Scarblac

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by Scarblac 6mo ago
No, we're very resilient bastards, we're going to let the huge majority of species go extinct before we go ourselves. We're already in a mass extinction event and we're just getting started.
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by Scarblac 6mo ago
I don't think so, this was the first time it happened like that.
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by Scarblac 6mo ago
I had to replace my previous phone because my banking app dropped support for that Android version, and was going to stop working. The hardware was fine. (I always buy phones in the cheapest tier, so that happens sooner)
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by Scarblac 6mo ago
But it's only possible for them to lead good lives when their parents basically dedicate the rest of their own lives to caring for them, I think?
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by Scarblac 6mo ago
The rook doesnt attack the king because N6 is in the way. So black is not in check and has no legal moves, so stalemate.
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by Scarblac 6mo ago
The initial version of Git was written in two weeks, what do you need $17m for?
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by Scarblac 6mo ago
In general I think the sea warms slower than land, so you'd expect land everywhere to warm faster than the global average.
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by Scarblac 6mo ago
But don't they have both the encrypted data and the decryption keys? I don't remember giving them my keys to use, and I can look at my stuff from multiple devices so the keys aren't stored on my device. So they must have the
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by Scarblac 7mo ago
Kyiv is pretty close to the Russian border to its north, even Moscow itself is less than 1000km away. I think the furthest hits Ukraine has been able to achieve with drones were on a refinery about 1300km from Ukraine controlled land.
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by Scarblac 7mo ago
We know that chess can be solved, in theory. It absolutely isn't and probably will never be in practice. The necessary time and storage space doesn't exist.
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by Scarblac 7mo ago
Is that so different from brains? Even if it is, this sounds like "this submarine doesn't actually swim" reasoning.
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by Scarblac 7mo ago
It's not hard. Tax the amount the stocks are valued at at january 1. Make exceptions for investments in illiquid things.
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by Scarblac 7mo ago
Right now blue collar work can pay much better than white collar work (in the Netherlands). Not all of course, but construction work and electrician type work, certainly. The labour shortages in construction and the energy transformation ar
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by Scarblac 7mo ago
Nuclear takes like 15 years to build, it's being worked on but it won't be much more relevant soon. Green energy isn't very useful for heating in winter.
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by Scarblac 7mo ago
> I know this is an unfathomable concept, but to actually "leave fossil fuels [...] in the ground" you have to stop using fossil fuels. Obviously not, as we're closing these fields and haven't stopped yet. Someone w
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by Scarblac 7mo ago
Decarbonising is indirect. Once it gets out of the ground, it will be turned into CO2 by someone, somewhere.
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by Scarblac 7mo ago
> Closing Groningen didn't leave fossil in the ground. It took LNG from US and gas from Norway out of the ground instead. That was getting out of the ground and burned by someone anyway.
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by Scarblac 7mo ago
8k meters. There is no place at 11k where you can ski.
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by Scarblac 7mo ago
It means having to make serious decisions on imperfect information, yes. But that's life.
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by Scarblac 7mo ago
The only direct thing we (the Netherlands) can do to prevent carastrophic climate change is to leave fossil fuels on our territory in the ground. Everything else is indirect.
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by Scarblac 7mo ago
Because the continued survival of civilization depends on leaving fossil fuel in the ground. If the transition isn't fast enough then we will have horrible, lethal shortages, but that's still better than the worst climate scenario
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by Scarblac 7mo ago
And later too! I'm 51 but mentally I still feel like 50.
53.
by Scarblac 7mo ago
Consider that careers run from 20 to 70 or so.
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by Scarblac 7mo ago
Yes, the Netherlands too (we were on +0:20 before). But Spain is much further to the west.
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by Scarblac 7mo ago
Because code becomes harder to understand. With direct dependencies, if you are trying to understand some code that calls some function and what it does exactly isn't completely obvious, you can press a button to go to it, understand i
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by Scarblac 7mo ago
Same for "programmer", "software developer", "software engineer", and so on. People insist that there's a real difference even when I have been all those things and there was no difference.
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by Scarblac 8mo ago
Houses are different. There is a finite number of them at any time and if there are not enough for everyone, there's a shortage. If wages are too high, then some work just doesn't get done, some business plans are now unviable. Bu
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by Scarblac 8mo ago
Why then does it change if we take drugs?
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by Scarblac 8mo ago
Maybe we should start trying before we conclude that.
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by Scarblac 8mo ago
Because per capita is the only thing that makes sense. If China were to split into 10 countries each emitting 10% of what they do now it'd be the exact same emissions, but according to you it would be much better. Similarly if the EU w

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