narcissismo
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Comment · 5 years ago
On the upside, several billion people saw their mental health improve briefly.
Comment · 5 years ago
Its not just the coal generator accidents but the weirdly long underground fires that rarely get a mention.
Here's one article I found of a fire underneath some suburban houses: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-26/underground-fire-in-c...
It casually mentions a decades-long struggle a primary school has had with an underground fire. Obviously not a very big deal for some folks.
I haven't read the actual study, but this write-up helped me understand the climate change denial phenomenon more clearly. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-apes/202012/...
Comment · 5 years ago
Something odd is happening here. Perhaps I can offer a piece of insight.
APRA is the Australian music copyright organisation (https://www.apraamcos.com.au/)
ECAD is the Brazillian version.
VCPMC is the Vietnamese equivalent.
Not sure about the others, but basically these are the people with whom a composer registers their work. These organisations work together by forwarding royalties collected within each territory to their rightful owners.
I am a member of APRA and very much doubt that someone got away with registering a Beethoven work as their own.
Very curious indeed. I have no explanation.
[Edit] You are only meant to register your work in one territory, so it is odd that this 'work' would be registered in four of them.
Comment · 5 years ago
Take a pinch of half truth (this is about protecting journalists), mix with a dusting of nationalism (FB are intimidating Australia) and viola - a news monopoly gets a legislated free ride.
Lets all fight amongst ourselves about government versus FB while the real winners remain invisible.
Comment · 5 years ago
Please keep going :)
Using Smalltalk (particularly Pharo) has been an eye-opening experience for me.
Its interesting to see that Amber has a Boolean class which I suppose corresponds to the JS boolean primitive. In other Smalltalks, I've seen a wonderful design where True and False are subclasses of Boolean. This way, there are no conditionals in the implementation of ifTrue: and ifFalse:
Comment · 5 years ago
You're missing the fact that the plastic was already there.
As another poster mentioned - in Kenya, waste plastic is commonly burned on the side of a road. Turning it into bricks is an improvement on this.
As a materials engineer, I'm sure she has the UV aspect worked out.
Comment · 5 years ago
Youtube consumes more electricity than South Africa.
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+total+power+cons...
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+total+power+cons...
Comment · 5 years ago
Geez thats bad. What's the value of GM on that basis?
Comment · 5 years ago
Also, if you accidentally drive 3601 miles, you lose on the transaction :)
Comment · 5 years ago
One could also argue that the power used by the vehicles themselves contributes to increased emissions.
I think the only way forward here is to generate electricity as cleanly as possible. That way we won't get bogged down in arguments about amazon's terawatt-hours being more worthwhile than those of facebook or bitcoin.
Comment · 5 years ago
Nice work.
Its also nice to know that a low price point doesn't automatically act as a bad-player magnet.
Comment · 5 years ago
Well that was concise.
I'd love to know the types of sites they hosted. Anyone here have the skillz to find out?
My bet is on slimming tablets and viagra sales.
Comment · 5 years ago
Large numbers of the 'get rich quick' crowd that you speak of become poor after each crash. More will follow.
Each time this happens, I stand in awe of the brilliance of bitcoin - not so much the details of UTXOs or hash magic, but the choice of time base and halving intervals.
Its as if it were designed to be a FOMO feedback loop from the outset. The fact that its still working after so many boom/bust cycles is amazing.
[Edit] clarify reference to parent
Comment · 5 years ago
Its great that you can find these consumption figures so easily in some cases.
It seems that Google only uses 10.6 terawatt hours.
https://www.google.co/search?q=google+total+power+consumptio...
Add Facebook's 5.1 and you get the amount of power required to kill half of the planet's productivity.
[Edit] typo