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Staking the future of the climate on trusting countries to be fair is childish thinking.

The ONLY metric that matters is global gigatons of CO2 emitted per year. This needs to decrease. Playing hand waving games with per capita between countries is pure nonsense and provides cover for emitters.

Lead by example? If you think China gives a crap about your example you’re horrendously naive.

The above was meant to be pro nuclear. Though I see how someone could take it either way.

Point being, saying one energy source is too expensive Vs another is an idiotic argument should one lead to decarbonization.

But sure guys, go ahead and throw trillions on economic bailouts every several years but wring your hands at moderately more expensive energy.

“Sorry kids. We had the solution to limitless clean energy but it was just a bit more expensive than others, so we passed. Too bad about the devastation. Lol.“

A religion without redemption.

They seem to have perpetual runny noses when they’re really young.

Get kids. They are plague carriers.

As someone who has done a number of soc2 audits this is pretty solid advice.

Apple isn’t going to like this. Good luck!

Food delivery the traditional way (the pizza delivery guy) is profitable for restaurants and provides a wage for the delivery person.

If there's a problem with things it's the model of the delivery apps and sharing economy, not the economics of food delivery itself.

Yep, of course.

To clarify: when I said “may not” I meant in the sense “might not” rather than it isn’t permitted.

Sorry, dont really know much about Ionic. The GeckoView site should have all you need to implement it instead of a Webview, it's pretty straight-forward.

On many real world AndroidTV devices (I've tested a couple dozen) you definitely do NOT get Chrome updated properly even though it's supposed to.

Android is the Wild West, with all the good and bad that follows. Manufacturers are often not implementing things properly. Problem is that these devices are all over Amazon and people buy them and expect them to work. We try to steer people to good quality devices such as the Nvidia Shield but you can only do so much.

Keep in mind that GeckoView may not be used to build a browser. Rather it's often an engine used to drive an application built with web technologies. So a developers requirements for updates are different than an interactive browser of arbitrary web content.

The story is the same on the desktop with Electron. When you deploy an electron app the browser underneath it is locked in conjunction with the version of Electron.

It's still up to the app developer to be responsible and follow issues and update as required. But that's a lot less often than when you have a browser of arbitrary web content.

GeckoView is awesome. We switched to using it with TelemetryTV (a next gen digital signage platform) and it's made our Android app a lot more compatible.

The core of our player application is a Progressive Web Application that runs everywhere and just needs a native container like Electron or a Webview to run. Our customers run on whatever hardware they want(Windows, Mac, ChromeOS, etc)and Android is a really compelling platform since there's a ton of inexpensive AndroidTV devices out there but quality is all over the place.

If you depended on the system provided Webview on AndroidTV you may get anything from version 50 to 80 of Chrome due to fragmentation of the platform and poor update habits of some manufacturers. Our app uses features like CSS grid and doesn't run on a large fraction of Webviews out there in the wild.

The system Webview also doesn't provide much control at all for customizing the browser engine. GeckoView lets you do pretty much anything allow us to support important features we provide with our Electron clients.

You also don't need to worry about a browser update causing trouble as you control when you update the browser engine.

It's a shame that iOS doesn't have something similar because it's a really horrible platform due to Apples Webview for use cases like ours.

No. This is relevant.

It was published by the New York Times which is not a hysterical source.

From the linked article:

Washington State has declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus, and researchers who studied two cases there say that the virus may have been spreading for weeks, with the possibility that up to 1,500 people may have been infected.

FYI Washington state has declared a state of emergency. Fears are that it's gone communal with hundreds or thousands of estimated infections in the community.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-us-reports-fir...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/world/coronavirus-news.ht...

Careful about the assumption that disasters are worsening due to global warming. This is arguable.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2019/11/07/everythi...

You'll need to provide some better evidence of the scientific consensus turning around that those two links since they're not that compelling.

A well referenced link that provides evidence against the solar cycle cooling theory is here:

"Peer-reviewed research, physics, and math all tell us that a grand solar minimum would have no more than a 0.3°C cooling effect, barely enough to put a dent in human-caused global warming."

https://skepticalscience.com/grand-solar-minimum-mini-ice-ag...

I liked table 1 as a nice summary from a referenced paper in the above paper, found here:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2014...

Their data suggests thermal expansion is the primary culprit.

To put this in context we're talking about 4 to 5 mm per year of sea level rise on average globally for the next several decades.

Some areas will be more and some less as sea level rise isn't uniform (for instance isostatic rebound on the west coast of Canada will result in a net sea level drop in some areas).

Mitigation will be key as even if we eliminated carbon emissions completely today there's already committed warming in the system that will result in sea level rise through the century. We're just talking about how many extra mm per year on top of the 3-4mm or so that it is now.

You'll likely get paid $50-$100k USD per year as a developer in Vancouver.

Depends on your preference I suppose. For me it needs to be at least 4x the density of the oculus.

That solves the graphics card horsepower issue. You still need a lot of pixels even if you're not driving all of them at high resolution all the time.

Indeed. I was back in that day too. Have no interest in going back to 1080p let alone VGA for daily work.

You'd need to move your head a lot to look at stuff. Gets old quickly. Try out the VR desktop on oculus and you'll quickly discover the need for much more dense pixels.

I'm your age. I find my oculus totally useless for real world work. I'm used to a 4k monitor as a desktop.

The resolution is way too low. Needs to be 4-16x greater for desktop replacement.

Also the headsets are too hot and bulky to comfortably wear for a full workday.

The software exists today to allow a production VW Golf with stock sensors to self drive on the highway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHyw58hn4sM

This stuff is coming fast...

At Telemetry (https://www.telemetryapp.com) we're trying to solve this issue which is quite a bit more difficult than it initially seems. We're not a BI tool though, just a transmission, management and visualization layer.

Keeping dashboards persistently up and running on televisions, provision mobile devices with granular permissions and enterprise features like SSO. We provide an agent to integrate on the client side to help send metrics from whatever data source you may have. Take a look, I'd love to know your thoughts.

China is aging as well, their percentage of working adults peaked recently and is now declining.

Interestingly while Europe has this problem as well, the US does not thanks in a large part due to immigration.