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isn't sequestering carbon a good thing?


I think that's what he tried to say, if you recycle paper the carbon gets somehow released. But, in theory, the recycled paper will still come out as paper, thus carbon will still be there.


> in theory, the recycled paper will still come out as paper, thus carbon will still be there.

If paper never gets recycled it will continue accumulating in the landfill at a fast pace, so more carbon gets trapped over time.

If paper gets recycled the amount of captured carbon will be that trapped in the paper currently circulating. Even if some paper gets eventually trashed, it will not be at the same rate.

Recycling paper harms climate.


But what about the trees cut down to make new paper? As more new paper is needed if less is recycled.


That's the whole point of carbon sequestration: grow a tree, cut it down, bury it, grow a new tree in the same place.


Assuming that new trees will indeed be planted.


Yes. And the more paper gets recycled the less carbon gets sequestered. Recycling paper is harmful.


not sure what the reason was, but it's simply a missing >. other files were leaked, and you can see the same pattern elsewhere:

  if ($user > 0 && is_unregistered($user))
searching the web for this comment might be helpful if you'd like more source code:

  $user can be < 0 in AIM mode, just use 0 there


This might be due to the code pasted in some markdown editor at a point. This often strips the < and > characters.


I also want to discourage the use of "sessions." Lost one because I didn't change the time limit. Lost one because my computer/browser restarted. I'm wary of clicking things like 'skip' now, despite knowing that I could just incognito it. A thirty or even seven day trial would be much better!


Completely agree! We're on it. :)

Definitely don't want you to be wary of the skip button. That's an important feature. You should love the music you're playing.

So here's a pro-tip: as an anonymous user, play the session for just a little bit without moving the slider more than a minute or two. Click skip within that time period and you're golden.

The skip does have more leeway if you just register. It's free! Plus, as an anonymous user you're not going to get near as much variety. Every time you come back in incognito you'll get the same stuff. We have so many people doing this, but I don't know how they stand it! Truly though, I do not care if people go incognito.

But we just kinda need to know a bit about you to make sure you get the right sessions, instead of generic one-size-fits-all sessions. Yeah, I know how that sounds, as if I'm just dying to get your email or something, right? Use a fake one, who cares. I only need the survey information for one reason: Everyone's truly is - to quote Tyler Durden - a beautiful and unique snowflake ;)

It gets better and better afterwards and the more you use it.

Enjoy :)

- Adam from Brain.fm


For me it's just not worth it to create an account for 7 sessions. And paying is not an option either, after using it quite successfully for 1-2 weeks I am still not convinced to drop 7$ a month on it. As a college student that is a lot of money. With those 7 sessions it is not possible to estimate whether the app can actually create a lot of different sounds or not. With intense focus I have been through all of them I think and it was like 10-15 30 minute sessions. Nothing to spend money on.


This is likely because React moved to Discord too after Slack did not want to bump up their maximum user limit: https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/10/19/reactiflux-...


If only there was some open protocol to support large scale group chat.


yes! with an open protocol and lightweight servers. Let's make one and call it Instantaneous React Chat.


at least google analytics is non blocking


This is specific to the browser, not YouTube: https://plus.google.com/+FrancoisBeaufort/posts/6PiJQqJzGqX


Interesting, thanks. I find that very surprising, as YouTube now behaves differently across browsers. I'm surprised Google would make this the policy for Chrome, and not make the change in YouTube too; it's much better.


"We're probably only a month away from having autonomous driving, at least for highways and for relatively simple roads. My guess for when we'll have full autonomy is about three years, approximately three years. However, regulators will probably not allow full autonomy for maybe... at least one to three years after that. So, it depends on the particular market -- some markets the regulators will be more forward leaning than others. But in terms of when will it be technologically possible, three years."

https://youtu.be/ktyMmzZ6WeM?t=474


Thanks!

I wonder just what he means by "full autonomy" though. When he refers to "autonomous driving...for highways" that means that the car manages the steering and acceleration but the driver is alert and involved at all times, and ready to take over any time the car can't handle something. I wonder if he's referring to a similar concept that works in more situations, rather than a car that can drive with nobody in it.

Or he might just be optimistic and mean full automatic driving. Hard to tell.


problem #1: GeoIP isn't accurate enough


problem #2: Travel becomes more of a pain because your apps/phone stop working.


That comparison becomes $9,644 in 1991 to $11,016 in 2011 when adjusting for inflation: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=5846+1991+dollars+in+20...


so does the footer


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