Is HEVC really the best option for a long term format that will still be readable in a decade or three? Something more open and standardized seems preferable.
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Adding “deplatform” or whatever to the dictionary isn’t a statement about how proper it is as a word. It’s a statement that it’s a word in use, and so if you come across it, here’s what it means.
And when people take things that were not caused by climate change, point at them and scream “LOOK, CLIMATE CHANGE,” they’re not doing any favors for the rationality cause.
My point is that there’s no reason to think that the land Tuvalu has lost has anything to do with climate change. Pretending otherwise is pure theater.
> Kofe said he delivered the video address, scheduled to be aired at COP26 on Tuesday, in a place that used to be dry land, adding that Tuvalu was seeing a lot of coastal erosion.
Coastal erosion, not climate change, not rising sea levels.
Yes, there was a higher level comment from someone else. But it wasn’t the one you replied to.
> Fission releases the energy of the electromagnetic force when positively charged parts of the nucleus fly away from one another. Fusion releases the energy of the strong force (much stronger at short distances than the EM force) when the small pieces are captured and held into one nucleus.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29096388
Then click parent. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
Smugness indeed.
That seems impossibly ambitious.