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by midasuni 3y ago
You have to weigh the likelihood of potential harm. The liklihood of harm from the co2 pumped out by continued fossil fuel is far higher than some magical never before happened scenario
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by midasuni 3y ago
Potential damage is one thing, but for actual deaths coal is 1000 times more deadly per TWh than nuclear, so surely coal requires far more rigourous safety standards https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-e
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by midasuni 3y ago
The journalists created the content for the NYT, the users created it for Facebook. Both received something in return for their effort, and the content ended up being owned by NYT/facebook
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by midasuni 3y ago
So downloading a movie from piratebay is no different to using the library?
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by midasuni 3y ago
I used to set my mail client up to bounce emails detected as spam with a fake bounce and a delete. My mail provider (university) at the time complained to me because those bounces themselves bounced.
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by midasuni 3y ago
For running mail you don’t need upload bandwidth, and in my country certainly outside of mobile, CG nat isn’t a thing. Static IPs tend to cost a pound or two more a month from many ISPs but not all. 20 years ago, and of course before then i
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by midasuni 3y ago
The first 75+ years are no longer in copyright, so certainly possible to train on thousands maybe millions of NYT articles without concern.
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by midasuni 3y ago
It’s not clear if solar includes reduced demand from rooftop solar, or just grid connected solar Either way 5% is a tiny amount. biomass is also far better than gas for those times when you do need to boost supply, so increasing biomass sti
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by midasuni 3y ago
Wow I havent written a CGI script since before Christmas. Stuff still works just fine, a nice simple way to expose things to users without them having to ssh into a server. Not everyone is trying to build the next adladen POS unicorn financ
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by midasuni 3y ago
This is a long term trend
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by midasuni 3y ago
In 2022 biomass was 5% https://www.edie.net/what-did-the-uks-electricity-generation...
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by midasuni 3y ago
And the vast majority of vehicles are ulez exempt. Doesn’t stop those in the outer boroughs whining about how the commies are coming for their teslas though. And someone is paying for that parking, land isn’t free.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Colossus was before eniac, but was also programmed by plugging up. Baby was a stored program machine and had branching
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by midasuni 3y ago
Right now it’s generating less power than Solar - in the depth of winter, 8% Gas is 50% higher at 12% and that doesn’t include the gas usage in keeping homes warm Wind (32%) imports and nuclear are all higher than gas for the electricity ge
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by midasuni 3y ago
This government is leaning heavily into culture wars, they are unlikely to attach themselves to something they are painting as “woke” (cleaner air in school playgrounds, lack of smog, etc)
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by midasuni 3y ago
For those unaware and to give an idea of leanings, the magazine used to be edited by Boris Johnson. The tone of the article is very much “climate change is a problem but the U.K. is a tiny amount of it and it won’t be impacted by the U.K. m
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by midasuni 3y ago
Funny I drove in london a couple of weeks ago just fine. Stayed in a hotel near docklands, later drove to the British library and parked there for a few hours. Yes there was a financial sting from parking, last I checked NCP wasn’t owned by
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by midasuni 3y ago
Biomass is a small impact. The next big impact will be ever increasing wind power and the shift from gas to electric for heating.
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by midasuni 3y ago
It is mentioned in the article and they include figures. I’m not convinced by the reliability of those figures, given the carbon intensity of the imports (from a higher carbon grid in China and from the transport) Other sources put U.K. imp
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by midasuni 3y ago
They do address that and mention consumption, and the U.K. is down 32% including import, second to Italy.
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by midasuni 3y ago
And before that we’d copy out of Britannica by hand. No rephrasing to do now though.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Almost certainly no. Unlike the assertion made, she didn’t need to escalate it.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Modern codecs can smear the information over multiple P frames and have no iframes at all.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Can’t do that in some cases. Tacacs for example doesn’t allow for private keys
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by midasuni 3y ago
Most people on HN are temporarily embarrassed billionaires waiting for their next startup to be graced
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by midasuni 3y ago
Certainly never been in the US. The US decides holocaust denial is fine, but saying “I’m going to kill the President” isn’t. Other countries have different views. The US is happy to arrest people who work for companies who disagree with US
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by midasuni 3y ago
If a US company wants to do business in the EU it must follow EU laws. If a Brazilian country wants to do business in the US it must follow US laws.
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by midasuni 3y ago
I don’t. I remember when every country and society have different views on freedom of speech and where the limits are.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Sam’s pizzas in Albany don’t have to do anything with Brazilian law. However if it wants to do business in Brazil it has to follow those laws. I don’t do business in North Korea so I’m not interested in upholding their law. I do do business
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by midasuni 3y ago
It’s enough to store the name of every human being that has ever lived.

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