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Especially in cities like SF.

That's true, but not every language has to cater to the whims of industry. Sometimes it can just be for fun.

Aborigines didn't just hunt megafauna to extinction they managed their environment to make it what it is to day. This is true of Native Americans too.

Any thing we do in sufficient numbers has an effect on the environment regardless of our tech level.

When I lived in South Africa and the power went off frequently, the water went off because it couldn't be pumped. It absolutely was a thing in the water came back on. I could totally hear it in the roof.

Sometimes it might make sense to subsidize an industry that's vital to national interest the way we subsidize corn and many other things.

I think Hydrogen is a great fuel to replace natural gas for generating electricity. But is it safe enough for commercial airplanes? I don't know, we'll have to see.

Pretty much all companies in China are required by law to co-operate with the government. They don't need a warrant or anything like that. There is no such thing as a truly private enterprise in China.

Plus, as paranoid as the CCP is, they probably have agents in these big businesses keeping track on things.

Hmm, that sounds a lot like the Twitter files story :)

Lots of people could say the same about Biden or _____ leader.

Interesting, will check out. I am still evaluating Gleam, a language that's targets beam, but the compiler is written in Rust. It has actual strong typing, and I rather like it's Rust like syntax.

Nah, they would just pay a fine and keep on doing business. At least in the US.

That's cool. Fun fact: around that same time period, the first iron smelting we know of was done in Africa.

I don't see how it was any more immoral than anything else in WW2 that caused mass death and mayhem. Certainly if you are simply talking about casualties.

What was more immoral about dropping the a-bomb than firebombing Tokyo?

Forcing people to take the covid vaccine violated the Nuremberg code. Do we see anybody on trial for that? It's never what you do, it's who has the power to hold you accountable.

Keep it up until they cry uncle.

As was Nanking and all the other cities the Japanese military destroyed.

In the end all that matters is power. Words on a treaty mean nothing when it comes down to it, only their enforcement does.

There was already horror among the civilians, with the firebombing of Tokyo alone causing 100K casualties.

What moral obligation? The same that the Japanese gave the Chinese at Nanking?

Ah yes, and when you factor in that EV's use 4x the materials to construct them as ICE cars, and we don't have the grid capacity yet for a full transition, I think we need another solution.

Sure EV's are a part of it, but it's not the silver bullet the marketing would suggest.

Yeah when I lived in South Africa, I saw people towing each other all the time with just a rope. Sure it was one of those flat threaded ropes, but it works.

I wish Google would solve real developer pain points like having secure client side storage. That would be useful to developers. But heaven forbid they take a break for a moment from trying to squeeze every ounce of profit out of their users.

Unfortunately, I don't think we get out of this without damaging the environment to some degree. Hell, just mining the copper that goes into this stuff damages the environment.

So yes deserts are fragile, but what isn't? Something is going to suffer no matter what.

I'm sure if we built new universities, there would be plenty of applicants to teach it in, given how fierce the competition for academic positions already is.

If capacity at existing colleges is the problem, we could start new ones.

I think in some sense probably not. I can't imagine an industrial civilization before us, as there would have been fewer fossil fuels in the ground than we initially found.

But that assumes every intelligence operates like our own. Heck you even see that with the difference in worldview that Westerners and indigenous people have. That's why I can imagine a species that chose to focus its energies on other things than resource extraction and industrialization. It's not a bad path for us to consider.

It is an interesting thought exercise though.

This is an interesting find, but it's not surprising to find a woman of prominence in that era. Before agriculture really took off, hunter gatherers were pretty egalitarian and a lot of kinship systems were matrilineal.

Also, I think that it's more likely that this person was a shaman, than a chief, but that's just a speculation on my part.

Well then you know which party to vote for if that's one of the most important issues for you. Or at least, which one not to vote for.

Yes. I can't cite it, but I remember seeing a study that said hunter gatherers in warmer climates can have up to 200 different food sources.

Of course I'm sure it's highly dependent on season and region.

That's a great idea. I've been considering whether or not to use Cockroach Db at work, and I love the fact that it's distributed from the get go.

Why not work on something like that instead of changing something that works? Especially since they the process model really only runs into trouble on large systems.

Exactly. I canceled my monthly subscription and logged out. I mostly loved Reddit for long for pieces anyway, so I'm going to pay more attention to Substack and see how that emerges.

Exactly, it seems like a clear eyed instruction manual for the time.