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571.
by chr1 7y ago
Could you please tell with what exactly you disagree.
572.
by chr1 7y ago
Maybe because people setting sanctions know that Crimea is not a victim, and most of its population supported joining Russia, and hope that making their life harder may reduce the support.
573.
by chr1 7y ago
That is horrible, but a supporter of PKK would reply that Turkish army have killed and displaced Kurds in Afrin. War is an ugly thing, and everyone involved loses from it. The way free speech and human rights can help, is the same way it he
574.
by chr1 7y ago
Sadly that's not what happens in practice, currently biofuels encourage cutting down forests and repurposing the land that could be used for normal food production.
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by chr1 7y ago
I have lived near deserts/semi-deserts, they are desolate and miserable places where some life survives despite all odds. Keeping a small number of national parks as deserts is of course important, but that does not need to be more tha
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by chr1 7y ago
If by "this mess" you mean civilisation in general, then yes, civilisation and science have originated in places where people had to make large scale changes to environment to survive (mesopotamia, egypt, etc.). But then "thi
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by chr1 7y ago
I do not want to conserve nature, i want to convert it to the form that is useful for people.
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by chr1 7y ago
Fair enough, it won't happen automatically, but maybe instead of wasting money on subsidising biofuels, building non-effective renewable installations, funding additional border patrol or helping refugees, the rich countries can focus
579.
by chr1 7y ago
If you want examples closer to Turkey take Greek War of Independence, or forces fighting for liberation of Bulgaria, or northern Ireland. I have not lived in Turkey but my grandparents did, and i know some people who do live in Turkey. Of c
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by chr1 7y ago
According to [1] the terrestrial biosphere contains 2000 gigatons of carbon combined oil and gas reserves contain only 370 gigatons. 28% of earth surface is taken by deserts, and if we simply restored ecosystem there it would take 560 giga
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by chr1 7y ago
Do you know of any cases where anyone in America called someone "Mexican" as an insult? Could someone file a lawsuit because he was called "Mexican"? I don't think so, and i don't think USA and Turkey are compa
582.
by chr1 7y ago
Russia buying few ads which could have some effect on election results is considered serious issue. Google influencing elections by shadow-banning channels is a much more serious issue. Currently google is treated as a platform, and does no
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by chr1 7y ago
Turkey is an extension of a multi-national empire which had extreme levels of animosity between its nations, people who identified as non-turks were severely penalized in the past, and to this day allegations of having a non Turk grandparen
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by chr1 7y ago
As far as i can understand all our measurements would be the same if all equations using real numbers were replaced by equations with finite precision (containing several hundred digits). The only experiment that could be different is quant
585.
by chr1 7y ago
We do not have any experimental reason to believe that "irrational probabilities" have any physical meaning. There is no method to measure them even indirectly, so a theory that operates only with natural numbers is quite plausibl
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by chr1 7y ago
We need large scale meat farming in arctic, Pleistocene Park [1] but for commercial purposes. It would restore grasslands that we have destroyed buy driving arctic megafauna to extinction, would prevent peat fire, and uncontrolled melting o
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by chr1 7y ago
If that was my main goal i would use drugs, or just kill myself. Maximize "good" feelings is a better heuristic because most people accept arbitrary large amount of "bad" feelings, if that promises something good at the
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by chr1 7y ago
That assumes that suffering by itself is inherently bad, but there is no evidence for this. As far as we understand brain can be simulated on a computer, so pain and joy are simply computations, and minimizing one kind of computation isn&#x
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by chr1 7y ago
There is an analog of free will that works even in a cellular automaton. For that you need two things: 1. the part of cellular automata describing a thinking entity can be separated from the rest of the world: that is changing states of cel
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by chr1 7y ago
Is the tragedy for viewers any worse than binge watching tv which was more common before youtube?
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Antigravity water transport system inspired by trees(m.phys.org)
2 points by chr1 7y ago|0 comments
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by chr1 7y ago
A smaller version of the same idea was Qattara Depression Project which has more chances of being built https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project
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by chr1 7y ago
The congo-chad canal part of the project could be built independently from the rest http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/news/italy-china-pon... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chad_repleni
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9 More Accused of 'Seasteading'(bangkokpost.com)
6 points by chr1 7y ago|0 comments
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by chr1 7y ago
There is also ongoing work on LFTR reactors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reac... which are much simpler and safer than reactors using solid uranium, because they have only fraction of fuel o
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Five couples lined up for CRISPR babies to avoid deafness(newscientist.com)
1 points by chr1 7y ago|0 comments
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by chr1 7y ago
I've recently stumbled upon some videos where Kirk Sorensen describes LFTR reactors (Liquid fluoride thorium reactor) that his startup is working on, and he is claiming that their reactor can cover its costs simply by selling fission p
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by chr1 7y ago
You don't even need to deny anything, just make a nude photo of a person who wants to fire you.
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Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet(quillette.com)
1 points by chr1 7y ago|0 comments
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by chr1 7y ago
Yes, i think moving water to inland aquifers and dry lake-beds in current deserts should have a significant impact, but unfortunately i have not been able to find a study confirming or disproving this.

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