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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
This is how most modern supply chains look like. Plus, chips are small in size and cost a lot so you can fit a lot in a container. Per unit shipping costs probably come out to be pretty low. Especially when compared to the political costs a
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Sure but well-insulated concrete doesn’t transmit much visible light.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Depending on how bad of a problem it is, one can get the glass coated to reflect infrared, and that heating issue is cut down dramatically.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
There is nothing inherent to the benefits that these companies tout that require them to lock us out of our own devices. What you are describing is not a tradeoff but a magnificent bribe . They bribe us with measly benefits in order to a
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
I think we’re talking about different things now. I’m saying that emissions should be measured one absolute levels per country since a) absolute pollution is what matters and) countries are the political blocks that dictate international la
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
> The thing people are dancing around is any concept of "rationing" I don’t know who those people are. Also, another way to say rationing is “sharing”.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
> So why focus on countries specifically? Because it is at the country level that people corporate on international problems. And in many countries it is the federal (or equivalent level) which has the money required to build out the kin
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Because there's a severe shortage of talent (willing to work for the offered prices)
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
> The per-capita measurement allows you to directly and meaningfully compare any subdivision, while per-country isn't even meaningfully comparable with other per-country measurements. Compare to what end? The environment cares about
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
No. The comment I replied to is about comsumption-based emissions, which attempt to account for exactly this. See the description in the link
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
At the end of the day, it's one ecosystem we all live it. It doesn't matter if the top polluter has 1 billion, 0.1 billion, or 10 billion people. The total amount of greenhouses gasses added to the atmosphere is too much. We all n
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
99% invisible recently did it as a book club. You can listen to a much shorter chapter-by-chapter summary and discussion about it: https://99percentinvisible.org/club/
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Is there a version of this that isn’t per capita? The environment cares about absolute amounts not per capita amounts.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
> In an ideal world, a function that only works for small integers would bake that into its type system. Ie, rather than accepting “any integer”, the function would accept a u8, or a value compile-time guaranteed in the range of 0..10 or
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Except the mouse only exists in the world because the cat choose to. Google doesn't have to list websites that are bad actors. There's nothing to Optimize if the search engine doesn't list you.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
> Have you considered googling and checking your assumptions? May help clear up the cynical misunderstandings you appear to have. I don't have any such misunderstanding. Perhaps consider seeing my original comment which links to an
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Except the alternative to electric are petrol/diesel cars which are worse than electric cars run on gas or coal. The pollution no longer occurs in population zones, and the grid can be cleaned up without changing the car. The alternati
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
My tone is because this is a simple predatory delay strategy. Tomorrow, tomorrow, I’ll decarbonize tomorrow. Instead of paying to buy wind and solar plants, which can go up today they are signing a meaningless agreement for the future
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Microsoft isn’t paying to restart. A PPA is a contract saying they will purchase electricity for a specified price for a fixed term. Three Mile Island needs to be able to produce the electricity for the specified price for Microsoft to pay
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Nobody is building nuclear power plants for data centres. A few people have signed some paperwork saying that they would buy electricity from new nuclear plants if they could deliver it at a certain price, a price mind you that has not been
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
> just as oil is a finite resource, the internet contains a finite amount of human-generated content. I guess now they’re being explicit about the blatantly extractive nature of these businesses and their models.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Ecosystem, Open Source, and Freedom sure are bandied about quiet freely by the same guy who says “WordPress.org just belongs to me personally", and then unilaterally gets to decide what plugins are available to WordPress users.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
>The country’s National Health Service stopped the routine prescription of puberty blocker treatments to anyone under 18 as treatment for gender dysphoria following a landmark review into gender identity services undertaken by Hilary Cas
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Ah yes, "Felony Contempt of Business Model". https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/felony-contempt-busine...
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
> Plus one should not judge a book by its cover Why not? The cover and that things that go on it are as much a part of the book as any other page. This saying is so outdated and comes from a time when all book covers were essentially the
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Meanwhile this is coming as a standard feature on many new cars, and all your data goes straight to LexisNexis.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
I don’t think so. Weight is a rule of thumb for damage to the road . Aggressive acceleration is much more of an impact to wear. All the people I know with EVs love the feeling of gunning it from a red light on when getting onto freeways. Y
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
The major EVs by volume are Teslas, which are definitely tuned towards much sportier than a “regular” ICE vehicle.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Doesn’t this make the case specifically for better government and regulations rather than more “competition”? Won’t all of that competition simply do the same thing vis a vis TFW? Which by the way seems like a crazy program they got going o
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
> Even then, most cars I believe you mean most drivers. All of this talk about EV tires wearing faster than ICE tires is driven by people accelerating aggressively simply because they now can.

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