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In every discussion of environmental problems, someone says this like it’s some sort of obvious solution that everyone’s too afraid to discuss. But I want specifics from you — what would the actual policy be, and how would you implement it?

Are you talking about the genocide of billions for people? I mean, that’s far worse than the crisis we face!

Or are you talking about birth control? That would have to be radical and start right now to have much of an effect, and how on earth would you get everyone to agree with it?

Both these “solutions” seem utterly absurd on their face, and WAY harder to implement that even to most radical non-genocidal environmental policies.
I don't know.

It kinda seems to me that most who were conscious of global warming new it is not just linear temperature shift.

Some of our weather patterns are precisely tuned. So are various other phenomena like oceanic currents.
Yes, but they also played music videos:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_of_the_Pops#Music_videos
I'm not grasping your point.

Your question was what the impact of Covid on population (and hence climate) might be. As I said, it is minimal, effectively nonexistant.

To date, 4 million deaths have been reported. There's been substantial undercounting, that total might be low by as much as a factor of ten (at an extreme case), or 40 millions out of a total population of slightly under 8 billions. That's 0.5% of world human population, on the high side.

Most of the dead were elderly, and would likely have died relatively soon regardless, though I don't have figures for estimated life-years lost. A human tragedy in many cases yes. But not something that shifts the baseline on global warming threats.

It's possible that Covid might flare up again, that there will be new (a) new variant(s) with vastly greater infectivity and lethality. I suspect this is unlikely, though the pandemic is likely to be with us for a number of years more. (I'm not an expert, some have suggested another several years, I'm thinking 2--3 is likely, and perhaps as many as 5, given the spectacularly bungled response to date.) Both deaths and lockdowns as well as voluntary withdrawal from economic activity (something that's been seen even in the absence of government-ordered quarantines) ... could extend further.

BP's estimate is that global energy consumption fell by 4.5% in 2020 over what was expected absent Covid. That's the impact so far. https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/stat...

Consider that that 4.5% might be repeated for another few years, possibly at a greater or lesser extent (e.g., 2.25% or 5%). It's still less than a ten-percent impact on global energy consumption, likely a short-term effect, and would have little impact on long-term energy usage patterns. So long as energy usage is growing (as it has, typically at about 2--3% annually IIRC), it will double given time (in 25--35 years at those rates, using the rule of 72).

I can't give you a hard answer, but can give you the outline parameters of what will effect the response:

- Covid net population effects are effectively nil.

- Energy impacts are measurable, but small and likely temporary.

- The overall impact of COVID-19 on global warming patterns is detectable, but insignificant in the big picture, especially against longer-term trends.
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It is always net zero if you're pedantic and say the earth is a closed system plus conservation of matter.

But the whole premise (i.e. the concern) is that there's too much CO2 as an atmospheric gas and it would be better if some of it were instead somewhere else.

If you take from the atmosphere but then put it back it doesn't really help alleviate the problem.
Removing CO2 from the atmosphere would help.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration
There are about 69 countries where it is illegal to be gay, what if these countries want to know if you have a rainbow flag or two men kissing photo on your phone?
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To me it looks more that people from rich countries got theirs, but people from poorer countries aren't allowed to have theirs. The people from rich countries will stop them because of climate change.

It's easy to demand that others change their behavior.
So the idea is that a poem, being a work of art, is actually copyrightable? Does this legal hack work?
> Wasn't Top of The Pops all film of the bands in a studio live/miming-over-a-recording, though?

Not at all. There were videos being shown at least as far back as 1979 (around when I can vaguely remember first seeing the show). From a cursory search, here's a Thin Lizzy video from June that year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnkHDtqpETE&t=905s
Okay, what’s your policy going to be?
Up to a point. But ..

"when plants take in an excess of CO2, their chemical makeup changes in a way that that’s harmful to the humans and animals that depend on them for nutrition: higher concentrations of CO2, increases the synthesis of carbohydrates like sugars and starches, and decrease the concentrations of proteins and nutrients like zinc, iron, and B-vitamins. “

https://globalhealth.washington.edu/news/2019/04/23/high-co2...

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abfcfa

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2018.00924...
You gotta kill some chickens if you want eggs.
That if you try to drink storm water run off, you'll die of diarrhea. A lot of the damage in Germany right now is polluted drinking water
Some of those countries are known as “shithole countries” by CC deniers. I doubt many will care.
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Most of the comments here are opinions on what other people should do to stop climate change.

For those that have read up on it, What are the highest impact things the average hacker news reader can do over the next few years?
A million deaths assuming they reduce carbon emissions equally would only be 0.0125%. In reality considering that vaccines are unevenly distributed in favor of countries with high CO2 emissions, it's likely much less than that.
It's good to see the argument being extended to the social aspect of it (p. 762).

The "I've got nothing to hide" stance is often countered with stories how an individual may run into unexpected trouble for themselves.

But data aggregation has made sharing information a collective issue. And sharing information becomes a social requirement as we go along.
This has consequences even for those who choose not to share private information easily (or who try to keep it limited).
Weirdly the tables were one of the most fake-looking parts of the set!
How is it different from current situation, where there are a ton of open vacancies for remote work already available on the market. I.e. why does it have to be the right?

Here's my argument - stop thinking of yourself as an employee. Instead, think of yourself as someone who buys the service. Think of a service that can be done either remotely or in person, but you STRONGLY prefer it to be in office/on-premises. For instance, psychotherapy can be done via Zoom, but you really want it to be in person. Or yoga class - you can do it in home via Zoom or Youtube, but you prefer the gym. Or classes. Or whatever, but think of something that you want to pay for and for you it has to be in person, even though it can be done remotely as well.

Now, think of a mechanism that guarantees that you can buy this service in person in a marketplace where every person has the right to work from home or not. Wouldn't companies have to create multiple vacancies and some vacancies would be 'work from work only' and some would be flexible? I see no other way. You can't be one sided and think only about employees or only about employers. You have to think about consumers too. After all, we are typically all three - we are hired from some jobs, we hire for others and we surely consume a lot in addition to producing something.
I don't know! If it was, it strengthens my point.

Others seemed to be trying to refute my original comments by saying that Top of the Pops had been running for years before Countdown, but if it was just showing mimed live performances rather than concept videos, then my original assertion that AU/NZ had a head start is solid after all.

Edit: As a sibling commenter pointed out, a video Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody was shown in 1975, and The Beatles had already made the Yellow Submarine movie, so yep, artists in the UK were certainly experimenting with the medium.

But it seems both the UK and Australia were a bit ahead of music video being a big thing in the US.
Similar story here. Slowly moved over to Bitwarden. UX almost as good and works well enough on all platforms. Chose Bitwarden for the company afterwards as well, only positive feedback.
You confuse theory w/ practice.
Hey me too. I'm pretty sure when you shuffle, it's not actually random, but weighted by some combination of licensing fees / paid promotion.
Would that wealth be more or less accountable to the people at large if it were in a small number of private hands?
What M68k version does this target, and is there a measurable difference in performance in targeting ARM specifically?

Documentation files seem outdated. Repository seems a bit low on information. Are there any unit tests too?
Eh, many poor people don't have a choice when it comes to two their biggest carbon sources: transportation and heating. They're forced to use an old ICE to get to work, because biking and public transport is not practical for them, and they live in a rented apartment that is heated with oil or gas.
That is a nice out-of-the-box thinking. I found some plugins that could work. Unfortunately using Wordpress means that I should get a web hosting and set up a website. That even would be okay. The lack of Wordpress security and storing your API keys there is a serious problem and probably a turndown.
Check IPAPatch[0] and AppPatcher[1]

[0] https://github.com/Naituw/IPAPatch

[1] https://github.com/IJustNeedOffsets/iOS-AppPatcher
Subscription-based pricing actually solves this – in a way.
In comic form: https://xkcd.com/1379/
>I've been describing them?

I really dont think you have. You've been describing a hypothetical weed that doesnt manifest IRL.

>doesn't mean that you can execute it.

Coz you defined "execute it" in such a wildly unrealistic way that in no way resembles how any person actually or would want to "execute" that level of wealth.

>I'm sort of confused why you don't see any issues with that definition of wealth

Coz I'd never want to spend $180 billion of wealth in a single day either. The more wealth I have the more I'd want to draw out spending it.

>the simple act of attempting to exercise that wealth suddenly means you have less of it?

That is the point of liquidating your wealth and spending is it not?

>Well if you take spend as a transfer of wealth

They aren't the same. "Spending" wealth typically requires liquidation.

>divorce which would fit as a significant wealth transfer that happens the instant the document is signed

You are confusing liquidity and wealth again, I think. Bezos's wife wasnt given ~40bn in cash. No monetary transaction took place.

>The fact that you are describing it as slow is an impediment

It's slow because Bill Gates wants to spend the rest of his life spending his fortune. Your presupposition is seemingly that although he is doing this the wealth he is and will spend "isnt quite real" or "should be discounted" because he can't squeeze all that spending into one day.

Is that correct? Please, indulge me by answering this question directly.
I didn't intend to put words in your mouth. That was simply how I read it, and I asked for a confirmation. Thank you for clarifying.
I don’t think our responses to COVID was only disaster. Big parts of them was disorganised and inconsistent. But in the whole they were also forceful, creating not only one, but several effective vaccines in a fraction of the time it usually takes, and making them available to billions of people. Also, suddenly, there are trillions of dollars made available to keep the economy afloat and reduce personal sufferings.

If the same scale of efforts were used to fight climate change, it wouldn’t be a problem.

Right now I’m just waiting for the natural disasters being big and frequent enough so people can’t deny what they see with their own eyes. After that I expect things to happen relatively fast. Maybe some oil and coal executives that have spend billions spewing lies will be found dangling from lamppost too, when people finally understand what happened. (I in no way condone the last part, it is merely meant as a way to express that some people probably will be very angry.)
> I'm probably missing things happening in Asian countries due to consuming western media.

You did, there were floods in India (https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/23/india/floods-landslides-m...) and China (https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148623/flooding-in-...).

I wonder if there exists a website that gathers reports of extreme weather events (floods, tornados/hurricanes, heat waves/firestorms) worldwide.
Ecological Footprint
I disagree that it was unavoidable. I said to my family in February that the UK should stop all - absolutely all - flights into the country. The cost of this would have been miniscule compared to what ended up happening.

(Not just flights - everything except essential goods including via trains, ships and lorries. Certainly all people should have been disallowed entry.)
Some I remember generally. A very few I recall directly ("Duty Calls" is 386, as in the Intle chip.)

"Money" made an impression at the time. I DDG'd "xkcd money" to pull the URL.

Other times I just suspect that there's a relevant xkcd and try some keywords.
I always refer those people to this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1732/. It visualizes things very powerfully. Yet, I never get a response anymore after sending this to them.
Even if every person on the planet did what you reasonably expect of yourself, we would still not even be close to reducing CO2 production.

By all means do those things. But if you want to make a real difference you need to look beyond your own activities.

Change your community, your company, your industry. What can you do that changes the defaults for everyone else? Try and find low-hanging fruit.

Join your local climate activist group e.g. 350.org — they'll be full of people with solutions.
Almost everything humans do at scale interacts with the environment. The perspective of just not interacting with the environment anymore is a fantasy. We need to learn to wield the environment skillfully, instead of clumsily waving it around. We cannot just "stop" having an effect on the environment.
For me its the opposite: Having Bitwarden separate (selfhosted or even their hosting) let's me even more iCloud services to become less reliant on Apple.
France has a higher meat consumption per person than the Europe-wide average: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-meat-consumption-pe...
This argument does not work however, since it also applies to "old-school" cloud CSAM detection that everyone is doing anyway. The big problem with Apple's approach instead is that they essentially include a configurable (and very fancy) spyware engine on your phone that could be easily extended to do more in the future.
Israeli scientists managed to germinate some dates that were 2000 years old. They were probably stored in a friendlier environment, though.
The author centers his attack on the book around some literal interpretation of the problem domain that he seems very irritated about, and this distracts him from the very sound lessons the book provides about measuring and communicating OO designs.
was that the "plaza accords"?
> the Earth is greener today than 20 years ago.

Do you have a source for this? It sounds like a glimmer of hope I could do with.

_Edit:_ Just found this source from Nasa: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144540/china-and-in...
Yes, but no playing against online opponents.
>there are simply too many people on the planet.

This is false. Only a minority of the population is responsible for the catastrophe. Take Africa, a continent with over 1.2 billion inhabitants: their carbon footprint, *all import included*, is below what our ecosystems can support. The way of live of the majority of human beings is sustainable.

Why force countries that are sustainable overall (at least in terms of C02 emissions) to not have children because the richest are destroying the climate.
It seems much easier for the attackers to supply themselves (even in a foreign land) such that encircle-and-wait would virtually ensure an attacker victory if no one came to the defender’s aid.
1 or 2 just isn't a big number. How about using the number of Joules it would take to heat the Earth's atmosphere by 1 degree (Celcius, because we're not Philistines). It'll be an approximate (as is any measurement at planetary scale, eg 1 AU) but that's fine.
Offering that sort of service to China is the real reason this was developed.
1- No everybody is in a position to do that and many companies are rather shitty on this kind of things. You can't just dismiss those facts by thinking wishfully.

2- Scheduling meetings online can work for people who are already engaged are motivated enough. But that's really not efficient to organize other people, or to be available to help those who are suffering from their working conditions (especially if the problem is related to isolation).
Seems like an opportunity for a whippersnapper YC startup to fill the void.
Sustainable web design
Well, the 40% are certainly not going be convinced if the "first United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate" flew on his private jet 16 times to places like Martha's Vineyard since January. Can the leaders of climate action actually live up to their own standards?
Yes, I deliberately chose something that just above trivially simple to show that there was diversity of expression even at that level.

That is, even given a technical term with a precise agreed upon definition, the description of that term (eg, in English) does not have a precise agreed-upon form.

Incorrect use of the latter may imply plagiarism, and this thread appears to concern that aspect.

Most definitions are not as simple as "cosine similarity".

Your statement, if true, would mean that most dictionaries would use exactly the same words to describe a given, well-specified scientific concept, yes?

What's "Frame dragging" in general relativity?

Wikipedia: the effect on spacetime caused by a rotating mass ... Frame-dragging is an effect on spacetime, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, that is due to non-static stationary distributions of mass–energy.

doi:10.1126/science.aax7007 : the mass-energy current of a rotating body induces a gravitomagnetic field, so-called because it has formal similarities with the magnetic field generated by an electric current (1). This gravitomagnetic interaction drags inertial frames in the vicinity of a rotating mass. (quoting from the preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11405 ).

einstein-online.info: a mass’s rotation influences the motion of objects in its neighbourhood

doi:10.3390/universe7020027 : The term "frame-dragging" usually refers to the influence of a rotating massive body on a gyroscope by producing vorticity in the congruence of world-lines of observers outside the rotating object.

doi:10.1142/9789812564818_0002 : A major consequence of General Relativity and related theories of gravity is that all inertial frames are local. These local frames are accelerated, warped and stretched, and rotated with respect to each other due to the surrounding mass-energy distributions. While only their relative rotations are typically called frame dragging effects, this phrase describes a broader range of gravitational influences on inertia.

Very different definitions, because it's hard to express that concept in English. And I think re-using a few of the more extensive definitions, without attribution, is a minor form of plagiarism. (Reusing any follow-up explanation is, as you've agreed, definitely plagiarism.)

You might recall that atrettel wrote "the authors were misusing a particular technical term".

If you dig in to the papers on frame dragging, you'll note similar complaints, like https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0509025 : "Many accounts of these experiments have been in terms of frame-dragging. We point out that this terminology has given rise to much confusion and that a better description is in terms of spin-orbit and spin-spin effects."

> I would find that laughable

So would I, which is why I commented 'that's a different issue than re-using someone else's definition without attribution'.
NB: The paper itself describing this problem talks about the use of spinbot.com at the end.
Exactly. I moved away from 1Password for that reason, quite happy with Bitwarden.
This is a fine reason to yell at clouds because Edge seems to share your shopping lists with Microsoft. But that argument didn't ever stop the voucher crowd anyway.
This is mostly accurate, except for this bit:

> Kernel memory is wired: The kernel has no access to virtual memory. A quarter of physical RAM is reserved for the kernel, and within that quarter, the kernel allocates a percentage for the file mapping.

Kernel memory is wired–which means it can't be paged out to disk (it's "wired down"). The kernel works mostly in virtual addresses as it runs in protected mode. The top portion of the virtual address space (populated by pages backed by physical memory) is dedicated to the kernel.
Implementing it server-side would require the content to be on their servers to scan, doing it client-side reduces that risk (or, as they claim, don't want to do that for privacy reasons, or most likely a mix of both those two reasons).
There are apps, like WhatsApp, that allow you to save photos you receive to your camera roll instantly.

If somebody, or another compromised device sends a large collection of CSAM to your device, they will be uploaded to iCloud, probably before you get a chance to remove them -- the equivalent of "swatting".

Besides the apps that you give permission to store photos in your Photos app, what about malware such as Pegasus we've seen again and again?

I wonder if we'll start hearing a year from now about journalists, political dissidents, or even candidates running for office going to jail for being in possession of CSAM. It would be much easier to take out your opponents when you know Apple will report it for you.

I guess all this does is disincentivize anyone who cares about their privacy from using iCloud Photos, which is sadly ironic since privacy is what Apple was going for.
I wonder if it was a purposeful decision to make tables that would be easy to render, so they don't look out of place against stuff that was actually rendered.