adamcstephens

And the regulations are captured by the companies who much prefer no competition. So we’re screwed by BOTH the corporations and the government.

We need new laws, and smaller companies.

I think in-sourcing management expertise to the public agencies would save a lot of money. Management consultants are expensive and their incentives are in conflict with public projects.

If a flat org is communism, what is a top-down org? A dictatorship or authoritarianism?

Some self-reflection seems like it would be valuable here.

If the taxpayer is paying for the grant, I have zero problems with them paying for publishing of the research.

Have you tried setting mem_sleep to deep? This helped on my Thinkpad until I got a new enough kernel that allowed the system to fully enter C10 state.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/pm/sleep-...

And if you want to dig into what happening in s2idle, https://01.org/blogs/qwang59/2018/how-achieve-s0ix-states-li...

> Sorry, that's just crazy. Of the billions of businesses that exist world wide, the only "business" that has ever gone that far has been government, the Nazi's.

How many people did cigarettes bring an early death to, while the tobacco companies hid and fought the evidence that they're awful for health? How is that appreciably different than literal gas chambers?

We should consider private taxes just the same as public taxes.

Cicadas can be harmful to trees from the egg laying. I’ve even heard of extreme cases where a young tree doesn’t survive.

https://wtop.com/local/2021/06/the-cicadas-might-be-gone-but...

Seems like your reason to be here is to point the finger at China while ignoring the problems in the US.

Personally, I'll focus on the US since it's a massive contributor to global warming and is the place I have the most leverage of any. Not that I have any real leverage, given the rampant corruption in American politics, but it's a better place to spend my energy.

I’m not hand waving China’s emissions away, and explicitly said they can and should do more. If and when they decide to deal with the problem, I expect they’ll make a lot more progress than we have.

We’ll just have to agree to disagree that America is trying to cut emissions. There seems to be neither political nor corporate will to do so. Furthermore Americans have zero desire for reducing their standard of living to help the planet.

What makes you think the US gives a shit either? Companies have spent the last forty years moving manufacturing out of the country because it lets them profit a bit more. They don’t give a shit about climate change unless they can make more money off it. I’m all for bringing manufacturing back on-shore, but what makes you think the lobbyists will stop trying to undermine environmental regulations if we do?

I consider it propaganda to blame China for all its emissions, when how much of them are to build and manufacture junk for the west? No, raw emissions numbers are not “the only metric that matters” because we live in a complex world with a complex web of trade. Sure, China can and should do a much better job cutting emissions. Though if that causes production prices to go up, the American companies will just move production somewhere else that is further behind in environmental regulations.

Nobody in power gives a shit about the climate and emissions. The words you’re hearing from them don’t match their actions, and we in the US are nowhere near a sustainable level even if you ignore our outsourced energy usage.

Who is to blame for outsourced manufacturing then? If one country consumes a vast amount of goods from another, are they not also accountable for that other country’s emissions?

It seems like it’s too late for technology, given that there are no large scale solutions.

Technology also has a tendency to cause its own, new, set of problems, which can be worse than problems they’re trying to solve.

It’s not a panacea, and I would not recommend counting on technology to solve it either.

Fair enough, I was wrong so deserve the downvotes.

Very few European countries are innocent when it comes to taking land that wasn’t theirs.

Almost as bad as a different country claim stealing a portion of your country and claiming it as theirs?

This post confused me because of all the large boxes linking to other articles by the author. They really break the flow of the article and seem to take up even more space than the unique content in this one.

They didn’t enslave people because they were racist, they enslaved people because it was effectively free labor. Sure, they chose Africans because they were racist and thought them savages, but that isn’t why the institution of slavery existed.

Thanks, I did some quick research but couldn’t find that info so just went with the “may” qualifier.

I filter mine as well, and use Fastmail’s snooze to only have them show up once a day.

I used to use rss heavily, but it has been many years since I regularly checked a client. At least with email delivery I don’t miss them.

Because it undermines the legitimacy of the author, who may be writing about an area of the country he has little direct knowledge of.

Isn’t it physically inefficient and wasteful to have multiple companies running fiber through a neighborhood? Why not run one set of fiber and let companies compete for the customers on those lines?

The only ballot initiative we have in Ohio is constitutional amendments, which is a pretty blunt instrument.

Tax the rich more, tax carbon, and build trains and buy buses. Stop subsidizing single occupancy vehicles which are a huge resource waste even if electric. Why as a society do we want to subsidize a vehicle that is going to spend 95% of its life parked when we can build common transportation that everyone can use?

Thank you for this. I don’t see how we make any significant changes to our trajectory without accepting a “lower” quality of life than what we have now. We need to localize, we need to rid ourselves of continuous consumption of useless junk, and we need to reconnect our resource use to the planet that sustains us.

None of that is accomplished by the virtue signaling you mention of replacing one luxury item with another different one.

There are multiple different types of coops. Here’s a good breakdown: https://ncdc.unl.edu/typescooperatives.shtml

You’re correct that financing is harder compared to VC funding, and likely involves personal or bank loans.

Except I think the matrix project is going with pinecone instead. https://github.com/matrix-org/pinecone

I agree that adding docker to a Go dev setup is not worth it, but I think commenter was asking for a docker image for running it. In that case, I’d say that docker could be worth it for the end user.

I agree with your final point, but China resource usage is partially attributable to American consumption. We can’t export all our manufacturing to other countries and then point at them for causing climate change.

Every car is a decision to pollute and use excess resources, it’s just a matter of scale. Even if you are lucky enough to have a clean source of electricity, you’re still contributing to the problem. Asphalt is made from oil and concrete releases co2, both of which are used to make the roads necessary for you to drive this vehicle around. Then there are the energy and resource inputs into the vehicle itself, the infrastructure built bigger for car driving distances, etc.

The better option is to not own a car at all, and walk/bike/transit your way around.