Europeans are not against A/C. They are just against "just putting A/C" as the easy solution for not trying to fix climate change.
Also the 6% CO2 emissions only include national emissions. A part of what China emits is due to what we consume in the western world. In other words, the 6% emissions don't include the emissions of all the iPhone purchased by Europeans.
I’m not sure work sucks (at least as a general statement). Work is a way to be useful in the society and feeling useful is valuable for our wellbeing. I don’t think people who stop working and spend their days laying on the beach feel better.
As a family:
- We don’t use Uber Eats
- We don’t fly
- We bike in the city (long tail bikes to carry the kids)
- We don’t use A/C (and resist so far installing it) and try to do some passive ventilation, shading to limit the house getting to hot in the summer (it’s gets sometimes around 42 C where we live)
- We try to eat local food
I can’t believe there are people in our industry who turn a blind eye (or worse) to these problems. They say that climate scientists are fearmongering and argue there is not a single truth.
Do they really need a pickup truck? There are so many alternatives to carry around loads which are much lighter. What do you think construction workers and farmers use in Europe?
"The Datastore API is somewhat unique in that it, unlike the Core API, deals with non-file data, so we’re working directly with individual developers to help them migrate to an alternative."
I would be interested in what this help means concretely for developers. I imagine Dropbox has limited interest helping small developers who might have used this API.
Numbers are quite impressive: Millions of monthly active users. How do you plan to handle the operations once this is running? If I read correctly you are only two?
Same here. Even scrolling down I don't get what this does/enable very easily. The code examples are also hard to understand (naming is not obvious) for someone who doesn't know what Ethereum is.
I don't think it's a matter of statistics or probability: it's just easier said when you're not directly affected by the events.
For me personally, I completely agree when reading this article but I'm here, on the west coast, not feeling threatened directly and knowing my friends are now safe.
But what if you were passing the finish line as these devices exploded. You might well be the most rationale person in the world, you would not think about probabilities. What if you were there in the public, wondering why your life has been spared because you decided to stand further away from that point.
I get the point but was is the impact of recreationally burning wood a few evenings in the winter or at a campfire. It seems, even from the article, that the repeated practice is bad but I don't think that at this point it would still be called recreational.
It's similar to eating fast food. Every day, the consequences would be disastrous, but once in a blue moon that's a different story.
Also the 6% CO2 emissions only include national emissions. A part of what China emits is due to what we consume in the western world. In other words, the 6% emissions don't include the emissions of all the iPhone purchased by Europeans.