alexk307

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by alexk307 5d ago
I'm not sure how this relates to "building a product in the age of AI" or being wrong at all, this is just a list of steps that an elementary school student would be taught when learning how to approach any reasonably complex
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by alexk307 9d ago
> leading American soldiers to die in a futile war There have literally been 0 American soldier casualties in Israel as a result of this war. > events in Sudan that are horrible but largely irrelevant to American politics If you only
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by alexk307 11d ago
It was sarcasm to the post above.
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by alexk307 12d ago
> When we talk about wealth, we mainly talk about billionaires. But what if that’s not the most important truth about wealth in America? What if there were another group that, without drawing much attention, had grown collectively thirte
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by alexk307 12d ago
> they can continuously use it for a long time with out participating in the economy Yeah, low-cost, low-maintenance, clean energy from the Sun is great and all, but I can't shake the feeling that I'm just not participating the
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by alexk307 17d ago
Ring cameras don't record and index every single license plate that it sees and hand that data over directly to law enforcement. There's a huge difference between surveilling your own private property, and a massive network of ALP
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by alexk307 17d ago
> An 1GW data center is can fit in a size of a mid size apartment. Not even close, you're off by a few orders of magnitude. You can also easily find this info online https://www.electricchoice.com/datacenters/
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by alexk307 18d ago
I was curious and tried to come up with a crude estimate - all of the golf courses in the US use approximately the same amount of energy (mowing, fertilizer, etc) as one 1GW DC does.
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by alexk307 18d ago
Worth noting Texas is having one of its quietest tornado years in the ~20 years of comparable data, at the same time. Which is the problem: the reliable detection era is about 30 years, and the preliminary dataset behind these headlines sta
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by alexk307 18d ago
Humans have been working on this for centuries and we've never harvested more food than the present moment. https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/food-projections-2025
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by alexk307 1mo ago
Not to say that climate change isn't affecting this in some way, but the Pacific Ocean is known to oscillate between Sardine and Anchovy regimes [0][1]. [0] https://www.mbari.org/news/from-sardines-to-anchovies-and
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by alexk307 2mo ago
> I’d like to get it to 1750 You want to bring humanity back into the little ice age?
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by alexk307 2mo ago
What is Climate repair? What is your company doing to repair the climate?
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by alexk307 2mo ago
> Before that [Holocene], for hundreds of thousands of years in the Pleistocene era, humans (and our hominid ancestors) spent most of their time running from drought, fires, floods, extreme cold and heat, predators, and each other. The p
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by alexk307 2mo ago
Not to mention that if we limited access to fossil fuels today, billions of people would be dead within months. If we turned off the spigot, billions would starve and civilization would collapse quicker than you could say climate change
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by alexk307 2mo ago
OP's shining example of Mexico is essentially as obese[0], and far less educated[1] than Americans on average. It's embarrassing to be this blind to the state of things when you have the resources to check your opinions for accura
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by alexk307 2mo ago
Right - and that data does not suggest anything close to what OP was saying. [1] https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjfr-2024-0216 [2] https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.100
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by alexk307 2mo ago
> In the past thousand years, we have never seen a single season where 4% of Canada's entire forest area burned down You cannot possibly know this, you do not have accurate records of forrest fires that occurred 800+ years before Ca
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by alexk307 3mo ago
Sad but you unfortunately need to make a profit as a public company at some point. In 8 years since going public, they've had essentially one marginally profitable year surrounded by lots of losses while growing to 4000 employees. Easy
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by alexk307 4mo ago
While I'm empathetic to the overall theme of the post, the strawberries are a terrible example and takes away from the message. Strawberries are delicate little fruits that until a handful of decades ago, were seasonal expensive treats
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by alexk307 4mo ago
This seems like a no-brainer. Tax 10-15k ultra wealthy people who park their cash in second homes in exchange for ~$500M/year in revenue.
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by alexk307 5mo ago
There's a bit of a difference between "enforcing social norms" and telling a user to ingest prescription drugs to combat nausea from the other drugs that it told the user to take. Yes, you should be able to write a book with
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by alexk307 6mo ago
> extraordinary amount of labor in order to modify our environment to save civilization from sea level rise and to be able to repair damages caused by natural disasters Do you really think that 1-2 feet of sea level rise will wipe out hu
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by alexk307 6mo ago
Which is a good thing because solar + batteries is literally the easiest way to make profit currently, and will get more profitable year over year.
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by alexk307 6mo ago
This is just incorrect. The politics in the US say one thing but the market is going in the other direction. 2026 additions to the US grid will be almost entirely renewables - 6.3 GW of natural gas / 86 GW total means ~93% of new addit
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by alexk307 7mo ago
It really doesn't - my source shows average summer temperatures (Th - Tl / 2). This does not say that those regions are experiencing high temperatures that are that much warmer, but that on average (including overnight lows) they
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by alexk307 7mo ago
Pretty sure global warming is referencing the global affects, not regional ones. You can't make a global argument based on local temperature increases just like you can't make an argument that global warming is causing cooler summ
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by alexk307 7mo ago
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/summer-temperature-anomal... Somewhere on the order of 1-2C if you start from the 1850s.
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by alexk307 7mo ago
Most of the increase in local temperatures are overnight lows in the Winter. I'm not sure there's any peer-reviewed mechanism to suggest that daytime Summer highs will increase 20F+ due to greenhouse gases in any parts of the worl
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by alexk307 7mo ago
There isn't enough fossil fuels in the ground for us to burn to cause a 20F+ increase in annual summer temperatures globally...

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