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It’s not dangerous?! Somebody tell the nuclear power companies. They’ll save so much money on security and safety. They could have a side hustle doing tours for school kids. Of cou…

> That doesn't seem to add anything to the discussion. I don't know what you're getting at. I'm explaining why I'm against building nuclear power plants — it's a very simple point …

You could make the exact same argument about nuclear energy. The same promises were made, and it has failed to deliver. It doesn't address the main issue of nuclear — it's incredib…

If you think there's no prospect of coal consumption going down, then we're headed for global calamity. Knowing that it's a likely scenario that the world becomes wildly unpredicta…

I don’t think you’ll find many anti-nuclear people on HN that are also pro-fossil-fuel. It’s a false choice, we can choose to not use fossil fuels, and decrease the risk of nuclear…

This is a false choice. As the world gets more unstable due to climate change — an increased risk on pandemics, civil unrest, extreme weather events — do we really want abandoned n…

Because it doesn’t collect personal data to sell to advertisers.

This is an excellent point. I’m no influencer, but i do have a big family and lots of very close friends. I’m very lucky. Many people are isolated and struggle to make and maintain…

Which messaging app do you think most people would join… one with nobody else using it, or one with everyone else using?

My issue is with Facebook, not with the network effect itself. Happy to use the network effect to get people off Facebook.

Understandably, people who don’t use WhatsApp, don’t think it’s weird that other people don’t use WhatsApp. People who do have WhatsApp, probably have it, because most of the peopl…

I got rid of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp about 4 years ago. Facebook and Instagram was easy, but people who have WhatsApp really think you’re weird for not having it. Deletin…

I've tried it out, I'm still getting smaller AVIF files with dithering. Not like the saving you get by using a dithered png instead of a jpeg. Depends on a lot of factors. You can …

But you can also use a dithered AVIF — and save even more.

But have you tried dithering AND using modern image formats?

Hi there author of the article here, I did a lot of testing when I wrote the article, and even made a tool for dithering. https://doodad.dev/dither-me-this/ It completely depends o…

If you try to use lossy compression on a dithered image it will increase the file size. Using dithering and saving in a compressed lossless format will have drastically different r…

I wrote that previous comment before I fully understood the new specification. I'm still not entirely sure, but it looks like you're right. I thought the rules were static, I see n…

I have a firefox version, and a safari one in the works. It has about 50 users on firefox and 1500 on chrome. It works a bit differently to most content blockers, you can take a lo…

Removing webRequest's blocking will completely destroy my web extension. It helps people get work done by blocking website's they're addicted to. I've just started out on a new ver…

it's the opposite way round. png is especially good at compressing dithered images. It's a reduced color palette, (in this case just black and white) so there's lots of repeated se…

The carbon emmissions of the internet are often simplified to more data = more carbon — making streaming video the worst offender. Streaming video happens most on fast, more energy…