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In other words, technology and legislation, but nothing about cutting consumption. I agree that you name some excellent technologies. I'm just doubtful that this approach will yield the desired outcome because of the scale of the probl
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The Paris Agreement does not define "urgent action." It does offer a broad vision for the end goal (reducing the increase in global temperature), but leaves implementation up to the signatories. https://unfccc.int/
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> We need to continue to push for urgent action on climate change The other scientists echoed that thought. The problem is that there's little consensus on what that "urgent action" entails. Fossil fuel overconsumption and
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> During a congressional hearing last week, Republican Representative Louie Gohmert of Texas asked a U.S. Forest Service official if her organization or the Bureau of Land Management could change the orbit of the moon or Earth to reverse
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This quote is from a longer article. The specific comparison made there is how we relate to transgender people. > Imagine if we could give depressed people a much higher quality of life merely by giving them cheap natural hormones. I don
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> _share_price here refers to the price of TITAN, as provided by an oracle, which is correctly reporting it as… 0 (somewhere in the distance, you can hear a room full software engineers burst into laughter ). Aside from the amusing progr
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I stand corrected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_market_fund#Breaking_the... That said, I think it's safe to say nobody is prepared for what will happen if this became the norm.
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Interesting, I was actually thinking of The Handmaid's Tale.
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It really helps to have a look at the graph: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RRPONTSYD This is clearly the highest level of reverse repo since the program was introduced, by a wide margin. There are three factors be
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> What would society look like with a generation where 99.75% of people are infertile? I can think of at least one fictionalized exploration of that idea. A couple of books and a TV series were made.
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Except you'll know very quickly it was a "Testher scam" because there's no way for you to get your USD out. A Ponzi keeps stringing its victims along, but a family receiving a remittance will want spend it quickly.
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I didn't see a definition, but this seems to be a concise instance of the effect: > These minimal improvements in each phone are indistinguishable to the average person. It's still 2007 we are stuck. All they can do is add anot
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> What if your family back home wants the, you know, dollars that you worked hard for in the US, and thought you were sending to them? I'm not sure I follow the argument here. Why can't the family continue to use Western Union
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Two words: base effects. Year-over-year comparisons reflect the abysmal economic conditions during the pandemic. It's like comparing your current net income to one year ago but one year ago you were unemployed and paying off student lo
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> The country’s most prolific home builder [DR Horton] booked roughly twice what it typically makes selling houses to the middle class—an encouraging debut in the business of selling entire neighborhoods to investors. https://
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El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender(bbc.com)
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> "The ultimate control knob on atmospheric CO2 is fossil-fuel emissions,” said Ralph Keeling. “But we still have a long way to go to halt the rise, as each year more CO2 piles up in the atmosphere. We ultimately need cuts that are
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Very little in this story makes sense. A gang of alleged hackers is sophisticated enough to cause major gasoline shortages in the US but dumb enough to try converting the ransom on a US-based exchange? An affidavit spells out some of what&#
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> Do religion and politics have something in common that explains this similarity? One possible explanation is that they deal with questions that have no definite answers, so there's no back pressure on people's opinions. Since
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> Marin county became the first county to impose mandatory water-use restrictions on 1 May. Given the apparent speed with which reservoirs and rivers are drying up, the surprising part is how slow local governments have been to react.
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In financial assets.
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So far there's been nothing but low-quality video, service member reports, and now apparently radar. All well and good, but where are the artifacts? Objects or material of unexplainable origin. The evidence being reported is easy to fa
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> ... Evidence in favor of leak theory lowers the status of the media and raises the status of Tom Cotton but doesn’t drastically alter the policy landscape. That's a very peculiar statement coming from someone who just admitted to
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Login required. What is the problem AI is trying to solve, and what is the right problem, according to the author?
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Gumroad also deposits to bank account.
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> First, the class name, SetupTeardownIncluder, is dreadful. It is, at least, a noun phrase, as all class names should be. But it's a nouned verb phrase, the strangled kind of class name you invariably get when you're working i
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There may be a reverse-Woebegone effect operating here that tends to make people answer something other than what they might initially think. Maybe that's the point.
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The example code is: font = Font.open("MyFont.ufo") glyphA = font.layers.defaultLayer["A"] point = glyphA.contours[0].points[0] point.x = 404; assert point.x == glyphA.contours[0].points[0].x The
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> The Wuhan Institute hasn’t shared raw data, safety logs and lab records on its extensive work with coronaviruses in bats, which many consider the most likely source of the virus. Nevertheless, the gain of function research with coronav
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I think it's interesting to look at this through the lens of Christensen's disruptive innovation idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma The move by Ford offers strong evidence that elec

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