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You could inject code in a lot of places and people were doing wonky things. I think it had to do with the user base being far smaller at the time. Knowledgeable people were still a significant part of it and security was far less of concern.
There was also far less money involved which is always a great filter for the kind of personality you want in this kind of community.
My main take away from the post is that anything worth making will receive its share of critics. As a creator you should be aware of that and be ready to focus on the people you actually bring joy to and who appreciate what you do rather than the haters and take pride in actually moving the needle enough to be reacted on.
And even in the specific meaning you are pushing, the actual impact of hydro is questionable. Until you take a die hard position that no ecosystem whatsoever should be disturbed the benefit vs loss analysis is more than compelling.
Unfamiliar readers have to note that here sustainable is not used in its normal meaning but in the one used by some environmentalists. Hydropower can definitely be sustained indefinitely. It does cause flooding in some area previously I flooded and disturbs fish which some people view as an issue.
It’s really hard to have a good discussion about climate change because some people constantly push unrelated agenda into the mix.
A sub-1.5 degree scenario (I initially wrote credible but who am I kidding there is no credible sub-1.5 degree scenario) requires significant energy for both transportation and decarbonisation. This energy needs to be produced without emitting more carbon. That requires massive investment in non-carbon emitting energy production now.
It’s pretty clear that we are in the phase where everyone is rushing to get a slice of the pie selling dubious thing and people start parroting word soup hoping they actually make sense and fearing they will miss out. That’s indeed what people often and rightfully satirise about the IT industry. That’s the joke phase before things settle.
It's fine and might be a solution to the problem but purposefully orienting subsidies towards something and putting tariffs in place are as far removed from "the natural outcome" as you can get.
> Finally, the Dutch farmers currently having their farms seized seemed to be doing fine — except for political interference in the name of environmentalism. Why is that intervention fine, but supporting small farmers rather than mega corporations not?
I have trouble following your argument. Are you or are you not in favour of top down policies and mass expropriations by the State? If that's the case, see the original point about the Great Leap Forward. I think you are trying to have your cake and eat it too here.
Farms have indeed grew larger through consolidation (no one got expropriated - farming is now capital-intensive and economy of scale kicks in with larger farms - small owners either bought their neighbours and became big, sold or went bankrupt) but nearly all of them are still privately owned by people whose family history is in farming.
I find the nostalgia for small scale farming somewhat amusing personnaly. In my experience, it mostly comes from urban people doing white collar jobs. The reality of managing a small farm is not fun.
Livestock farming is the only activity which remains somewhat widespread on a small scale here and it's miserable. It's a buyer market. Farmers are being squeezed out as much as possible by their distributors.
The natural outcome is that production is shifted to countries with laxer laws and cheaper cost of labour not that people shift back into farming. Farming is not economically viable on a small scale without subsidies in Europe.
I think a key takeaway from the pandemic is that you don’t want to be reliant of import from strategic ressources and food is priority number one.
European subsidies are mostly going to France which is a huge wheat producer.
Farming is an area where I can predict there are going to be a lot of tension in the EU between ecological ambition and the cold reality of having to feed everyone.
If you are going to use it like a garbage collected language, you would be better served by one of the slew of other languages with the same features but which are easier to use. The memory management is what sets Rust apart.
That’s a high bar to cross for Nintendo main market which remains families. Plus at this point the Switch is mostly a money printing machine between the old hardware and the store.
Considering the amount of racism towards Chinese I have encountered in Thailand, I somewhat doubt that.
No, it does not.
The paper advances two potential reasons for the difference and selection is not one of them. Actually, genetics seem to have nothing to do with it. The two are: stress linked to the adverse environment and early disturbances in development.
"Overall, the observed association may result from exposure to an adverse environment and subsequent stress response throughout life. This would imply that sex differences in the thickness of those regions would be smaller in early development and increase during aging. This resonates with evidence highlighting the role of gender inequality in the higher prevalence of depression in girls which appears in adolescence (33)"
It's a good paper by the way. They are very careful with both their statistics and what they claim.
Restoration is good but there is no reason to put the crew in unnecessary danger.
I personally feel perfectly fine with strongly curbing the free market with legislations. It’s not the be all end all nor is it working particularly well.
Mass media geared towards easy entertainment successfully erased decades of effort into educating the workers and creating structures to give them a voice. I personally view the entertainment industry as fully complicit in a general dumbing down of the population. Should we applaud the opium peddlers in the name of the free market?
The fact that the system currently relies on copyright is not in itself a justification for it nor does it means it's a good system.
I don't personally care about copyright. I don't pirate video games because they are generally artistically as interesting as blockbuster movies which is to say not at all but I don't really have an issue with people denying profits to the entertainment industry.
Writing emulators is fun in and of itself by the way. I don't think most of the developers use them to play.