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by earthtolazlo 9y ago
For what it's worth, the Midwest would be a prime target during a nuclear war due to its ICBM silos. There aren't many places far away from both population centers and military targets that could be considered safe. Maybe New Zeal
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by earthtolazlo 9y ago
I personally won't do any coding challenges without at least an initial technical phone screen. It's not really fair to ask for that kind of time investment from candidates without being willing to reciprocate.
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by earthtolazlo 9y ago
Just because things have turned out okay in the past doesn't guarantee that they will in the future. There really isn't much of a light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to climate change.
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by earthtolazlo 9y ago
Pretty sure it's the latter. There is at least one video of president Obama dodging a direct question about it from the spouse of someone replaced by an H1b worker.
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
This, but unironically.
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
I know it gets said a lot, but I really think it comes down to doing something you really enjoy. I play volleyball 2-3 times a week, and it never feels like something I'm just doing to slow the rate at which my body decays.
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
I'm not disputing that. My point was that this article is just a poorly thought-out mishmash of "centrism" and more representation for constituencies who are already very well represented on a national level.
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
We already have a political party whose primary function is to represent the interests of well-off city dwellers. They're called the Democrats.
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
Not to mention famine. At this point, it seems inevitable that billions of people are going to starve to death before the end of the century.
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
Or not, because the economy for the lower and middle classes is garbage and most people doing these jobs are doing them out of necessity.
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
Ocean levels will continue to rise for centuries. I don't think the timescales quite make sense from an investment perspective.
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
This is bad. This is very bad.
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
You sound like a joy to interact with.
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
The general rule of thumb is the farther north the better, although you probably want to be south of melting permafrost. Europe is in for a rough ride, as it will be faced with hundreds of millions if not billions of refugees from Africa, t
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
> To follow on though, shoukdn't it technically be the case that piece values should in theory fluctuate based on current situation. Yes. One common example is knights and bishops. Both are worth about 3 pawns, but knights are gener
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
What do you think climate scientists have been screaming about for the past several decades?
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
Starvation, mostly.
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
It would be great to see one of these frameworks offered as an offline solution. Right now the only options are WSR/Sphinx4, which have significant accuracy issues, and Nuance's products, which are extremely unfriendly to develope
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
To be fair, climate change will very likely create hundreds of millions if not billions of refugees fleeing north in the coming decades.
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
Which would make perfect sense if herd immunity wasn't a thing. I wouldn't care if you want to not vaccinate and die of some 19th century disease, but you're putting everyone else at risk as well.
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
What about the coal-fired plants cheerfully mentioned in the article strikes you as good for the environment?
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
Or, God forbid, they could pay their employees more.
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
Except that it's yet another loophole that will be abused to continue business as usual. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13530318
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
Very disappointing to see this flagged. I thought better of HN.
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
It lost 2-3 billion dollars last year and shows no signs of improving its margins anytime soon. How is that a success?
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
They'll invest in whatever is cheapest. For the foreseeable future, that means oil, coal and natural gas.
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
Just about every model shows significant increases in drought and desertification across most of the world's currently arable land with more than a couple of degrees of warming, which is the path we're currently on. Couple that wi
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
Why do almost no population projections take climate change into account? We're rapidly heading towards a much less habitable earth. The projections I've seen with Africa at a population of 3-4 billion people by 2100 would be laug
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
It's hard to say for sure. Assuming it works (which seems likely given past volcano eruptions), it could reduce planetary temperatures by up to a couple of degrees, giving us a few extra decades to get emissions down to zero. Downsides
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by earthtolazlo 10y ago
I think at this point it's basically inevitable. It's way too cheap and effective in the short term not to happen.

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