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by dagss 10y ago
It is a step forwards. The important thing is to get rid of the journals, then new evaluation systems can rise from the ashes. The peer review is letting more and more crap through anyway.
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by dagss 10y ago
Why I put it all on the rich? Here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_... Basically, correlate that with a map of GDP per capita. But to be completely honest I just got fired up as I found (an
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by dagss 10y ago
It is easy to play russian roulette when the gun is pointed at somebody else's head isn't it? You say you would rather risk climate change than let go of your current comforts. How awfully convenient for you that the main effects
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by dagss 10y ago
"Pollution" is unfortunately an overloaded term. The article you are referring was about other kind of emissions than CO2; and so the 15 largest container ships do NOT contribute as much to global warming as all the cars.
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by dagss 10y ago
First step is just agreeing there is a problem and put it on top of the agenda though. Politicians are supposed to set goals and find incentives; the "how" part (batteries vs. hydro vs. new tech for power storage vs. nuclear) can
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by dagss 10y ago
0) Vote for politicians who care about climate change.
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by dagss 10y ago
However well Norwegian government works, it cannot do much about profits increasingly escaping to multinational megacorps who are taxed in a tax haven. Since corporations are global and sometimes more powerful than states, there are real di
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by dagss 10y ago
Changing the law costs a lot, lot more you know..
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by dagss 10y ago
But in that case it was not without replication (ie useless).
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by dagss 10y ago
If the use of the MITM is public it is more like requiring you to leave outbound paper mail in an outbox without an envelope, then have the internal mail office archive it and add the envelope. Perfectly reasonable. What you do while on wor
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by dagss 10y ago
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by dagss 10y ago
Nothing in the OP mentions US at all. It explicitly says "governments" in plural.
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by dagss 10y ago
Though if you refer to the YC Research OP, it doesn't mention anything about the US. Any number of other countries could be markets.
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by dagss 10y ago
If you somehow manage to ban large corporations across the board you will probably just move that level of power underground to the mafia, pulling the strings of a set of smaller companies...
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by dagss 10y ago
Sources? Piketty's "Capital in the 21th century" can serve as a source on how wealth has been getting concentrated in the real world (interrupted by WW2 which spread it out again). He also argues well for why this is an intri
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by dagss 10y ago
How on earth do you define "win"? How exactly can you "decimate" someone in nuclear capability? The earth can only be destroyed (for purposes of supporting human life) once. US being able to destroy it five times over an
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by dagss 10y ago
I am in favor of testing the way you complain about. The advantage is primarily that you can refactor code without getting bogged down in having to change tests. An API is a) more stable, so you are maintaining compatability for that surfac
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by dagss 10y ago
The point is not whether it can be understood. The point is that if two sides both make convincing arguments, how do you pick which one is correct? Without knowing the subject matter yourself, as a human one will usually fall back to confid
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by dagss 10y ago
Make sure you know about database transactions and the various ways they can be configured and what effects it will have on data consistency. That way you will not make code that seems to work but which randomly corrupts data. That is the m
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by dagss 10y ago
You ought to ask yourself "which database do you want to learn". Make sure database transactions, consistency etc. becomes your native tongue. Being familiar with SQL and Postgres (or similar) is just as, if not more, important th
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by dagss 10y ago
That is a bit like asking what you need source code for after having compiled the binary program. Just like you have new versions of a program building on changes to source code, you can run newer and improved analysis on the scientific dat
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by dagss 10y ago
With "HPC" you usually mean "cluster computing". The problems you mention rarely go beyond what a laptop can do in seconds. So I am not sure if they qualify as HPC? Just "numerics", which is more of a prerequis
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by dagss 10y ago
Direct democracy has some problems: a) Politics is usually not a "yes" and "no" to individual questions, you have to have a consistent set of answers that e.g. balances the budget. Of you vote on each post individually y
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by dagss 10y ago
"The world is fine", you mean right here right now? So far the stunning thing is the derivatives / rates of change, not the values as such. But rates of change is not something to scuff about. If you are speeding off a cliff
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by dagss 10y ago
No. As someone who has spent five years programming computing clusters, I have seen many problems that are fundamentally hard to parallelize. If it falls within mapreduce you are basically "done" no matter what language you use (n
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by dagss 10y ago
Serving the web seems to split between a) IO-bound problems and b) databases. It is certainly not embarassingly parallel in the "would benefit from GPUs" sense. Those thousands of threads just sit there waiting for the database to
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by dagss 10y ago
I wasn't really talking about "replacing 1:1 now". The point is radio is about to die the same way broadcast TV is about to die. (The radio and TV stations may do just fine, you can listen/watch shows from them online
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by dagss 10y ago
In Norways case I wonder if AM does not work due to the hilly terrain or something. Don't think there are any stations, I never listened to AM at least and just barely heard about it.
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by dagss 10y ago
Many will definitely just switch their habit to Spotify instead, will be interesting to see the numbers...
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by dagss 10y ago
It would be cheaper to develop a system for mass-SMS in a crisis and publicize it than to keep FM/DAB running, and I bet the delivery rate of the crisis message would be an order of magnitude higher.

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