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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
There reason you don't hear about these transitions too often is because it's virtually impossible to have a "career" solely in the arts. I've had many friends over the years who where all variety of artists/cr
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> Language is fluid and words represent concepts that change over time. HN is largely a technical site so using the technically correct language is meaningful. Chemists often joke about that all foods are "organic" foods, but t
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
Exactly, this is why wearing masks and getting vaccinated worked so effectively at curbing the pandemic. People didn't want to change their way of life. Stopping the pandemic would have required an extreme economic shut down in April,
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> That anyone, given enough determination, can become good at any skill. That "given enough determination" part is glossed over a bit too easily. Plus, even if it's just an approximation, people radically underestimate how
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> all the Grievance Studies major Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies (I'm assuming "Grievance Studies" falls under this category), at least in the US, have been in steady decline since 2008, and even at thei
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
One thing people seem to misunderstand is where renewable skepticism is coming from. Sure there are some lingering climate deniers that don't like renewables out of principle, but a growing amount of criticism comes from people (I put
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> a self-contained growing kit For a more "hacker" experience with mycology I highly recommend starting from a spore syringe/spore print, but doing every part of the process yourself. You can grow any of a wide variety of
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> not bettering disenfranchised people’s lives I personally find that even at a high income relative to the general populations a few drinks at the end of the day can absolutely better my life. If I was disenfranchised I can only imagine
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
I'm curious do you touch type, and, if so do you also touch type on the numpad? I suspect the divide here is between people that are touch typists w/ experience in numeric data entry and people who still need to look at the physic
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
I haven't had a full keyboard with a numpad in years, but if you ever worked in any data entry job in your career and learned to properly touch type on the numpad it is wildly faster than touch typing with the regular keyboard and need
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
While I do agree that it's overly simplistic to exclusively blame oil companies, and for the most part agree that we are all complicit, it isn't quite as straightforward as that. Most of our jobs depend on the creation of demand f
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> The masks part is easy.. it has no effect.. > Also mostly you get covid when not wearing one.. The conclusion I would draw from your own beliefs here is that we should be wearing masks all the time, especially around family... not
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
I always find arguments like this so hilariously brain dead that I can't understand why anyone ever repeats them. Other's have already pointed out the false equivalence of this statement but for a moment let's ignore it. Your
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
I'm fully vaccinated, but don't think it's crazy for people to be suspicious of the vaccine. In recent years huge swath's of the united states have been suffering from another epidemic: the opioid crisis. It is well esta
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> It means you can blindly let the NN do your thinking for you, and come out ahead. I'm assuming by "ahead" you mean score the best on some arbitrary metric? Doing this approach you will not come out "ahead" when
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
50% of species would be considered an extinction event, and that is absolutely on the table. We're already in the 6th largest mass extinction event in the history of life on this planet. I would strongly recommend reading Peter Ward&#x
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> Proving the claims of rapid progress would be inordinately difficult and beyond the scope of this contribution. That seems like it's an important part of this issue. If we know that there are massive problems with irreproducibilit
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
Optimism is essentially the religion of Capitalism. This is because Capitalism is perpetually in debt to tomorrow. Every start up being discussed on HN, every fund people pump their 401k into, every new oil well being dug up, all of these r
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
Have you read anything by Peter Ward? He's a fairly well respected paleontologist who has argued convincingly in both papers and popular books (most notably "Under a Green Sky"), that sudden rises in CO2 have been linked to t
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
There is a very prevalent group of people on HN who don't deny that global warming is happening, but strongly deny that it is a serious problem. This group deeply believes that technology will solve their problems, no matter how large.
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
Working in data science I can safely say that that vast majority of people who feel like that have impostor syndrome at the very least really don't know what they are doing. A true imposter theoretically knows they don't know enou
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> US consumption CO2 numbers account for US purchase of solar panels. That's what I said, but they don't account for the manufacture of raw materials produced and sold in China to aid in the manufacture of these panels, nor of
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> Decoupling these activities from emissions is what this entire thread is talking about; And my entire point, is that after 30+ years of trying to reduce emissions by adding renewables we have failed to see this happen. There is no evid
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
@epistasis In response to this point, which is frequently brought up: > The chart I linked is CO2 accounting based on consumption, not US production, it takes into account Chinese emissions for US consumption. While it is certainly the c
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> US emissions are declining per capita Because we have continually outsourced our emissions to China while still reaping the financial benefits of expoiting resources in those countries. I know there are studies that try to account fo
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> There is another path, with massive economic growth, that results in complete decoupling of GHG and GDP. This is the easiest path in terms of lifestyle changes, but the most difficult path in terms of upsetting entrenched powerful inte
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> That's not going to work. A lot of people (and industries) rely on cars to do their jobs Unfortunately economic contraction is going to essential if we are going to reduce GHG emissions. We've tried the "full steam ahead
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> It's pointing out that there is no realistic scenario in which western countries can prevent CO2 from getting to dangerous levels. Sure there is. We've had two experiments where we saw this happen: April 2020 - for a very sho
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> The status quo is murder, and it’ll keep getting worse without action I'm in full agreement with you here, but the time to act was at least 20 years ago. The changes necessary at this point to make a dent in climate change are thi
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
The problem with the collapse of our ecology (and the collapse of our future) is it forces us to deal with existential questions that were always there, we just used to have good ways of keeping ourselves distracted. Every society has devel

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