It's not to prevent a competitive industry which can just produce something cheaper but also to prevent governments which actively use banned practices to give their nation an unfair advantage. More here:
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There's a fine line between "clogging the namespace" and commoditizing something. I like being able to have my own domain - I can host stuff, run a web site, access services with a friendly name, attach friendly names to my internal IPs, etc. Why should I have to be a legally-registered something-or-other to do that? And if I'm not, why should I have to settle for something three times as long? Most of the pollution is from squatters, who are cancerous to the internet.
I'd hesitate to believe all economic growth will end by 2025. I just don't buy it; all but the UN low projections show continuing growth through at least 2100 [0]. How will we cope if that's true, any way? It will be tough when there are more old, retired people than young, working people to support them; I don't see the numbers adding. Recession being the normal state of things is not really a great outcome... if that happens, you will get a war, sure as shooting. Not just one, but lots. And a rise of authoritarianism. Liberty is good in good times, but most people are fair-weather patriots and will turn to a hitler-2.0 if things get bad enough. That ought to worry us all.
[0] https://ourworldindata.org/exports/comparison-of-world-popul...
And to stouset: that's a seriously cool project!
https://medium.muz.li/ui-confusion-almost-sunk-a-us-destroye...
Ruby is like a back-of-the-napking sketch, almost: it takes nothing to get started, you can just jump in and start writing. Other languages are closer to gradations of a proper engineering diagram, the sort of thing you draw up once you've fleshed out your idea a little and want to scale.
As much as I hate bothering with a proper diagram, it's very hard to scale based on napkin sketches.
* How are you calculating value based on carbon emissions? I assume you are compensating according to some well-known figure for cost of negative externalities?
* Have you done any market research, and have you validated that your estimated payment can overcome the "my children are the most precious thing" issue?
* How do you verify people are not hiding their children for money?
* You mentioned this is a global program, but different people emit different amounts of carbon. Do you estimate by current per-capita emissions in the nation of the person? Do you factor in growth over time for the estimated next generation?
* Where can I read more, as I understand you probably don't want to copy-paste from wherever the information already exists and I've got a few more?
http://spacing.ca/toronto/2016/05/26/induced-demand-housing/
Other concern: what are the effects of super-dense cities on mental health? Spread-out cities often have a lot more green, which I know has positive effects mentally:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/does-exposure-gree....
I'm guessing you could reasonably argue genericide at this point, but I doubt they'll go after microsoft.
Update: did some more homework; esrb has started doing this in many places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Software_Rating_...
This applies to the whole "report suspicious behavior" thing too. Most of the time, when a kid is acting like an edgy teen he's just... being an edgy teen. I don't like the whole spanish inquisition rat-out-your-buddy direction this thing is taking.
> you are able to use vim inside emacs
It physically hurt to read this.
For what it's worth, it's a lot better now that it has a built-in terminal and async for plugins. Neovim has some nice features too.
I guess it's preference, but my preference is right.
If I could avoid spending time getting nvidia drivers working on my laptop, that would be a massive help. And yeah, I know, I'm supposed to buy AMD stuff so I can use open source etc. But all the best hardware is nvidia, and so top hardware ships with nvidia. I've got to use this thing for my work as well, so it's not really an option, and I don't have the technical chops to quickly debug my drivers or wm or whatever.
USB-C-all-the-things is great if you live in the valley environment of shiny new every thing; not so much if you have to deal with all the stuff that all ready exists.
Also, have you considered the amount of e-waste produced by this change-over?
To analogize, I believe you ought to avoid unnecessary medical treatments, because each presents some kind of risk. If, however, you need treatment, I suggest you receive it (though it will carry a risk). By the same token, if you can walk carefully and observe the world around you, you ought to. If you need to walk and cannot see, it's fine to just accept that certain things carry risk.
Hearing is arguably more useful in many situations, as it is omnidirectional. I can hear a car coming from behind me; I likely cannot see it.
More importantly, the return per hour spent to write that malware is lower. There are fewer macs, though knowledge is widespread, so there are more windows viruses because there is a larger pool of victims.
Loud in the South, certainly. That's how I was raised, and it's used as a respectful, though somewhat common/generic, term of address. I don't know that I or many Americans would be comfortable with the social implications of referring to some one as "sir" out of respect the way you describe it; it implies superiority rather than respect.
Also, as a fellow Texan, you're dead wrong. The majority of the people who have those have them because they have ranches and do need them.