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by chr1 5y ago
Alchemy was part of natural philosophy as well though.
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What do you think about ocean thermal energy conversion plants [1]. It seems to be a promissing technology that both produces energy during whole day, and captures carbon by increasing the biomass of the ocean. [1] https://en.m.w
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Firefox has lost 46M users over the last three years – PC Gamer(pcgamer.com)
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Yes i was talking about the spam folder, i have never heard about this other way of blocking, and can't find anything about it on the internet. Is this behaviour documented anywhere?
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User has control over what is marked as spam, and can see spam messages if needed. If you block some content the way gmail blocks spam, it won't be censorship.
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Why would it be violent? Change.org is already able to influence politicians, if it was updated to have the required features, more politicians would have to follow it, and new politicians who believe in direct democracy would be able to ge
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What voteflux proposes is not simply direct democracy where opinion of the people who don't care enough to not go to ballot box is simply discarded. Votes still can be delegated, by setting your vote to follow vote of the person you tr
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One possible business model is to replace most of politicians the way Uber have replaced most of taxi company owners. Politicians are supposed to translate needs of people who elect them to bureaucrats who are supposed to bring that to real
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We are doing favour to us and to other living species. E.g. restoring mammoths would add a bulldozer that would trample trees in the north and bring the place back to its natural state of grasslands, that protects permafrost and CO2 stored
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There was a minor problem with stating in air, having plants with large edible parts, talking with people far away. Science and engineering have helped with all these minor problems, and they can help with the new one if we spend money on g
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Ocean thermal energy conversion plants [1] is another possible technology that could give us fine grained control over the weather. These types of technologies are more promising than technologies which only have a goal to fix climate chang
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If we could convert Sahara back into a savannah or farms, the amount of carbon required for the new soil and plants would exceed the amount of extra carbon we have added to the atmosphere so far. And there are many viable routes to do that.
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You can't eat the plants that are eaten by the animals. Not all pastures can be converted to fields, and converting the rest will actually reduce biodiversity and cause more sustainability issues.
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But the rich and middle class already do that in the form of paying taxes and government transferring part of that taxes to the poor. The only difference will be that poor will know exactly who is helping them, instead of thanking governmen
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Being able to sell and buy votes is a good thing, it allows people to compromise. Now it doesn't work because a vote is a rare resource which cannot be priced, but when there are frequent votes on individual issues, you can think of a
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No one should have a secret ballot. A vote is a dry run for a civil war, and if one can't even publicly say that he supports a law how will he be able to help to enact that law when it is passed? There is a curious historical fact, tha
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When people will be able to vote on individual issues, and will be able to introduce new law projects, the whole dynamics of voting will change. Because people will be able to trade votes. Buying a phone for someone so that your law gets on
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People can also decide for themselves if something is an issue important to them enough to vote personally, or not important enough that can be delegated to someone they trust. This is usually called liquid democracy, as it allows to change
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One issue preventing such parties, is that people do not have time and interest to think about all the issues and there needs to be a way to delegate and trade votes. In Australia there is https://voteflux.org which solves the f
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This kind of laws can turn out to be useful if they prompt google to make recommendation algorithm customizable in order to say "we are not recommending anything, users are choosing for themselves".
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Try watching videos of old people with Alzheimer's, and try imagining what people will be doing when you are dead to gauge how much your life is worth, and if small risk of dying in a car accident not caused by yourself is acceptable.
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AFAIK this was done simply by assuming the change of the color, without taking into account the change of cloud coverage, and clouds have a huge effect. So it can go both ways depending on how exactly we will be changing the climate of Saha
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Not only forests, but converting a desert, like Sahara, into agricultural land will help too. Same is true for ocean deserts, places where there is no upwards flow bringing nutrients from ocean floor to the surface, which is the majority of
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Is there research or a startup working to genetically modify tropical fruit trees into a form that would be easier to cultivate in greenhouses. There doesn't seem to be any good reason why an avocado can't grow on a vine or even o
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What are examples of tech that are not being used due to lack of political willpower? Also note that if you have a working idea now that you can't realize because number of your supporters is low, as the number of well off people grows
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Compare someone from Venezuela and North Korea. Millions of people managed to leave Venezuela and stay alive, unlike millions of people from North Korea who had died from hunger in 90s despite having neighbours ready to take care of them. B
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For seasteading being free to leave is the core tenet, and not simply leave but also take your floating home with you, which is not possible on land.
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You are technically correct (the best kind of correct), but the fact that some mammals will survive and live on after asteroid impact, will not be a consolation to billions of people who will die simply because there was too few of them to
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There is a difference between "not being able to leave" and "not being able to enter", your examples are of second kind. Currently there are very few places that prevent people from leaving, e.g. North Korea, Turkmenista
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> If compliance with GDPR would be a board level concern we'd be on another internet/ in another world by now. That's the point, vast majority of people do not care about the issue GDPR tries to solve, and legislators do n

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