Ingroove is known to be a fraudulent troll. They have been doing this to massive amount of creators, in many cases asserting rights to music they do not own the rights to.
Are you suggesting that states should go into lockdown because people were too stupid to get vaccinated?
I am all for taking measurements to keep those to young to get vaccinated safe, but I draw a line with unvaccinated adults who have had every opportunity to get vaccinated. Those with an actual medical condition are a separate case, but I see no reason to take any actions to protect those who deliberately chose not to be vaccinated.
For the record, I am also of the opinion that we should prioritize everyone else in triage over unvaccinated covid patients.
That is a relevant point (especially earlier in the pandemic), but it is decidedly not the issue at hand. Hospital beds are one of many issues at the moment. If we had more beds, that wouldn't alleviate the shortage of medical staff, for example. It also wouldn't solve the core issue at hand: a large percentage of the population is not willing to get vaccinated, despite an unimpeachable argument to do so.
The US situation with hospital capacity has little to do with lockdown measures, and far more to do with the insufficient vaccination rate. People who chose not to get vaccinated are now preventing others from getting treatment.
This is not a very convincing argument at all. Syntax highlighting takes away the mental burden of analyzing the syntax of a program, freeing the programmer to think about the structure and semantics of it. A good IDE (a good vim setup can count too) goes further, making the structure and semantics of a program more easily discerned.
Depends, cheap restaurants see more traffic, especially fast food. They should be able to spread the cost of increased wages across the additional customers.
I know a lot of small business owners who do nothing but whine about this in my hometown. However, I think that their issue really is not offering wages as high as the competition. An old friend of mine is doing pretty well with his recently established restaurant, as he has one of the only dinners at full staff in the area. He is paying about $25 per hour, and it seems to be working quite well, as he not only has a full staff, but people are pretty motivated when paid decently.
I think that per-capita normalization in particular is interesting. I have a spreadsheet where I did that, and the Philippines stands out even more then, as does Brazil. GDP is a bad normalization factor here, as the trend is weird. High income countries have very low emissions in general. Low income countries sometimes have high per capita emissions, but not usually. Middle income countries are the most likely to be high emitters, as they are most likely to be consuming large amounts of plastic without having developed the infrastructure to process the waste.
Interesting point regarding the incinerators! From what I've read, a lot of it has to do with systemic mismanagement of the situation from the various governments over the past few decades.
IF you want the raw numbers, check out the references at the bottom, particularly the "top" reference, published in 2021, which is where the raw data is.
From what I've seen, the only oceanic activities that add much is fishing, which seems to be currently estimated to produce around 20% of global oceanic plastic waste. I believe the link may have mentioned this. If not, some of the references at the bottom will.
Not really. Most of this waste seems to be single-use, and if you read through the cited references, the primary factor seems to be the inability to manage waste plastics from locally consumed products. Rivers are tempting targets for waste disposal if you lack a good waste management service locally.
That isn't the case based on the data. Fishing nets aside (which are definitely from predominately Chinese-owned fleets), much of this is actually not from the recycling systems, but is instead single use plastics, especially since China stopped accepting recycling from overseas.
I would argue that these are the wrong questions. As this article, and those papers referenced by the article point out, this has to do overwhelmingly with inadequate waste disposal systems. More interesting questions for solving the issue might be:
What types of items end up in the oceans?
Are they dumped legally or illegally?
What are the reasons that certain countries don't have the infrastructure in place to dispose of waste?
How can wealthier countries do their part in supporting countries who need to develop better waste management infrastructure?
I think that it is better to ask questions that lead us directly towards solutions that are actionable. The data strongly suggests that ineffective or nonexistent waste management is the root cause, so I think we should direct our questions towards solving that issue.
These actions do reduce litter, but most ocean emission is the result of a complete lack of waste disposal systems. The quantities involved are always far larger in situations where a very large portion of waste is simply dumped into a river.
I've been reading up on this stuff for a while. Most of the waste is actually single use plastics from products consumed in the emitting countries, that are disposed of improperly. For example, the Philippines has an issue with sachets.
Yeah, SUP bans don't do anything for the ocean. Investment in waste management solutions in low and middle income countries is far better for the environment, but most politicians are not terribly well informed.
It could have some small connection, but I would probably guess (based of of general trends) that it has to do with some regions or cities not yet having adequate waste disposal systems.
As the article discusses, the main contributing factor is a lack of effective waste disposal systems, almost entirely in low and middle income countries. The US, for example contributes .25% of global ocean plastic emissions (not the 4.5% from all of NA, most of which is from Central America and the Caribbean). High income countries can help low income countries develop these systems through grants and subsidies.
We do not have a 4.5% contribution, most of the NA contribution (as shown in the linked data) comes from Central America and the Caribbean. We contribute .25%.
So, there is some interesting data on this in the data. Most of the North American waste comes from central America and the Carribean. The US and Canada combined are responsible for .27% of global plastic emission. Guatamala emits .73%, Panama emits .53%, Haiti .71%, and the Dominican Republic .64%.
Banning plastic bags won't do anything here. This is about countries not having sufficient waste disposal systems. If you want to have an impact on this, don't push for bans on plastic bags and other single use plastics. Donate to NGOs that help build new waste management systems in affected countries and push for federal grants to such organizations (if in the US).
As a side note, SUP bans actually have a number of unintended negative consequences, and it is not clear that they are even a net positive for the environment. Depending on who you ask, the environmental impact of such bans ranges from significant to marginal, and CO2 emissions from plastic bags is likely far better than alternatives.
The massive concentration in the Philippines is one of the most interesting takeaways here. I ended up poking around for more details on this, and it looks like the causes relate to, among other things, a lack of proper waste disposal and an industry reliance on plastic sachets for food packaging.
True, there are some things Western countries can do. Policies that aim to subsidize or assist with the development of effective waste disposal in such countries would have a major impact.
Most of the plastic in the oceans comes from Asia, with over a third of the world's plastic emitted coming from the Philippines. Any policy changes in the U.S or Europe that seek to reduce domestic plastic usage are unlikely to have a major impact.
Coroutines are present at the language and runtime level. Most languages with coroutines have runtimes baked in that handle them behind the scenes (think of JS), but some (like Rust) require you to provide your own. Async executors are quite large in terms of code size, so I think it would be useful for WASM to expose a coroutine interface for compilers to target. I think that not having to ship your asynchronous runtime would be very beneficial.