems, but rather the severity and unpredictability of the weather.

Charles Eisenstein's book "Climate - a new story" convinced me that biomass and large healthy ecosystems act as a buffer on weather, that forests change the atmosphere around them and attract rain fall, all kinds of complex interactions that we've taken for granted.

The way I see it, the more life we wipe off the planet, the closer Earth gets to a primordial version of itself, firestorms and all. It's not the case that Earth's weather just calmed down enough for life to survive, but that the increased complexity of a planet covered in plants has a homeostatic effect.

I think we have to be much more creative than 'reduce consumption', find a way to get the labor and energy of billions of people to go toward increasing biomass and biodiversity instead of merely harvesting it and taking the good weather for granted.
Isn't this actually a pretty common phenomenon with martial arts?

i.e. IIRC modern tae kwon do goes no further back than the 20th century, despite some practitioners and nationalists (disclaimer: I'm Korean myself) claiming it goes back hundreds or thousands of years.
Not that I agree with the root comment, but China is not that large without Tibet, Xinjiang, Qinghai, and Inner Mongolia. These provinces also have the least population densities - the terrain doesn't support it.
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Read books. Literally a 10x improvement in entertainment and quality.
It's not carbon emissions that are directly the problem, but rather the emission of fossil carbon into the biosphere. Hydrocarbon fuels and the like can be produced from carbon already in the biosphere.
I would actually argue that having a few config files with good comments/documentation would be more clear than deeply nested web UIs.

I switched to OpenBSD/pf from pfsense and I have more peace of mind needing to maintain a small handful of commented config files.
As an ESL person "plug and socket" only seems marginally less sexually-connotated than "male and female bits".
Did not know about itsycal, thanks for the pointer.
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AFAICT There's no linter that helps you with try/except blocks leading people to be inconsistent across the project
This doesn't address my point at all.
>> But yes, it could get worse

It will. It is.
The rust compiler itself can take as long as 2 hours on a modern laptop if you do a full stage 2 build. I don't think that's what the top poster was talking about though, it sounded like they had a rust toolchain already.
I just can't agree with what you are saying given all the land and resources they already have - sounds like the Chinese version of Nazi Germany's "Lebensraum" to me. But you have a right to an opinion and I hope it doesn't come to that.
There isn't always an alternative though.

People should be able to fix their car, appliances, watches, etc.

It's not just about personal computers.

Companies know they don't have to supply parts, schematics, and can even brick devices if a person tinkers with their product.

They are relying on those customers coming back for repair.

Do you like bringing your new car to the $290/hr. dealership mechanics, because the independant shop can't access to brain of the car?
> My main point why it was easy for me to quit finally, I hated to be controlled by an chemical. A chemical that has control over my brain? No way anymore! I've destroyed this beast. I am a free man!

I quit for seven years. It was one of the hardest things I’ve done. Starting again was the worst decision of my life, but I was in crisis at the time. Quitting a second time, with full knowledge of the first, is even more daunting. I’m happy to have something in between while I try to reduce dependence.

Saying that vaping is not a legitimate path toward reducing the harm of cigarettes is like saying there’s no use for the patch or nicotine gum. They’re better than smoking, even if a crutch.
People don't want the new normal to be like in California and New York where rolling blackouts are the new normal due to unreliable green energy
Yeah, but this is just rebalancing the scales. Europe industrialized very early on, but Europe never had the natural resources to compete with truly large nations.
I've been saying this for several years now: global warming is here to stay.

Let's stop wasting time talking about giving up comfort in the hope that maybe the whole world will follow and the 2° will maybe become 1.5°. Stop it!

Climate is changing: it's a fact, let's stop whining, let's accept it and especially let's face it.

The question must not be: "what can we all do do mitigate the problem?"

The question must be: "what can I do to enjoy life as much as possible within the current framework and without stealing from my neighbor?"
That happens. In fact, that exact genre of op-ed is so common it’s been made into a meme. Millennials and avocado toast etc.
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> letting smokers who don't want to quit to keep smoking, without risking lung cancer.

I started smoking when I was 18 (2004), picked up some of the first vapes in 2009 (they were horrible), and finally stopped smoking in 2012. But I don’t want to stop vaping. I don’t like the modern mainstream ecigs like juul (I mix my own liquid and build my own coils on a dual 18650 battery device), but I’m just glad that vaping exists, because, if all my fruitless attempts at quitting were any indication, otherwise I’d still be smoking a pack a day.