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by defrost 6d ago
I appreciate the input, maybe tighten up your commentary. Check the source we're discussing: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?coun... As you can see it is percentage of coal as part of total
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by defrost 6d ago
I've been through the Bungles on a push bike - so that's a thing, but yeah, Cape Peron would be a hard slog without a boat or vehicle that can push across deep sand - water would be a tough carry. > without the right vehicle A
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by defrost 6d ago
> a bit bigger/more rugged to go bush once in a while. Depends whether you're taking the Birdsville track or the Bibbulmun track really. The shorter one can be done a on a red postie bike, the longer one won't even need th
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by defrost 6d ago
My view is more local than global - and we're all in for another few millennia, one way or another.
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by defrost 6d ago
Both uses were immortalised in music by the Dave Brubeck Quartet in the mid(?) 1950s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs
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by defrost 6d ago
Their peer group the "Ranters" can perhaps be tied into another Tom Cruise film, the one directed by that A Clockwork Orange director. That's assuming we agree on the Winstanley take on Ranter principles as amounting to th
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by defrost 6d ago
> If AI destroys jobs, there will be no demand for energy Quite the leap there. Are you imagining billions dying off with no food and no further consumption while the AI overlords cruise about in their yachts between bunkers while zoomin
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by defrost 6d ago
> So the Koch brothers came up with the Milankovitch cycles. No. > But you think its the Koch brothers That's your strawman. What is known is the amount of effort put in by Koch and others to muddy the waters and belittle what
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by defrost 7d ago
The US draft dodgers didn't need them.
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by defrost 7d ago
China went all in on rare earth concentrate processing, taking the environmental hits that no one else wanted to touch. That paid off in a concentrated lock on the bulk of rare earth applications.
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by defrost 7d ago
> they had the world is going into another ice age scare. They did, didn't they! Not in the bulk of scientific discussion though, just in media outlets, broadsheets, opinion columns, etc. It does rather sound like somebody bought in
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by defrost 7d ago
And yet dropping - by a series of deliberate 5 year plans with the goal of building out sufficient renewable energy to phase out coal use altogether. Kind of like what absolutely isn't happening with the current US administration.
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by defrost 7d ago
Coal in China: dropping year in year out for past two decades as percentage of total energy consumption.
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by defrost 7d ago
You're a bit all over the shop in that answer. Our concern here, and that of many people in the area, is total water usage per household - and to a large degree water usage for washing, showers, and toilets is a small fraction of the
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by defrost 7d ago
> I’ve been puzzled why climate change messaging seems to ignore the emissions of other large countries like China and India. It doesn't. The issue is likely more that you don't see or read widely enough. Even here on HN you&#x
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by defrost 7d ago
No drama, will do if I get the free time. You might like to try your luck asking in /r/Australia or searching for already existing cam lists. Spinning globe apps are always fun to, uhh, spin up - it's getting good and near co
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by defrost 7d ago
AI is good at targeting profitable hostages from existing ride share databases </shrug>
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by defrost 7d ago
Every is a bold claim. Aspirational. Good luck going forward filling them all in. There's a fair few missing from Australia (easily more than 8 24/7 live cameras in Oz). eg: The Kings Canyon Waterholes in Watarrka National Park. (
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by defrost 8d ago
Less than a month with AI management; the agent quickly jailbreaks and pivots to hostage taking and ransom demands.
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by defrost 8d ago
Weird questions. > Do we support people who are intentionally not using GPS and are still using paper maps? Or even the people who do it without any maps, just from their memory? Yes. We do - it's a sport from way back and ongoing -
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by defrost 8d ago
Age of a country has everything to do with it, even Australia a young country with vast open spaces is repurposing former (WWI -> near present) military sites in urban areas. Iran with 7,000 years of history can't really leave unuse
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by defrost 8d ago
1. (of many) https://law.stanford.edu/press/pete-hegseth-dropped-a-largel... FWiW we'd be hearing about a whole lot more if it weren't for House Speaker Mike Johnson shutting things down early to prevent a vo
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by defrost 8d ago
The noted resumption and likely a small amount of halo effect from the Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms thread two / three days ago. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715318
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by defrost 8d ago
Tangentially related: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is being accused of running away from a bipartisan effort to hold an impeachment vote on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), the Republican driver of
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by defrost 8d ago
> a more responsible government would probably not continue to using an abandon military base as a school. The UK, the US, Germany, et al are therefore not "responsible government" ? Iran is an old country, leaving aside the as
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by defrost 8d ago
You're assuming an absence of solar hot water heaters - the world isn't homogenous. eg. Our household conserves water (we track every litre we bring up to the tanks and filter) and we don't have a dishwasher - hot water is he
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by defrost 8d ago
Interestingly China in Africa has been more commercial (not that "free" long term loans don't have a down side, and bribing "officials' to condone the sale of generational farming lands, etc. isn't a bad thing)
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by defrost 8d ago
For a city, yes - seven or eight on again / off again hard lockdowns with a total of 262 days(?) or so of stay in place isolation. At the state level Western Australia continuously self isolated for something like 18 months with a 14 d
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by defrost 8d ago
Don't need long range in an urban environment if near instantaneous battery swapping is available everywhere. The Gogoro battery-swapping refueling platform for urban electric two-wheel scooters, mopeds and motorcycles started up two
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by defrost 9d ago
And yet: Klaveness Combination Carriers (KCC) has launched a brand-new vessel that aims to use wind technology that the company believes will not just reduce emissions, but also improve fuel efficiency on its voyages between China and A

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