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by Lutger 5y ago
Climate delay discourse is different but closely related to conspiracy theory, which has an excellent popular treatment in 'the conspiracy theory handbook': https://www.climatechangecommunication.org/wp-content&#x2
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Excellent reasoning, but I strongly disagree with the conclusion. The gap between action and belief is exactly why we need collective action, not individual action. There's a difference between us as a citizen, and as a consumer. The
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No. It's the other way around: shifting responsibility from government and corporation to the individual is an excuse for doing nothing and blaming you for nothing getting done. This is how recycling and the carbon footprint is invente
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What one must do as a citizen is put pressure on the government. And, as a consumer, one should also make climate friendly choices, but it's not the most important thing and it should not distract us from where the real difference is m
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Agree. S3 has become a defacto standard for object-storage apis.
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This is a well known PR tactic, described in Merchants of Doubt and most recently in The New Climate War by Michael Mann. Interesting enough, this tactic can also be deployed on strong believers in climate change in several ways. For exampl
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Cloudflare is still software. We consume these services by writing code after all. Another example would be postgres. I can rent postgres, including whatever hardware is used to power it, from AWS, GCP or Azure. Or anybody really, like Digi
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Why? Docker provided a lot of value for free, screwed up their own business model and almost went bankrupt before being bought for scraps by Mirantis. Then they still make their technology available for free (that's right, docker is
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A lot of people are also willing to invest in better isolation and sustainable ways of heating their homes. Meaningful action does not require us freezing in our houses, not yet. But you have a point, which is exactly why survival of our so
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by Lutger 5y ago
Terraform (and kubernetes) itself aren't a lowest common denominator, however I believe the comment alludes to an approach where you try to abstract cloud features. This can (kind of) reasonably be done with terraform and kubernetes an
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It's published in nature, you can be sure it's pretty serious. That doesn't mean it 100% establishes a causal relationship. Generally science is more nuanced and it's best not to negate its findings with the 'correl
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In this case, it's best compared to covid19 itself since not taking the vaccine will almost certainly result in getting covid. That risk isn't so great, also not long-term. There's already a lot of evidence and indication for
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by Lutger 5y ago
Metrics are not bad. Story points and velocity are usually bad metrics though. It's not a coincidence the consultancy sector uses scrum. They get paid for their output, usually by the hour, and scrum measures output. If a consultant im
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by Lutger 5y ago
Not having a deep expertise on the technical difficulties of cultured meat, but let me point out something obvious: farmed meat is usually heavily sponsored by the public through taxes and it's toll on the environment, on healthcare, o
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Yes. But not every manufacturer has committed this level of fraud in an attempt to illegally circumvent regulation.
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This is a large and ongoing part of becoming a developer. It also happens again every time you try to learn a sufficiently new or alien technology. You know you start to make progress when the error messages begin to make sense. Often you n
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I'm not sure what your concept of productivity is, but instead of indicating something about productivity, I think the increasing amount of decisions to make is actually about higher levels of complexity inherent in software developmen
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by Lutger 5y ago
Well, the imagery is intended more as an emotional way of coping with grief than a precise conceptual tool. But to be a bit more exact, the way I interpret death is not literally extinction of us as a species, but the deaths of many individ
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That's why I said limit, not ignore. If you update your knowledge once or twice every month you know enough of what's going on.
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I'm not sure, honestly. I don't have any references but there definitely is research about anxiety and depression caused by climate collapse. I know at least one psychotherapy professor (Netherlands) who specializes in this. There
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I've clearly defined the term misinformation, it's in my post please read it again. I don't realize what I'm advocating for because I'm not advocating for anything. I'm just pointing out that misinformation is
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I disagree. The guardian article reports that according to some US senators, facebook permits ads that contain 'demonstrably false claims'. However, most of the article is about misinformation that is actually more subtle than hav
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Most of the experienced developers you mention probably also don't know really know assembly - unless they are specialists, something which the generation before them think shows their lack of understanding. Assembly used to be canon,
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Whether that is true depends on your sense of scale. After we move to zero emissions, it will take only a couple of decades before CO2 will start to drop again, as the biosphere starts absorbing the greenhouse gases. There's some laten
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Even small-scale is illegal. We are not as liberal as our reputation. The conservative and christian parties have been in power for several decades now, and drug policies have only become less liberal under their governance. Ironically, som
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Drugs are very much not liberalized in the Netherlands, even growing Marihuana is illegal. We're just not arresting drug users, that's it. But it's still very much a criminal enterprise to create the stuff.
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It's a lot and I'm not surprised. Recent research in my country (from a reputable institute, the Netherlands) mentions 1 out of 6 people feel burnout and ranks IT industry in the top 3 sectors. This survey articulates it in quite
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These are all mostly non-issues outside of the US where virtually all countries have implemented some form of universal healthcare. The US is really unique in this respect, being so affluent and having an almost unbridled capitalism with a
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Boomers aren't rebellious at all.
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That's just the ops side of the fence being talked about here. The other side is having endless gating, change advisory boards, batching up work, gruesome change approval processes etc. that the ops protect themselves with against deve

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