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As pointed out by several other comments, you're very off base about heat pump efficiency and about natural gas being "clean."

Switching everyone to heat pumps would lower emissions from heating and cooling in the US by 160m tonnes a year [1], which is something like 30-40%.

It's true that upfront costs of heat pumps can be higher, but thanks to the IRA there are huge subsidies available (and further subsidies in many states) which make up most or even all of that difference. The lifetime costs of heat pumps with these subsidies should be substantially lower than high efficiency natural gas furnaces.

[1] https://www.rewiringamerica.org/circuit-breakers-heat-pumps

(Those subsidies, by the way, are one of the reasons "everybody is talking about heat pumps")

It sounds like a nice idea, but I don't think it's a very practical one.

It drives away anyone who wants to give but is unable or unwilling to devote the kind of time necessary to do this kind of in-depth research (the amount of which only goes up the more money you want to give away).

Push notifications alone are enough to force most apps to be native. But a lot of the other stuff missing is what keeps the experience from being quite as polished as a native app.

Not really. In this scenario there's no functional difference between these two supposedly distinct products.

FUSE will let you create a virtual file system that does absolutely anything you want it to (and there are javascript bindings out there).

Also read Crafting Interpreters recently and enjoyed it.

One possibly significant difference is that psychiatrists tend to charge a lot more.

CBT didn't really work for me, but I have found IFS to be a bit more useful, as well as another framework called ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy).

Personally, I found it helpful to read some of the books on these and related concepts, as a supplement to therapy. Also, it can be a frustratingly slow journey.

CRIU is a really impressive tool, which can do some really cool things. It's pretty difficult to use, given the nature of what it's doing and all the moving parts to orchestrate. I added experimental support to Docker for migrating containers, but for lots of reasons it never made it as a full fledged feature.

Germany paid Poland $8b in reparations in 1992: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_reparations

Nobody actively wants it to be difficult, but if you don't even have the actual legal right to modify the hardware or software it doesn't matter how easy it is.

Seems to me like Apple was more innovative when they had fewer employees and fewer resources, so perhaps we should break up the company in order to increase innovation.

You're conflating multiple issues. Having the right to repair is valuable and desirable, even if it's not actually easy to do the repair. I think we've gone too far down the road of not owning anything we buy, and thus having no rights to use things outside of narrow legal agreements nobody even reads.

Making the device easier to repair is also desirable, both for Apple and for third parties, because these things break all the time and need to be repaired. It saves everyone time and reduces waste.

Yes, that's the entire purpose of the AGPL. If that's the outcome this person wants for their project, they should consider the AGPL.

I'm attempting to counter the narrative that no corporation would touch any AGPL software, because it's clear that how you are using the software is an important part of the equation.

SSPL is a nearly verbatim copy of AGPL, except one section. It is more restrictive than the AGPL, in a way that many feel is anti-competitive, which is why it's not considered Open Source by many, but also in a way which doesn't really change the argument here IMO.

Maybe? The commercial version has some extra features, but if you don't need them then there's probably no need to. I imagine there is more value in paying for a support contract.

MongoDB is effectively licensed under the AGPL and seems to have no problem being used by corporations of all sizes.

There's a lot of FUD out there about GPL licenses and they've become pretty unpopular over the last decade. There are trade-offs, but there's nothing wrong with using the AGPL if that aligns with your own goals and values.

There's a good (and short) book about the history of Silicon Valley cultural and philosophical influences that I found quite interesting:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374721237/whattechcallsth...

I don't understand why the objections would be moot; they would be the same. The "EA charity" would still invest significant sums in things like AI safety and still be driven by the same ideas that people are criticizing.

Also, fwiw, this is effectively already true. The main EA organizations are operating funds you can donate to directly, which they will subsequently distribute.

I think the OP is asinine, but damn, it's a good response to this comment.

"I cannot see a 100% perfect way to do exactly the thing I want, thus there is no reason to do anything at all."

Imagine if you applied the same logic to everything in your life.

I imagine they are using either GNUStep or Cocotron as the basis for their Cocoa support, not starting fully from scratch.

I could play the same game and say perhaps you didn't read the article.

The article doesn't suggest it is a problem unique to Google. It suggests that Google's efforts at DEI, which you are telling us are industry best, have a blind spot on this subject, as evidenced by the way they handled this situation. A story that sounds plausible to me.

Yeah, or read it on a Kindle like I did and the jumping is pretty easy.

I cannot imagine reading this book and skipping the footnotes.

Yes, and he's been posting the same exact nonsense for a while now. The reformed idealist narrative is a marketing gimmick to attract investors.

Yeah, I don't get it either. Is there anybody who doesn't get this kind of mail at home addressed to them by name all the time?

The fed actually has more tools than the ones it currently uses, some of which have been used in the past.

Robert Hockett has written a lot about productive investments via the federal reserve banks, and how that could be used to transform the economy.

Here's one recent paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4023614

He wrote a short book about it as well: https://www.amazon.com/Financing-Green-New-Deal-Renewal/dp/3...

This is such a shifting of goal posts. Could there potentially be some value in such a system? Yeah it's possible.

Is that the same thing as saying: should this system be used to design a whole new "Web 3.0"? No, it isn't the same (and no, it shouldn't).

Depression is not one thing, not everyone experiences it the same way as the person you live with.