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by hkt 3y ago
No, because this is unprecedented and within our means to control if we have the will to do so. One hopes we're slightly more forward thinking than other species, although hope is a double edged sword.
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by hkt 3y ago
Measuring doom is hard, and there are an awful lot of people trying to work out exactly how bad things are and if they can be salvaged. No need to be too flippant about it.
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by hkt 3y ago
> ...nuclear power, it's not "renewable" per se, but it's very low on carbon... Sorry, but no. The whole life carbon emissions (WLCE) of nuclear are deeply contested and estimates from academic studies tend to be much
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by hkt 3y ago
There are cute little things like the Citroen Ami: https://www.citroen.co.uk/ami They're nearly compelling enough for me to learn to drive. Nearly..!
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by hkt 3y ago
The proper "exchange rate" between CO2 and other molecules is known as the GWP, Global Warming Potential: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential Methane is 25x worse than carbon dioxide - desp
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by hkt 3y ago
I'd second this: self hosting and so on is a poor substitute for democratic, socially owned infrastructure. That's the only way we can make social, rather than corporate, networks accessible to everyone in a sustainable way. At th
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by hkt 3y ago
Obligatory plug for cycling and cycling infrastructure. Getting people out of cars - all cars - is a necessity for preventing catastrophic climate change.
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by hkt 3y ago
Interesting that you say that about books - libraries were common (in the UK at least) even before the 1870 education act. It would be a cheap subscription and the subscribers would choose what filled the shelves, often with direction from
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by hkt 3y ago
I love this kind of thing and massively encourage the (seemingly very young!) operator to keep their desire to provide useful and interesting stuff for their community. People who do that carry on their crafts and interests to a new generat
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by hkt 3y ago
It depends on the charity. Autism UK provides advice and support as well as helping coordinate groups of carers, undertaking advocacy, etc. It is another one of the areas in which social care funding is lacking. In any case, it really isn&#
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by hkt 3y ago
My son is 7 and nonverbal, as in your example, and I share much the same problem with the widening of the definition of autism. My partner - a successful academic - is also autistic, in the manner of your other examples. As with any term th
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by hkt 3y ago
Is there even a free market today? Has there ever been? Just looking at telecoms, it is clear that they're monopolists.
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by hkt 3y ago
Worsening of economy by what measure? The argument is circular if you're saying "less profit is made in economic setups which encourage not-for-profit activity". It hardly seems like a reasonable criticism. More interesting i
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by hkt 3y ago
The history of computing is intimately tied with government investment and academic research. Hence ARPAnet and ALOHA. The impetus for world changing innovation tends to come from governments trying to improve things that are structurally i
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by hkt 3y ago
Nobody should be surprised that management consultancies measure and manage the wrong things. That's the story of the last half a century. I've managed to avoid them for most of my career but if you ever want an inefficient, dehum
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by hkt 3y ago
I'll anecdotally confirm this - fast IO matters and sped my pi desktop up considerably.
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by hkt 3y ago
Ah, the Western media's racism extends to social media. Predictable.
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by hkt 3y ago
My seven year old kept being advertised shaving equipment, including razors. Obviously they know dad has a massive beard. Jokes aside though, I'd rather nobody be piqueing his interest in blades so I've adblocked the entire house.
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by hkt 3y ago
"legitimately"? I'd be surprised..
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by hkt 3y ago
I upvote items that are of interest to me, or things I'd rather see at the top of the front page (compared to what is there already). For comments, I'll upvote insight or prosocial behaviour (praise directed at a free software aut
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by hkt 3y ago
> I want to pay for what i use. You do. Ascribe a value to the data you give up to them by consuming content on their platform. They do.
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by hkt 3y ago
True enough. Things like Tribler would be good, if they did intra-tribler connections.
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by hkt 3y ago
True enough. I've thought before it'd be good to cache and mirror YouTube videos as they're watched, and then provide them through IPFS with an index that's shipped around so people can pre-filter their searches and page
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by hkt 3y ago
Hilarious. What an absurd product. You can build a pretty luxurious tiny house for less than the basic model, and grab yourself a composting toilet system with a flush, too. If you're thrifty, you could upgrade to a photovoltaic-therma
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by hkt 3y ago
"Stealing". Bless you, not giving up data while accessing something public is not stealing. Defending yourself against surveillance is morally unambiguous. Society as a whole, across the entire world, needs to start talking about
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by hkt 3y ago
Or use it in a way that doesn't give up your data quite so easily. I recommend Minitube for Linux desktop and NewPipe for android.
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by hkt 3y ago
Maybe we don't want the business models of data hoarding multibillion dollar corporations to be sustainable. Maybe there are good alternatives that don't rely so much on exploitative practices. Just a thought.
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by hkt 3y ago
The data of rich profiles is enormously valuable to Google. They allow Google unparalleled ability to target ads elsewhere, too. That's the game.
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by hkt 3y ago
True. yt-dlp is symlinked to youtube-dl on my system and I forget that sometimes!
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by hkt 3y ago
Thanks! It is still early days and I don't have much time but I'm telling myself I'd like to be able to daily drive my news sites with it eventually. Annoyingly it segfaults a bit at the moment, but it'll get there with

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