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Re: Shopify live dashboard

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Post by wenebego »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #12
olivier_martel wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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'…

Id define it as people's needs and not their wants and desires

Re: Shopify live dashboard

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Post by fijiaarone »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #24
rTX5CMRXIfFG wrote: post #23

Earlier 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.

I encourage someone to try it to speed run their political career to provide us the natural experiment we can observe. Constituents will accept taxes and other disincentives (see alcohol), they will not tolerate some political rep telling them what is unnecessary consumption and banning their desired products (broadly speaking, there are always exceptions and nuance). Walk the pavement like you would for a day runnin…

If you had two chickens, should you give you neighbor one?

Re: Shopify live dashboard

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Post by fijiaarone »

tacker2000 wrote: post #44
aquova wrote: post #5

What 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…

Why pay someone else when you have your own “carbon removal” program and just pocket the profits?

Of course, you’ll still need to purchase the Certified Genuine Carbon Credit Approved Organic Green Sticker (R) (TM) (501c3) (NGO) (LLC) to prove you are worthy to sequester other people’s consumption sins.

Re: Shopify live dashboard

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Post by qiller »

ndriscoll wrote: post #57
obiefernandez wrote: post #19

But, but... Rails doesn't scale!!!!!

The dashboard shows 25k orders per minute right now (~400/s). A modern server shouldn't even be close to 1% utilization to handle that.

While 400 TPS might not be huge, there is still a lot of processing that goes into placing each order, and it's easy to underestimate the necessary capacity. Latencies add up (a call to a tax service, a call to a shipping service, etc), state adds up, and suddenly it's way over 1%.
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