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Reply to comment by PastTense1 in The American climate migration has already begun | Jake Bittle by Gari_305
It is a Guardian opinion piece…
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Reply to comment by clay12340 in What about the jobs ChatGPT could create? by Ok-Cartoonist5349
What I mean is that the diffusion of responsibility in large organizations is a feature. Automation will concentrate responsibility and liability, so organizations will resist it until the benefits are overwhelming.
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Reply to comment by Tetref in What about the jobs ChatGPT could create? by Ok-Cartoonist5349
No, there was. Most things don’t need fancy AI tools to automate. A lot of jobs boil down to moving data from a file/website through excel and to email or PowerPoint. That’s usually easy to automate and almost never automated.
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Reply to comment by ItilityMSP in What about the jobs ChatGPT could create? by Ok-Cartoonist5349
You could have automated most office work 10 years ago, and people have talked a lot about it but for some reason it’s never fully realized.
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Reply to comment by pickingnamesishard69 in Solar-powered system converts plastic and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels by landlord2213
Not from a landfill it won’t.
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Reply to comment by Surur in Solar-powered system converts plastic and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels by landlord2213
Isn’t the goal to mitigate climate change by reducing atmospheric CO2?
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Reply to comment by mynextthroway in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
I believe I’ve been saying it should be buried. Moreover SE Asian countries aren’t really buying US and European plastic recycling materials anymore so a lot of it is actually getting landfilled again. Insofar as it all goes in a big hole in the ground it hardly matters.
Making sure it doesn’t end up in waterways seems like the correct focus to me. I don’t really have a lot interest in trying to police people’s preferences. Just handle the waste stream correctly and clamp down on littering.
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Reply to comment by mynextthroway in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
Well weathering of plastic will release some CO2.
What I mean really is that plastic is made from a waste product and very little CO2 is emitted in its production. It displaces more carbon intensive material use, and when its buried any carbon it contains is sequestered. It’s a great material that way if properly disposed of.
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Reply to comment by sennbat in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
Yeah non-substitutable is probably a better voice to convey what imprecisely meant.
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Reply to comment by SecretNature in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
Sure but copper and lead pipes are inferior to pex in basically every way. PVC is also great for a lot of non residential cases. Steel production is laughably more CO2 intensive.
Plastic provides cleaner, safer water with fewer leaks and lower emissions. It also isn’t worth stealing like copper pipes and doesn’t have to be joined in a process that’s highly toxic.
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Reply to comment by gimme_alt_girls in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
They actually don’t shed off of everything, specially harder plastics.
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Reply to comment by GruntBlender in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
Garbage disposal uses lined and heavily monitored sites. It’s a solved problem.
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Reply to comment by Uptown-Dog in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
“Big oil” exists because we need energy. Plastic is just a neat way to use the trash that would otherwise be discarded. Burying plastic trash is carbon neutral, and it came out of the ground anyway.
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Reply to comment by m_bleep_bloop in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
Those countries don’t really buy US plastic waste anymore.
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Reply to comment by Glittering_Airport_3 in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
As long as the CO2 numbers aren’t worse(they often are) and they hold up for purpose then fine. But there’s nothing wrong with burying plastic.
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Reply to comment by Stardust_Staubsauger in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
But that’s a minuscule fraction, as far as I’m aware from reading about the topic.
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Reply to comment by Fairuse in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
None of that waste really comes from the US since China stopped buying American recycling. There’s a lot of single use plastics used in SE Asia, and they lack the disposal infrastructure we enjoy in developed economies.
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Reply to comment by tdaddybxl in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
That rolls up medical plastics, chemical spray bottles, aluminum can liners, bandages, cling wrap, straws the people with mobility issues need, and so on. Plastic is basically a CO2 sink if it’s buried, may as well just do that.
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Reply to comment by Partykongen in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
Mostly if we could go after fishing waste and clean up the major rivers in South East Asia, there wouldn’t be a plastic problem in the Pacific.
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Reply to comment by giuliomagnifico in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
Plastics are irreplaceable in plumbing, medicine, weather proofing in construction, many durable consumer goods, automobile crumple zones, storage for dangerous industrial chemicals, and on and on. We need to dispose of plastics better, not try to blanket ban them.
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Reply to comment by amitym in Flying boats and artificial photosynthesis for cleaner shipping by perpetual_C000009A
The endgame for container ships is probably synthetic fuel produced with excess renewable power. Large container ships already only release like 100g of carbon per ton of freight per kilometer traveled. It’s ~2tins of co2 to get a ton of freight across the pacific, which is like 11k kilometers.
Ideally synthetic fuel will be carbon neutral because it’s made from ammonia derived from green hydrogen. Analysts expect it to account for ~15% of marine fuel in 20 years…
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Reply to comment by urumipayattu in India offers $280 million to Syria for building power, steel plant by Acrobatic_Effect4907
What does that even mean? India has been a nonaligned power since independence. It isn’t a surprise to anyone.
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Reply to comment by Robot_Basilisk in Luxurious space hotels are a classic Sci-Fi trope. But American hospitality giant Hilton recently signed a deal with Lockheed Martin and Voyager Space to build the solar system’s first space hotel onboard Starlab — a space station with NASA funding — which is currently under development. by EricFromOuterSpace
Who the fuck cares about the geopolitics of space mining in 200 years?
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Reply to comment by Robot_Basilisk in Luxurious space hotels are a classic Sci-Fi trope. But American hospitality giant Hilton recently signed a deal with Lockheed Martin and Voyager Space to build the solar system’s first space hotel onboard Starlab — a space station with NASA funding — which is currently under development. by EricFromOuterSpace
> hoard resources up there
What? Do you imagine them hoisting ton of gold bars into LEO? It's an awfully precarious place to try and sit out some instability, especially after recent demonstrations of satellite killing missiles.
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Reply to comment by Current_Side_4024 in Artificial intelligence could soon be widely used to detect breast cancer — and may be more effective than doctors at doing so, study says by Gari_305
I used to work along side someone who worked on this kind of problem. The issues was then and probably still is that there isn’t enough good and labeled training data. You can’t just hoover up every breast cancer image in the world, they’re locked away on servers in hospital basements and belong to the patients (at least in the US) and every country has different laws about using this stuff for research, much less a commercial system. Some national health services have tried this with their own data and results have so far been unimpressive.