and it's patently patronising and inhuman what they are trying to sell people on with this, I mean, sure, attack the ordinary people's stupid lives but no, let's talk about how dirty bastards who have trouble because of urban and indoor air quality to just breathe, are gumming up the upper atmosphere with chemicals that doctors swear are safe. My asthma is bronchial and immune function related and my main causes of my problem are wheat and stress, usually a virus helps kick it off properly. It's not nearly as scary as full blown asthma, but times walking 10km a day homeless in amsterdam while wheezing and feeling like your whole body is going to catch fire and explode is not something you play politics with.

I was using butane-containing salbutamol during my bouts of chronic (mainly gluten protein damage to my intestines being the cause) asthma. It's terrible stuff, 4 hours and after a week using it you get asthma *from* it. 4 months ago I finally got a salmeterol inhaler. I only wanted the damn salmeterol, and idc about breathing a whiff of butane but instead it's got fluoropropane or something and some other supposedly asthma-fighting fluoro something or other. Flutikazon propionate. Both fluoro-anything and propionic acid are on my shitlist because fluoro-compounds have a natural affinity especially with the thyroid and I already know my endocrine system is not happy with hard proteins that abrade my intestines and lead to allergic reactions, in this case, triggering my asthma. The salmeterol is great. But for my case, the biggest improvement comes from eliminating industrial wheat from my diet. In my opinion, the medical profession is far too allergic to iodine and far too fond of rat poison glass eating fluoro compounds. I know that they are 'safe' in short term exposure because few things in the body can rip a fluorine atom from fluorocarbons, but I also know enough chemistry to know that despite being over 98% (B.P) that some remnant trace chemicals in all kinds of industrial chemical products have relatively unknown effects especially when you consider how many of them end up combining inside our bodies. Anyway, these watermelon environmentalists who think this matters at all, I want to see them all with histamine inhalers and come back to me again about how important tiny amounts of questionably environmentally affecting (all 'greenhouse gases' except water are heavier than air!!!!) anything. First I'd like to see what the effect of fire retardants, monomer off-gasing from pvc and other plastics made out of toxic waste is having on us and the immediate area around us than this hogwash about heavier than air gases constituting a tiny fraction of natural emissions has any effect whatsoever. And anyone who thinks the bankrollers of these so-called scientists are interested in our longevity and quality of life are very very sadly naive about human nature.

Please explain to me again how a heavier than air gas gets significantly mixed up in the upper atmosphere again? Same goes for most chloro-fluorocarbons as well. There is a volcanic plains-land in Africa where (radon containing) carbon dioxide leaks out of the ground and pools up in holes that end up full of animal skeletons once they pass out from it. Yes, carbon dioxide is also heavier than air. This climate hooey is transparently obviously nonsense from anyone who did redox chemistry in middle school. But PhD's say it so it must be true. Water is the greenhouse gas, and combined with the earth's magnetic field this is why we can live here. These other things matter less than how much photons and electrons the sun is spewing at us.

Of course this is soooo much more important than the air pollution from approved paints and furniture preservatives and plastics and electronics and whatever else that causes asthma in the first place.

Sea level can only rise if the ice that melts was not already in the sea. If more of the ice was floating than not in the water, in fact the sea level will drop, though such a thing would only happen if vulcanism was causing the temperature rise, not greenhouse. Until I see verifiable numbers on the ratio of ice in versus out of the oceans, I'm so totally gonna say that this 'science' is aiding political goals. Specifically, chicken little malthusian only the party has the right to live type.

As a newly minted Go programmer, I have direct experience of sub-microsecond level concurrent process scheduling and writing these things. Prior to this I already had an intuitive understanding relating to the amount of dead time (blocking) caused by needing to frequently synchronise. In business, that is called a 'meeting'. We have had BBSs since the 80s and now anyone can spin up an async collab communication and data sharing system with just a few web forms and a payment, even you can DIY and take open source stuff and quickly deploy it for a basic collaborative communication system. If the managers of today still don't get why it's better I don't have to pick up the phone and listen to their bitching, especially such as when I am having lunch with my girlfriend, or other such things, they are on their way to the poorhouse, because those who do will keep and attract better quality workers.

You are being generous. C and C++ have had them with escaped line breaks nearly forever, and c++ automatically concatenates multiple single line strings wrapped in "" as well. But pretty much if it's a web language it has to have it. Go, PHP, Ruby...

It would have been better if BASIC was the scripting language. Or Pascal, which isn't *that* far different. But instead, it looks like C, implicit casts like C, and the thing that annoys me the most, and why Java would have been better, is it's parsed and processed when you run it, not compiled. This webassembly thing is a joke too. Where is my MOVQ and BEQ?

Should Javascript be Outlawed?

people who get paid indirectly out of taxes now are officially outnumbering those whose income depends on making customers happy, not in squeezing the highest tax contributors, middle class small businesses. and in other other news, scientists discover that energy is lost in transmission wires, battery chargers, lithium batteries, western china is starting to look like khazakstan (and so are the three eyed fish and 6 legged babies) from rare earth mineral mines and refineries, choking on the ash from dirty coal generators and spewing plastic bags into the pacific and indian ocean.

Seriously. Microsoft has never been innovative, nor has it handed much out to any kind of innovative research. Microsoft is first and foremost a pig feeding at the public trough. Which black hole of taxpayer money has nearly 100% Windows machines throughout even a lot of their data centres? the pentagon and DoD... Paying lawyers to write laws and donating to pliable congressmen is the most profitable business strategy in the world and if you know the name it's probably playing that game.

Yeah, I suppose next thing is wormhole generators when you blast them with cosmic rays and a permanent portal to another universe opens and giant levitating worms with brain melting powers show up to turn us into a cash crop.

Many people don't have the thinnest understanding of redox chemistry. Yes, carbon dioxide lowers water pH, because it pulls oxygen out of the water by requiring an OH- ion to dissolve. Temperature is critical to the behaviour of carbonic acid, it is somewhat unusual amongst acids because it is a gas, and no reaction occurs EVER, anywhere, without dissolution, such other types of reactions can only be caused by radioactivity or quantum effects, they don't affect ionic bonding directly. Hot liquids dissolve less gases. Solid and liquid acids increase solubility with temperature, gaseous ones the opposite. Further, nitrous, sulphurous and phosphorous based acids are liquid/solid at typical temperatures, and solubility of these acids is limited in ocean brine because of competition for those counterions that heat favours solid/liquid acids and cold favours gaseous (mainly carbonic), this means also that if temperature rises pH will go down because carbonic acid acts like a base compared to nitric, sulphuric and phosphoric acids, if temperature goes down those acids are less soluble and pH will rise towards carbonic acid's intrinsic pH level, which is still acid compared to sodium chloride's 6.3. Lastly, the solubility of oxygen in water, reduced also by higher temperatures, affected by salinity, is also reduced in low pH solutions which is why vinegar stops decomposition of food stored in it, hence the use of both salt and acid, often both, as food preservation techniques. So, a lower relative proportion of oxygen in the atmosphere, and increase in acid, is obviously going to reduce oxygen and reduce the population and most unfavourably affect those with the lowest oxygen efficiency in their metabolism. It's not really new science but lo and behold archaeology is agreeing with ionic chemistry!

I'm not alone in kicking the social media already this year, never mind next year, I won't be surprised if there is a lot of bad news for facebook, instagram, twitter, etc next year, I often see the idiocy of some common activity I have adopted before the rest of the world. I'm back here, which is a much better place anyway, and not overly interfering with productive activity. I don't think the behaviour of many social media users even compulsive users really gets quite into the realm of a real addiction. Everyone knows, by now, that Facebook was always meant to be a popularity contest and most people are not interested in that once they recognise the game. When I was young, it was my opinion that frequent socialising activity was also some form of addiction because I was happier without it. Addiction to social activity is lauded as a virtue by many people but it's totally not. People are mostly a waste of time, space and energy. The most compulsive socialisers are psychopaths and sociopaths, as their addictions involve squashing people and chasing power. Everyone has habits. Addiction is a loaded version of the word habit. Operationally it's the same. You don't call people water or food addicts just because they habitually consume these as though their life depends on it. Who cares what a person does with their time so long as they don't spend it getting in other people's shit.

if enough in a group are wearing them it won't be very easy. yes, of course they should be inconspicuous but not suspicious, people already have these things just not the same spectra. Regarding your original comment, I believe that certain rare earth minerals have interesting infrared reflectivity properties and a person would only need a mobile phone and a dark room with a mirror to apply a suitably pattern disrupting effect, I recall study of designs that screw up machine vision systems, something a bit similar to the dazzle stripes at airports, but sorta backwards.