Breakthrough using extremely rare earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thulium which comes at a high price and only provides a low power laser?
Wierd that the article says its low cost. Certainly not a holy grail.
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Wierd that the article says its low cost. Certainly not a holy grail.
I would not agree that is what I said. I'm not opposed to inclusion. I'm not even saying their decision is wrong. Maybe they are exactly what we need on the internet. I fully support their choice to do what they have done.
I have made a judgement against firefox. It has very clearly been neglected. There are a myriad of problems that have been unsolved for years and this is recent experience. I suspect nobody can refute this very real experience. I remember a time in history when firefox was a top contender with tons of market share.
So did I say that they are mutually exclusive? Certainly not, but in Mozilla's case their priorities are clear and the consequence of a bad browser is reality. they lost focus on their browser and it lagged behind.
I'm interested in why you asserted I said more than I did. Do you believe inclusion and good engineering are mutually exclusive? It certainly looks bad for Mozilla.
I think it has happened long enough ~150 years to prove it's not short term. Every single major immigration event in north america has benefitted us greatly.
New orleans and french culture is still there from 1700s immigration
1850 famines brought tons of irish to the east coast producing places like notre dame. Germans went to midwest producing the auto industry and general huge success of detroit.
filipino and jewish immigrants practically built the west coast in the 1930-1950s.
That's kind of the thing. In the short term the new immigrants are often living in poverty and are hated, but long term immigration is super beneficial.
In fact the arab spring was intentionally done to drive arabic immigrants to the developed world. We need them for the 2030 worker shortage.
>"Multi-Culturalism" is pretty new (and accompanied by increasingly out of control immigration quotas) and seems to be aimed at pandering to multiple ethnic enclaves.
Oh yes, north america has very bad identity politics since Obama. It has gone beyond pandering and leading into civil war for the usa. It's far worse in Canada because we actually removed our freedom of speech in place of 'hate speech'. So every politician now is a racist etc. Every single conservative leader has been called a racist or worse.
Though there's also a more hidden agenda of mitigating our 2030 worker shortage issue. Canada is essentially bringing in a province worth of people every year in an attempt to mitigate. This has to be done from countries that were affected by WW1 but not WW2.
>I mean not that long ago wasn't the official policy to discriminate against anyone not deemed Canadian enough (the French or Natives for instance)?
~10% of Canada's GDP is going toward building expensive housing. One of the highest in the world. Housing prices are skyrocketing because mortgages are being issued in illegitimate basis, but also because we're adding a province worth of people every year. That's a ton of housing being built.
I guess Safari is still their own. KDE Konqueror still their own. Sad that opera became chrome. Guess I'll be staying Brave for awhile.
Firefox's huge decline also makes sense to me. Firefox stopped building their browser ~5 years ago? It's not that Chromium is inherently just better, it's that Mozilla moved off of firefox. When you lose focus on firefox, you lag behind.
https://blog.mozilla.org/careers/mozilla-diversity-inclusion...
They are far more concerned with hiring women. They hired themselves a 'Culture Manager' and 'people managers' and 'diversity managers'. Note how these are not Rust Software developer manager, protocol developer manager.
https://blog.mozilla.org/careers/mozilla-introduces-gender-t...
Imagine how good firefox could be if they weren't so concerned with their staffing diversity and instead worked on their browser.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
They are concerned about political activism, calling for people to be deplatformed, etc.
For that reason, firefox isn't even an alternative.
The original story has an SR71, Navy F18, multiple general aviation on the same frequency. This doesn't happen and won't happen. The military has their own frequencies, their own ifr paths, and their own air traffic control.
That's not to say the military planes cant go to GA frequencies but the story is entirely false.
War on Mars will also be something else. Canadians understand this all too well. You're far enough from everything to make you not a target. Life on Mars will be precarious for everyone far worse than the mutually assured destruction that prevents it happening on Earth.
It doesnt eliminate all issues, but it certainly eliminates lots of issues.
Not at all.
You look at pages like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...
RCP8.5 is the only RCP listed on the graph with no context that it was never expected to ever happen. They did this because they are wrongfully blowing the issue out of proportion. A clear case of unscientific bias portraying data as far more extreme than is appropriate.
There's also this 'greening' factor. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/greening-of-the-earth-mitigates...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change#Nature_and_wild...
In the entire article the global greening and anti-desertification is simply not mentioned. This is because they are biased. Another clear case of unscientific bias portraying data as far more extreme than is appropriate.
We're on the fourth prediction of the end of the world, they keep saying we have ~10 years left and when their time runs out they just predict it again. Their unscientific bias is clear.
You must account for the unscientific bias and then climate change is far less of a concern and we weren't 'lucky'. There's a concerted effort to blow it out of proportion for political reasons.
The saying you said is specifically about economic and GDP. Fair enough though if you didn't mean it.
>apitalism may be the only viable model for a world with serious scarcity, as I expect ours is to become in the mid to near term.
This is a pretty depthy subject. The failure of communism in 1989 has left many people, most of which who haven't lived under communism, to be quite upset. Many of these folks are now proposing some mixed system. This will ultimately fail as well. Capitalism is just the system in which works the best even despite its many drawbacks.
I think fundamentally when the gold standard was dropped. What everyone is yearning for is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_credit It's a right-wing economic system but I bet with a ton of work we could make it work. The left wing often call this UBI.
>When adjusted for externalities, there's a possibility that GDP per capita in the OECD has been negative for multiple decades.
Debt adjust it as well and I bet it's in some serious trouble in many countries. Such is the debt cycle. Which is what social credit is designed around. Debt = money. It inherently is going to be managed in social credit.
I'm a big fan of open source, literally have open source projects with many stars on github. However, I'm not one of those 'no proprietary blobs' folks.
Sony has a camera chip that's awesome, available, but comes with a blob? Fine with me.
RCP 8.5 was never expected to happen. It was a prediction based the entire world doing nothing at all, banning things like green tech, and increasing fossil fuel use AND even the introduction of new techs to increase the amount of available fossil fuel reserves. Afterall we only have ~50 years left anyway. To get to 8.5 we would need to expand upon this significantly.
RCP 7 was kind of status quo, which isn't even possible because Tesla is worth a trillion $.
RCP 6 is we kind of half-assed it and we never properly reduce anything, no new techs etc. This one is possible but given political climate I see this as practically impossible.
RCP 4.5 is highly likely. We have until 2045 or so until we peak. I see this happening, China has many coal power plants in construction right now. They wont be reducing. Much of the world wont be. Though around this 2045 date is when fossil fuels start increasing in price quite significantly just because of supply/demand. The cost to go non-fossil fuel will simply make more sense before this. So those coal plants in construction now, mainly by china, will be getting shut off then. The rise in temps will be roughly 2 celcius and that's completely manageable by our society. Especially given decades to respond. There are arguments that features like greenification is actually a good thing and not a bad thing. Therefore 4.5 is actually unlikely.
RCP 3.4 is where it's all at. It's literally the line we are tracking already with everything we have done. It's slightly less than 2 celcius in increase. There's no major need to declare war on china and blow up their fossil fuel operations.
Way worse than that, but I expect you know.
>Growing up, I was fed lies about a future of a unified world, universally prosperous under American hegemony.
Interesting, I'm Canadian and we certainly didn't learn this. We certainly have learnt about embracing the multiple cultures around us. How we dont need to melting pot the cultures and we can peacefully coexist. We don't need to 'unify', the more we embrace each other's differences the better.
>It was a dogmatic fiction, and I am still bitter about it. It's better to be real with our kids. That does not mean telling them they will die but they need to be aware of the risks and the scale of the work ahead.
There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, -MIB
It's virtually impossible for human extinction. It becomes 15 degrees c warmer and we have full collapse of everything alive on earth. The new thing you can make lots of money do is building domes and robotics. Your new home will be completely self-contained ecosystem. Robots deliver all your needs, you never quite really leave your house. Doesnt sound good, but if for some reason outside was just completely uninhabitable.
>Infinite growth on a finite Earth is not possible. We can basically either change patterns/behavior drastically or settle other planets fast. Either option entails hardship that the postwar generation simply never had to face.
Infinite growth is impossible, but the limit is so far beyond where we are now. I guarantee real gdp will be ridiculously higher 30 years from now. We certainly have a pollution problem, but interestingly cleaning that pollution will be gdp growth.
But for the pinephone. I really want >= 32mp camera. Whereas 5MP is ridiculous and 2MP selfie? You're right it's slow, it's not quite figured out entirely.
Pinephone pro coming soon and also doesn't quite hit the wants for me. It does look fast though in specs.
For this reason alone Carbon taxes do not work. In my jurisdiction, we already have over 100% tax on gasoline. Partly for road building purposes, but still obviously not impacting usage.
Hybrids coming around ~2000 certainly had a visible effect but it wasn't enough. Which is why Rivian, a company which has delivered no cars, is worth 97 billion. Tesla is worth a trillion. Whereas Ford is only worth $78 billion. We must get to EV transportation asap. We must electrify our railroads. We must electrify our planes.
In fact, carbon taxes are bad. Very bad right now. Because prices are inelastic it makes the tax regressive and anti-compounding.
So gasoline prices go up. Trucking immediately is more expensive. Products prices go up. But because product prices are higher, inflation etc. trucking gets more expensive. Alberta recently had a carbon tax and allowed this circle to run for some time. An interesting thing happened. The prices didn't go higher. This is a problem. The price available to oil value crashed instead. So while WTI was about $50/barrel. WCS from Alberta went to $5/barrel. The albertan oil industry couldn't sell their oil. The trucks weren't running. Alberta repealed their carbon tax which nearly immediately fixed the problem. Their economy was basically halted. No trucks running means people will soon stop eating.
Imagine 10 years from now. We have maybe 30% of vehicles gone EV. Who owns those? The rich. The rich no longer pay the 100% tax for building roads. Who is paying for the road tax and carbon tax? the poor buggers driving the 15 year old shitmobile. The poor end up paying and the rich dont? Pretty regressive.
In society there will always be the Y2K and Mayan Calendar people. Climate change is a much more reliable source compared to some ancient Mayans.
There are also ideologues pushing a political position. Saying that the world ends in X years unless you do what I say is not going to go away.
There are people justifying their rent. Give me grant money and I'll say the world ends in X years.
That's selfish! Mandatory trip to Chernobyl!
Canada is one of the few countries which pulled out of the United nations desertification action. For which Canada was penalized heavily. This is the same initiative that plans to plant trees across africa.
IPCC 2019 makes it quite clear that greenification is not happening and desertification is absolutely a huge problem.
You will also see on pages like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change
Greenification isn't even a consideration for climate change.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_climate_change
Greenification isn't a word you will find in the effects of climate change wiki page.
Why is it do you think that they exclude this?
I suspect aspergers is wide but not necessarily the definition of bad social skills. Social skills are easy to learn. They are skills and do require training like any other skill. If you've never had the opportunity to learn them, you will end up later in life realizing you need to learn them.
You have to be careful here. Livestock is generally carbon sinks. Those cow patties are taking co2 into grass and then depositing it into the ground.
Flipside, plant based diet has a deadline.
http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph240/verso2/
We are already 70% degraded and only slowly the process by spraying oil byproducts on the land. If we kill the oil industry, that erosion increases in speed.
A more recent publication was looking at the moulds vs fungus balance and it's even worse than the above proposes.
We have to get into regenerative farming to reverse this problem and that includes keeping livestock for those cow patties.
Which blows my mind. Australia has the opportunity to do very large outback scale energy capture projects that would effectively drop the cost of energy to 0 in the long run. Develop and bring the auto industry back as EVs. As a society you could effectively eliminate one of the highest costs to your people.
>The solution needed by politicians is highly technological, expensive, allows us to keep selling coal, and isn't understood by people so can be easily spun into ridiculous tales by politicians.
I'm not aussie and only vaguely follow their politics. Australia has to export. If they drop back down into a losing balance of trade it'll be very bad news.
>"Just plant trees" would be ridiculously expensive and is totally impractical, the politicians would say.
It also isnt a solution. Us Canadians have 10,000 trees per person. We ought to be considered carbon neutral but we dont because our boreal forest is considered a pollutor. So trees aren't a solution.
For sure we are not. If we put a bubble(mars dome) around Toronto. Everyone dies in a very short period of time. Nature outside of Toronto is required for Toronto to survive. The more you push nature away by urban sprawl, the worse it becomes for the people living there.
>It isn't inevitable that human development must be a concrete jungle. You can include plants, permeable surfaces, etc in your plans so people can live more lightly and less intrusively on the land.
A requirement in the long run. I suppose my example of Toronto is a bad one because of the giant boreal forest to the north is mitigating the problem. Similarly oceanic cities like NYC are also mitigated.
>I also think America has a lot of room for adding back walkable mixed-use neighborhoods where at least some people can live, work and shop in the same neighborhood.
I understand but I doubt it'll happen.
>Studies suggest this leads to greater wealth in such neighborhoods (such as more sales) and we know vehicle traffic is a significant burden wrt human-caused climate change.
Let's not forget such a huge cost to society. We have how much debt and capital tied up in transportation which the majority of the time sits idle in a driveway? Let's not forget how transportation is one of our only high energy sinks. You can charge your phone off a wall outlet in 30 minutes but it takes days to charge a car off the same outlet.
The urban sprawl and death of small towns is because the cost of energy became so high and you cant compete. Naturally influencing why politicians then set policy to intentionally harm small towns.
Of which ~45% is held by the bank of japan itself.
https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/central-bank-balance-shee...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-economy-boj-idUSKCN...
Japan is so bankrupt that nobody else will hold their not properly rated debt.
Mind you, Japan's clearly bankrupt central bank cannot actually go bankrupt. There is no gold standard, there is no bank run, there is no liquidation requirements. So what? You just magically keep raising the imaginary numbers with no consequences?
This is where OP happens.
Flipside, I am curious about an alternative approach to fixing the issue like Greece did. Japan is headed toward a situation where their currency will be worthless and their people own nothing. Yes it will mean all retirees pretty much have to go get a job but the federal gov will effectively take ownership over most land. People who actually own their homes will effectively become fiefs.
I bet bitcoin and similar coins is beyond popular in Japan right now.
Noam Chomsky recently wrote similar to this. The military threat is really against china.
The point of a cold war is to prevent a real war. So when you hear about dick waving of the US military and allies. IT's about warning China from doing anything.
Is it China's UFOs? I don't think so.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/elon-musk-says-the-fighter-j...
Elon is 100% correct the fighter jet era is over. Did you know Elon was on Trump's tech council? https://www.engadget.com/2017-06-01-elon-musk-leaves-trump-c...
>I’d like to give you the benefit of the doubt here though. I think if you were able to be a little more clear I’d at least understand what you intend to say, but I find your comments here a bit confusing.
The blow your mind factor is hard to address because of the roswell factor. I 100% don't believe those UFOs are extraterrestrials.
>Who isn’t talking about it? Assuming you’re talking about poor relations (“Cold War”) and/or loving chip production. It seems to me to be pretty common knowledge and is widely reported in global media sources and the Internet. Don’t the links you provide demonstrate that?
I guess I didn't make that clear. Obviously it's being talked about.
I guess step back for a second. The war with china is obvious. I never even talked about cyber aspect of the war, its not relevant exactly. A nuclear bomb is going to do more in the war than some BGP route stealing tech. The irony of it all, it's China's capitalist zones that are going to be robbed for 'common prosperity' at the same time that the cold war kills those zones like Evergrande situation.
That's a great question. Japan has been doing this for about a decade. Shinzo Abe kind of called it abenomics; aka quantative easing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenomics
It has worked, no question, effectively exactly as you propose. The problem is that it clearly didn't solve the problem. While also creating new problems and since the original problem never gets solved, when you are forced to cut spending because the cost of debt has become too crippling. You retain all the new problems and now feel the old problems.
https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/government-spending-to-gd...
https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/government-debt-to-gdp
266% debt to gdp is about 24% higher than the peak drama about Greece's collapse.
https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/government-budget
Haven't balanced their budget since the 1990s.
Tough decisions coming for Japan.
Japan is on the verge of economic collapse. Negative interest rates, major deflation during all of covid. Barely pulling out of deflation and trending back downwards.
https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/inflation-cpi
Japan is in deflationary spiral due to high taxes and tremendous debt. Deficit spending to temporarily pull themselves out of deflation and recession will only makes things worse in the long term.
Europe: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/tech-is-make-or-break-i...
Germany: https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/about-infineon/press/press-r...
Korea: https://fortune.com/2021/05/13/south-korea-chip-semiconducto...
Japan: https://www.aroged.com/2021/11/23/japan-has-allocated-5-2-bi...
Non-OP USA: https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/09/us-chip-production-52b/
Key players are expecting an all out war with China:
France: https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/03/31/the-french-armed...
Taiwan: https://thediplomat.com/2021/10/taiwan-says-it-is-preparing-...
Australia: https://au.news.yahoo.com/chilling-warning-of-australias-rol...
AUKUS: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/16/what-is-the...
Japan: https://hamlinemidwayhistory.org/japanese-aircraft-carriers-...
China is fully aware of the cold war: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/chinas-leader-xi-w...
Let me blow your mind far more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos
These aren't hillbillies. This is US government technology recording and confirming UFOs.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-ufo-report-released-ma...
And nobody is talking about it? This is completely related to the war with china.
It's all an attempt to prevent war with China. Though that does mean a peasant revolt in china is coming.
>None of this adds up to positive evidence of any variation of the "lab leak" theory but given that there is no alternative theory that holds up to serious scrutiny or doesn't have serious flaws or unanswered questions, it has to stay in the running.
The virus derives from somewhere. If wild, we would have known it was wild. It's not wild anymore, that boat has moved on.
So where else? Now that we know it was a lab leak because of good old occams razor. We can look at the very quick response to label lab leak as a conspiracy theory. Who pushed that. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7095418/
How did Trump of all people blame a lab leak in wuhan so quickly as well? Trump didn't know there was a lab there.
>My suspicion is the Chinese government doesn't know either but, more importantly, they don't want to know because absolutely no good can come from that becoming public. There is literally no upside.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-dep...
A wuhan lab in china received money from the US government to do gain of function research on coronaviruses and they started using the variant that is 96% similar to covid only a few years before. The american politicians who at exactly the same time they started doing this work warned that safety at the wuhan lab was poor.
If it was a lab leak, why then is the person responsible for covid publishing about it like they didnt know. The exact person who is responsible.
That's because it's a leak. It's not intentional.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canadian-scientist-s...
>All of this has led to conspiracy theories linking the novel coronavirus responsible for COVID-19, Canada's microbiology lab, and the lab in Wuhan.
There's no evidence that coronavirus was involved with this lady.
>NMLs lips have been sealed and there was never a reason given why they were dismissed. Going as far as saying that they were shipping viruses to wuhan is baseless speculation.
Like, Wuhan is certainly involved. It's possible coronavirus was already at wuhan and they used these canadian viruses for the 'gain of function' stuff. Oh it's much better than that. Those government officials have outright defied orders requiring them to disclose this information. Even better, we all know how strong unions and such are. They came out originally fighting for this lady and then suddenly they stopped altogether. No fight at all.
And where did this lady go? She has been missing...
Even better? Early on in covid Indian universities looked at the covid make up and found that it wasn't a natural virus. A natural virus would have been spitting out many new variants early on. They made some predictions about where those gain of function points would have been from. But then the censors came along and shut them down.
Here's an article from April 1st 2020.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-media-change-tune-trum...
Trump put in travel restrictions for china in february of 2020 and was called xenophobic and fear mongering over what wasn't yet a pandemic. Sorry but the democrats went on the offensive attacking trump for doing what everyone did.
Flipside, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/obama-team-left-pandemic...
Trump had a pandemic playbook on how to react to a pandemic and didn't use it? Is it possible because of the political attacks on him?
It's pretty obvious that politics got in the way bigtime. I have no expectations this will be different next time.
Then we had clearly political decisions made all throughout. By May 2020 we had the data in that people like Dr. Neil Ferguson of Imperial College said covid is the equivalent of the Spanish Flu of 1918.That was wrong and we still reacted like it was indeed still dangerous. When in reality it was less dangerous than the normal flu season(largely due young children being unharmed).
The number of political abuses is so high that society right now would not accept another pandemic. That they are almost certainly full of shit at this point.
It's remarkable how quickly they settled on bats and everything but this was misinformation that would get you banned from various american tech companies.
It's also remarkable how quickly they moved to shutdown many discussions. The lab leak only months earlier from Canada where a chinese national shipped viruses to wuhan. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/chinese-researcher-e...
There's no evidence of coronavirus being involved at all with the canadian lady, but they sure did call it conspiracy theory and shutdown talks quick.
Throw this in context of a pissing match with China and Canada. https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/26/china/meng-wanzhou-china-arri... and China in return arresting and putting Canada diplomats on death row.
I think lots of answers came along from fauci's emails. All of these are not coincidences and China is probably not the source of covid. Hence why there was such a quick reaction to blame china.
Blame Canada!