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You're cherry picking from the study. >They seems to overstate what the sources they link to claim. With a title like this, I think they are understating what the source claims. Closing schools is not evidence based and harms childr
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by 99_00 5y ago
Not just search. I subscribed to a print news paper. I enjoy reading the news again. Good mix of local, financial, entertainment, international, human interest. I'm exposed to things outside my bubble and I often like them. The print e
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On the one hand, I'm sad that other people are realizing this because it means they can fix make some better before I can. On the other hand I probably don't have the ability to make something better so it's good that someone
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There is social pressure to maintain software. There is no social pressure to maintain a mathematical proof. So the analogy fails. The choice people make doesn't change the expectations of others.
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Software needs to be maintained to be useful. Proofs don't. So for many, it is not the same.
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"Every Programmer Should Know" I take that statement to be aspirational. I can look at that list and stress about everything I don't know very well or I can look at it and think that there are so many opportunities for me to
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My country isn't perfect. I see plenty of corruption, incompetence, bloat. But I thank god that I'm not in China.
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When I was preparing for interviews low-level design wasn't a part of any of the prep material, so I didn't prepare for it. I had to wing it and I suspect if I had prepared more systematically, like the way in the article I could
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Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of the year(bnnbloomberg.ca)
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Well-Preserved Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Dinosaur Egg(wsj.com)
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>reported to the Chinese state Chinese law requires Chinese citizens and companies to spy when asked. It's literally a law. https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corpo...
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This is not an isolated incident. There is a large pattern. Awareness of the broad trend needs to increase. And it isn't only happening in the US. It's global. Tibetan-Canadian student politician, Uyghur rights activists come unde
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I think making suicide less accessible will result in fewer suicides on campus. And I think making it more accessible will increase its rate. Seems obvious. But the headline isn't about that. It's about tut-tutting this backward i
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by 99_00 5y ago
Some people don't believe the 'Lab Leak' explanation. They believe the 'Wet-market' explanation. Well, wet markets are open. Wet markets are weapons of mass destruction. In April 2021, the World Health Organization
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I'm super impressed by the production level of his 5 books I loved reading video.
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http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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The front-month contract has risen almost 400% since the start of the year. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/gas-price-surges-to-a-record...
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The energy crunch has made fertilizer too expensive to produce, says Yara CEO(fortune.com)
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I agree we need to deal with global warming. We also need to continue getting better at dealing with disasters. Thankfully, so far our ability to deal with natural disasters is outpacing the increased frequency. While Frequency Of Natural D
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Will this be a significant impact to most people living in Vancouver? All land freight can come from the US. COVID doesn't affect this. International freight will come through port. Agricultural communities just outside of greater Vanc
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I agree. If they are sloppy enough to get caught or brag about it to everyone they aren't going to be a good business partner
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"Normal" is meaningless. Markets are always changing. This market will also change. Maybe increasing impact of work from home and empty office buildings will do it in the near term. Maybe baby boomers downsizing, moving into homes
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>What has changed? Wind and solar were rolled out at state and national scale.
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>I don't understand this thinking at all. Which thinking do you not understand?
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China uses concentration camp slave labour to make solar panels. The discussion shouldn't be how do we figure out which solar panels are made by slave labour so we can avoid. The discussion should be how do we move towards decoupling f
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Meanwhile the developed world is shutting down nuclear plants and replacing them with solar made in China by concentration camp slave labor.
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>if we have a clean grid they can be produced with almost no carbon emissions Everything is possible. But not everything is practical. Energy density matters. Especially in industrial applications. For example, electric passenger vehicle
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It's great that this is being experimented with, and this doesn't look like a solution that is ready to be deployed at scale. What is the carbon emissions per kwh, cost per kwh, etc. I'm not saying that the company building t
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The question is: should we be closing nuclear plants and filling the gap with natural gas and coal before we get there?
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>carbon emitted per kWh generated Is it? If an energy source requires natural gas or coal to deal with peaks of increasingly hot days, this doesn't tell the whole story. If we increase solar or wind to be a primary source, then we n

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