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by 205guy 8y ago
My 2 favorite books that explain it in depth, as well as the modern process of re-learning the lost art/skill: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18375122-hawaiki-rising https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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That may work in China (maybe), but I'm afraid it doesn't stand a chance in the US--probably still the biggest CO2 emitter overall and certainly the highest per capita. No, my strategy is to spread this message far and wide, and e
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This. Anything else requires energy input (and thus carbon emissions in the current situation), whereas plants are carbon-negative from the get-go, require no effort, and just work right now (no tech to wait for, just a few more years...).
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I wonder why you're being downvoted, maybe people don't want to face the consequences of their actions. Though I think we don't need to be so absolute in terms of "stops eating meat," that's hard for people to
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I read once that the highest density of living entities on the planet, measured in weight per surface area, are the Sequoia groves in California. That is, the mature ones that escaped logging. Now, I'm not sure we can consider the enti
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How about putting it much more simply: you can either change to reduce your carbon usage across the board (and help everyone else to understand and do the same) or your children will suffer by your own fault.
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I'm not sure I saw any ideas in the article, just a lot of hemming and hawing (just like your quote from the article), but no real actionable takeaways. What good ideas did ou find in the article? PS: sandwiching is not appropriate whe
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Nature invented solar-powered CO2 scrubbers, they're called plants (and algae). We just need to not kill them everywhere. This is hard when humans have an expanding population, which is why we humans need to realize that we are now so
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Exactly. The tl;dr of the article is: "I agree that carbon scrubbing is used to justify continued emissions, and that's not good, now let me advocate for carbon scrubbing and not talk about what we really need to do." Let me
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Thank you for mentioning that, I up voted this with the hope it can be higher up in the comments. There were lots of comments threads about the vague "addiction" and less vague alcohol problem [1], but after reading the article, I
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See my point about realpolitik above. Politicians more or less reflect the people, for better or for worse. Politicians are also the leaders and deciders, if not them, who else? There is a healthy nuclear industry, lobby, and research, so i
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by 205guy 8y ago
How are car-to-grid schemes any more unproven than next Gen reactors? You're not helping the side of science with untested hypotheses like that. But my main point is realpolitik, or like you say "the way our political system opera
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I sense some cognitive dissonance here. You want that great carbon-free energy provided by nuclear, and you lament all the reasons it won't happen. Except you have no rebuttal to those reasons and almost sound convinced by their soundn
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It had some help, I propose we name it Slartibartfast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_impact_crater
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That was enlightening. I didn't know the US merchants were so involved in the Chinese opium "trade." That is in quotes because China had banned the opium and these people were bribing Chinese officials and smuggling the drugs
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There certainly are a lot of stories about China's perceived misdeeds in Bloomberg, and a lot of Bloomberg articles are reposted on HN lately. Enough to make me go hmmmm.
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The original article seems to be saying that the carriers track and sell phone location by cell triangulation ("less accurate than using GPS, but cell tower data won't drain a phone battery"). This is less accurate, as seen b
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by 205guy 8y ago
In reply to ad-hominem's dead comment: word.
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I think there is a misunderstanding somewhere in here. m0skit0's comment was contrasting sidereal day (23h 56m 4.100s) to the original post concerning a mean solar day (24 hr 0m 0s). rimliu's comment seems to be saying that mean s
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But quickly negated by "bee tee dubs" which is a cryptic mannerism that is actually longer than its original ("by the way" via btw). It's like whiskey tango foxtrot, just without the cool spoken alphabet.
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by 205guy 8y ago
What a coincidence, just a few hours ago, I found similar stories: Blackbirding in the Pacific: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbirding All able-bodied men kidnapped from the 3 islands of Tokelau: https:/&#x
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by 205guy 8y ago
Much of the world has been explored and photographed, but not necessarily since the advent of high resolution digital photography and drones. I have a dream of sailing to remote places like this and documenting them for Wikipedia.
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Another issue negated by electric cars. No burning fossil fuels, no carbon monoxide in my garage. Ironic that the only mention of EVs in this thread was about how Teslas turn themselves off and lock automatically. It's like everyone is
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I also had a similar experience. My parents liked his Simon & Garfunkel albums, and I picked up on them because I liked the singer-songwriter and folksy tendencies. It was a bit of an anti-mainstream and old school reaction to the stadi
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To take the analogy further, if education in its various forms represent the patches, they have been MITM'd, compromised, and sold on the dark web. This seems to be the achilles heel of a consumer culture: it's also in the corpora
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Elon has the space-launch market covered too, he's one step ahead of everyone.
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Thank you! I'm always amazed at stories that lack the proper illustration, usually a map. Quite an omission for a story all about flying over land and water. I suppose they're harder for the authors to make than just using stock p
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In the other comment thread that got shadow-banned, someone pointed out that there are several vaccinations recommended by 2 months of age [1]. I remember my child getting the first one before leaving the hospital (HepB [2]). [1] https:&#x
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Came to say the same thing: this article was a refreshing piece of journalism that uses language and writing techniques in a creative and effective way. I especially like that the effect was confirmed by other comments as being very indicat
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So because I called out people who misuse science to sneer at weak people, I must be an anti-vaxer. I don't doubt there are lots of studies showing no MSG effects (not that anyone bothered to link to them). I even believe them, just th

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