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by bequanna 3y ago
I think this is the most useful kind of data so we can put this into context, but I’m curious how they would estimate something like this. Use sea floor core samples to estimate sea ice coverage over a specific location over time?
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by bequanna 3y ago
They did give a chart showing monthly sea ice levels for each year, but I think they didn’t want to highlight that the data is only from 1979-present. Saying this is an “all time low” over only 44 years of measurements isn’t quite as impres
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by bequanna 3y ago
This seems like the classic trick that weather plays on people. A few years to us seems like a long time and enough to develop a trend and make conclusions, however, it is nothing when looking at weather patterns and climate changes. Those
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by bequanna 3y ago
Both political parties have endeavored to pack the courts with sympathetic judges. The conservatives got the Supreme Court majority by pure luck. The Democrats would have done the exact same if given the opportunity and then you’d have the
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by bequanna 3y ago
The “international disaster” was voluntarily shutting down production for a relatively short period. Let’s see how we handle something real like another world war or global natural disaster.
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by bequanna 3y ago
This is price support in extremely volatile commodity price periods to reduce the number of farms that going under. We want to maintain a high supply of food and need producers to do that without thinking they could go bankrupt next year. S
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by bequanna 3y ago
Caution isn’t the same as spreading unfounded panic.
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by bequanna 3y ago
No. This kind of zero sum thinking is rightfully rejected by most in the US. We don’t need to live with less, we just need to do a better job. More efficiency, lower footprint. We need to do better, not do less.
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by bequanna 3y ago
This is the same nonsense as the “population bomb” doomerism of the 60s. Unless we nuke ourselves into oblivion, humanity will preserve and thrive. Today is the greatest time in the history of our species to be alive.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> Schooled kids get 8 hours a day with peers As a parent, I have no say over who these “peers” are, how they treat my child, or what BS they try to push on them. As someone who was surrounded by some pretty bad kids during High School I
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by bequanna 3y ago
> Most recently, President Biden, citing national security concerns, signed an executive order that will make it more difficult for U.S. firms to invest in certain Chinese companies. I don’t understand this Executive order. Shouldn’t it
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by bequanna 3y ago
I don’t disagree with you. Perfect is the enemy of good and action > inaction. I’m simply saying if you come across someone who is lost and without a map, it is helpful to at least give some basic direction.
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by bequanna 3y ago
I think you mean: the collapse of a superpower nation caused a temporary drop, the sharp rise in quality of life.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> Maybe as there's more evidence it's harder to convict innocent people to pad the metrics? More likely, decreased policing in the more dangerous neighborhoods has let to more unsolved crimes.
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by bequanna 3y ago
It can feel very overwhelming when you recognize how much you don’t know about a topic. For some people, having some suggested learning tracks can help them have more confidence that they are moving in the right direction and not just chasi
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by bequanna 3y ago
Find someone in your network who already works there and get them to refer you for an open position.
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China’s 40-Year Boom Is Over. What Comes Next?(wsj.com)
4 points by bequanna 3y ago|1 comments
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by bequanna 3y ago
Sure, I can go with that. But wouldn't it be nice if we could defer death and have another couple decades living in health?
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by bequanna 3y ago
Interest rates create cheap money which makes the talent parking you describe more possible. It seems like rates may be at this level for some time.
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by bequanna 3y ago
You’re splitting hairs. The real metric would be man hours per GWh generated or similar. That metric is moving in the wrong direction as we move to distributed, intermittent generation. Make work is not progress, it’s a tax.
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by bequanna 3y ago
A specially created tax exemption or tax credit is the same as cash. The issue is that you and me can't just start any company and take advantage of this. You must be politically connected to receive these special taxpayer-funded gifts
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by bequanna 3y ago
Umm, investing in Education should mean more money for schools. This is a taxpayer funded blank check for politically connected people to spin up private companies and risklessly get rich. The solution is simple: Give the taxpayers equity i
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by bequanna 3y ago
Sorry to argue semantics, but how are these "investments"? This money doesn't generate a return or grant equity to the taxpayers. This is simply free money given to companies owned by politically connected people. It's m
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by bequanna 3y ago
From the article: > If Stellantis is able to net the full C$15 billion from the federal and provincial governments over the next 10 to 15 years, which is based on meeting production targets, this would amount to C$6 million per worker, g
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by bequanna 3y ago
Even with a very small diameter hose/pipe?
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by bequanna 3y ago
No, we send people to prison to remove them from society so they stop harming others. These largely aren’t people who were committing minor crimes like selling weed, they are people who have repeatedly proven themselves to be dangerous, vio
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by bequanna 3y ago
Isn’t this the result of an energy shortage due to the war in Ukraine? Germany didn’t want to do this, I assume.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> Also in general adopt policies, like free trade and free immigration I’ve never heard of this. How would free immigration help climate change?
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by bequanna 3y ago
Spain did exactly this as they brought back huge amounts of gold and silver from the new world!
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by bequanna 3y ago
One huge issue of our age is blindly calling any research study “science” and ridiculing people who don’t accept the results.

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