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by awi 10y ago
No I didn't forget meat. Meat production does not directly put carbon atoms into the air (forget methane for a second). That is what I mean by direct emissions. When we decouple energy from carbon, the amount of greenhouse gasses produ
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by awi 10y ago
That is definitely not the problem. And that way of thinking is what leads to despair and helplessness, because we will never stop making and consuming. Apart from a very few things (cement, steel, ammonia), producing things does not direct
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by awi 10y ago
That "study" claims rolling a 1 has a probability of 29% for the tested dice. I saw it when it was published and was very sceptical, and so where others. One guy decided to roll 1000 D6 and count the number of 1's, he got 169
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by awi 16y ago
The effects I'm talking about are not during the actual exercise, it's more long term. Note that even though they are long term (~12 weeks I think) they are not permanent, if you stop exercising soon there will be no benefit.
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by awi 16y ago
I'm pretty sure aerobic exercise is better for the brain than strength training. Aerobic exercise increases oxygen flow to the brain and it directly improves creation and survival of neurons. Effectively it acts as a drug for your brain. It
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by awi 17y ago
The Chinese are acting pragmatically/rationally and in their own short term self interest. If all nations do the same catastrophic climate change is unavoidable, this is the Tragedy of the commons [1]. The negotiations are about setting asi
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by awi 17y ago
Fog of War is one of my favorite documentaries, but McNamara is not honest about two key incidents - the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident. In the movie McNamara claims he was "I was trying to help him (JFK) kee
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by awi 17y ago
Yes, it's inefficient for everybody to learn details about specific scientific subjects. What people should learn is the scientific process, how does science advance, how do we know the things we know. And they should learn how much we owe
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by awi 18y ago
Programmer productivity can be measured. In Peopleware DeMarco and Lister explain the Gilb Measurability Principle by what they call Gilbs law: "Anything you need to quantify can be measured in some way that is superior to not measuring it
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by awi 18y ago
Steven Pinker's talk: A brief history of violence is great: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth... Some people fail to realize that our time is the most peaceful there has ever been.