You might be thinking of the Arctic Ocean. As far as I know, the Arctic is the area enclosed by the northern polar circle. It includes land, and some of your favorite countries are partly inside the polar circle
There is quite a lot of land within the arctic circle. If it continues to warm up it will become more conductive to human settlements and agriculture. hn is a place where most people see the upsides of change, I don’t understand why so few here admit the benefits of climate change.
Certainly any large scale change will bring benefits for some groups and problems for others, but at a net level it is hard to see the benefits outweighing the costs for climate change. But all of those things are so hard to model and this article is one of the many pieces that points to that.
Curious questions though: If the Arctic region becomes habitable, who presides over it? Will it just become a haven for the rich? Can it be used as a model to figure out how to settle other planets?
I think I've just been in the Amazon ecosystem too long, I can't really figure out which part is surprising that it could be considered a 'leak'.
1 - That Alexa has access to information about any particular Amazon user? To me the registration process and features of the product make this extremely obvious, but maybe its not?
2 - That Alexa will send audio notifications related to the status of the account its linked to? This is the only thing that I feel is of any possible surprise. Most of the marketing around Alexa products show interactions initiated by the user.
3 - That 'private wish lists' aren't excluded from the full set of notifications? Amazon just calls them 'wish lists' and to me they are just cached shopping carts. I don't really see them as any more sensitive than any other information in the account.
On 3, something you've set as "private" being brought up in a public setting is surprising. You made it someway so that others couldn't see it, so it seems rational to assume it would be considered sensitive information.
If nothing else, giving the option to disable this on private lists would be nice.
Unless you explicitly share something, all of the information is protected equally except for credit card numbers and your password.
Like I mentioned above, if the author had a gift in their shopping cart or ‘save for later’ and Alexa notified on a price change, would they have a similar reaction?
It’s not a moot point now but either this is just a serendipitous occasion or somebody Amazon really listens, but I just opened up the app, went to manage lists, and there’s literally an option now to manage the list through Alexa or not.
>if the author had a gift in their shopping cart or ‘save for later’ and Alexa notified on a price change, would they have a similar reaction?
These are different in that the person involved did not explicitly set them as private. They might feel annoyed, but would realize they made the mistake.
This is pretty much what I was thinking. This is no more a “leak” than your monitor “leaking” data about your Amazon account when you’re logged in to amazon. This guy decided to buy this device, put it in his house so it could listen in on him, gave it his Amazon credentials, and it’s working as designed and promised. Why have something like this in your house unless you hate privacy already?
And so does your phone and your browser and every other device you allow other people to use. Is it a leak if you allow your wife to use your phone and receive a notification?
I think the argument is usually in the context of "it's mostly people involved with gangs, it doesn't change much for the murder risk for a 'normal citizen'"
The closest thing to flat you’re going to find is global CO2 produced per person is nearly flat. Global population has significantly increased, so that still represents growth in emissions but it clearly could have been much worse with massive increases in both population and CO2 per person as the 3rd world industrialized.
