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by cafebabbe 6y ago
A very forgiving description for what is just plain hypocrisy.
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by cafebabbe 6y ago
As far as i know, no model predicts a glacial period in the next decades. Also, inhabitable land & crop failure will happen with an increase of 3 to 4 degrees (and this is the optimistic outcome), so i don't see why it's not w
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by cafebabbe 6y ago
Not to mention the thousands of workers having to deal with grueling, unsafe work conditions.
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by cafebabbe 6y ago
Why would we need to vaccine absolutely everyone ? isn't herd immunity a thing?
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by cafebabbe 6y ago
brand reputation is a heck of a liability
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by cafebabbe 6y ago
Well how do you mine lithium? What's the carbon footprint of recycling batteries ? (Do we even recycle them, or just make virtuous promises?) We are nowhere close to reducing the consumption of fossil fuels. Green energy is just a sexy
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by cafebabbe 6y ago
Is there a <vague object name with high number of definitions> in this picture?
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by cafebabbe 6y ago
Yep, CO2 or GDP, pick one. Gives you a sense of the size of the problem.
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by cafebabbe 6y ago
Checks and balances.
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
Oh my sweet summer child, you have no idea ;)
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
I never said it was a perfect security measure - but it does help a lot.
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
Alas, people in the US will soon learn that denial isn't a good vaccine.
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
So many of them don't have arm bands? It's borderline criminal to allow untrained kids in a pool without wearing those.
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
How can we know for sure?
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
Just use a laser rangefinder. If you can't borrow one, they are really cheap and make room measurements a trivial task.
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
In some industries, that's not even medium-term.
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
Gamedevs.
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
Instructions unclear, it's "free" in my country, and it's still great ? What am I doing wrong ?
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
It's rather painful to watch from this side of the Atlantic. I guess that I need to acknowledge this is really what most people want in America.
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
"I know it's toxic but from a technical aspect, that is really cool" is a great alternative HN tagline
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
Nokias, especially the 3310 model, had stellar UI for text and voice calls. Contextual menus always spot-on, two actions max for getting anywhere, T9 typing...
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Harvard creates advisory panel to oversee solar geoengineering project(nature.com)
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
Ah yes, denialism latest fancy mask. "ok ok it's actually happening, but it's something more complicated, you're still wrong" https://skepticalscience.com/climate-models.htm
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
What? Even on low-profile distros, Raspberries are terrible desktop PCs. This one is certainly looking better but i don't expect a game-changing experience, in light of existing i7s CPUs and javascript-"powered" apps.
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
Without fossil fuels, no Haber-Bosch process. No Haber-Bosch process, no fertilizers. No fertilizers, no food security.
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
[Narrator voice] They didn't.
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
I don't know. Can you ?
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
The hygiene is a non-problem. I used to worked in (decent quality) kitchens - you would never believe what I've witnessed. And still, sanitary problems occur incredibly rarely.
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
Survival is definitely valuable, by simply allowing you to produce value longer. I think the problem is that there is no 'long-term' factored in how we measure value.
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by cafebabbe 7y ago
Just look at Admob latest releases notes, and understand this is all PR bullshit

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