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by cultus 6y ago
Jericho even had town walls complete with a tower at 9kya. Absolutely astonishing, because they were even pre-pottery.
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by cultus 6y ago
There still needs to be large-scale integration for things like complicated industrial production. Also, communication technology will only get better, so long-distance virtual collaboration should actually get easier. However, most thing
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by cultus 6y ago
It's a feature for the people whom the government serves.
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by cultus 6y ago
These systems (most explicitly Rojava) are similar to Murray Bookchin's [0] ideas on libertarian municipalism. Basically, control over economy and environment is mostly devolved to the local level, with citizen's assembly and that
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by cultus 7y ago
True, but no one is using OO Cobol, since it's all ancient legacy stuff.
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by cultus 7y ago
I feel like this is more akin to the Ardennes counteroffensive than anything that is likely to work. Google has just failed so utterly at shopping so far. Heck, they've failed at damn near everything they've done in the past decad
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by cultus 7y ago
COBOL is unstructured. It doesn't even have functions. When you've got some million+ line tangled mass that has all kinds of undocumented behavior, it's really better just to add more duct tape and punt it off to the poor bas
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by cultus 7y ago
I used to be a glaciologist, specifically. People don't grow significant crops in those hot deserts. Afganistan has hot summers, but not horrifically hot compared to some areas. Afganistan also has low humidity, which is key for our ab
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by cultus 7y ago
Human civilization has not flourished in a much warmer earth. That is 100% falase. Human civilization has only existed during the Holocene, which has been a period of stability. We are now in the Anthropocene. These changes are also very fa
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by cultus 7y ago
Yes. This is something I think about quite a bit, since I did used to work on climate-change related geophysics. If we started combating climate change decades ago, we wouldn't need such a drastic change. Realistically, no real change
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by cultus 7y ago
We're headed towards a collapse either way, with many, many millions dying. Very possibly billions over the course of this century. Either it's a major society upheaval leading towards positive change, or it's just general so
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by cultus 7y ago
I've been waiting for this to happen for years. Some of the unicorn/FOMO lunacy has faded in the last few years, but there still has been no big cull. At least if the economy at large recovers (which is a massive, huge if), the te
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by cultus 7y ago
A social collapse would coincide with an economic collapse and lower emissions. Honestly, speaking as a former climate change-adjacent geophysicist, I'd take it. It is becoming fairly clear we will have revolutions. At some point, thin
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by cultus 7y ago
Interesting. I've heard not great things about physician job satisfaction in the last few years, mostly centering around more time spent with billing/paperwork and less with patients.
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by cultus 7y ago
It's also called "Democrat." There is no non-plutocratic alternative in the US.
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by cultus 7y ago
Worse, with late fees. You can still get evicted legally as well, it's just that they can't remove you.
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by cultus 7y ago
That would probably be better, but isn't happening. I think these landlords should have planned ahead and had six months of emergency funds saved up, just like McDonald's employees are supposed to.
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by cultus 7y ago
This is what an oligarchy looks like.
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by cultus 7y ago
Where have you heard that landlords are forgiving rent? That's not the case at all. You still owe all of that rent. This kind of attitude is increasing bizarre in the current world.
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by cultus 7y ago
Listening to capitalists, one would think that wages would just increase and safety would increase to equilibrate the labor supply. It's interesting that doesn't happen, but instead these major retail companies are taking out huge
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by cultus 7y ago
Can anyone with access give some info on the details and/or applications of this? The idea of self-organizing complexity in general can be very important in math and from what I hear biology. The vague idea can underlie cellular repair
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by cultus 7y ago
Wow, that is impressively insane!
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by cultus 7y ago
Exponential processes don't exist. Anything that looks exponential is the just exponential part of a logistic-like curve.
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by cultus 7y ago
To really go through the rabbit hole, I wonder if one could then use this as Julia's parser, which itself is written in Femtolisp (a scheme).
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by cultus 7y ago
I think I have a greater risk of dying from deep vein thrombosis in their cramped seats. I'd roll the dice on a 737-MAX any day of the week.
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by cultus 7y ago
You have this completely and utterly backwards. Please understand these issues better before spreading this kind of misinformation. Delaying carbon mitigation has only meant that necessary measures are much more severe than they would have
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by cultus 7y ago
Sorry, by "We" I did mean people who make actual decisions, although we all are to blame partially for not pushing back.
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by cultus 7y ago
Sure, but there's no political will to do that, since the elites in charge are the ones who benefit from these policies.
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by cultus 7y ago
Fast local quarantines and such as you are describing are great, if you catch it early. If strong measures are taken before it spreads, it is reasonable to quarantine all sick and people in contact with the sick. Taiwan was able to do this,
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by cultus 7y ago
We've decided as a society that it is acceptable to have massive oligopolistic too-big-to-fail corporations in control of critical sectors. We have no choice but to bail them out.

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