What library is used to make the frontend globe rendering? Its pretty fast and not laggy on my chrome browser.
three.js
Probably something like that https://github.com/vasturiano/three-globe
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I think first and foremost it shows in which countries Shopify is the most present.
Other measures indicate similar concentration in roughly the same places (excl. maybe China), such as a light pollution (indicator of energy usage): https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/
China obviously, there's not much they wouldn't just buy on domestic platforms using domestic payment services, but almost all of Asia is pretty dark on Shopify, compared to your map. I guess they're just not a thing there, plus maybe black friday itself. Also, the UK is disproportionately brighter on the Shopify map compared to the rest of Europe. Interestingly, light pollution seems pretty low in Germany compared to the Netherlands, but in Shopify it seems to almost be the inverse.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well you dismissed the idea of defining it before the commenter had a chance, so are you really making an honest argument here? If a policymaker wanted to ban “unnecessary consumption” they would come up with a list of what that is and whether your purchase would be banned or not would depend on whether you’re buying something from that list, which they can also incrementally grow over time.
Can you define it then? Are Kitchen appliances unnecessary spending? What about designer clothes? VR Headsets? Video Game Consoles?
Sure. You can start by making unnecessary consumption mean “net pollutant” products where the cost of producing them and the waste they create exceed the value that customers pay for or gain from the product, so easy suspects are the types of inventory which are always left over and unsold even during huge sales and promo periods.
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#44What is their basis for the "Carbon Removed" stat?
They basically pay someone else to “remove carbon” and can the throw this magic number in there. So yea…
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Hilarious, should be carbon added by all this unnecessary consumption made easy by them.
Define necessary consumption. You cannot, because everyone's wants, needs, and desires are different. People will consume. If they do, behaviorally nudge them in ways to offset the harm (verified carbon offsets; not junk ones of course). Similarly to how certain cohorts loudly complain that EVs are not a component of a climate change mitigation plan. Almost 90M cars a year are sold globally; no one cares if they don'…
They are just pointing out how funny it is to have any sort of environmental savings metric for a sales event known for impulse FOMO purchases.
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https://www.shopify.com/climate/bfcm (From the link on the dashboard when you click that stat) > All orders made through our platform over the Black Friday Cyber Monday shopping weekend will ship carbon neutral. > Here's how it works: A rigorous formula built by Shopify data scientists calculates the estimated carbon emissions for each Black Friday Cyber Monday shipment. We then team up with Shopify Sustainability Fu…
Which is BS, of course. There's no way to really measure this.
Well you can somewhat calculate the CO2 emitted by a parcel shipped from X to Y. Of course it will depend on loads of factors, like did they use a plane, a truck, a barge with one guy sitting inside rowing gently down the stream, etc… so im not sure how exact their numbers will be.
Basically it means nothing anyway, but companies love to tout how “green” they are, dont they?
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#47We have been doing BFCM dashboards for the past 10 years now. It's always one of the most fun projects at Shopify and a great tradition now. You know, it's pretty abstract to run internet software companies. Seeing a visualization like this makes it a lot more relateable even for the folks that work here. This year we packed it with lots of fun details ( https://twitter.com/Shopify/status/1728040379163771020 ). Like…
why is looking up Jerusalem, Israel blocked?
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Define necessary consumption. You cannot, because everyone's wants, needs, and desires are different. People will consume. If they do, behaviorally nudge them in ways to offset the harm (verified carbon offsets; not junk ones of course). Similarly to how certain cohorts loudly complain that EVs are not a component of a climate change mitigation plan. Almost 90M cars a year are sold globally; no one cares if they don'…
They are just pointing out how funny it is to have any sort of environmental savings metric for a sales event known for impulse FOMO purchases.
But that’s the entire point. It isn’t funny, it is legitimate effort to offset the harm caused by consumer demand that won’t go away. My problem is that it is flippant, ignores the nuance, and is borderline ignorant. It has no place here, whereas the math around the topic does. Curiosity and discovery over shitposting.
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#492 fps on my machine