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by jes5199 7y ago
We _require_ that ads and other trackers are removed for our customers (basically, when we have a certain cookie set). And our users know that if they see our logobar on a site that they shouldn’t see ads- so they report if something goes w
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by jes5199 7y ago
I’m going to break character and talk about my work - I’m at a company, Scroll.com , that sorta does micropayments - but instead of having an account that you drain as you browse, we have a flat monthly subscription that we divide up among
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that API is such a mess, though.
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it almost doesn't matter whether the content is polarizing or toxic - people form mobs whether their opinions are reasonable or not. Even reasonable criticism gets converted into harassment campaigns, thanks to the dynamics on twitter.
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acidification is out of their control, though - it's directly linked to global carbon emissions
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by jes5199 7y ago
methane leaks are real bad, though. And solar means we can put generation closer to consumption, so we need fewer long-haul lines.
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by jes5199 7y ago
I think direct capture to high-value molecules is the future. The Licht group - one of the Carbon X-Prize teams - have some pretty astounding prototypes. Solar-powered direct-air capture to carbon nanofibers with no waste products. It’s lik
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by jes5199 7y ago
I’ve worked on code that does this before and I thought I understood it, but something about these explanations are making it way more confusing to me
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didn’t Chrome recently announce that they’re going to freeze the user-agent string?
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yess, but then the numbers that power quantum physics stop working. something about the renormalization group? My incorrect understanding is something like: quantum models imply a uniform layer of “virtual” particle/anti-particle pairs
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by jes5199 7y ago
I think it’s because there’s debate about the ethics of these companies that they come up in these conversations. I don’t feel like I need to say “don’t work at Palantir” - if you build surveillance tech at Palantir then our politics are
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income-based deferment!
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yesss but people who take jobs at FAANG companies are generally not in that situation
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he mentions population growth falling due to birth control as an unlikely prediction, but it seems to be where we’re actually headed! There’s a book with a lot of research on this called “ Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Declin
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by jes5199 7y ago
the solution is bundling. For example Patreon bundles all your subscriptions into a monthly credit card transaction, and bundles all the payouts into monthly payments too
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they’re practically two sides of the same coin. I keep thinking it should be possible to build a toy language that has both a forth-like mode and a lisp-like mode, that use the same standard library
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by jes5199 7y ago
the amplification of reasonable criticism into harassment campaigns is a major dynamic in the last few years, and it generally ends up pushing people completely offline instead of like, allowing them to improve. It's in open source but
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by jes5199 7y ago
and and and you can use carbon-negative nanotubes as ingredients in other building materials, which makes them stronger, so you need less of it, so you emit less co2 making (for example) concrete: https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com&#x
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by jes5199 7y ago
and oh yeah - they can make macro-scale carbon nanofiber "wool" which can be woven into future textiles: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S246860691...
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I like cotap.org for this. Carbon offesets that go to tree farming in places where jobs planting trees might pull people out of poverty
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C2CNT - direct air to carbon nanotubes: https://www.c2cnt.com/ they can grow nanotubes with simple electrolysis, and the only inputs are electricity and co2. They've got a version that works in a gas plant's exhau
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by jes5199 7y ago
It will get worse, but maybe not as worse as we’ve been thinking: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/climate-change-worst...
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the cost of solar panels, wind turbines, and battery storage continue to drop. They are already undercutting coal in about half of the world. They’ll depress the prices of fossil fuels until it’s no longer possible to turn a profit on them
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because adding that single header breaks the behavior on old browsers
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I say AR yes, but glasses no
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I agree that it's weird. Maybe it's similar to US policies to prop up coal rather than deal with retraining workers? There's reports that they just implemented a coal pricing reform: https://www.chinadialogue.net&#
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I wonder if 2020 is the year that global emissions start to fall. In some sense, that's too little too late, but I still think it would be a victory. It's really up to China, who was mostly recently estimated to peak in 2022, but
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China is very close to the tipping point where it stops making economic sense to burn coal. They already are running their coal infrastructure at much lower load
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currently natural gas is mostly a byproduct of oil extraction - as long as we're burning a lot of oil in our motor vehicles, the cost of natural gas will be very low. When we start decarbonizing transportation, natural gas supply might
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in many parts of the world, we've already crossed a tipping point where solar and wind are cheaper than coal. We should be doing everything in our power to make that true for developing nations as well

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