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by abeppu 2y ago
No one is claiming two wrongs don't make a right. I'm certainly not saying these activists should have no punishment (and they know that they're risking prosecution when they undertake their actions). But we should also be ke
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Though, I guess to ground this a little: I can say that observationally, this just-do-the-emissions reasoning is real. Over the past several decades, many industrialized individuals and groups have realized that pushing certain harmful chem
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by abeppu 2y ago
> After each attack, the museum must close for a while This was the National Gallery in London, which I believe doesn't charge for admission because it's a public institution. But ... did the National Gallery actually close aft
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For example, if they had said, "given this trend in ocean acidification, we think the combined die-offs in coral reef ecosystems, kelp-forest areas and reduced reproduction rate of these family of plankton, the rate at which marine eco
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by abeppu 2y ago
So what does it mean? A lead person with the project said it, and it was the only quote from that person that made it into the article. The boundaries are explicitly said to not be known tipping points, so we don't know that some new
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by abeppu 2y ago
> “The overall diagnostic is that the patient, Planet Earth, is in critical condition,” says Johan Rockström The planet as a patient is a problematic metaphor. What does this mean? A human patient in critical condition is at risk of dyin
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by abeppu 2y ago
Certainly it's true that kids can get a lot of joy out of something that to an adult seems really small or boring. But the flip side is kids can get totally emotionally distraught or enraged over tiny things. Are these two sides of th
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by abeppu 2y ago
I'm not offended. I'm uncomfortable being trapped in an enclosed box in which I'm reliant on another person (who clearly distrusts me) taking 4 separate actions for me to enter and exit. The article points out that shoppers a
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Also in the 'solution to shop-lifting makes me shop elsewhere', there are two locally-owned independent hardware stores in walking distance from my home. One has a 'buzz to enter' vestibule with two doors whose locks are
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by abeppu 2y ago
And this gets at why the availability of AI doesn't necessarily lead to prosperity and abundance. If you have to subscribe to an AI medical care and benefits advocate, and your insurer buys an AI service to automate the generation of r
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by abeppu 2y ago
Can you expand on the "greatest technology" half of your comment? I can see plenty of clear reasons why bureaucratic collective action is in need of investment, but I'm predisposed to suspect that's because currently it&
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You're arguing against a straw man. No one is claiming that the emissions from academics flying doesn't contribute to total emissions or that there's "no point" in reducing them. That's just silly. But is it ac
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How important is this, though? Apparently though it's a growing contributor, air travel contributes roughly 2.5% of overall emissions. Even for academics who "need" to attend conferences in person, how many conferences does t
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by abeppu 2y ago
> just like a sail on a boat doesn't have to push you directly downwind I'm not a sailor, but doesn't this rely on the force of water on the keel, to avoid being pushed laterally? > When in orbit around earth, thrust in
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by abeppu 2y ago
Perhaps a really naive question: what can you do with a solar sail in orbit? I've always heard these as mentioned in the context of very long distance trips (heading away from the sun). But if you're orbiting the earth, how do you
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One of the image captions just says: > Each new component for the vehicle is custom-made. ... which to me is kinda shocking. Both in terms of the cost of components and the labor needed to figure out each vehicle's specific conversi
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by abeppu 2y ago
... should companies be nervous about this also though? Is the decision for their payroll info to be visible to unknown buyers an intentional, well-considered one? Is this effectively leaking potentially strategically important info? Like,
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by abeppu 2y ago
I haven't been specifically in a 7-day situation, but was at an early stage startup where the founder/CEO expected us to work Sundays. I think this was intended to be a temporary thing due to the company not having found product-m
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by abeppu 2y ago
... but the intro makes it sound like this system is valuable in investigating bugs that occurred in prod systems: > I’ve been involved in too many production outages and emergencies whose aftermath felt just like that. Eventually all th
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by abeppu 2y ago
The intro mentions that ordinarily, we have to pay a high upfront cost to record info that we might need to debug later. > When we succeed at this, we collect huge volumes of logs “just in case” they provide some crucial clue, incurring
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by abeppu 2y ago
> I don't understand how progressives took up the mantle of "no more housing thanks we're good, let's just apply rent control" as if rent control actually helps. In the face of an expanding population this is out
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If so, that's great, but I'd love to hear them say something about the other faster cheaper approaches in 2 rather than just dangle that they exist.
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> The Ocean Cleanup’s operations demonstrate that the elimination of the GPGP can be done at today’s level of performance in 10 years at a cost of $7.5bn > Data and modelling indicate that the removal of the GPGP could be achieved i
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by abeppu 2y ago
This organization also has projects about stopping plastic in rivers from entering the ocean. Maybe this isn't the ultimate source, but it's literally upstream of the ocean. This is more of a "yes and" situation -- we
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by abeppu 2y ago
> The whole point is that it's a research project. > It's a vision for the future. Neither of these mean we can't or shouldn't be able to have discuss whether parts of it are good or bad, make more or less sense. I
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by abeppu 2y ago
... so in the intro video at like 2:37, it says that a program can be in language, or an arrangement of components, or a hand-drawn diagram, because anything you can write an interpreter for is a program. The "arrangement of components
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by abeppu 2y ago
I think the overall idea here is really cool. But ... to me the idea of printing stanzas of code onto paper and then putting them on a board so they can be OCRed back into text and then re-parsed seems circuitous. Like as a demonstration th
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by abeppu 2y ago
Not to shill, but the reason modern razors make it harder to cut yourself is that the head pivots. This isn't intrinsically tied to being a disposable cartridge. I know that at least OneBlade and Leaf make razors with pivoting heads wh
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by abeppu 2y ago
I think you may be too committed to dogmatic stances to constructively discuss other possibilities. I think this is no better when it's from the collectivist side than when it's from the capitalist fundamentalists. > Cooperativ
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I think we're roughly in agreement? Any organization that arranges for its workers to govern it has some organizing document that describes this structure. Any organization that arranges for its workers to become owners must pick mecha

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