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by alephnerd 2mo ago
They are trying, and Green Hydrogen will become a reality with a decade for ammonia production, but steel, cement, and other industrial products still have hard carbon fixation dependencies. Based on dealflow and ongoing projects, most coun
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
India [0], Indonesia [1], Australia [2] (thanks to India [3]), and others are also doing this. And other states like Vietnam [4] and Brazil [5] are also expanding their coal footprint. A number of high value industrial products like fer
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Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate(e360.yale.edu)
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
I agree, but no one is going to change their track and this is something that neither the EU-27 nor the US nor anyone else has power over now. And it's not like this wasn't known - we were literally modeling this kind of a standof
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
They eat the cost. Most countries are not as poor as they used to be 30 years ago, and can afford a $2 billion or even $10 billion climate disaster hit. Back in VN, the cyclone seasons now causes several billion dollars of damage a year yet
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> You're contradicting yourself. If Europe doesn't reduce emissions expansion doubles. What I am saying is it doesn't matter if Europe drops GHGs anymore - either way we are now at a stage in 2026 that some of the worst as
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> Can they decarbonize _fast enough_ ? No idea... Likely not. China and the US are decarbonizing, but their overall rate of GHG emissions is still stagnant. > India and the rest of asia will be interesting - can they leapfrog oil and
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
Nobody took action because the global south (logically) decided that economic growth and rising living standards is worth the global cost.
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If that was the case, then global GHG emissions would have remained roughly stagnant for over 2 decades. The reality is the world got richer, and households who 30 years ago would have had little access to electricity, finished manufactured
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> the FTs boundary defeats my usual archive.is wall jumping Works for me - https://archive.is/BLOgt
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> Can't read the article https://archive.is/BLOgt > Like, what do you mean by woke The author is positing that: "From the beginning, it was possible to be a socialist, the socialist, and culturally middle-of
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Why must a socialist also be woke?(ft.com)
12 points by alephnerd 2mo ago|38 comments
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> I'm pretty sure you would get into Berkeley with that profile I was rejected from EECS@Cal and CS@CMU at the time (though my alum interviewer for CMU kept in contact with me to this day, and helped open doors for me professionally
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> overpopulation has been a concern for many decades, yet politicians that ignore the problem, or actually advocate for more population, somehow keep getting elected Most societies have reached a point where fertility rates have declined
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> Good colleges are easy. The top few colleges are very hard Define "good" and "top". Ivies, Ivy Tier privates (Stanford, MIT, Duke, Northwestern, Chicago, NYU, Caltech, Georgetown, CMU), and Ivy Tier public schools (
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
The Northeast isn't the rest of America, the same way someone in Maine isn't necessarily going to think about CMC or Harvey Mudd similarly Brown or Dartmouth doesn't come up much or at all.
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7% acceptance rate. They're selective. The "NYU/USC is a party school" trope is from back in the 1990s (aka 2 generations ago).
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It gives students one semester of breathing room that allows them to chill out and concentrate on education for the sake of education. And UMich Ann Arbor is already massive - 8,000 students enroll a year.
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They ain't. A non-trivial amount of people have not heard of Brown or Dartmouth, and confuse UPenn with Penn State. Hell, I didn't hear about Brown until high school and I ended up attending an Ivy lol. And employers and us alums
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
Because in America, Ivy versus non-Ivy isn't the distinction. What matters is your major and whether it is a well respected program. A CS@Texas student will have the ability to open the exact same doors professionally and prestige wi
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
Do you know what it takes to get admitted into Mich tier programs in 2026? Kids will take multiple APs (taking 10+ isn't unheard of, and in a lot of high schools is expected), do multiple extracurriculars (debate, MUN, DECA sports, aca
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
Hehe. That's hilarious. Sadly, the barrier to entry for a lot of script kiddie shit is minimal and apparently common sense ain't common.
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They never do. This happens every year at BH/Defcon, and they always make an example out of the perp yet someone always does some dumb shenanigans.
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Every year some dumbass tries this kind of shenanigan during BH/Defcon and they always make an example out of them. Just becuase you CAN do something doesn't mean you should. You aren't impressing anyone and you are risking f
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
I know, and the reason Digital and TI and Compaq weren't able to make as deep ecosystems as Xerox PARC or Fairchild did was because of the non-compete aspect back when companies were much more litigious than today.
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
SV exists thanks to CA's lack of non-competes and the Stanford and UC Berkeley innovation ecosystem. Otherwise, Boston, NYC, DMV, Seattle, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, and others all could have become the next Silicon Valley.
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> Then why is getting into M.S programs much easier? Because domestic undergrads applying to a research-oriented grad program are advised to apply directly to a PhD program. MS/MA programs are expected to remediate deficiencies at t
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
Absolutely. I think some degree of competitive attitude should be developed, but admissions since the late 2000s have become hyper-competitive. Pressure makes diamonds, but it also crushes everything else.

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