I think your perception of the ease of/effort required for atmospheric carbon capture is off by a few orders of magnitude.

I don't get what you want to say.

Decarbonizing is happening, at least to electricity generation and transportation. There is a group insisting on denying this, but it's just your usual form of denialism.

There is reasonable freedom to debate the last 10% of emissions. Those are not being replaced right in front of our eyes. There is also room to claim that decarbonization is not enough. But then you'll have to claim that stopping things as they are is either catastrophic or won't stop the consequences from changing. That's not unthinkable, but not a reasonable default assumption either.

I imagine you are talking about that last one assumption. If so, starting from it is kind of an extreme position. Anyway, it's not clear what kind of cost you are classifying as insurmountable and why governments that are used to spend real amounts of money on all kinds of projects just can't spend on those.

What I want to say is: atmospheric carbon capture is not the deus ex machina that one might be tempted to believe it is after seeing news of startups like Climeworks doing it.

I responded to a comment implying that if there is a philantropist like Bill Gates camping out in the desert sucking CO2 out of the air, we won’t need a massive collective effort.

Maybe this will be a somewhat effective solution one day for areas where fuel energy density is important (e.g. flight), but that’s about it. Carbon neutrality will still need a distributed effort as point source capture is massively more economical where feasible.

And iOS Safari shows it as a mostly green mess. After tapping the image to get to the real .j2, in the page itself it’s a png.

Wow, I just checked and you're right. I find it fascinating that all of this modern software continues to support JPEG 2000 in such a buggy state. Or maybe it's the file itself that's corrupted? I don't know enough about the file format to say.

the file is obviously wrong

The file is correct. You can open it in imagemagick (display) to check. Could be a simple problem with the colorspace implementation of gimp or something similar. If you would read the comments you would know what a mess jpeg2000 implementations are

Something appears to be wonky with the ICC profile embedded in this image. And while I have no idea whether the file itself complies with applicable standards, I can say that ImageMagick is not a reliable test in this case. To wit:

1. Per Photoshop, "The embedded ICC profile cannot be used because the ICC profile is invalid."

2. After using the OS X Preview.app "Assign Profile" command to replace the embedded ICC profile with the system-supplied sRGB profile, the image displays correctly in Safari.

3. The ImageMagick display command is apparently ignoring the embedded profile and assuming sRGB, as it continues to display the image correctly even when I replace the embedded profile with an obviously incorrect (but valid and correctly interpreted by Photoshop and Safari) profile.

The same with ImageGlass, my default image viewer software in Windows

Firefox (Ubuntu) wants to download it instead of display it...

Hi Jeff

Did you get 750-800 out of the box with a Pi4 and USB ethernet? Asking because mine was around 300 and needed some manual tweaking (see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27231705)

For those who get poor performance out of this, I recommend https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/scaling.ht...

I had 300-400Mbit/s out of the box and got it up to ~900 with the right set up.

> Does paper cash printed by government make more sense?

Than energy wasting cash computed by chinese miners and (in the early days) a select group of early adopters? Yes, it makes more sense.

Would you mind linking the law you're talking about?

I think it's really just more of the ruthless pragmatism that makes this place so efficient and a consequence of land scarcity. Housing is limited and leaving it up to the free market would exacerbate wealth inequality. Therefore the government steps in with subsidized housing, which almost by definition will have more demand than supply. Prioritizing young families makes sense as the birth rate is below replacement.

> Also criticizing the government is a crime and saying the wrong thing on facebook can land you in prison.

Would you mind linking the specific law(s) you talk about here?

> There is no better way that a developer can earn outsized riches than blockchain and cryptocurrency. You are solving tough problems in difficult, constrained environments and are rewarded extremely well for doing so by a global group of investors involved in this alternative financial system.

You are not rewarded for "solving tough problems" or anything else related to creating actual value. It's FOMO driven gambling, scams and enabling organized crime that gets money into the crypto ecosystem.

A /16 has ~65k unique IPs.