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During same period Arctic summer sea ice extend also was reduced by 50%, volume shrunk down to 25%. Environmental news do not spark lively discussions here - ex
by noiv 14y ago
During same period Arctic summer sea ice extend also was reduced by 50%, volume shrunk down to 25%. Environmental news do not spark lively discussions here - except a data center opens in the high North. Can only guess about reasons, may be green entrepreneurs are already more impressing at parties or as long as net works there is no need to discuss and in the other case no possibility.
However seeing a colorful reef turning grey is depressive on Sunday and partially explains my mood to get voted down.
- pault 14y agoLook on the bright side, if it continues to lose half its volume every 30 years, it will be here forever!
- nsns 14y agoEnvironmental news do not spark lively discussions here Well... some do - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4244787 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4244787
- noiv 14y agoMmh, 40 comments, 90 days ago. The use of semicolons in Javascript gets more response here every week.
- jakejake 14y agoIt is sad but, to be fair, this is a tech forum and there are places to go for other types of news.
- mattmanser 14y agoIt's not even a 'to be fair', this has got nothing to do with programming or startups. Why would it get upvoted or discussed? It's more like to get flagged as OT.
- corporalagumbo 14y agoThe Hackernews news guidelines define appropriate content as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." [1] It's a personal measure, to be sure, but count me as one curious data point that finds considering major ecological changes in the world intellectually gratifying. [1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mattmanser 14y agoSeriously, what's intellectually gratifying about it? It's outrageous, sad, worrying, but intellectually gratifying? That's a very big stretch. There are places to go for this kind of news and here ain't it.
- noiv 14y agoMay be one should put it different: If connection lines get interrupted by tornadoes, storms, what ever, would this topic then qualify your subjective criteria? Or even more to the point, would you support a HTTP error code 456 indicating service interrupted by climate change?
- jakejake 14y agoThere's thousands of humanitarian discussions that we could discuss - human trafficking, politics, wars, global warming etc. Speaking for myself, it's not that I don't want to discuss these issues - it's just that I come to HN for tech-specific topics. I don't think the community should be judged as having no compassion or care of the environment just because they want to keep the HN topics focused on tech. But regardless, the story made it to the front page so obviously enough people felt it was relevant.