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Not all lawyers are bad. I've seen good ones doing good things in courts and telling people frankly what it will cost and what the chances are. And this one particular lawyer cost only 0.2X of his stated first round cost, because other side resigned after first letter. Now there won't be smelly/noisy food factory just right outside my apartment building windows.

What I'm getting at:

> I.e. is the total value of the world higher when you finish your work, or is it not?

TOTAL level of value in world is only correlated with meaning of job. But, there are many jobs which feel meaningful, but have negative effect on world.
I just searched for VCF West content that weekend (text search) and the result was a quite a mess. Less results than expected, clearly biased by "channel", interspersed by non-related video suggestions and false positives.
> far from a direct democracy.

And?

Direct democracies are far worth than representative democracies in practically everyway. The Covid crisis should have made clear to all that people are not policies experts.

Given than no country in the UE significantly uses direct democracy (referendums are pretty much never used and always devolve into a ridiculous race to who can say the most outrageous thing in front of the media), I don't see how that can be leveraged against the institution.
I still have a company issued laptop (Windows based). I don’t need a laptop for personal stuff.
It's not possible to have everyone in the whole world stay home for 2 months. That was never an option.
Correct.

With meat the important thing is to know the turnaround time, eg. how much time does it take for an animal to reach adult size. Bigger animals tend to have longer lives. More lifetime means more food, water, energy.

Beef has really long turnaround time, pork is not much better, poultry is quite good, insects are really hard to beat. Eggs are also a great source of protein. Having your own chicken coop is not a bad idea, if you have the space for it.

Cement is problematic because the CO2 comes from the process even if you use non-CO2 emitting fuels for heating up the raw materials, which eventually become cement. Alternative to cement is to use wood for construction, which I think is quite popular in the US.
One issue with individual action, in the absence of a market incentive such as cap-and-trade or a carbon tax, is that reducing your use of power/fossil fuels reduces demand, thus ever so slightly reducing prices, which will give others licence to use more. It doesn't 100% cancel out your efforts, but it does reduce the effect.

One issue with EVs is that they aren't necessarily a feasible option for a lot of households due to their cost. Putting a market incentive in place would lead to a hundred different ways of reducing our CO2 emissions from driving, not limited by the ingenuity of one person or organization. More people working from home, more carpooling, distributed co-working spaces, more use of public transportation, even shifting how we design and zone our towns and cities, are a few things I can think of.

I strongly recommend that anyone who wants to take a very direct, immediate, simple action to move the USA toward having a carbon fee and dividend policy* take a look at this (or at the very least, send it to your environmentally concerned friends and family): https://citizensclimatelobby.org/senate/

(*a tax on carbon, where, that get returned to all citizens so as to reduce or even eliminate impact on lower income families)
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It's reported in the main government news source, the tagesschau, in Germany all the time and (at least for Germany) its also blown waaaayy out of proportion. For example, in my home-town of 170,000 the demo was 30 people…

The "police brutality" used against the QAnon, Nazis, and the so called "Querdenker" demonstrators here in Germany is laughable, when you compare what the police does against left-leaning demonstrations here in Germany on a regular basis.

So please stop spreading this FUD.
The fact it's going forwards.
I guess a better title would be "make clickable links from text in pictures".
That link shows the existing legislation, approved in July. Today it doesn't mandate anybody to scan anything but effectively _allows_ service providers to scan for CSAM, if they wish, by defining "combating online child sexual abuse" as a legitimate reason to process personal data within the limitations of the EU's various privacy & data protection directives (GDPR being the obvious one, but there's others too).

It's worth noting that this was legal everywhere else in the world already (Google are free to scan a US user's Gmail for CSAM with no problem, if they want to).

The motivating concern was that service providers who do already scan for this kind of abuse material (everywhere in the world) were at risk of having to disable such scanning entirely for EU citizens due to privacy laws. This is 'temporary', in that it's a quick fix to avoid service providers immediately disabling all those systems, until more concrete rules on how/when/if service providers should scan content for CSAM are put in place.

That part is not a big problem (imo). The risk is that future legislation goes much further.

The article here seems to be largely lobbying and pushing general awareness of the issue, rather than reporting on any real news (not that that's necessarily bad). So far, there's no concrete proposal AFAICT, let alone a planned vote on such legislation. The EU Commission (who propose legislation, which is then voted on by the parliament etc) have previously said they're looking into mandatory scanning, but given the pushback it's unclear whether that's still the plan.

In the end, it's probably not widely reported because the mandatory part doesn't appear to have a concrete proposal in motion yet. Articles like this are appearing anyway because it _might_ be proposed legislation soon (there's mentions of Autumn 2021) and it's important to mobilize to inform the public and make their opinions visible as early as possible, rather than waiting until the last minute.
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I agree.

Individual countries are equally corrupted by big businesses and authoritarian leaning, but you can generally count on inefficient flip flopping right-left parties to not do too much damage in any direction.

The EU seems to be way more efficient in getting us straight to 1984 or Soviet Russia V2.
I wish people understood the origins and structure of the EU. It grew out of a trade association (ECSC) and has very little to do with direct or even representative democracy in the standard sense of the word, i.e. representative of the populace. It is an external political class with only tangential connections to individual citizens.

This is an issue, because it gives opponents of European integration a fairly legitimate position to be critical.
Another question : Ruptly is reporting live on these protests in Paris and Berlin on YT weekly now.

Are they part of the censorship? Is there something they are not showing?
You do understand that nobody forces anyone to gamble or speculate with cryptocurrencies, right?
It looks like they allow user generated posts on a calendar, and every site that allows user generated content regularly gets used for phishing, spam, etc.
Sure, but that has nothing to do with this mechanism or this discussion.

They could have done that at any time in the past, and could do so in future.

‘NSA could force Apple to do something in secret’ is an evergreen fear just like ‘think of the children’. Such comments get added to every thread about Apple and privacy or security.
>The solution however is fairly simple — use less data.
About what, 99% of which is video streaming? Not scripts. Sorry to harp on you man but every time somebody pats themselves on the back for switching off a light, and feels ok flying across the world because they have no perspective on the relative impacts, the problem is perpetuated. And by directing people's attention to extremely relatively negligible areas for effort, you are causing people to waste literal energy.
I don't want to educate my wife about how to circumvent the blockade with an all or nothing decision. I mean, its possible, and I taught her to update Google Play over 4G because else it does not work (on Nvidia Shield and Google Pixel 3a it does not; on all my other devices it works, not sure why). The reason I don't want to teach her that, is that the measure helps her (and our) privacy and security. By temporarily giving that up, we open up the whole attack surface for that time, which is kinda OK if you remember to switch back immediately but people tend to forget... The correct way to solve the problem is by fixing the blacklist and/or whitelist, (temporary) collateral damage be damned.

I use Pi-Hole on EdgeOS with a second server with Docker as backup. I also have NextDNS as fallback. I'll probably switch to OPNsense at some point though.
True, it even has a name "Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse". If it was about protecting the children there would be more prevention toward the children to make them aware and report any inappropriate act to a teacher, parent, relative that they can trust.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
I think representative democracy specifically does not work to stave off totalitarianism. When the issue under consideration is about increasing the power of politicians over the citizenry, many politicians will switch from voting as representatives of citizens, to voting as politicians. A binding referendum that can only retract proposed laws, like we have/had/will have (sorry, I don't know exactly) in NL, seems like it could largely solve this issue, provided it gets sufficient traction.
Perhaps surprisingly the main problem with current warfare isn't the lack of options to kill enough people in some general area.

Although if you were to go in that direction COVID-19 would be a minor inconvenience when it comes to warfare so I'm not too sure what you're aiming at there. The Spanish "used" diseases that were a heck of a lot more severe.
its also kind of not either or. how do you think the market is going to manage the kind of shocks and structural changes ahead.

every year from now on is going to get worse.
Instead, send these images to someone you hate over WhatsApp. Chances are that he/she has automatic image saving activated (default setting). New way of SWATting, and completely legal?
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If you have $3000 rent due, you can keep $3000 in checking to pay that, but you should not put that money in the stock market, since it could be worth only $2700 at the due date. Therefore I think the statement "We offer a checking account alternative that lets users invest their balance (not FDIC insured), otherwise it works just like a normal checking account" invites trouble. People should use checking accounts primarily to pay bills, so risky investments do not belong in them.
Brilliant minds of HN, serious question: what needs to happen for us to be able to extract CO2 from the air and place it in containers somewhere? What's the root problem there?

(I'm guessing off-planet, but that can come later).
The EU parliament has far too little power to come anywhere close to the EU being a democracy. The problem being that in second reading there has to be a 2/3 majority to approve amendments.
Why pick on AC? How about adding no heat?
OP knows that, and is acting accordingly.

They enjoy being “unquestionable”/above being audited.
That's Wyden's amendment to this amendment. The amendment in question here is saying that a "broker" now includes anyone

> responsible for and regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets

(incidentally, I don't see how category (B) or even category (C) from Wyden's amendment could be reasonable construed as being included in the original text--those are products not services. I will concede that I can see how category (A) can be construed, although I doubt it would be so construed).

[Also note that "digital assets" is defined elsewhere in the amendment, although the news media didn't report on the precise text for digital asset, so I don't have it handy. But it's basically a reasonable definition.]
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Wait. Are you saying that Russian gas, combusted in the EU, counts towards Russia's CO2 output? that makes zero sense.
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Exactly, we can’t save the children by giving them a dystopia to grow up in.
That prediction relies on all regions becoming wealthier, though. Which isn't currently happening.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG?locat...
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG?locat...
Unless you use artificial insemination to only produce hens, you’ll run into a problem. You will end up with many roosters who won’t produce eggs and you have to feed and care for them as well. Unless you have a gigantic yard or want wild roosters everywhere, you’ll end up killing a lot of them.

The hens you’ll have will produce eggs, but maybe only one a day and they’ll skip laying quite often. You can avoid that if you get modern hens who were selectively bred to lay excess eggs, but they will require more food than “table scraps” (they really need calcium supplements) and their bodies will be destroyed within two years. At that point you either kill them or let them suffer - neither us a good outcome for them.

There are plenty of scalable alternatives to raising chickens for their eggs. Plant-based options do require mono cropping, but it can feed the world and kill fewer animals.
I'm not a lawyer, but I suppose it will apply in the same way GDPR applies to anyone who wants to access the EU market (regardless of where you/your servers are). That is, if you're fine with your system not being accessible from the EU because of non-compliance you should be fine?

Don't take my word for it though, I'm just assuming. Maybe somebody with more knowledge chan chime in.
Politicians really like to use "child pornography" as a wedge issue for surveillance as it's a topic that people overwhelmingly see as "a bad thing". This screams slippery slope.
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Mathematically it's not more difficult to determine the majority vote among 400 million people, than among 10 million. What would prevent it from working for you?
I had noticed this too but assumed it's part of cost cutting projects inside Google - like how they increased the number of unskippable YouTube ads from usually 0-1 to minimum 2 often 4 in a row, at every 5-10 minutes, or how they removed free photo storage in a time when disk pricing is at it's lowest point, or how the subjective quality of experience with their services has degraded to unimaginable lows (i.e. Google Drive, which is so buggy it's not even funny, often failing to fetch files with hundreds of failed API requests and taking a few minutes to "process" downloading a file - often failing with 40x errors).

It may just be a part of the strategy to lower costs after achieving domination in most markets.
My understanding is that something like the following happened:

1. authors submit a paper with expository sections about (eg) some materials being flammable and others inflammable

2. reviewer tries to explain that they have incorrectly understood the meaning of the terms, explains the meaning carefully and maybe suggests the terms they might mean.

3. Authors copy in the explanation and maybe replace incorrect usages with weird tortured phrases

4. Rejection

Obviously this description reads a little bit silly and things were probably more nuanced in practice. I think I’m probably also being uncharitable towards the authors in the example.
Most of the cost from weather events isn’t born by the federal government. Looking just at extreme 1+ billion dollar weather events over the last 20 years averages close to 100 billion per year in the US. “The total cost of these 298 events exceeds $1.975 trillion.”

However, things are getting worse. “The 1980–2020 annual average is 7.1 events (CPI-adjusted); the annual average for the most recent 5 years (2016–2020) is 16.2 events (CPI-adjusted).“ https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/

Of course not all of that is based on climate change, but smaller storms also cost money for everything from snow removal to lost crops, and preparation for storms costs even more.
The abuses rationalized by the War on Terror, such as mass surveillance and profiling haven't been walked back. Yet many somehow believe vaccine passports won't be similarly result in mission creep and abuse. More recently it has been suggested to expand the designation of terrorist to include those who have concerns about this process.

When has government willingly returned liberties taken under emergency pretenses? Once Pandora's box is opened...
The sudden decompression will cool down the CO2 rapidly. To the point where it will become dry ice. This will slow down the release speed significantly. It is still not nice and probably a risc, but not als large as you estimate.

Actually you can make dry ice like this: get a CO2 cinder upside down and open valve into a cloth bag.
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Note that even if you disable iCloud/iCloud Backup, all of your iMessages will still be leaked unencrypted to Apple via the phone on the other end of the conversation that still has iCloud Backup enabled.
If your primary concern is the superfluous waste of energy you should be vehemently opposed to this amendment. It specifically exempts proof-of-work blockchains, while essentially outlawing alternatives.

It will drastically slow down innovation, and keep the majority of crypto activity on electricity guzzling proof of work chains. Already major Ethereum community members are discussing delaying or canceling the transition away from proof-of-work scheduled for the end of the year.
Same can be said for stocks, yet the crash of 1929 still happened and laws were written to help protect consumers and the economy
On a previous HN submission [1] it's about 0.06%, more than I expeted.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28110159
You realize that Switzerland hasen't voted to wear masks and get restrictions? Having a direct democracy does not mean the gov can't make their own decisions at times.
Recumbents are beasts of descending. As long as there are no turns. On a straight descent, they'll beat anything without even trying.
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Yes? Any data for that?
I don't owe those people who came before me anything. They did what they did of their own volition, I had zero say in the matter. My mother could easily have been in Russia, Crete or Antarctica when I crawled out of her birth canal.

The concept of patriotism and nationalism is purely ridiculous to me. Patriotism is the erroneous belief that you are special because of what side of a line your mother was on when you were born.

I think maybe it makes more sense if you believe in god or some other superstition.

People live, people die, the world goes on, that's it.
That assumption of a certain fairness, or give-and-take outcome, is only applicable in a democratic, free society.
86 Joules at the muzzle: in context, about half the energy of a 40 grain .22LR.
How would this let them scan the text of your signal messages or even your iMessages?

How would this let them search for a subversive PDF?

It wouldn’t. This is just fearmongering.

> The result would be a total loss of privacy, basically Apple is privatising mass surveillance with that. Without oversight, no matter how small, or accountability.

You are talking about an imagined system someone could build in the future, not the system Apple has put in place.
I also know a few people who would be considered learning impaired. They exceed at making bad decisions. They will never do good in life. You can flat out show them how it is bad. They will still do it. I also know some who are in that same spectrum and they will freely admit they are wrong and willing to learn better. They usually are willing to not do silly things. But sometimes to an irrational degree. Rationality in different systems and IQ I would suspect are not correlated. One thing I have found that does help with many is saying 'i am probably wrong' or 'i dont know'. If you are at least willing to say those two things you can at least maybe do better in life.
Even a representative democracy is a far fetched idea with the EU.

Nobody really understand how the EU works, except for a few bureaucrats.

There are too many proxies. You vote for a local party, then you find out they go into a coalition because the parliament is huge: over 700 seats. And those parties in one coalition have very different agenda's.

Then you look deeper, and the parliament's power is very limited, and most of the power lies with the council and commission.

Both are not chosen in an election but in negotiations by the governments, which tends to mean certain countries like Germany and France have a very big say. Of course in a very indirect way these are somewhat chosen by certain part you of the people in the EU.
If COVID, and the 2008 crisis, have taught me anything it's that the economy is unbelievably fragile to shocks. Trying to levy huge taxes in a democracy is DOA for that reason. Most Americans will do just about anything to avoid another recession -- that's food off their tables.
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How about the multitude of life on the planet that relies on photosynthesis?

And our own bodies? We get most of our vitamin D from a biosynthesis pathway that requires UVB exposure. Systematically depriving all of humanity of vitamin D could be disastrous.

And our circadian rhythms? The human circadian rhythm is mediated by two processes, denoted "S" and "C", of which C has evolved to rely on daily exposure to sunlight. The circadian rhythm affects almost all parts of our humanity.
EU citizens CAN block this! Make your representative in the Council of the EU accountable. If 4 members veto this the legislation will not pass.

If you can't move your country representative to veto the bill, then the issue is not the EU: it's your government.

As Europeans we have to stop this very sneaky campaign of "citizens can't do anything" - it's a self fulfilling prophecy and the sharpest tool the lobbies have in the EU.

Your country's government has a say on it, and you have a say on your country's government. Make them accountable.
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> Or you can legislate companies and actually get it done.

Politicians write legislation, and are elected by the people. If the people are unwilling to sacrifice any amount of their comfort then they won't elect politicians who will make them. And let's not kid ourselves, forcing industry to be more green will come at a cost to everyone: things will be more expensive, less readily available, and possibly of lower quality.
Fair enough, and thinking out loud has its place.

So to does quietly researching at times ;-)

... though if you're getting stuck, asking for clues, cues, or pointers is fair game.
This is likely true to some definition of best (which is not exactly most effective).
When will that happen? 2012?
A well-spoken related talk [0] by Glenn Greenwald on 'Why privacy matter' that serves as a good argument against 'nothing to hide'.

[0]: https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matter...
Perfect timing, the EU can ask now Apple to search their phones.