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by Lutger 3y ago
That was Germany, they basically financed solar energy with tax money (about 200 billion), then their industry was killed by China.
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by Lutger 3y ago
Because making calories from livestock that grazes on grass is terribly inefficient, which is why we: 1. put them into small boxes usually, which creates a big nitrogen problem (mixing urine and shit is bad news) 2. feed them other stuff, u
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by Lutger 3y ago
The Chinese point system is exactly what this reminds me of. It is ironic that unrestrained capitalism actually ends in a variant of communism where it are the corporations, rather than the party, that rule society.
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by Lutger 3y ago
For readers not used to Elixirs operators - which I am - "x" is much easier to understand than "&1" for two reasons. First, because the syntax of the full notation resembles how anonymous functions are done in almost
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by Lutger 3y ago
What does 'egalitarian within itself' mean for an online community where everybody can join? How do you get to have 'rights and opportunities' and how to you keep 'the others' out?
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by Lutger 3y ago
Exactly. Good documentation is much harder than you'd think. I had similar policies. Also periodic reviews and especially during onboarding new devs I had them review the docs and make a list of missing points etc Its just as important
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by Lutger 3y ago
One of the surprising difficulties of creating a good culture around documentation I found is getting people to actually read and use it. I guess the root cause of this is bad documentation itself, so developers come to not expect to find a
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by Lutger 3y ago
So longtermism seems to be basically a crude form of utilitarianism that takes all possible future human-like life forms as input to its happiness calculation? This means it multiples all problems of utilitarianism by the uncertainty of pre
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by Lutger 3y ago
According to the article, in longtermism 'existential risk' is something more specific: everything that threatens our long term 'potential'. So if becoming 'a multi planetary species' as Musk puts it is an esse
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by Lutger 3y ago
Yet, there's nothing in longtermism which tells us to donate to fight Malaria now, not really. Even though effective altruists might, a longtermist could argue we stop all malaria aid and donate it to SpaceX instead. Or enslave the poo
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by Lutger 3y ago
If something is better than some other thing at achieving the same goals, then it is just better, period. If it turns out that, what people really wanted was an efficient way to launder money, then Monero is not really 'better' th
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by Lutger 3y ago
From just tracking temperature it may not be clear we are seeing climate change or weather variations. There are also cycles in the climate, like El Niño, which cause temporary increases in temperature. So I do think tracking emissions, or
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by Lutger 3y ago
Please consider this is not a problem that we either solve or not solve. We are at 423.70 ppm CO2 today*, which is 2.43 ppm more than last year. It is not that every increment above 0 ppm means we failed to solve the problem. Let's say
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by Lutger 3y ago
You are correct. RCP8.5 is such a nightmare scenario, it was always quite unlikely to happen even if we were tracking it for a while. So its not a real surprise nor consolation we are not tracking that path anymore. The best possible take o
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by Lutger 3y ago
I'm sorry to say it and you probably mean well, but your response sounds like the very kind of victim blaming that perpetuates and reinforces the abusive culture the article is talking about. Instead of the victims or the culture, I&#x
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by Lutger 3y ago
This is it. I've volunteered in a kitchen with professional chefs, even between them there was a big difference: the most experienced chefs were that much faster than even decent home cooks, at least 4x. It is amazing to watch.
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by Lutger 3y ago
This is probably why I often just browse the ingredients of a recipe for inspiration and sometimes even don't read the instructions. Most recipe books are not very good. Not trying your own recipes is, respectfully, just fraud and I wo
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by Lutger 3y ago
Somewhere between 13 and 14.
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by Lutger 3y ago
Yes, but this is really not the main (or even a) reason why there is the threat of farms having to close shop or mandated to become more sustainable: this is based solely on nitrogen emissions damaging nearby nature reserves.
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by Lutger 3y ago
You are misinformed. Dutch don't seize farms because of global warming, in fact they haven't seized any farms so far. The problem in the Netherlands is about nitrogen depositions. Furthermore, we currently export more than two thi
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by Lutger 3y ago
They are, but pasture farming implies eating less meat. We are currently near a billion cows worldwide, we don't have marginal land for all of them. That means meat is going to be expensive and you'd rather eat avocado toast ins
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by Lutger 3y ago
I don't think the problem is in output-per-acre (really, increase in yield per acre is shockingly low in the past 50 years), but rather in the amount of labor required. That, plus the inertia of vested interests codified as bureacratic
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by Lutger 3y ago
True, but as a society we certainly don't act like we care at all about biodiversity. The thing is though, this is not likely what will happen. It will temporarily crowd out existing vegetation, which will create the conditions for new
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by Lutger 3y ago
It is worth noting because it brings more self awareness. The 'weedness' of the plant is a property of human culture, and it is worth exploring what that is. It doesn't mean the 'weedness' doesn't exist: there
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by Lutger 3y ago
Indeed. When it is something we do not like and consider 'foreign', we call it invasive. When the same thing is considered native, even if its only here for a couple of hundred years, we call it a pioneer species. Truth is, plants
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by Lutger 3y ago
This is sound advice. I was once recommended something similar: budget time to do <something you don't want to>, and then do NOT invest more time than this. Stop once you reach the timebox, even if you feel like you want to conti
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by Lutger 3y ago
Can you finish and release stuff in your working life? There are lots of great tips and perspectives in this conversation. I think you should ask yourself the question why you actually want to finish these projects. Do you think you should?
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by Lutger 3y ago
It is likely a bit of both. I had the same trait as OP. I would actually enjoy an intellectual challenge, but to see something through you also need grit and you must 'grind' your way through boring parts and dead ends. Also, when
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by Lutger 3y ago
I assumed this referring to the recent Trump case, so it is actually about sexual abuse.
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by Lutger 3y ago
Even so, for a lot of devs its still easier as a temporary collaboration point than sending patches via mail.

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