bill_mon

The savings made by a single png doesn't change in this scenario, it just drowns. One thing you can do: optimize pngs. Another thing you can do: optimize js. Focusing on the largest sinner first makes some sense, but doesn't change the fact that optimizing a png will certainly save the whales.

I get your point and I agree to some extend -- a single png doesn't remove much carbon. But it's impossible to figure out where the break even point lies. It would be irresponsible to never optimize for size or cpu usage. Where would you draw the line?

You're right, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything. If we can flip a bit somewhere to save some minute amount of energy, we should do that. For example: optimize PNGs, it's easy and a one time procedure.

We can't change what's in the chair but we can change our product.

You answer "Science is not compatible with religion." by mentioning religious scientists. We all know such exist, that's not the point.

You're not being thorough with your reasoning.

I understand the problem and I don't have a good solution -- does srcset really help here?

How about a browser setting where the user can decide whether to load images only when they are seen?

No images without javascript? Imo js should be for functionality only, basic content should always load.

I appreciate your answers, thanks.

>It's extremely difficult to account for those effects in a one-man-study Then how can you draw any conclusions?

>https://med.stanford.edu/news/ ... This shows that the brain is altered during hypnosis. This is also true of sleep and many other activities and not too surprising.

>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ ... Not very cited. The question isn't so much "how much of hypnosis is placebo?" but more "how did you account for placebo in your testing?".

What we want is documentation that your specific device / method has lasting effects in double blind trials. If you can't provide that, how can you sell the product?

This shows that there has been a change, not what caused it. How do you account for placebo effect and self deception?

>I've been using it every day and can honestly say its really helped me

How do you know this? It seems to me to be quite difficult to test properly.

What do you want to achieve with these changes and why? It seems to me that we need to have those thing figured out pretty clearly before we try to apply cures. If all discriminating laws are gone, aren't we simply left with basic nature and some very-slow-to-change cultural habits?