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> Birth rates are falling across the board

The UN projects that the global population increases from a population of 7.7 billion in 2019 to 11.2 billion by the end of the century. [1]

> but stopping it faster either requires severely authoritarian measures or increasing economic safety, which counters the benefits.

Sounds like you really don't want to consider this solution at all, because you feel it can only be accomplished by a decree that would be constraining people's liberty?

Have you considered the possibility that some people might want to contribute more to sustainability of their own free will?

For each American couple who reads this post and decides to have one less baby, over the next 79 years the world will be spared from 1,562 metric tonnes (1,722 tons) of C02 emissions. [2, 3]

> And reducing birth rates too fast sets us up for disaster too.

Are you saying humans aren't capable of living with zero population growth? If that's what you are saying, could you explain the nature of the difficulties you project?

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/future-population-growth

[2] https://slightlyunconventional.com/much-co2-average-person-c...

[3] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/life...
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> Please do not fall for the propaganda.

Yeah I don't know which one you've been listening to but this definitely doesn't only go for people voting green.
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> it is virtually impossible for a non-native speaker to write perfect English. English is a language you have to intuit. In contrast to other languages, it has very few fixed rules. Writing elegantly in English is most certainly an art form.

Learning to write well in any language is difficult. English is not exceptional as a language. Its influence in economic activity is what gives it prevalance.
How come this is not taken down by DCMA?
We have an infinite money printing machine. We don't need access to any capital. That's not what the carbon tax is about. We need to change behavior. We need everyone that uses carbon to pay for its use (including the externalities) so that they stop using it as much as they are. This is why poor people can't be exempt. This is why the rich can't just pay for it. We all need a massive increase in the cost of everything that touches carbon (read everything) so we start driving to the next city once per year instead of every weekend, so that we start eating a BLT once a month instead of twice a week (a lot of heart issues down here in the south for a reason), and the list goes on.
> Your individual effect is a rounding error. It's not even measured. Meanwhile, the fact that everyone else buys new laptops/phones/cars/gadgets makes it hard for everyone to individually forgo these things.

No raindrop is responsible for the flood eh? This is why the problem will never be dealt with.
I am. I’m saying let’s reduce the impact to them, which is likely doable.

Help them. Prioritize dealing with the effects of climate change over ‘fighting’ climate change.
We can both prove something and be consensual/unequivocal about it.

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6... (page 41)

Unequivocal means all scientists get to the same conclusion (we all measure the Earth being not flat). Consensual means that they all agree on expressing their mutual understanding (e.g issue a report saying they agree on the Earth not being flat).

You're opposing the science itself and who people do science IRL. That's weird.
If you are looking for an overview of future climate scenarios of each country worldwide: https://www.howhotwillitget.com. The coming months I am going to update the website with the new data and fix some running issues. Follow my Twitter if you want to stay updated.
Reminds me of my masters research at university. My work was based on hybrid organic-inorganic solar devices based on boron subphthalocyanine chloride and an optimised optical spacer layer. One day, one variation of the type of cell I was producing was over double the output efficiency of what we usually expected. Was exciting until we realised the solar testing rig had been erroneously set to the equivalent output of two suns...
We also have to be careful when making such assessments. The semiconductor industry was once viewed as clean, and maybe it was clean compared to older industries. Yet that perception came from appearances rather than fact since the pollution was either invisible (e.g. hazardous chemicals leeching into the ground, verses belching smokestacks) or out of sight (e.g. rare earths are often extracted in foreign nations). In order to figure out how much of an environmental impact something has, we need to collect data and do an analysis rather than depending upon what we can see and touch.

Even then, reliable data and analysis may produce differing conclusions based upon shifting priorities. Today's discussions are tied to greenhouse gasses. In prior decades, environmental discussions were tied to: deforestation and habitat loss, groundwater pollution, air pollution with respect to public health and acid rain, the ozone hole, etc..

Even if we could agree on priorities, it is difficult to assess the true impact because technological change brings about behavioural change. The automobile may be cleaner than the horse and buggy. On the other hand, more people walked or used mass transit before the automobile. Streaming a movie may be cleaner than watching a DVD, but is it cleaner when each member of a household is viewing a different movie on a portable device in contrast to watching a broadcast together on the family TV.
Came here to say this. I also want to add that there are no solutions with the West's current consumption habits. If we all switch to electric cars today, oil might be doing okay, but we'll still be exploiting workers and raiding resources in environmentally costly lithium mines. This is not a technical issue. This is a political issue. The question we should be asking is how we reduce our consumption and how to increase our reciprocity with the environment, not at an individual level, but at a systemic and societal level. And here's the hard part: this isn't done through innovation. This is done through reducing the capitalist pressures to consume and produce. This is driven locally, slowly, and radically by pushing back against what capitalism has done.
I've put this is two replies, but I guess it needs to be at the top level so people who don't read the article might have a shot at seeing it. The people being interviewed and quoted in this article work in offshored customer support for Apple and Amazon in Albania and Colombia.

Albania was a single-party communist state until 1995. Colombia was effectively a narco state until maybe a decade ago. They're both pretty fast growing now, but I don't think the root of these laborers' problems is they got a humanities degree in a STEM market, and the "market" for their labor may not be much more than this or go work for a local crime lord, who might pay better but definitely will not treat you better.

It'd be nice if we as Americans or generally wealthy OECD westerners could be less provincial in our views of how labor deserves to be treated. They're not all in the same situation as us with the same options. When the program I work on told us we all need to have cameras on in meetings, I told them to pound dirt. I only half own this house, and if my wife wants to walk around naked, that's her prerogative. Don't like it, find someone else. Great for me, because I'm in a situation where they need me more than I need them. But I'm not going to act like that's a common situation globally, and these people are no less deserving of giving their families a right to privacy than I am.

I don't know what to do about this from a policy perspective. Better labor laws are great and all, but the entire reason companies like Apple and Amazon contract out work like this to the lowest bidder who then hires in Albania is they don't need to adhere to US labor laws.
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Source? I am not aware of a law in the US that requires Apple to actively scan images, or to store them unencrypted (or keep copies of the keys).
You are refering to freedom of association and you are correct that platforms should be able to choose their customers if they want to. If they do that however, they will be held to account for their choices they make in contrast to platforms that allow more freedom of opinion. Makes sense, doesn't it?

Some people say allowing certain content is a statement of endorsement. "Silence is violence" and similar argumenents, but I disagree with that line of reasoning.

"Throwing shit at people and hoping it sticks" is something I do associate with accusations of racism to be honest.
I'm surprised that after that many decades of complete BS propaganda, corruption and misleading information, people still take UN studies seriously.
Yeah. It's gotten to the point I automatically assume anyone who uses children as an argument is acting in bad faith.
I guess, it didn't help especially that not the trenches were the apparent phenomenon, but the enormous advances in artillery and their impact, to which trenches were a reaction.
To allow education of enough people requires a significant economic lift. Not going to happen fast enough.

UN projections puts the end of population growth at some point within the next century, but accelerating that change fast enough to have an impact on climate change would require dramatic interventions, and also will not happen because it would be absolutely politically untenable for most politicians to stunt growth that way (you'll note, politicians many places are encouraging more children, and China has kept loosening up their own policies because current birth rates are causing concerns - politicians would in general rather encourage more children than open up for more immigration, and opening up for more immigration is in any case a stopgap).

So, while reducing growth is absolutely part of it, we're already doing that pretty much at the rate we can expect to be politically tenable. There are parts of Africa we could encourage a faster reduction in (e.g. some of the absolute worst, like Niger, would likely fall off a lot faster with more economic development assistance), but it's not going to do enough to speed up population reversal in time.

Remember that changes in birth rates has a trailing effect of a couple of decades, typically. So even if we could make changes now to education for example that will drastically cut birth rates eventually, it'd not affect population size enough in time.
> what if they did have something to hide?

Or, what if something harmless becomes illegal overnight and now it's too late to hide existing links to you?

The "nothing to hide" argument relies on the assumption that governments and laws remain stable. Which is obviously far from reality. We have an example of a country getting split in half literally within one night, and right now people are still getting executed for having the wrong religion or sexuality - or, like recently in Afghanistan, because they dared to work as translator for US troops.
C++ suffers from the same fate, you see some people talk here about how modern C++ fixes many of the flaws and so on, yet those same CS teachers keep teaching C+ (no typo) as if we were in 1994 or something.

Or C like K&R C book was just published yesterday.
Not surprising really. That landscape has become so competitive. To make a profit requires a pristine product page and reviews section.
You have a kernel of truth there which isn't talked about enough (the fact that CO2 consumption brings advantages which reduce death and misery AND potentially reduce further CO2 consumption as well, in a "you gotta spend money to make money" way).

Unfortunately you are wrapping it in delusional hysteria such as "you will die of a horrible death from an infection without painkillers". So you're getting down voted because you are completely ignoring how things such as subsidies work.
As for the "theoretically" part, it is enough to prove that at least one such a system exists that will yield another result than expected. There could be various reasons, from human/software errors to hardware errors like memory bit flips. Since we know these do exist, it is not even theoretically possible to write a piece of software which will behave the same no matter how and where it is run, although it is certainly possible to write it in such a way that it will behave the same in a vast majority of cases.
Interesting privacy policy:

# Can you delete my test results?

If you have submitted a test and do not want the results public, then we have a simple policy:

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If you have tested a public url we will not delete the results.
> Each human being emits 25 tons of CO2 per year just by breathing

I believe you may be off by two orders of magnitude.
Because most of the developed world (if not whole) is already there. How do you plan to implement it in less-develop states?
That's actually a good explanation.
* Plastic pollution is orthogonal to climate change

* It sounds like you are implying that there is no man-made climate change, only natural cycles. This is 100% false. We are facing extinction as a species, and it's due to greenhouse gases we emit.
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There are several stories of parents refusing medical care for their children, ultimately leading to them dying, and they never waivered from their belief that a benevolent god would save them.

People can be extraordinary thick-headed, even in the face of direct experience (like people you know dying of covid).
Context: According to [0], $400,000 is in the top 1% of individual income across the US. It's in the top 3% of household income within California [1] and top 2% in SF/Oakland/Fremont [2].

0: https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/

1: https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-by-state-calculator/

2: https://dqydj.com/2018-income-percentile-by-city-calculator/
I don't know if I'd put a lot trust into the ecograder.
It states that my personal website is mobile optimized....I know for a fact it isn't because it's terrible on mobile (incorrect padding and margins...just haven't got around to fixing it).
> But..... the seller reappearance with a different name. They had the same product range and descriptions.

But don’t they loose all their reviews, which they clearly care so much about?
Probably a reasonably decent benchmark, given its age and specs.

I think the only reasonable step "up" (or down, specs wise) would be acceptable performance on $30 KaiOS devices, to maximize accessibility to visitors from developing countries, but that's about it?
I assume it's better value for money than actually building a set on location as they've done for previous Olympics
Actions everyday people can take are a drop in the bucket. The answer is in stopping major polluting corporations. And it's also the one thing America will never do, because that's who has the money.
They did not fail, politics killed them, the same politics that pushed for WebAssembly, but thanks to the WebAssembly pandora box, they were reborn just like Phoenix out of the ashes,

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpj

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpx-for-flash

Enjoy
Oh that is certainly not true. English is a fuzzy merchant pidgin but that's precisely what makes it almost trivial to learn, plus the CIA in it's infinite wisdom has seen it fit to encourage production of deluge of entertainment media that make immersing oneself in English content easier than any other language.
I'm looking at how China's currently pummeling their tech sector for the sake of the party* and am hoping that they'll apply the same decisioning to their emissions-heavy industries as well.

Doubt it'll happen, but I can be wishful with my thoughts.

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* https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/China-s-tech-cra...
Yeah, people should never say “we have no capital” when I see billions being used to buy bonds and prop up the stock market. It’s just ridiculous
I have my notes in one large disorganised plain text file. Sublime text searches it exhaustively in a fraction of a second. Works quite well though syncing across devices is still an issue
> They literally sell all your data to anyone who wants is

Where/how can I buy all data for, let's say a dozen users, that facebook collects?

No wonder public is completely misinformed about how ad revenue based companies operate when even on HN blatant lies are highly upvoted.
Then it seems to me that if Cloudflare successfully gets those who do live near an office to come to the office at least some of the time, there will be two classes of employee. Why not fully embrace the changed environment, close the offices (saving some money), and go distributed all the way? Then the employees who are currently near a former office but haven't put down roots there would also be free to move away if they like, and those who weren't near an office will be on a truly level playing field.
China is less troubling than US if you look at per capita numbers: US 15.52, China 7.38 tons of CO2
> We don't need more solutions

Ah, I see you have not read the book. No no my friend, we are not all there yet.

Some things are easy like energy production (mixed sources including nuclear) and transportation (batteries and electrofuels, though the latter is still too expensive for poorer countries so we'll need to improve those even if we technically could do it). But for example steel and concrete, things we need insane amounts of to house a few more billion people until 2100 and to build those nuclear/wind/etc facilities with, we don't really have solutions for those yet. I would recommend checking out the book.
What you're highlighting is the lack of avalanche effect with perceptual hashes (on purpose). This makes them great for identifying transformed content (e.g. local TV channels via a cable box, ads on channels with slid in lower third tickets, etc) but horrible as an evidentiary basis.

That said, there's no need to clickbait here. Perceptual hashes are going to be a hot topic for a while here.
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Just in the last half-hour he appeared on our TV screen here in Australia as part of an Olympics retrospective – gave a spoken tribute to the Australian team and belted out an acoustic rendition of Down Under. Never gets old.
I'm in two minds about this Apple news.

In one part, the pro-privacy part of me is of course aghast at the whole idea.

However...

If you "read the room", there have been increasing noises from the global political world in recent years, and perhaps especially in the US.

So if you think about it that way, it might be a case of Apple jumping before they were pushed.

I mean, let's face it, if you wait for the politicos to come up with a solution and force it through with legislation, they really would put in actual backdoors and encryption bans given half the chance.

I suspect others, such as WhatsApp, might begrudgingly follow in due course.

There's always GPG and a whole litany of other tools and apps for those who know what they are doing in terms of privacy.
Indeed. The idea is noble (if things like Youtube ran better on old devices, a lot of people would be forced to upgrade less often), but the opaqueness of the benchmarks and the "please give us money for books/consultancies" approach makes me question their intentions.
The purpose of entertainment is to keep the masses from revolting during idle times.
My static home IP was blocked by my new energy supplier.

It took almost 4 months to get through to someone who would accept my problem wasn't forgetting my password.

In the end, I was pointed to their third provider and told "sort it out yourself, not our problem". Thankfully that other company had a reasonable-ish appeals process...

...obviously I got relisted in their db a few times but things seem to have calmed down now.

https://pricey.uk/blog/connection-reset/
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I for one try to convey how concerned I am about this to everyone in my vicinity.

One of my recent successes was to be able to get my grandparents to accept that there's a problem. We're still having our extinction booth at the local grocery store, once a month. There we present damages done to the eco system, current information about climate change.

Still; many people are not really getting the message.
Interestingly, covid seems to have taught me the opposite. When covid hit, the time-to-market of a new vaccine was 10-15 years. The collective action of governments divided this number literally by ten. Despite all the bad words we've heard about bad policies and mistakes done by governments, I think we should be proud of what humankind has achieved during covid (granted, some governments have done and still do very poorly but let's not enter this kind of discussion).

As a consequence, I am quite optimistic about what we could do if the effects of climate chang were as obvious as those of covid (which unfortunately is not the case). And in that respect, I believe in both government action and the intervention of brilliant minds/leaders. We'll need (and have) both.
> We would be the last country where people would willingly restructure and restrict their lives for someone’s agenda.

You've have thought stopping the country from burning, sinking under the sea and being ruined by drought might be higher on the US populations agenda but perhaps they all want to go the way of the dinosaurs…
"covid is just like the flu" or "covid is just like smallpox" are both stupid; and even more stupid is the notion that those are the only choices

A hallmark of human stupid I've noticed is the "It's what we're supposed to do" factor. We know its dumb but we do it anyway because "its what the job description says", or "its what the boss would want" or so on. Where we abnegate our judgement for that of another is often the root of it; when that other's judgment is unknown to us, it's always stupid.
A gunshot by the alleged insurrection. Getting shot does not make one an organized rebellion attempt.

In a nation with as many guns as America, especially in the right wing demographic, I'd expect some shooting and a lot more organization before I upgrade from 'riot'. Insurrection is just political spin. Look at that picture with the goofball holding the speaker's podium and tell me these people were serious.
Couple of years ago was before current shortages, they seem to be effecting the price.
Yes. You can scale ES to fairly massive data volumes. Postgres is a very different system with different design constraints.

There are plenty of peta-scale ES clusters in the wild
> Shouting and arguing is how human beings deliberate since the beginning of our species - and it's how plenty of things have gotten done historically.

What if humanity has run into a problem where that is not enough to solve the problem? What if the true (but unknowable) state of affairs is that our traditional ways of communicating, even at their best, are not enough?

What if it's even worse, what if our traditional ways of collective decision making are also not enough? Or even more worse, what if the very way we traditionally think must be improved adequately in order to adequately address this problem?

As a thought experiment, imagine that these premises are literally true...what shall we do? What are some plausibly adequate responses to this set of problems?
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but if Amazon did that, a competitor would start to offer it and soon replace Amazon as the Status Quo.

Amazon knows this, and thus won't stop offering it. Consumer Responsibility isn't the whole picture, but it is part of it.

Pollution-based taxes is the only realistic solution to the problem IMO, but they seem far away from being implemented anywhere.