baron_harkonnen

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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
I've participated in a walkout as well, and while I very strongly agree with your overall criticism about the inefficacy of walk outs and the reduction of the American "left" what I feel is essentially a life style brand. Whe
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> Many promising atmospheric carbon capture technologies exist Do we have any at that scale? I mean self-driving cars were a promising technology a decade ago and that's a much easier problem to solve than large scale ccs and we sti
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> Time to add tariffs If you do that then the price of Solar PV will skyrocket back up. The key reason we've seen Solar PV prices plummet is because we've seen an increasing amount of manufacturing move to China, now 80% of sol
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
You didn't do any back of the envelope estimate. "so just about double we have now" would require what? Let's look at this chart of US electricity production. [0] It took us about 30 years to double our electricity gener
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> if we're going to get serious about saving ourselves If we were serious about saving ourselves we would have started controlled scaling down of economic activity 30-40 years ago. If we were serious about saving ourselves we would
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
That's a nice idea, but can you do some similar back of the envelope estimation for how much we'd have to grow the renewable/low-emissions energy grid to meet those other demands? For example we'll need hydrogen fuel cel
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
Let's look at some optimistic back of the envelop estimates: > We also find that 17% to 49% of the world's CO2 emissions from electricity generation Let's go with a whole 50% reduction. It's important to recognize tha
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
As someone who once had a reasonably large (>5k) twitter following and has essentially given it up there are a few factors I believe contribute it being far more unhealthy than HN or Reddit: - It's tied to your real identity (and yo
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
If you look at the data on home ownership rates[0], which is the percent of homes owned by their occupant, the number did take a big drop after spiking up due to the pandemic, but still remains higher than it has for most of US history sinc
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
There's a beautiful irony in this comment being do voted, as it is people aggressively ignoring the truth of what the commenter is say regarding our habit of aggressively ignoring and denying hard truths.
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
If (1) our current system is unsustainable, and (2) we can't make a difference, then we are, by the most basic rules of logic, (3) headed for a collapse of our current system. It's a bit strange how often people will aggressively
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
Given that most complex life is probably carbon based, and given the one planet with complex life we can observe, my guess is that most complex life runs into one of two paths: 1. You don't have enough easily accessible hydrocarbons in
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
We all benefit from global economic activity. Do you earnestly not believe that part of the capital generated in Brazil (and of course all of other parts or resource extraction across the planet) eventually ends up as a dollar in an investm
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
I started that book long before the controversy around the reproducibility of some of the sections was widely discussed in public. I got to the section on priming and immediately thought "what ridiculous bullshit", looked up the o
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> should find the correct price for carbon The trouble is that we don't know the true cost of the externalities of carbon emissions until it's far to late. If carbon leads to climate feed backs that ultimately lead to an extinc
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> perplexed what the FANGs are even thinking in being so aggressive about pushing an end to WFH I think the divide between WFH and return to the office boils down to something surprisingly simple: how much longer does your current lease
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
One of my favorite Noam Chomsky moments is when a 9-11 "truther" is able to ask him a question about what he believes about the 9-11 conspiracy theories. Chomsky responds with the typical comment that it would take an unprecedente
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> You find your coworker makes more money, you ask for more. I used to believe this when I was younger. Many, many years ago I used to work for research team a state university. In most states all public employee salaries are public data
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
I was fired once for consistently resisting sleazy practices as well as defending my team from abuse from leadership. The big realization I had, which I'm surprised I didn't have earlier: if you don't want to do gross things,
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
That's not how academia works any more, because academia is not remotely about real research or discovering truths about the world. If it was we wouldn't have a massive reproducibility crisis and things like collusion rings in pub
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> why do people subject themselves to this? Just like military recruiters are able seduce 16 years without much of a future to join an exciting career in the military academics are able to sell academically inclined ungrads on some fanta
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
I certainly hope you at least pay your coworkers the modicum of respect of getting vaccinated first [0]. There's a surprisingly large population in the tech community that want to follow your approach of "don't get vaccinated
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
In the world? Very, very few. I know it's it a tremendous fortune and privileged to be able to search for a job you think is a good match. Most people work in near slavery conditions with little choice. At the same time, squandering th
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> A "gap year" as an adult can make you radioactive to potential employers. I'm not sure where you got this idea in your head but it is demonstrably false in tech right now. I took a gap year after getting fired from an ex
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
Housing is also tricky to really account for correctly. One of the reasons house prices are skyrocketing is people are leaving cities in droves, moving everywhere from near suburbs to places like rural Vermont. One of the main reasons peopl
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
The US has overthrown multiple democratic governments to get what it wants. I personally prefer China's blatant disregard for the rules over the United State's efforts to forcibly rewrite the rules in their favor.
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
I'm genuinely curious when all of this will catch up to us. I spend a relatively large amount of my spare time keeping up with myriad of ways we are destroying our environment, the fact that our ecosystem is in deep danger is without q
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
Lot's of negative comments in here about learning R from experienced programmers. I've found this is largely because experienced programmers have this unjustified bias that R is some toy language that should be easy to learn and h
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> "do not drink to excess" is a lesson the Greeks told us with their own myths and stories. Thank goodness the Roman's brought new light to Bacchus who shows us that excessive temperance is always punished more severally t
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> the probability that I read or work on a side project drops close to 0. As someone who has done quite a few major projects on personal time and reads quite a lot as well: I personally have found the attitude that I must always be worki

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