youngtaff's comments

On: Global warming has accelerated significantly

[youngtaff]

Yes, they're still burning coal and gas but China are making huge strides in non CO2 intensive electricity generation

China are the reason solar has become so affordable for the rest of the world

[tlogan → youngtaff]

The latest major IEA estimate says China’s CO₂ emissions reached 12.6 Gt in 2023, up 4.7% from 2022.

On the other hand U.S. CO₂ emissions decreased slightly between 2022 and 2023. About 2–3% (from 4.79 to 4.68 Gt)

I just do not understand how we can claim any kind of progress here.

On: Global warming has accelerated significantly

[youngtaff]

US is the largest historical emitter… responsible for something like 25% of all man made CO2 emissions

[tlogan → youngtaff]

The entire west world contributes 28.8%. US is about 11%. [1]

[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2025/co2-em...

[acdha → tlogan]

That’s a different question. The person you’re replying to was referring to historical totals and they were right:

https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2

> the United States has emitted more CO2 than any other country to date: at around 400 billion tonnes since 1751, it is responsible for 25% of historical emissions; this is twice more than China – the world’s second-largest national contributor

[youngtaff → tlogan]

You’re quoting the figures for a one year

On: Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI

[youngtaff]

IMV Servo is going to be the independent state of the art browser

[Perz1val → youngtaff]

I have my doubts it'll ever be "finished". Servo gives strong vibes of a project that will avoid performance hacks, because they're not nice/state of the art code. I have no evidence, it's just the energy I've picked up from it

On: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

[youngtaff]

Arrested for incitement not wrong think… if they had done the same thing in the street and there was evidence they would have been arrested too

[suddenlybananas → youngtaff]

Well, there was a labour councillor who said people should have their throats slit on camera in the street, and he was let off.

On: JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals

[youngtaff]

> Larger bundle sizes are unfortunate, but they're not the main cause of performance issues. That'd be images and video sizes, especially if poorly optimized, which easily and immediately dwarf bundle downloads; and slow database queries, which affect server-side code just as much as browser-side code.

In network terms JS tends to be downloaded at a higher priority than both images and video so has a larger impact on content appearing

JS is also the primary main thread blocker for most apps / pages… profile any NextJS app and you’ll see what a horrendous impact NextJS has on the main thread and the visitor’s experience

On: 11.8M EU citizens pay taxes to governments they cannot vote for

[youngtaff]

It's kinda bizarre that we make people who want to become citizens swear allegiance to the Monarchy

I’m British and have never sworn, or ever will swear allegiance to the Monarchy

I believe the UK should be a republic in the Irish sense i.e. no monarchy and a symbolic president

On: NDP wants Carney to kill U.S. fighter jet contract in favour of Swedish aircraft

[youngtaff]

And perhaps the US should start paying for it’s own debt instead of relying on the rest of the world to support it?

[wakawaka28 → youngtaff]

I agree! But I think bankruptcy is a foregone conclusion. Our financial situation over decades, facilitated by the rest of the world, has destroyed most industry in the US because nobody can afford to compete with foreigners while getting paid in "strong" fiat dollars. I expect it to end in disaster. The US needs to rebuild industry and eat its own dog food product-wise, but that will be difficult to get back to.

On: xAI joins SpaceX

[youngtaff]

So they pollute the upper atmosphere instead!

[youngtaff → youngtaff]

Down voting doesn't make that statement any less true…

On: xAI joins SpaceX

[youngtaff]

Such a waste of resources

On: Treasures found on HS2 route

[youngtaff]

Do you know how Compulsory Purchase Orders work?

Many people along the HS2 route have been paid double the market price of their house

[ErroneousBosh → youngtaff]

Yes, because a demolished house is a brownfield site which automatically has outline planning consent and you can build just about anything you like on it. It's worth a fortune.

A farmer's field without planning consent is bought from the farmer priced as a worthless patch of mud, but taxed as though it already had a couple of dozen £500k rabbit hutch houses built on it.

[youngtaff → ErroneousBosh]

> A farmer's field without planning consent is bought from the farmer priced as a worthless patch of mud, but taxed as though it already had a couple of dozen £500k rabbit hutch houses built on it.

Farm land isn't taxed - it's exempt from business rates

[whywhywhywhy → youngtaff]

Doesn’t matter what the price is if you lose your community.

Very narrow minded view that doesn’t take into account people over 60

[pjc50 → whywhywhywhy]

Everything in UK politics takes into account people over 60. What we need is some policies taking into account people under 60.

[nly → whywhywhywhy]

The over 60s in the UK are probably the most privileged demographic in the history of the nation.

Just last October the government reduced tax free savings allowances on the Cash ISA for everyone...except he over 60s.

The over 60s have iron-clad "triple locked" state pensions that are _guaranteed_ to grow unsustainably (faster than tax revenue) at the cost of the working tax payer.

We need infrastructure and productivity growth, so the over 60s can take their gold plated compulsory buyouts and go do one.

[youngtaff → whywhywhywhy]

As someone who is in their 50s I'd disagree with you

Very few people are losing their communities due to HS2

[whywhywhywhy → youngtaff]

So there are some…