I put my whole life into a single database

Re:I put my whole life into a single database by TomSwirly on Thursday April 28, 2022 @05:13AM (#31190298)

I think it's fascinating - and horrifying - that he tracks everything except his environmental impact on the planet.

He has to be in the top 1% of polluters, given his obsessive flying and consumption of technology.

Dozens if not hundreds of charts, depicting every single thing except the thing that is destroying our world.

I filed an issue on his github.

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Re:I put my whole life into a single database by avgcorrection on Friday April 29, 2022 @09:44AM (#31204979)

Fun fact: British Petroleum coined the term “carbon footprint”. It had gotten to the point where it couldn’t deny climate change. So it was time to get well-meaning middle class folks to blame each other instead of the petroleum industry. (See also in recent years the obsession with plastic straws and plastic bags.)

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Re:I put my whole life into a single database by Theory42 on Friday April 29, 2022 @07:44PM (#31211884)

Agreed, the metrics he uses for CO2 consumption via flying are misleading: he compares the flying against total average CO2 production per US Citizen per year. Clearly, he's doing more than just flying in his life, so the comparison is meaningless.

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Re:I put my whole life into a single database by kgran on Thursday April 28, 2022 @09:44AM (#31192347)

I also find it horrifying that HN folks downvoted you for your well-founded opinion.

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