Neither of those are true. The dental care is a $500 a year reimbursement for some children and seniors, and the pharmacare covers contraception and diabetes medication. There’s not even an expansion plan developed for either.
I guess since I'm in the states the bar is below the floor but $500/yr dental reimbursement for kids and pharamacare covering contraception and diabetes medication sounds incredibly helpful for low income people.
Sadly the NDP have lost their way and will not be winning an election for a long time. Jagmeet needs to be replaced. Move away from liberal policies and create their own political agenda that defines them.
Assuming a straight line and assuming 1G is your max acceleration: you accelerate for 10 years, reach your maximum velocity then flip and do the same thing in the other direction. You'll reach your destination with 0 velocity.
Ditto. Having had to update python code over the years, this looked much easier than python migrations. To be honest moving earlier python 3.x code to current 3.x is comparable, so good job ruby devs.
This is not necessarily true. You’re assuming that all the info is in push notifications themselves.
E.g: if I get a push notification that is simply “you have a new event, poll the server”, and then I poll the server for (encrypted) batch updates, where exactly do you see the leak that ties an anonymous profile to an Apple ID? Given a large enough service, that same generic batch update endpoint would be getting hammered and I have to think it would effectively be camouflaged to a degree.
Granted, not every app is going to use this design - but if or when done properly I don’t see that much of an issue here.
Very delayed reply here, but it's a timing attack, I think.
If the government has access to telco resources (I think it's safe to assume that they can and do), then they can line up the timing of a chat message with the push notifications it triggers.
If we are chatting and the government doesn't know who I am, it will only be a matter of time before the number and timing of the push notifications I receive line up in a unique way to the messages you sent me. That would work for every member of the group.
Apple could bundle up multiple push notifications to obfuscate it a bit, but it would hurt real-time communications and wouldn't be that strong of a mitigation anyway.
I think this is the most important detail here. The board is meant to follow the principles of the non-profit, that may have been the most important consideration here.
So dumping all our plastic in the sea will work out! /s
It seems like these discoveries are coming quickly and in higher numbers. Maybe there's hope in recycling/processing plastics down simpler molecules after all. Currently, recycling plastic is a bit of a lie -- very little of it is actually recycled.
"Currently, recycling plastic is a bit of a lie -- very little of it is actually recycled."
Depends where you live and what you consider recycling. If you mean, making new plastics out of the old, than the challenge is, that there are many, many different plastics you cannot just melt in and reuse if mixed together. A annoying, but working solution here in germany is a mandated bottle bill. Meaning you pay 25 cent extra per bottle, and get it back, if you return that bottle into a machine: but this results in actual reusable plastics as they are all of the same kind.
And for the rest, the most pragmatic solution is burning it for energy. If you use filters, it is not so bad and it is recycling, but it is the same as burning fossil fuels, so not a good long term solution.
If it means not burning coal, oil or gas instead and there are good filters, I think burning plastic makes sense. But if you can actually get all the needed energy from non fossil sources, then yes, burying makes more sense. But I think only some rare places on earth are that far.
> And for the rest, the most pragmatic solution is burning it for energy.
I really wish we'd do more of this. I know it's not ideal, but we in the US need to treat plastic like the trash that it (mostly) is. And trash is just fuel. Instead we have convenient single-stream recycling which means all our actual recyclables also end up in the trash and/or oceans.
How is burning better than landfilling it? If the landfill is lined the garbage isn't going anywhere, and leaving the plastic in the ground is much better than releasing its co2 into the atmosphere. Land use might be an issue in some places, but I doubt that's the case in Oregon.
It really isn't the land that's the problem, there is absolutely plenty of land to support the entire earth's population of trash in landfills. Just like with food, the problem is moving it to the places you want it to be.
I recognize the sarcasm in your first sentence, but I am not super hopeful. The question is always, "so now it breaks down...into what? And what happens to that?". If that gives rise to the equivalent of some kind of algal bloom that then kills off other life, it might actually be worse than the microplastics themselves.
I for one do not hold out hope for recycling plastics. We had more sustainable materials in the past, and in places we still do that. For example, reusing beer bottles with the Pfand system in Germany, or milk bottles, crates, durable packaging. We're still going backwards with this consumerist throwaway culture.
The recycling was a scam to keep the public distracted so their impulse to “do something” would lead to individuan action rather than lead to organizing to demand reforms!
It breaks them down into their atomic components and enables bacteria that can straight up digest plastic. The issue from this is that we rely on plastics not being degradable for a lot of the properties we use it for. Imagine if bugs got this enzyme in their gut bacteria, and started eating the food wrappers instead of just nibbling through them. Plastic used to seal sterile equipment in medical settings or for implants? Useless. The plastic waste would only last a few years relative to the decades+ now, but it would also ruin plastic's ability to seal stuff, which is why we use it.
Overall, probably a good thing to reduce our reliance on plastic, but it will come at a cost, it's not just "we can dump plastic in the ocean now"
And they took millions of years to evolve and depend on microbes living in their gut to digest the wood. They have to keep those microbes in a protected environment to allow them do do the digestion. They aren’t just digesting wood out in the open.
>Bloomberg has successfully helped shut down about 70% of all coal plants in the U.S.
I find that hard to believe. Did he help shut down 70% of coal plants or did he help shut down 70% of the coal plants that were shut down? If the former, where did the replacement energy come from?
Coal power generation reached its peak in the US in 2007 at 2,016 terawatt hours. As of 2022 coal has declined to 829 TWh (41% of peak). The decline in generated electricity is less than 70% because in most cases small coal plants are less economical than large coal plants, so small ones shut down first.
The coal output lost since 2007 has been replaced by gas (+792 TWh) and renewables (+560 TWh). You can see all the numbers by hovering over the chart in this report:
No way is he responsible for shutting down 70% of the coal plants -- thats a bunch of PR BS. What shutdown coal is the economics became untenable. No way am I giving Bloomberg a shred of that benefit. That he would claim that is concerning.
They may be floundering in the polls, sadly, but their impact has been immense.