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by emn13 5y ago
The world is going to need a combination of a bunch of policies. It's not just emissions reduction; it's also carbon sinks, and adaptation to the non-avoided impacts. Also, none of this needs to happen overnight, and every step al
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by emn13 5y ago
Apparently the type of plastic is quite relevant; but whether straws are worse than air-bags for shipping... who knows. But perhaps more relevantly, however unsightly this whole plastic soup is, I kind of doubt the impact is anywhere near t
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by emn13 5y ago
There isn't much difference between windows and macos font rendering at large scales - you can try it in something like browserstack, so you can compare two oses on one screen simultaneously. I mean, it's not imperceptible side-b
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by emn13 5y ago
I get the impression most of these opinions stem from the Windows XP era. GDI rendering is horizontally hinted; but DirectWrite (as released in Windows Vista) is more linear in the horizontal axis (not sure if its entirely unhinted, but it
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by emn13 5y ago
In the US, I assume? Also, note that app stores aren't the only revenue, and precisely because the web does not work as well on ios devices, this number will be slightly biased in apples case.
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by emn13 5y ago
You are of course entirely correct (well, outside of the mob, which is probably a realistic factor for quite a bit of business, but kind of out of scope for "rules"). However, the essence of the matter isn't just about puttin
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by emn13 5y ago
... or pretty much every large organization ever if you're somehow falling between the cracks, and your approval isn't critical to their survival. Paying em money isn't enough, unless it's enough money to move the needl
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by emn13 5y ago
Sure, and I certainly would recommend people start with an off-the-shelf solution like google-drive. But that recommendation is based on precisely that - you don't want to need that expertise, nor risk screwing it up. But it's not
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by emn13 5y ago
I'm a little skeptical of that, especially in the scenario that it's a "don't want to look at it much" situation. I've had VM's running for many, many years in an autoupgrade scenario, and it tends to jus
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by emn13 5y ago
A few incidents with excessively dangerous stuff like smallpox aside, most laboratory security incidents are essentially no worse than what millions of people experience on any given day. Scratched by sick animals, tick bites, mosquitos, bi
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by emn13 5y ago
It would be nice if we somehow found a way as society to get the message out that scientists often just don't know. Because too often stories like this are interpreted by quite a few people as "science says ivermectin doesn'
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by emn13 5y ago
I read the french research at the time, and it was immediately obvious that it was deeply flawed. Asking around in more expert circles, that did seem to be the uniformly echoed initial reaction even then, from day 1 (not that that means it
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by emn13 5y ago
You're spot on. But beyond that, the idea that there's any kind of general public enlightenment to be had by spreading the most impactful (not necessarily accurate) videos by algorithmic selection in the face of considerable unce
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by emn13 5y ago
Where exactly is this positive evidence it leaked from the Wuhan lab - and not just emails that considered the possibility it might have?
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by emn13 5y ago
Exactly - the problem isn't the consideration of a lab leak as a possible source, it's the presentation of that theory embellished well beyond what's plausible without any evidence - and then suggesting it's not just a f
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by emn13 5y ago
Let's hope we never get to test this hypothetical, because it might even be easier to confiscate BTC - certainly to merely destroy BTC, and thus raise the value of your own. When a physical force comes knocking, it's going to be t
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by emn13 5y ago
I think we're in agreement, this isn't going to happen. I'd just frame it differently. If a politician were to try and ban this, I'm sure compentent spin doctors would think of better lines of attacks than bitcoin == ric
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by emn13 5y ago
Elections are only close in some states, and its hard to predict which issues voters will care about, especially since nobody has proposed exactly what a "bitcoin ban" would look like. The linked article also mentioned that coinb
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by emn13 5y ago
It's certainly an interesting social experiment. However, I'm curious how they want to prevent sales tax evasion. Or maybe they've just given up that fight? In any case, though I'm deeply skeptical that bitcoin has any
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by emn13 5y ago
Even if the people you label modern day robinhoods (but that take money away from people who work and make sacrifices to get ahead in life and redistribute it to themselves, which is not quite the typical robinhood version) really are as se
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by emn13 5y ago
I don't protest the obvious. There's little discussion about the harms of global warming in general; this is a generally accepted fact, at least to most people I engage with. The same can not be said about cryptocurrencies and t
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by emn13 5y ago
You can make a rough estimate of e.g. the CO2 emissions due to youtube and bitcoin, and thus get an idea of how the two relate. E.g. a quick google finds this: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22256-3 or this
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by emn13 5y ago
This makes no sense. Are you suggesting that e.g. the US military wouldn't exist if the US used bitcoin rather than dollars? And similarly for other currency+military combos? That strikes me as really implausible.
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by emn13 5y ago
But a cryptocurrency-backed exchange does not provide independence of a third party; so a in the pretty implausible hypothetical that you'd ban systems so gratuitously inefficient, you could make the argument that peer-to-peer transact
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by emn13 5y ago
But the problem with this approach is that you're making it impossible to extract the actual changes when you do want them, whereas simply skipping non-merge commits is a minor inconvenience (`--first-parent` tends to cover it). I me
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by emn13 5y ago
I mean, this isn't even really all that far-fetched, other systems do work like that, such as e.g. word's track changes or gdoc's history - or even a database's transaction log. And while those histories are typically un
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by emn13 5y ago
I certainly don't, but it's a standard option in git merge (and IIRC github supports it), so I'm pretty sure some teams do. As to rebases to clean up history (and not just the PR itself)... personally, I don't think th
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by emn13 5y ago
Oh yeah, rebasing branches as a "merge" policy is definitely tricky like that. (I mean, I'm sure some people do that with and perhaps with good reason, but it makes this kind of stuff clearly worse).
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git blame --first-parent
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ideally your branch commits would usually build too; but admittedly, I tend to bisect by hand, following the --first-parent. I suppose if the set of commits were truly huge that might be more of an issue. And of course, there are people t

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