The problem I have with Nix (and Guix) is that you're shit out of luck if you need it to work together with some network based package manager or existing project that someone didn't add to it yet.
It gets really complicated really fast, and things that "just work" with other packages managers and projects, because they are opinionated and linux-y, most of the time don't work well with Nix or have to be shoehorned into it.
It always feels like you're fighting against everything to get things into Nix that just weren't meant to be.
I don't know if the numbers in the linked paper and the following paper can be used together as I haven't read both, but I've taken the global annual e-waste estimate from here as unfortunately the linked paper does not mention it in the abstract: https://www.itu.int/myitu/-/media/Publications/2020-Publicat...
While I do think Bitcoin in its current form is a problem and the developers should start thinking of solutions sooner than later, I think starting with Bitcoin to reduce total e-waste is misguided at best.
Sure. Dating is essentially the way we assess a suitable potential partner. The end goal in (hetero) dating essentially boils down to starting a family and this is also implied and assumed unless stated otherwise.
I guess nowadays people also informally call "having casual sex" dating. I'm also not sexually attracted to trans women if that's what you're getting at. We would not even be able to have sex.
Ok, we're on the same page regarding the violence.
I want to start a family in the traditional sense like my parents and grandparents have done before me, so I would be disappointed to find out I was dating a transwoman. Similarly I'd be disappointed to find out if a woman didn't want children or wanted to live a lifestyle incompatible with my own. It isn't going to work out and I'd have to ultimately call it off.
It's not about 'who's at fault' really. It will sooner or later come up and it is better sooner than later for both parties. If I'm dating a woman and she doesn't mention that she already has children, which is a big deal for me, then we're both just wasting our times because that's something I can't compromise on.
I don't know why this even needs to be stated, but violence is not an option in either of these cases.
It is equally dangerous to ignore environmental factors. We also know that male fertility is on a sharp decline but don't know why, this may be related and should be investigated.
My main concern is the faking of official statements by public figures where having those signed addresses the issue of deep fakes. Of course there has to be infrastructure in place for this and people must know that you can verify them.
If we get to a point in society where unsigned images, or images signed from a questionable source are looked at skeptically, then that alone is a step in the right direction. I don't know the final solution and I don't claim to know it, but cryptography seems like a step in the right direction.
While all this stuff around deep fakes and its detection is interesting I'm still left wondering why we don't use cryptography to prove if an image is authentic or not.
It gets really complicated really fast, and things that "just work" with other packages managers and projects, because they are opinionated and linux-y, most of the time don't work well with Nix or have to be shoehorned into it.
It always feels like you're fighting against everything to get things into Nix that just weren't meant to be.