angelzen

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by angelzen 5y ago
Perception >>> Reality Rest assured, there won't be another Saigon. The videos coming out of Afghan countryside and Kabul will be erased by BigTech under some corporate speak reason or another. The masses will never see them.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Aircrafts are notoriously fickle. For a helicopter, I heard 4 hours maintenance / 1 hour of flight. There is about zero chance the Taliban have the personnel and parts to actually do something with them other than photo ops.
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by angelzen 5y ago
The Taliban simply need to show up, and the locals are submitting to them. Why? * Because everybody can see which way the balance of power is tipping. The US is too weak to stay, and unlikely to ever come back. The Talibans are right there,
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by angelzen 5y ago
We've heard this about Alpha as well, hence the kids missed a year of schooling. The death risk was about 1% of the already minuscule risk of death for kids in a modern country. Could be that Delta is worse, but is there data to quanti
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by angelzen 5y ago
HN is indeed not the proper forum to have this conversation. The epidemiological data indicates the the vaccines are not exhibiting ADE in the Delta, so no need to panic. Yet framing the conversation in terms of 'those people' is
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by angelzen 5y ago
It is indeed completely and utterly unachievable. 'what can I do'? The easy answer is to point to some of the myriad things one can do. Aviation has perhaps the biggest bang for the buck, easy to unilaterally give up and with quan
817.
by angelzen 5y ago
Governments forcing action will not work. Or maybe it will but indirectly: people will revolt, chaos will ensue and economic activity will drop like a rock. For example flying will become too unpredictable. Assuming we want to preserve some
818.
by angelzen 5y ago
> Harder, we must learn to let go across all sectors of the economy , for all countries, for all society strata. I fully appreciate your frustration. I have a similar reaction when I hear cycling being proposed as a solution, with one d
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by angelzen 5y ago
A roundtrip flight from LA to NY releases 1.1 CO2 tons. A sustainable carbon budget is somewhere between 1.5 and 2.5 CO2 tons / year / capita. [edit]Among many other creature comforts[/edit], mass aviation simply has to go. N
820.
by angelzen 5y ago
Their SVP of Infrastructure, Urs Hölzle, has also recently moved to NZ. The captains of industry are leaving the sinking ship.
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by angelzen 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_analysis#/media/Fil...
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by angelzen 5y ago
poor/developing => low energy use rich/developed => high energy use Wealth is not gobs of gold that Western countries sit on. Wealth is the ability to produce energy and turn it into creature's comforts, on a massive sc
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by angelzen 5y ago
How many Gt of carbon are we capturing annually? According to Wikipedia, less than 50Mt. We need to scale up hundreds of times to make a sizable dent in global emissions. Hard to scale up a technology that is not working that well in practi