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by Udik 6y ago
The cliches about summer and winter being "always exceptional" are from the 1870s. The effects of climate change surely weren't visible then (though I believe the climate was still warming from the "little ice age")
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> How can you not have noticed any changes in 40 years time? I take you don't live in an area with extreme summers/winters? Or don't you go skiing and notice the rapidly melting permafrost? I think that any personal observ
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My point is that almost any effort is several order of magnitudes smaller than that of relocating humanity to another planet. Especially when the effort risks of being completely vane because you risk bringing the problem with yourself. A
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Ok, so: 1) there is a plant blight that attacks all plants (pretty unrealistic), and instead of getting rid of it they build a giant space rocket to colonize worlds many light years away, leaving everyone else to die. Completely absurd. 2)
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Also, am I wrong or the rocket actually takes off from the inside of the "NASA" office building?
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Maybe that choosing people based on their ethnicity or skin color is wrong, whatever they might be?
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They don't need to change from this point of view. And probably will never change for the others :)
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> And since the beginning IT has always been an American thing > apart Minitel in France in the 80's > Thomson, Siemens or Olivetti. > I think mobile developed first in Europe (Nokia ?) Yep. And let's not forget that t
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by Udik 6y ago
I agree up to a point. I do think as well that there are the downsides you mentioned to the US business and social culture. But at the same time it produces a clear supremacy in a lot of sectors. We might be able to find a sweet European mi
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> They created the Cloud and we arrived late on this market Same for the web, for the mobile, and for many other sectors. We seem to be always late on the market, why is it so? > All defense/sensitive/state owned companies,
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True, I don't think we need to copy the technology: that is probably easily available, you just need good engineers and money. The problem is exactly the second you mention: why is it that EU companies don't have the market share
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> Europe has to start from somewhere in a market currently dominated by the US and the Chinese... Yes, and it has to start by copying them. Copying to the letter, like following a recipe, humbly. That's how absolute beginners learn.
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Definitely, I didn't mention them only because I'm more familiar with the culture of the US (although indirectly). One thing we should certainly learn from China (and I guess other Asian cultures) is to copy first, and only when g
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Agreed, more than anything else it's a cultural problem. In France and Italy in particular. And salaries are a consequence of it.
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I agree completely: as a European, I find these projects pathetic. We need the humility to learn something from the US and create an environment and a framework in which private companies can thrive, instead of being constantly dragged do
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Some journalist invented a few years ago that there is this mysterious, untranslatable Italian expression "bella figura" (or its opposite, "brutta figura"). Which in fact simply means "good impression"- as in &
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> map() is passing not only the value in the array but also its index as well as a copy of the full array. I use map() all the time but I didn't know about that until I read this article Then you don't know the basics of the la
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The EU sanctions listed in the wikipedia article are quite old, as the JCPOA came in force in 2016. As for the UN resolution, it's strange that you quote UN resolution 1929 from 2010, when resolution 2231 from 2015 is summarised as &qu
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by Udik 6y ago
I watched it earlier. I think it was 1/3 self-censorship, 1/3 a display of self-censorship, and 1/3 of carefully choosing the words before speaking. Overall, brilliant.
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> EU also has sanctions against Iran Not sure exactly which (though I guess there are). Nonetheless, after the JCPOA was signed, EU companies had restarted doing business worth billions with Iran. So the current complete freeze of EU com
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Then if it's fine I don't see the problem of "setting your kitchen on fire" for a century or so. When it's over you can always move and return the land to its uninhabited state. Right?
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Not at all. Now just go and tell the Alaskans that they can move out because you don't think that making their land uninhabited is "inherently a bad thing".
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With temperatures hardly going above zero for five months each year and easily reaching -40C in some parts, I doubt many people would call it home at all without the help of fossil fuels. There are certainly better ways to produce the energ
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1/3 of all jobs in Alaska are provided by the oil and gas sector. How much climate change do you think is needed to balance the cumulative benefits of oil extraction in the last 50 years?
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Oil and gas still provide 1/3 of all jobs in Alaska. What is striking is how much climate change has contributed to the economy of Alaska.
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Haha
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True of course. For example a police agent shot at close range a protester that was attacking him with an iron bar [1]. Luckily it seems the protester survived. But again, over many months of mass demonstrations, sometimes violent, the numb
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> You're using an outdated document as your source. You're right, the document is outdated. I've searched further and while I did find a few instances of police shooting at protesters, I didn't find deaths. > I wil
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There are no reports of people killed by the police in the HK protests. Source: U.S. Department of State https://www.state.gov/reports/2019-country-reports-on-human-... "There were no credible reports that the gov
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> Do people have the right to self defense? Of course, but that's a last resort. You cannot ask someone who is in risk of imminent harm not to defend him/herself, although that should be the minimum use of force needed to fend

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