Just before visiting HN I read a news article about our glaciers in Norway also melting. One glacier has moved back 83 meters in a year, and the last ten years it's moved back 483 meters.
A glacier that normally melts a meter in thickness each year and gains it back during winter, has melted 4 meters.
The election cycle, at least in a small part a function of a human’s expected life span btw, is way too short for governments to be incentivized to do anything about it.
It’s going to be a wild ride for our grandchildren.
Sure seems like we ought to be more aggressive about this whole anthropogenic climate collapse problem
Like maybe problems like vast swaths of the world becoming both less livable and less arable all at once is somewhat to blame for all the refugee crises?
Why bother submitting paywalled articles? Why bother upvoting paywalled articles? > 95% of readers probably don't have access.
Not being facetious, I genuinely want to know. Do people upvote without reading? Will almost everyone take the effort to throw the link into a paywall buster? Do many HN readers subscribe to paywalled sources?
FWIW it wasn't pay walled here. I just had to press "Show full article" and could read on. Perhaps it's based on geo location (I'm not their market) or how much one's read them lately?
For me (NYT non-subscriber, US, blocking most js), only the first 4 paragraphs are visible. That's fairly common for web sites to do (# of visible paragraphs varies, obviously). And usually shows enough to convince me that the article is worth no more of my time.
I share your annoyance. I've convinced that the sites themselves are doing this to attract subscribers.
Every time anyone complains you get the backlash of "if you want good journalism you have to pay for it", yet few can afford to subscribe to more than one or two publications and yet we have to suffer paywalled links from all of them. For me, the one UK publication I pay for is enough (and that one is, ironically, not even paywalled).
Though I wish submitters would provide the workaround (or gift link) too when submitting (I try to do so). It’s often someone else who does it. Though in fairness I guess someone may forget something is paywalled when they’re paying for it and have access.
[+] [-] matsemann|1 year ago|reply
A glacier that normally melts a meter in thickness each year and gains it back during winter, has melted 4 meters.
We've lost 20 glaciers here the last decade.
It's scary.
https://www.nrk.no/klima/breforsker-sjokkert-over-hvor-mye-i...
[+] [-] baq|1 year ago|reply
It’s going to be a wild ride for our grandchildren.
[+] [-] mooreds|1 year ago|reply
https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Wars-Fight-Survival-Overheats...
The author intersperses nonfiction summaries (from 2011, so a bit dated) with fictional accounts of geopolitical conflict.
Super scary but eye opening.
[+] [-] MrVandemar|1 year ago|reply
It's just not cost effective to do so.
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[+] [-] advael|1 year ago|reply
Like maybe problems like vast swaths of the world becoming both less livable and less arable all at once is somewhat to blame for all the refugee crises?
Not to be "political" or whatever
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[+] [-] isoprophlex|1 year ago|reply
An aside:
Why bother submitting paywalled articles? Why bother upvoting paywalled articles? > 95% of readers probably don't have access.
Not being facetious, I genuinely want to know. Do people upvote without reading? Will almost everyone take the effort to throw the link into a paywall buster? Do many HN readers subscribe to paywalled sources?
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Every time anyone complains you get the backlash of "if you want good journalism you have to pay for it", yet few can afford to subscribe to more than one or two publications and yet we have to suffer paywalled links from all of them. For me, the one UK publication I pay for is enough (and that one is, ironically, not even paywalled).
[+] [-] latexr|1 year ago|reply
They are explicitly permitted, as long as there are workarounds.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#:~:text=Are%20payw...
Though I wish submitters would provide the workaround (or gift link) too when submitting (I try to do so). It’s often someone else who does it. Though in fairness I guess someone may forget something is paywalled when they’re paying for it and have access.
[+] [-] ctippett|1 year ago|reply
[1] https://github.com/MostlyEmre/hn-anti-paywall
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