elevenbits

replying to my own comment, from oldskool

First comment from OldSkool :)

Hi HN,

I made this as an experiment to see if a older style (PHPBB-alike) format would enhance readability of posts on Hacker News.

To me the present style represents a discussion room in which members form nested cliques, which means that a few comments are well heard while many others are ignored. Voting exacerbates the effect, as disagreeable comments are often pushed down or hard to read (light gray text). Finally, due to the tree-style presentation, it's difficult to determine the context for a reply when there is a lot of nesting levels.

The classic forum style, in contrast, simply shows posts in chronological order, along with the reply-tree visible inline, so context is easy to determine. With no votes or light gray text, I find it significantly easier to follow the conversation; YMMV.

The present implementation is rather slow as the API isn't built for the display format I'm using. Give it a sec to load :)

I'm currently working on adding reply/submit functionality. You'll see dummy replies to this post while I get that working.

Thanks for taking a look!

I have a different view than captured by your A-E options.

1) The climate, or really the whole earth, has some background rate of change, that itself changes over time.

2) On top of that, there is change, ranging from significant to insignificant depending on the area, caused by humans.

3) This will cause the earth to change at a rate (potentially much) faster than if humans were not here.

None of this, to me, represents a problem in itself. The earth before humans, or at any other point in our history was not some ideal utopia. Humans have inflicted colossal change upon the world since our first day -- we've decimated pests, built cities over forests and dams over rivers, created lakes and removed others, just to name just a few. The world we live in today is anything but "natural".

My primary point of disagreement with those who consider climate change a grave threat is the approach. Rather than setting "reduction targets" and "cutting back", we will, as humans have always done, build solutions to problems as we grow. Whether that's investing in improved desalination technology to provide large quantities of fresh water (due to a demand for water), electric vehicles to reduce localized emissions (due to a demand for clean air), or plant a trillion trees to store carbon (due to a demand for lower temperatures), the key is that for those to be workable options they must represent the growth of humanity, not the decline. There's also vast amount of land in Canada and Russia that at present is undesirable because it is too _cold_.

Humans have survived in horrendously hostile environments and have built upon that the wonderful and wholly unnatural modern lifestyle. Humans have never in history been THIS well resourced to survive despite environmental changes, and I have the utmost confidence we will do exactly that.

I read that part the same way; for standard remote ID drones, transmission over internet to a USS should be made if possible, but as long as the drone can continue an ADS-B like (but specifically NOT ADS-B) transmission it remains compliant. That's the big question here I think, because there are a lot of places you can fly that don't have internet connectivity, such as rural farms where drones are currently very useful.