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China's emissions peak wasn't supposed to happen this decade but that has been revised [2]
1: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-solar-capacity-ex...
2: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-carbon-emissions-...
We have all we need. It is just a matter of upgrading the grid and building enough to transition.
The impact of the plastic material for those products is a fraction of the energy required to make them and run our modern life. Clean power and getting rid of fossil fuels that are burned for energy is the most important thing here.
Regarding the stopping of manmade greenhouse gasses, the consensus has been changing over the last few years though and it's pretty wildly believed that the "heat in the pipeline" phenomenon isn't actually true. Here's the best summary on why zero emissions will mean an immediate end to global warming: https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-will-global-warming-st...
They don't offer any backups (at least on iOS) and as a result, if you lose your phone, you are hosed. Google Authenticator also doesn't use iCloud for backup for files like other apps. I also just assume at this point no one owns that app and that it'll never get backups because that's how Google operates.
I've seen multiple people lose their TOTP codes this way and have been locked out of their accounts. Or even the more simple case, they buy a new phone, restore from backup and just assume everything is peachy then send their old phone back and then don't realize it until they open the app for the first time.
Use something with cloud backups for your safety.
> It's interesting to me to see what an enormous amount of publicity the microchip has gotten recently including that article of Tom Wolfe's. Incidentally, on that article of Tom Wolfe's, I do want to point out that Tom Wolfe is first of all a novelist. And only secondarily is he a historian but everything that appears in print of course is true as you've all learned. Particularly if you ever read something that you know something about.
Granted, I do think Substack is more of a platform than an aggregator compared to Facebook. But people that want to hop on Substack just need to know that you are (as of now) going to be sharing your brand with Substack and also that you will be at the whim of their feature development and what their roadmap looks like. They raised their Series A a year ago but their progress with site features has been... well, underwhelming.
> “It’s not like they aren’t usually here,” he said of the bears, bobcats and coyotes that he and other employees now see congregating outside their cabins and apartments. “It’s that they usually hang back at the edges, or move in the shadows.”
> It's interesting to me to see what an enormous amount of publicity the microchip has gotten recently including that article of Tom Wolfe's. Incidentally, on that article of Tom Wolfe's, I do want to point out that Tom Wolfe is first of all a novelist. And only secondarily is he a historian but everything that appears in print of course is true as you've all learned. Particularly if you ever read something that you know something about.
So it looks like the app is setting up a VPN and doing traffic filtering there. How exactly does it work?
Also, one question I have: what sort of transparency/guarantees do you have about data privacy? I saw the notification when I installed it but would like more considering all traffic will go through this local VPN.
This person was probably writing scripts/tools to grab data from email servers, databases, code, etc.
It's strange to be on a crusade against increased security for the average user.
Is 2FA the final answer? No. But are you more secure with it than without it? Yes.
We're talking about normal people here that could have their lives ruined if their accounts are compromised.
I disagree with a lot of your Kindle paragraph. It isn't nearly as bad as you portray.
> That’s what publishers did. They allowed a far less expensive version of their books to be available right away, undercutting the sale of hardcovers with the cheaper e-version
This is a fraught analogy and in a way shows the lack of forward thinking of lots of people in the book and publishing industry.
The problem is that from a customer perspective, an ebook == hardcover in nearly all ways. It has the same story, it is written by the same author, you can read it at home or on the bus. There's no difference. In fact, some might argue ebook > hardcover since it takes up no space and you can use a Kindle and all the features it has.
Watching a movie in a movie theater is about the experience of being with others with amazing sound and video quality as well as the actual movie. So movie theater > movie at home for most people.
Forward thinking would be the Steam way which Amazon has tried to do with ebooks: sell for less but make up for it with huge volume. Yet publishers often price ebooks higher or equal to physical copies.
It's sad to see this bookstore go and I wish I would have visited it since I live in Seattle. But this is a pretty poor analysis on the "changes in the over-all economy".
COWEN: Final question. The world of social media, we all know it’s not going away. Maybe it has some problems, but if you were to give a student or a person some piece of advice or intellectual ammunition to carry with them through this world — some book, some essay, some thought — so as to make it marginally better rather than marginally worse, what would that be?
LEPORE: Read this E. B. White essay called “Death of a Pig.”
COWEN: And what does he tell us in “Death of a Pig”?
LEPORE: A pig dies on his . . . He was in Maine. He’s trying to understand what it means when something dies when you didn’t expect it to die and you couldn’t save it, and I just find it a very beautiful essay. But I think something is dying, and we can’t save it, and that’s a good place to start, to figure out how to feel about that.
[1]: https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/tyler-cowen-jill...