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by ahevia 5y ago
You are not powerless. Cities & states have huge power to help curb emissions. Check out the work by David Roberts over at Volts on WA’s amazing climate legislation that was passed in the last year. Legislation like that is possible bec
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by ahevia 5y ago
I agree with you except the last part. We are certainly on track to experience the worse case scenario and have to fallback on geoengineering. However there is work we can do to start testing geoengineering in the field today. Some countrie
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by ahevia 5y ago
Another Anecdotal: Had COVID once. Heart pain went back to normal after a week of testing negative. No side effects from both vaccine shots. I’m a young male too so I’m in the risk group for these side effects. Sucks folks are experiencing
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by ahevia 5y ago
One of the deleted comments was calling HN a breeding ground for conspiracies for sharing an CNBC article? Another was spewing a complaint about having to wear masks. It isn’t censorship or suppression to delete comments that insult a commu
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by ahevia 5y ago
Calling someone weak is a personal attack. You are not Rich. Don’t speak for him or his attributes. Keep the discussion constructive, you’ve already been asked in this post to calm down the personal attacks even after Rich gave you a kind r
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by ahevia 5y ago
Wouldn't Vercel benefit from being the defacto platform to deploy Next & SvelteKit apps?
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by ahevia 5y ago
I mean allowing multiple redos for tests doesn’t seem awful. Especially if the test questions can be mixed up. My physics and calculus classes did this with online software & I mastered those subjects pretty heavily towards the end. I u
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by ahevia 5y ago
Much of what you say is true. We could theoretically still avoid catastrophic change and stay below 1.5 degrees but I’m increasingly doubtful of that after COP26 and pitiful net zero (instead of net negative) commitments Solar Geoengineerin
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by ahevia 5y ago
I remember when I was kid hearing fusion reactors are impossible. What breakthroughs finally made them potentially possible?
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by ahevia 5y ago
Your 3rd point is really important and often overlooked. Explains why Facebook/Meta is going through such lengths to begin to fix its image.
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by ahevia 5y ago
Climate Ready crops could also be crops genetically engineered (not genetically modified, there is a distinction) to be more resilient towards a warmer world or specific threats of a region. Look at SCUBA Rice as an example of rice more res
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by ahevia 5y ago
I no longer speak to several family members because they were radicalized thanks to information & groups that Facebook fed to them. Is it FB’s fault that they fell for it? No. Is it FB’s fault for recommending them very obvious QAnon gr
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by ahevia 5y ago
I mean. When folks use the term luck they often just use to express gratitude. Whether that’s to the void or to their god. It’s weird to point out the usage here. Sure someone can say “I’m grateful the insane probabilities of every small de
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by ahevia 5y ago
The summary states the process of making hardened wood is more energy efficient, but I also wonder how long this would take to scale. Seems great for small operations (like the bench at a local park), but might require regulatory changes to
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by ahevia 5y ago
Doesn’t that exact Twitter thread not advocate for OMAD because of the lack of evidence in human studies? (and what human studies there are for eating late in the day aren’t positive) Agreed on the refined carbs & oils though.
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by ahevia 5y ago
No that’s just not true. Carbon does persist in soil. For how long is a very different question. Once Soil Organic Carbon is converted to Microbial Organic Matter it is much more robust. But the threats that climate change bring also threat
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by ahevia 5y ago
This is a good question! And it’s clear youre not asking this in bad faith (the line of thinking that CO2 is good for humanity & the planet is a common climate misinformation tactic) I’m not an expert on this stuff but from what I’ve re
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by ahevia 5y ago
This is unnecessary doomerism. Yes our situation is not exactly the brightest but is doomposting on HN really the best action you can take? Humans will still be around to see the planet warm. The question is will individuals & society b
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by ahevia 5y ago
I’ve asked this question to a few non-tech friends. They definitely know and recognize the harms of using social media, but for many them just struggle to quit. They don’t even know how to put their addictions into words. There were a few w
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by ahevia 5y ago
They seem to just be focusing on the EU but I recall my friend saying the device works on Verizon networks here. You can use one of those parcel shipping services to act as a middleman and get the phone to you. The most sustainable phone i
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by ahevia 5y ago
Could you give federal level US examples to this that aren’t opt-in contact tracing? (Genuine question because perhaps I’m missing a major news event) If anything I’ve felt my privacy increase . Masks are finally normalized. What’s more pr
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by ahevia 5y ago
My hope comes from personal experience. Not exactly empirical. I’ve been involved in the climate movement for a long time now (since before I was even a teenager) and things have improved vastly during my life alone. If you asked me this qu
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by ahevia 5y ago
I’m just hoping there’s enough momentum and support for addressing climate change that NOAA can keep getting things done. Regardless of who might be in office in the future. Last thing we need is a new administration in 2024 completely un
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by ahevia 5y ago
> And yet, you’ve accomplished nothing. Citation needed. Over what timeframe? In what sector? The US has accomplished a lot and nothing depending how you frame it. > Go and call your congresspeople. They’ll listen to you over the soun
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by ahevia 5y ago
Online chat has been a staple for multiplayer PC games for ages now. Since when has a company been held accountable on a meaningful scale for what happens in chat? (No doubt in my mind that what’s said in chat is called out especially if us
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by ahevia 5y ago
Not sure if “journalist” is the right term here. This isn’t even a news site. It looks like someone’s personal blog/website to promote Quantum Annealing as the solution to everything. Why do we blame the scientists here for something t
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by ahevia 5y ago
Yeah not sure where Jacobin was going with this argument. I normally enjoy their stuff, but not sure if I feel comfortable with the state having a platform like Facebook. It’s a good enough propaganda machine without state control More regu
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by ahevia 5y ago
It’s heartbreaking to learn how many were (& still are) involved in denying reality. [1][2][3] Crazy to think we’ve had experimental evidence of CO2’s warming effect since late 1800s! [4] Yet as evidence began mounting in the mid-late 1
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by ahevia 5y ago
As long as the robot is human operated I don’t see an issue. There is a volunteer organization called Radio Lollipop that operates at certain children’s hospitals. They run a radio program for the kid and visit their rooms bringing arts &am
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by ahevia 5y ago
Such an important angle to consider this from. Until there’s a DNA match how do we know the zodiac killer just didn’t use the name of some guy he knew? Especially a seemingly uncommon name (maybe it was common at the time)

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