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Licence compliance is irrelevant to submitting your own contributions. Typically when you submit contributions to open source software you retain ownership of the copyright, but grant a licence to the project owners to use it (and therefore to others because OSS licences includes a term about relicencing by definition). This doesn't stop you from granting others a different licence, or using it yourself however you like.

As an example, if I write and publish a complete program or library under GPL (or any other licence), then that doesn't stop me from selling the same thing under a proprietary licence. Qt is a classic example of this. Similarly, if I make a small contribution to a library under GPL, or any other licence, then that doesn't stop me from re-licensing my small chunk of code however I like, or reusing it internally under non-GPL terms - because it's mine!

The exception to this is those few projects that require you to actually assign copyright. Most notably this includes the FSF (except GCC as of a couple of months ago), their reasoning being that this makes it easier for them to litigate against violaters of the GPL, because only the copyright owners can sue.
I am pretty sure emergency diesel generators use a tiniest fraction of energy used by tankers moving goods around.
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I can't remember what it was I watching (hockey maybe?) when the CGI glitched out randomly and you saw all the green screens as they were.
Investments into public transport and bike infrastructure is relatively cheap and improves streets for everyone.

Taking a car lane and/or parking and making a dedicated bus and bike lane out of it will reduce congestion and increase the mobility of nearly everyone.
In what world is 28°C comfortable!?
Catchphrases are not what I associate with wokeism. Instead it's the redefinition of words already clearly defined before wokeism appeared. Such as

Man

Woman

Gender

Violence

Racism

These, and other words, appear to be redefined, (or hijacked) quite successfully, implying interpretive precedence by woke authority.

With that, discussing such topics becomes very difficult, in particular if such definitions are applied to the discussion itself.
Agree.

Without going into the religious bits and more spectacular bits of it there is an extremely interesting story going on in the last part of the book of Jonah in Nevi'im (in Christianity this is part of the old testament):

As Jonah tells the inhabitants of Nineveh about the impending doom they repent and the king of Nineveh puts on sackcloth, sits in ashes and makes a proclamation which decrees fasting, the wearing of sackcloth, prayer, and repentance.

Again, without going fully religious, this is an excellent example. When people see their "king" actually doing the thing themselves that they ask others to do, change happens. There is nothing religious about this. Here in Norway, former King Olav V was famous for, among other things, taking the tram during gas rationing in the 70ies.

Old people could still tell me back in the 80ies and 90ies that prince Olav and his siblings had actual porridge for breakfast like other kids.

Today royalty plays less of a role I guess compared to influencers and thought leaders of all kinds, but I still guess it would make a massive difference if next years Davos meeting was announced to be virtual because of climate concerns.

Or if a few tik tok/Instagram stars came out and showed their 2 generation old iPhones saying: I can get a new anytime I want but I actually do care about the environment.
Compared to Samsung, Sony, iPhone or recently Oppo their flag ship phones always appeared at a reasonable price point. Also their light/$2-300 phones series usually wasn't a complete joke like with many other major names.
The dividend from the taxes should be evenly distributed to everyone. This would compensate people who have good environmental lifestyle and allow local business that produce low carbon (due low distribution) to be more competitive
It worked for SO2 emissions.

https://voxeu.org/article/lessons-climate-policy-us-sulphur-...
I don't think there weren't ancient / primitive civilizations or tribes, it's just that they were fully erased from history as they didn't left any written history or well constructed monuments and/or big cities that we could find after 100-150.000 years (no need of "great events" to erase cities, just build the houses with mud bricks, wait 30-40k years).

At looking for clues about why those initial waves went exting, maybe we could take a look at how more recent tribes or even old civilizations like Incas, Mayas, etc. made it through a couple of centuries, and eventually got "extint".

Some of those groups were surrounded by other tribes, and tried to expand their territories, with different outcomes.

Some didn't tried to expand, they just got well adjusted to their original territory and didn't need more resources.

But everyone in those groups eventually disappeared from history.

Even when the american continent was discovered, the remaining "true" mayas didn't remembered or indicated that those big monuments, cities ever existed already taken / hidden by the jungle. Many of those also, were just found literally hundreds of years after having seen the last true mayas.
Thanks, that was very insightful.
Here is one engineering solution:

Weather should be very controlable by how much sun hits the earth. Which then causes heat, wind, water evaporation etc etc.

Large sun screen satelites (very simple ones that can fold out foil origami style) could block out a lot of sun at places according to stabilization weather models. Same for reflector sattelites, which could add more sun in specific places.

The difficulty is that we cannot send a hundred thousand sattelites out of our gravity well. We would need to setup basic mining and manufacturing on the moon for this plan to work (you can send sattelites into earth orbit at almost zero cost).
The time it would take to setup a factory on the moon should also be used to develop the necessary weather models, which should then be tested out very slowly with the first few thousands of sattelites.
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Sure, climate change will have a worse effect on poorer countries. But what's going to lead to greater suffering: climate change in the next few decades to a century or 10-15 years lower average life expectancy in India? And not only a shorter life - a worse quality of life too.

The US has a GDP of $65k per capita. India has $2.1k per capita. If we took the US GDP, add India's GDP and then divide the sum by the sum of India's and US's populations we get a GDP per capita of $14.3k. That would be a drop of almost 80% for the average American. You can imagine what they would lose in their quality of life over that.
Indeed. But simply closing down everything that pumps fossil fuel out of the ground breaks things we like and need. It's not that simple.

Or is the medicine still better than the disease? I don't know anymore.
I say this as a Frenchman: what a ridiculous statement. French meat and dairy consumption is not "perfectly fine".
Maybe you should read the report before claiming that it confirms your apocalyptic visions.

The lowest emission scenario in the report, with emissions falling to zero by 2050, keeps global warming below 1.5C. Yours, "discover fusion tomorrow, stop all CO2 release" would obviously do even better.
We should reduce pollution, not panic about weather. Seas are full of plastic and organic waste, dry land too, rain forests are burned down to make more field. I don't claim that human would not affect to climate, but it is extremely difficult to prove statistically when the data we have is something like 100 years from the full 5 billion years of existence of earth. How can you take all factors into account in this kind of statistical analysis?
Sure, but that is something that a poor person has very little influence on.
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Apple doesn’t.

Which is why they focused their research on differential privacy.
The digital equivalent of US civil forfeiture ...
It's both, actually. Water vapor is positive no matter what. Clouds can be both positive and negative at the same time, depending on cloud type, altitude etc.

This is one of the things that are hard to model. Get this wrong and you can swing from a mere +1 global warming (what CO2 alone would do in 100 years) to +3 or more.
I highly recommend Lisp in Small Pieces [0]. There is a second edition, but it is only available in French [1].

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/lisp-in-small-pieces/66...

[1] https://www.paracamplus.com/spip/?page=livre&isbn=978-2-9164...
I usually scroll fast through such stories looking for photos. I wonder if that's the intent: Don't include the photo and readers actually give your article a full view instead of leaving after seeing the photo (and presumably not earning your ads viewership).
> there are a ton of open vacancies for remote work already available

Well no, there were actually very few pre-covid. For example it s very hard for a disabled person to be a lecturer, despite tons of them being great researchers, and i have seen it this year with my disabled friend who had an explosion of opportunities to present her work in conferences, since every one of them became virtual.

On-premise work will become work at a premium. Want a real psychotherapist, fine but it will cost more. On the other hand, virtual will be cheaper. The rest is market re-balancing. I m not arguing that remote work should be mandatory everywhere, but in certain domains where it's easy and feasible, yes, legislation could push for more adoption.
It would be impostor syndrome, if we were excellent, but fearing that we are frauds. But if we are in fact frauds, then "impostor syndrome" is the natural self-diagnosis self-defence protecting us from admitting to ourselves the bitter truth. Maybe it's a better idea to react to the feeling of being an impostor with the will to change something in one's life? I know I feel much happier knowing that I have a plan which I systematically put into life, that lets me do fulfilling stuff, instead of the usual theatre.
World population will decline in any case if/when climate catastrophe happens. People will drown, drop dead from heats, die from starvation, etc. It's the Lotka-Volterra model where the predator is the environment.

Climate catastrophe is created by humans. Climate catastrophe kills humans. Conclusion: Humans kill humans. The genocide (mass scale murder) is already here (assuming climate change will be as bad as worst predictions are)

Only the strongest will survive. That is the cornerstone of Nazi ethics. That will also be the reality of everyone when food and water gets scarce. Damned if you sterilise 6B people, damned if you don't and they die from heat or fighting each other for food.

Moral theoretisising aside, population will decline before the total climate collapse. The current ethical beliefs of feminism, harsh economic conditions for young people (inequality and foreseeable end of growth), depressing reality how we will die horribly from ISIS, China or Climate Change. All of them bring about to less pairs creating children.

But humans will survive. We are worse than cockroaches. Nothing can destroy us. Mars might happen. Singularity maybe. But human race will persist in any case as long as earth persists in any livable state (-60 to +60 degrees C, somewhat fresh Air and uncontaminated water). Humans will downscale to a couple millions but will remain.
Long past time to start enforcing carbon tariffs on non-compliant countries.
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> If we're not all in this together, what's the point?

The point is that while we are squabbling over the most fair division of the burden, we are screwing future generations.

Qatar has 0.03% of the worlds population. We can't let climate renegade states preclude us from taking action, and we can't sit around until we have a world government.
It couldn't have been an honest mistake, they must have blocked it for political reasons. Imagine living in this state of paranoia.
I agree. I am just saying that Apple has always had massive backdoors in place. People were always pointing it out as a huge plus for iDevices. So no, the parent's main problem is not the backdoor. Otherwise they would have complained long ago.
New Zealand https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-rich-new-zealand-doo...
I don't think you will - need to do the math though - but my impression is that the distorted time and space from the ship's frame of reference will account for the observed energy expended.
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Mushrooms aren't scarce in humid environments
it is not sarcasm.

the customer care employee who is WFH and has access to your bank / income / health records can click your details on their phone and share with cops / telemarketing companies / criminals that will come after you .

you okay with that ?
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Did they, in those instances, make an explicit statement to the contrary?
I actually think this technology can be perfect in combination with new nuclear power.

FlibeEnergy hopes to use it, and I know the other vendors are not planning to use it, but if it came about they would love it.
What if every air conditioner was stopping climate change as it kept you cool?
Have been doing a lot of the right things for a couple of decades already, mostly because it is also the smart thing to do from a personal economic perspective though.

- reuse / repair instead of throwing away

- buying used

- put effort into maintenance

- avoiding wasteful activities

I actually enjoy it and I have a good life.
For direct emissions: Stop burning stuff. Do you call it fuel? Stop burning it. Or at least burn it as little as possible.

EVs and heat pumps solve two of biggest personal direct emissions sources: transportation and heating living spaces.

Beyond that, if you own a roof, get solar panels. Those are a modern miracle at capturing 20% of the Sun's energy, when photosynthesis for crop plants is about 1% to 2%.

Grow your own food, if you have a garden.
For all the carbon capture that the Devonian/Carboniferous period did over 100 million years, humanity undid a large part of it in 150 or so years. And now to preserve human civilisation in some form, the most direct way is probably to rebuild that carbon sink within a much shorter time. Much shorter than 150 years, not 100 million.

Current carbon emissions are over 10 billion tonnes per year, so the capture speed will have to exceed that by however much required, probably something like 10x as much. If a process could be scaled to capture 100 billions tonnes of carbon per year, it could be a viable way out of the mess.

Is it even possible with current technology given unlimited funding and political will? For example, if insoluble carbonates could be synthesised from atmospheric carbon dioxide, that could be a form of long-term carbon storage.
Water vapour has a short residence time in the atmosphere, is self-limiting (excess water precipitates out as rain or snow), and is already at equilibrium given ambient conditions.

The one variable that could drive additional water vapour is CO2, which by warming the atmosphere further increases the ability to hold water, and the amount of water vapour present.

If you want to reduce water vapour as a greenhouse-gas component of the atmosphere, reduce CO2 levels.

https://skepticalscience.com/water-vapor-greenhouse-gas.htm
How is the world preparing for millions of climate refugees?

According to the latest estimates Southern India will not be inhabitable for humans by 2050.

250 million people live in Southern India.
I really like your post!

It's not rocket science. Too many interest groups are convoluting the issue.

But, I think to clearest, easiest way is to just ban "coal, gas, oil". Then let the lack of it "tickle" through the economy.

Not by tomorrow, mind you, have it gradually reduce. Where there are problems, help with tax money.

We've done it before, with asbestos, lead in gas, ..
theoretically, "cannot afford" is impossible when remote work is abundant. After all what confines people to that tiny apartment was the physical requirements of their (or their parents') workplace. It certanily doesnt exclude anyone, it slightly inconveniences them, in return for greatly improving the lives of many more.
Did they in that instance say beforehand in clear and unambiguous terms that they would never do anything like that?
Market forces are not fully understood in complex systems but it does not mean they do not work.

Forcing employers to give more money to employees (rising wages through regulation) may cause some unexpected/unaccounted things (more consumption etc.).

Taxing something (like CO2) will definitely do not help that thing. Solving just Bitcoin problem is both hard (how do you prevent making certain computation while connected to the network, or how do you prevent buying certain digital goods) and is only part of the problem (it does not mean that fixing part of the problem is not worthwhile, but they are easier ways to solve bigger part of the CO2 problem).
It's not really zero, but the closer you get to c, the closer to zero the duration experienced by the astronauts will be.
So what do they mean when they use the word "computer scientist"?
Given the state of the world, and a desire to be as helpful as possible, the latter feels quite appealing to me right now.
You can indeed, but only if you accept what follows. You will be in charge of maintaining critical infrastructure, as well as keeping it safe from attackers.

My biggest complaint about the 1Password8 situation is that i've been "self hosting" version 7 for years using iCloud sync, and it has worked perfectly. I have my 1Password vault on every device for "free". With family sharing in iTunes, i had it for every family member for "free" as well.

With version 8 they're taking that away, and instead trying to push me to a $5/month subscription that essentially does the same thing.

I have faithfully purchased every version up until now, and had they kept local vaults/iCloud sync i would have purchased the next one as well. As it is now, self-hosted or not, i will be looking for something else. Afterall, all i really need is an encrypted file on a cloud share.

Unix Pass would be great if it didn't leak information about which sites you have logins for. "Easily" fixable by using Pass Tomb, but sadly that's not available on iOS.
Fiber through the sewer: https://fiberopticnews.blogspot.com/2007/08/ftts-fiber-throu...

https://www.govtech.com/archive/quincy-running-fiber-through...

https://www.lightwaveonline.com/fttx/cables-enclosures/artic...
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Change policy.

This isn't a problem solved by individualism.
>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.

You did not answer the question.

If you aren't at all concerned with the central point of this discussion and simply wish to abstractly discuss the nature of liquidity and wealth then I will leave the discussion here. There are economics textbooks that explain the topic to the layperson better than I would.
I believe that the potential number of jobs created on behalf of climate change mitigation would increase wages and income for millions of people and minimize poverty, and figures are often cited for renewables alone showing just this. What we need is a massive form of economic conversion (redefined as decarbonization) on a planet wide scale, and this requires close cooperation between existing companies in the energy extraction sector and the governments of every nation. I believe this project could also force competing nations to work together and promote peaceful relations and encourage new growth and trade. It requires changing hearts and minds.
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The last point is “pretty damn often” at least in the US now.
What a disingenuous comment.

Of course they are a political lobbying group! No shame in that, if they weren't they would be stupid.

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.

Waiting until your age of enlightened and reasoned debate around climate issues comes ensures that you never have to take action at all, which, I suspect, might be your point.
"and instead massively step up monitoring requirements for families"

Pls have a family first and then see if you ask for more state governence into your life?

It is true, most abuse happens in the family, but there is also schools, churches, sports clubs, ...

But the thing is, if the schools for example would have the stuff, with enough time (and empathy) to care about the actual children and talk with them and interact with them (and not mainly the paperwork about them) - then you could easily spot abuse everywhere and take action.

But they usually don't, so you have traumatized children coming into another hostile and cold environment called public school, where they just stonewall again and learn to hide their wounds and scars.

Child abuse is a complex problem, with no simple solution. But I prefer a more human focused solution amd not just another surveillance stepup.

Child abuseres also do not fall from the sky. If you pay more attention to them while they are young - you can spot it and help them, while they need help, before they turn into creepy monsters.
I'm in the same boat.

I don't want to selfhost anything. I've spend enough years doing that. All i really need is an encrypted file that can be synchronized using a cloud of my choice.
A few African countries are using Pfizer/BioNTech's mRNA vaccine as part of their COVID-19 vaccination programmes. By that measure, they're 'available'.

Pfizer/BioNTech have also signed an agreement with South Africa's Biovac Institute for the 'fill and finish' manufacturing of their COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.

It's not nearly enough of course, and no substitute for full-blown IP waivers and technology transfer. In fact you could argue they've been forced into this by the threat of those waivers. But it's not nothing.
> If you follow your logic to the extreme, the most beneficial actions would be things like euthanasia or just plain suicide.

Absolutely. Any logic followed to the extreme will yield extreme results. It could, however, be argued without much difficulty that people that exist have more rights than people that never will exist, so expecting someone to commit suicide (an extremely angst filled action that is also likely to cause an incredible amount of suffering within the person's close social circles) is not really at all comparable to asking them to not procreate - something that may not happen anyway for a number of reasons, and which does not inflict any particular amount of extra suffering.

It could also be argued that we don't really need to be eight billion, so some/most of us not procreating does not imply that there will be no future generations.

And, it could also be argued that all other life forms on earth are not worthless, and their well being alone - sans humans - could be worth preserving a reasonable climate for.
Not quite the same, but Google provided Spotlight-like software for Windows, and shown some local results when you were searching the big web. This was over ten years ago.