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Any investment in carbon removal could be invested instead in ways that prevent carbon emissions in the first place (renewable, EV...). All the CO2 emitted today (even if removed later) will increasingly contribute to climate change due to the many and enormous positive feedback loops[0] at play (esp. thawing permafrost).

Why not save as much CO2 as possible now and, when we can't do more (e.g long-term shortage of batteries), fully invest in carbon removal programs?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_feedback#Positi...
This article seems to give a fair discussion of the issue, with some examples:

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-24/hiltzik-ju...

Edit to add this article, too:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2018/11/16/t...
I believe you -- and I don't actually like the gendered terms myself -- but do you have a source for that?
>For instance, the Theory of Gravity. I know people who take it to be a law, even though science itself hasn't moved it into that category. If you dare to suggest that there might be some as-yet-undiscovered mechanism for gravity, they will literally get louder and louder until you stop arguing. They won't provide any evidence, they'll just keep saying the same thing over and over.

What a strange example. Has this ever happened to you? Additionally, does General Relativity count as "an underlying mechanism for gravity"?
I'm sure the 1 billion euros will make a dent to this multi-trillion industry led by a handful of companies that owns almost all brands.

If we want to see change, we need to break this very obvious monopoly and by applying proportionate fines (and possibly prison time). This feels like the tech industry, which gets fined pennies for something that earns them billions in return. What's the incentive to change if you earn more from doing things the wrong way.
Pretty much. I've never smoked, and tried picking up nicotine at one point (via patches and gum) because it's one of the safest nootropic substances we know with a clear effect next to caffeine. (My tolerance was too low and in the end I couldn't be bothered to figure out the dosing).

Even the physical addictiveness of nicotine is not that strong when separated from the rituals of smoking compared to e.g. caffeine (where addiction is also massively affected by rituals).
Nothing ever works perfectly all the time though. I find it's best to judge companies (and people) by how well/badly they recover from cock-ups. Same approach to trusting reviews - ignore good ones, read the worst ones and see if you can live with whatever criticism you find.
Fed debates pulling back stimulus
Sorry I meant specifically, you could just sell digital copies of your artwork on shopify, along with a little pdf from you saying "Mattdesl hereby certifies this artwork as edition N of M". What value is the NFT providing? As far as I can tell the only value is that people are willing to trade in NFTs but are less willing ot accept the shopify solution. But they're both equal measures of ownership. Once you've minted your NFT on Hicetnunc you still have to sell it, and that's likely to go via a crypto exchange in exactly the same way that your credit card transaction goes via shopify?
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Those social media lawsuits came just after those tax evasion lawsuits.
This isn't really in chromium, but the chromium-hosted open source application layer of Chrome so it's meant to be opinionated:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/chrome...
The dust bowl heatwaves are not a good argument against the idea that human activity can have dramatic climate impacts in a short time, though.
The issue for me with letting the market decide is that for the general population they only discover the reparability of a product after they have purchased it.
>Carbon in the environment seems like a technical problem

Is it? The problem isn't that there's carbon in the atmosphere but we keeping adding more even though it's making it inhabitable.

Is too much alcohol in my blood a technical problem or a drinking problem. Someone drunk should stop drinking alcohol in the first place (admit that's a behavior of behavior) instead of finding ways to remove alcohol from their system.
I find the Economist's choice of wording to translate this message quite intriguing. How about another way of putting it: "China encourages its people to strive".
How to Make a Billion Dollars from Hemp – Matthew Harmon [US Hemp Trade Deficit]
Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Hemp is the health, wealth and security of this country”. During World War II, the U.S. Department of Agriculture had a “hemp for victory” campaign to encourage farmers to grow the plant. Yet illogical fears about the dangers of marijuana led to the passage of laws such as the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 and the Controlled Substance Act of 1970 that severely discouraged farmers from growing hemp.

On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel talks with Matthew Harmon, the author of “Marijuana Hater’s Guide to Making a Billion Dollars From Hemp”. Matthew is a seasoned real estate executive with a sharp eye for viable commercial and retail business ventures. When California decriminalized cannabis, business opportunities increased as prospective tenants took advantage of its new status. Researching the new industry, he was shocked to learn that hemp was classified as a Schedule One controlled substance at that time, despite the fact that it contains minimal amounts of the psychotropic ingredient in cannabis and cannot be used to get high. He educated himself on industrial hemp’s historical significance, its thousands of commercial uses, and the plant’s potential to support or replace current diminishing resources, and concluded that hemp seemed a far more impactful and sustainable business investment than cannabis. That set him on a mission to expose why industrial hemp had been criminalized for decades, and to lift the illogical and arbitrary laws that left the United States with a $78 million hemp trade deficit.
Thanks for sharing the opinion. However could you elaborate why you think it's false?
I'm not sure where you got this impression. I've never heard it before.

My iPhone 11 takes photos that are 4000 x 3000 RGB pixels. That's 12 million picture elements, or 36 million sub-pixels. It's rated as 12 MP.
The U.S. (and Spain and Italy) are desirable places to be so immigration can make up for fertility rates being below what's needed to maintain the population. As a bonus, you don't need to wait ~18 years for an adult immigrant to be a productive, tax-paying member of society.
You could instead require everything to be treated as non-exhaustive in your cheap compiler. This means it would reject correct Rust code that explicitly handles each of the five PlatonicSolids differently, because that code lacks a way to handle a sixth (non-existent) PlatonicSolid.

You can't just go "Eh, shrug emoji" without deciding what happens when you don't match.

Suppose you silently treat the first (or last) handled case as the default, so I can write code that only handles Cubes and unlike the real Rust compiler your naive compiler spits out a program. But wait, now what happens for a Tetrahedron? I defined Cubes to have a 32-bit floating point size, but for whatever reason Tetrahedrons have a 16-bit integer length instead. Does your compiler just try to treat the 16-bit integer as a 32-bit floating point number since it assumes this was a Cube?
You could also go with my solution for this use case, which is to use pf on OpenBSD. Firewalls don’t necessarily need a web interface.
Yep, I have this frustration with most Git GUIs too.

I've not found that they apply to Magit.

That may just be that most Magit users are also heavy CLI users, though.
I don't know much about PKI but it seems to rely on certification authorities (i.e. single source of trust) and there does not seem to be a clear mechanism for artists to sign, trade, and 'own' them.

But, if you were to create a PKI-enabled digital art marketplace that is able to meet the same decentralized structure and benefits of NFT technology, without the need for a distributed ledger and tokenization, I'm sure many artists and creators would welcome that.
They have to give the inclusivity crowd some kind of work, but I think such rules are extremely counterproductive.

Company likes speech codes and NDAs, but this is just idiotic.
You're not taking purpose or context into consideration.

It is legal to smoke.
It is legal to go into a restaurant.
However, it is not legal to go into a restaurant and smoke.

That's neither arbitrary nor ridiculous, it actually makes a lot of sense.

I will agree with you that often if not always, rules come with a background shady agenda behind them, such as this one being about mass surveillance.

But it is critically important to understand the purpose of things before disregarding them.
That's what I wrote. But the Professional Audio Manufacturers Alliance does not represent an affected group.
But they should mention the black box after the educational part.
I think the game "trace case" when the number of cases is less than 1000. I'm not sure how it's implemented, probably the increase rate changes when you pass that threshold.
The initial plan was to do just that: provide a startup dialog to query user for enabling or disabling networking features. It hasn't yet materialized in 3.0.3 as seen in RC2 on Linux, I'm not sure if this will arrive in later releases but I will ask them when opportunity presents itself.

Also, Linux distributions will most likely ship Audacity without networking features. So that part of the community will be unaffected at all.
Should I trust the science here as well or are questions allowed?
That escalated quickly. From disagreeing with my comment to lamenting I exist is a bit of an extreme jump, wouldn't you say?
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To me this just says that they assume magit is so well known that everyone knows what they are referring to.
It's an intentional tip of the hat to Communist sloganeering about "class struggle".
Excel is a major component of Shadow IT:

* User has an important problem
* Central IT will not oblige for whatever good or bad reason
* User is both required and forbidden to resolve the problem, decides Central IT can stuff it, and writes a powerfull excel macro.
* Other have the same pain, so User's macro gets copied, cloned, weirdly mutated etc...
* At some point data has to be exchanged with another company, so they semi accidentally get the macro too. This introduces a required potentially malicious email atachment.
* In all of this, everybody conspires to get Central IT out of it, as they will stop the macro and cause much pain and delay for everyone involved. In a lot of cases, Central IT does its utmost best to not officially notice the macro.

This is generally good, as it allows big corporations to survive, even in spite of Central IT. But it also means things like this attack easily happen.

Almost every organisation with more than about 150 people will over time devolve to some kind of soviet state with all kinds of institutionalized insanity. As long as humanity has not solved that sociological problem, this attack is the kind of fallout to expect.
That essence is what Bruce Lee espoused as well, from what I've read. Apparently that's what got him into trouble with the traditional "elder" practitioners.
You should probably give some sort of reasoning behind your comment else it's just the opinion of a random stranger.
How about deploying it near the ISS?
When Des Moines is that high, I suspect your area is just catching up, rather than out of line. Des Moines is not a high cost of living city where I would expect wages much higher than any other semi-rural town.
Globalisation on wealth at its finest.

Educated, and talented, or simply already rich are leaving Asian countries, and go live for a vacation like employment somewhere in Dubai, or Singapore, while everybody else, but much more people already downtrodden have to stay.

People think this reduces the competition for people staying, but in reality its the opposite.

- In big companies, it means more people vying for prised promotions.

- It means less opportunities in service industry, as there is not much richer people to service.

- And there are less small businesses doing something worthy, as people who can do that, chose to do that in Dubai, or Singapore

- The really rich not only go to live abroad these days, but, more than ever before, take their moneys go to live somewhere else with them.
It is, however, a good argument against this article.
> They will shame people for expressing any doubt against a "scientific consensus".

Doubt based on what? This is the classic “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge”. The scientific consensus absolutely can be wrong on something, but people that read a few Facebook articles and think they’re argument holds any weight whatsoever deserve to be shamed. You want to question the scientific consensus? Conduct a study or get in a lab, have it peer reviewed. If you want to say “I think the major experts and accumulated understanding in this field are wrong ” then you are going to have to bring more to the table than some random doubts and suggestions.

> For instance, the Theory of Gravity.

Wonderful example. As almost every physicist has stories of people that send them their pet theories about theoretical physics models. Have they done mathematical models? Of course not. But they are sure their theory is going to crack this unifying theory wide open. Maybe ask yourself “if I disagree with all the experts, have they all misunderstood what I am seeing or do I not understand the subject as much as I think I do?” Shame is the cousin to humility.
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> Facial recognition, purportedly AnyVision, is also being used by a supermarket chain in Spain to detect people with prior convictions or restraining orders and prevent them from entering 40 of its stores

We are heading into dangerous territory with this, similar to the "social credit score" system in place in other countries.

If this gets tied into other databases, such as criminal databases, I can see a scenario where people are ranked in real-time as potentially undesirable. Criminal convictions from years ago can now follow people around, putting security guards and store employees on "high alert" to watch people carefully, or simply deny them entrance.
ha! that's genius
Not peer reviewed yet.
>e.g. journalists asking physicists about "god particles" and such

Can you give an example? There is something called "the god particle" but a journalist asking about it wouldn't be a categorical error.
FYI, command-line Git is where fixup and autosquash come from:

https://blog.sebastian-daschner.com/entries/git-commit-fixup...

Magit makes the feature easier to use and more discoverable, though.
Kaseya doesn't have a CISO from what I can see.

CEO Fred Voccola retreived from https://blog.malwarebytes.com/ransomware/2021/07/kaseya-ceo-...

We weren’t quite sure exactly what it was, but as third parties, the community, our own monitoring customers, we started noticing some strange behaviors,” Voccola recounted in the video. “Within an hour, we immediately shut down VSA.”

[...]

“When something happens, it’s how prepared the organization was, how quickly the organization is to admit something happened,” Voccola said. “Seek help from people and try to get focus on the customers and get information out there.”

That makes sense though, their leadership is laser-focused on successful outcomes and a commitment to their customers. It was their incompetent acquisition culture who cut corners on all the boring stuff, like validation, testing, assurance, quality, engagement with for-free security researchers. Their plan was to stumble into the dashboard and trip over the off switch, after someone else told them they'd been wrecked.

This is absurd, incompetent, immorally negligent and contrary to industry SOPs (use bug bounties, have a CISO).
I’m aware of only one case where a fossil fuel power plant partnered up with crypto miners. But I’m not denying PoW’s environmental impact, just its comparative scope and scale. Do you think we should ban other technologies reliant on dirty energy, such as motor vehicles? The Internet?

Presumably you believe the benefits outweigh the drawbacks in those cases. If that’s the case, crypto (PoW, really) would then chiefly be guilty of not being sufficiently beneficial to justify its contribution to climate change?
Thanks for the detailed reply.

I'm curious, in your assessment, is the game today nicer to watch than it was 20-30 years ago when there was more "artistry"? Is it possible that football clubs are optimizing for the wrong things?

Would there be a way to change the game so that artistry is stimulated (assuming that's something people would like)?
> more responsibilities without any traditional patriarchal privileges it makes it less attractive.

If one was raised in a patriarchal setup, maybe. But some societies have already a third or even fifth generation that never knew this.

>We are seeing a sociological experiment in action across the globe.

The extinction of a world view in which gender equality is considered a "sociological experiment"?
I have used a low power Qotom Intel-based mini pc with 4 NICs running Opnsense since version 18.x. I bought it off Amazon for 300 USD and it runs like a charm. It currently serves my 1Gbps fibre connection with significant amount of simultaneous workloads without a sweat. Only downside is in the older models the Qotom bios will not get past POST if no screen is plugged in, so you will need either a screen when you reboot or a stump VGA cable with a resistor built in.
Apart from this, I can highly recommend it.
I wouldn't try to keep a full pixel array in main memory when it is so limited. I'd keep the image in storage and decode as needed. It's a lot of software work to implement a special decoder and you'll always face a significant performance penalty, but it's doable.
If you want a truly free market you need to abolish patents, trademarks, DRM and a lot of other laws as well. How else are other companies free to compete or consumers free to choose? The current market does not exist in a vacuum.
I'm a VC who wrote a post about a similar thesis, and I'd love to chat with anyone working on solutions. https://medium.com/inside-pjc/the-pjc-notification-thesis-we...
Interesting ... there's a video talking about text. Is there a transcript? I skimmmed through it and most of it was a talking head plus some skyrim snippets.

Whatever they're saying in the video, I'd like to remind everyone that the first games were played on machines that only had text mode. We're coming full circle?
> There are exceptions of course

for a definition of "exceptions" being "virtually all languages with a non-trivial static type system and non-zero userbase" as shown in your link.

Java (https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05274), C# (https://blog.hediet.de/post/how-to-stress-the-csharp-compile...), Scala (https://michid.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/scala-type-level-enc...), Haskell, Rust (https://sdleffler.github.io/RustTypeSystemTuringComplete/), Typescript (https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14833) ...

Having a type system with generics and not being turing-complete as a result is the exception, not the rule.
I think the underlying reaons is that the association is harmful alone, especially if the association contains somthing about sex. I think that is a fundamental misunderstanding.

I don't like people that advocate for language regulation, because they cannot even justify their positions, they just try to force it on others and wonder about the negative feedback.

"I doesn't cost much" is often an argument, but it remains silly from start.
What I don't understand is what people who argue against climate change stand to gain.

The argument for climate change is: "humans are polluting the planet and it's causing a change in the environment and will have a disastrous effect on the climate." The arguments I hear against climate change always seem to concede that humans are polluting the planet, but argue in different ways (natural cycle/not really happening/etc.) that this pollution has no effect.

Even if this were true, why would it be a bad idea to reduce the level of pollution in the environment ? We know we're screwing up, why don't we do our best to clean it and make it usable for the next generations ?
Would be nice, but it’s virtually impossible. Products like the iPhone are a combination of many different suppliers’ parts and many different vendors’ work, all with various contractual requirements.

There’s almost zero upside for companies to go through all of the effort of preparing and releasing that information, however trivial it may seem from the outside.
> What country would you prefer to live in. [...] We all know the answer to this.

Neither. Did you know that answer? Even if you are incapable of seeing it now, the world has more than 2 choices. But if that's your entire horizon I can imagine why you'd think one is good. It's like making a top of your favorite books after reading just two.

> people are ready at the whistle to defend China on here

And if the previous view didn't make it painfully clear you're ill equipped to argue this point in a civilized or productive fashion, your followup is to accuse anyone who disagrees with you as "a dog to defend China".

Son, I've seen this bullshit tactic for many more decades than you've been alive. I've had to live under most of the scare tactics you can imagine. I've had to live with people trying to shut me up by calling me a "capitalist subversive" on one side of the map, or a "red" on the other side. While then just as now those people were invariably the uneducated, at least back then most had little choice in that matter. You have no such excuse.
I think the salient point is that construction & demolition debris is not included in MSW. So copper that ends up in that waste stream is not necessarily going to MSW landfills.

The US produces 600 million tonnes of C&D debris each year.
> Someone drunk should stop drinking alcohol in the first place

but if removing alcohol is possible (and cheap), and the person _wants_ to be drunk, then they should be allowed to do so. Rather than saying that one should reduce their alcohol intake.