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by alexose 5y ago
Yeah. I grew up in Seattle. The thought that it was 108F there this summer is just horrifying.
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by alexose 5y ago
If this is 1°C, what's 2° going to be like? 3.5°? I fear the only possible way through this by deploying solar geoengineering-- soon-- in order to buy us enough time to scale up carbon capture. In addition to transitioning our energy
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by alexose 5y ago
I understand this feeling. When you don't feel good about yourself, hearing praise from others (Especially people who don't know you well) can be crushing. As if they're being dishonest, in a way. I can't speak for Ton
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by alexose 5y ago
I would work on this problem for free. Climate change is an existential threat to my life in Southwest Oregon.
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by alexose 5y ago
Overall green-ness doesn't coincide with the needs of civilization, unfortunately.
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by alexose 5y ago
At the risk of sounding like a movie villain... anyone who's tried to go to Yosemite on a weekend must agree with this on some level
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by alexose 5y ago
The east coast has experienced some amount of cooling due to Greenland literally melting into the Atlantic ocean
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by alexose 5y ago
I'm with you. Climate is the only issue I care about anymore. My home is Southwest Oregon, so it's just a strategic choice.
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by alexose 5y ago
Kind of reminds me of software engineering-- You usually only get credit for 'rescuing' a bad situation, but never for preventing that situation in the first place :)
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by alexose 5y ago
The approach really should be to do _everything_. I love the idea of reforestation, sustainable agriculture, etc., but there's a ramp-up time inherent in all of these. The advantage of solar geoenegineering is that the effects would
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by alexose 5y ago
That's an important question. My thought is that it doesn't really matter in the short term. Our ecosystems out here in the west won't withstand another couple of decades of this. Any attempts to fix the root cause haven&#
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by alexose 5y ago
Dying forests, megafires, failing crops. For all the talk of a looming crisis, it seems apparent that we're already in one. It's time to consider solar geoengineering or other more extreme mitigation strategies.
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by alexose 5y ago
I'm with you. ORMs feel like _exactly_ the wrong place to abstract. In my experience, database calls always end up being the thing you want the most control over.
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by alexose 5y ago
I drive a 1999 F-150 for all the reasons you describe. The sheer amount of _stuff_ that needs to be moved around the countryside was so surprising to me when I first moved out here. I remember thinking how insanely huge a 2 cubic foot bac
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by alexose 5y ago
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head with regards to the “infinite time” problem. Time is the currency of local government, and those of us with other commitments simply can’t go up against folks who make it their sole purpose to be lou
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by alexose 5y ago
This is one of the best comments I’ve read on this site. I’m sorry for the hardship, but I so appreciate you sharing what you’ve learned.
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by alexose 5y ago
Great analysis. I wonder, is there a ratings agency for scientific studies? It would be neat to see a score associated with experimental design.
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by alexose 6y ago
I found myself wondering why we can’t just pass popular legislation as individual clean bills. In a climate where two thirds of Americans support a wealth tax, why not simply send a wealth tax to the Senate and see what happens? The answer
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by alexose 6y ago
Other commenters have noted that this project seems to have folded years ago. It thus completes the circle of tech-forward ag projects: A huge upfront investment, followed by a press blitz, followed by a runway of varying length that lead
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by alexose 6y ago
I bought a Sense ( https://sense.com ) because I loved the idea of applying ML to my energy consumption. While the interface is nice, it just hasn't lived up to its promise. It wants to classify 40% of my energy usage as &#
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by alexose 6y ago
I have a few somm friends that can do this reliably. The process of elimination is really fascinating to watch. The reason it's possible, though, is because the majority of commercial wine conforms to distinct, repeatable styles. A g
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by alexose 6y ago
One of my favorites from Jack Handey, although this quote is more of a paraphrase. The original reads: “If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.”
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by alexose 6y ago
I often think about ways of disrupting businesses which rely on shady deals/regulatory capture/other anticompetitive measures. I just as often decide that it’s not worth it, since I don’t want my legs broken.
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by alexose 6y ago
We need an open source, modular, convenient swappable battery + BMS design. Something that end users can pick up and drop in their vehicle of choice. Something like the Gogoro battery, but with flexibility for larger vehicles.
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by alexose 6y ago
This is a great article, but it raises my heart rate to even read about technical interviews.
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by alexose 6y ago
Wow, you've described my situation almost exactly. Where my garden is now was nothing but hardpan and rocks. It's taken quite a bit of work over four years to "terraform" the area back to life. I've done a mix of
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by alexose 6y ago
Lots of gardeners would love to take those wood chips off his hands! There's even a clever startup for this exact problem (see: https://getchipdrop.com/ )
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by alexose 6y ago
Good point. I wish we could decide as a society to move away from non-compostable packaging. In most cases, composting seems to be a better, cheaper, and less energy intensive solution than recycling. I have to give Amazon a lot credit to
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by alexose 6y ago
There are so many opinions on how to compost that it can be hard to know where to start! In this gardener's opinion, however, Charles Dowdings' teachings on compost are absolutely fantastic: https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by alexose 6y ago
I agree, compost is amazing! I'm a small-scale farmer (maybe a large-scale gardener?), and one thing I've found about composting is that you just need a lot of material. Even at my small scale, it's almost an overwhelming

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