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Probably a naïve question, but can I as a user avoid cloudflare somehow? You know, "vote with my wallet"?

Does one really need a lawyer here? I'm shocked that an engineer would sign off on this, no matter whether it's legal (ethical <=/=> legal)

In general, I applaud your concern for low income people. However, climate change doesn't care who is emitting the CO2, rich or poor, it's going to make everyone poorer in the future. Those that are low income today will be hit disproportionately by the effects of climate change (to put it...

The reality, that we as a society must come to terms with, is that everything *is* much more expensive. It's just that we're passing the cost on to our future selves, and to a greater extent, our children. Making people pay now for the damage we're causing now will incentivize better...

Not sure if this is allowed, but if you're in the US you can help lobby the senate to pass a similar measure: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/

Thanks for the pointer, how easy is that?!

Offsets don't change the fact that the emissions are being made, i.e. the the world is worse off after the flight than before it. If we use solar plants to produce "green" aviation fuel, that energy could instead have been used (e.g.) for agriculture, to power offices, etc. At the end of the...

I'm trying out Deezer. Looks like it won't be too painful a switch EDIT: Listening to Heart of gold now :)

I think the point is that the article makes it sound like solar is bad for the world. I would expect an Ars article to: 1. Put 16t CO2 in context (is it a lot?) 2. Think critically about the assumptions in the study (all Al produced in China, presumably with worst-case power sources). Is that...

There's also "Tracker Control" (https://github.com/OxfordHCC/tracker-control-android), which (I think) does everything the DDG app does, but also allows you to disable internet access for specific apps. Free & open source, and I've had good experience with it. edit: everything but act as a...

I'm always curious about these kinds of results -- how does it compare to using photovoltaic & doing 'regular old chemistry' with the resulting electricity? We know how to capture gases from the atmosphere, and once I have the CO2 we also know organic chemistry. I get that this seems more...

Thank you to the author for not calling it the "South African variant". No need to stigmatize a nation.

See also India demonitizing their large denomination banknotes in 2016 -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indi ... netisation

Isn't it then very disingenuous to state this is a 1:3.5MM event? I get it, being robust is often not profitable, and the market will (in the absence of regulations) cause risky businesses to out-compete others (until a crash bankrupts everyone, as happened in '08). The point is that a 5-sigma...

>> a "five sigma" event with a "1 in 3.5 million" chance of happening You'd think that the 2008 crash had taught folks not to model risks using normal distributions. Chebyshev's inequality says that as much as 1/5^2=4% of a distribution can be more than 5 sigma from the mean --...

You're right, of course, and I should not have engaged... It just really grinds my gears to hear someone say "that's not proper language" rather than actually engaging in the substance of a discussion (which should here have been qanon belief system, and how it develops).

I generally agree with you, but note that there's millions of German [language] speakers that are not German [nation]. The Swiss, for example, are perfectly happy having removed the ß from their language in favor of "ss". I also think that French is slightly different, in that there is an...

Watch out, it's "Scheißkopf" (no connecting "e"), before effgee has a meltdown

I agree about the excessive foot stomping around here, but I kind of enjoy how triggered you are about this and watching you stomp away. Why are you so insistent on brandishing your credentials (who cares that you're born in Germany? -- this is about a language, not a country). I, and many...

I'm curious what you think my native language is? Also, why should that be relevant? Let's look at the goalposts. Someone asked whether there is a better word for "theory", given that conspiracy theory seems to dilute things like the theory of general relativity. I pointed out that this process...