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by elbasti 5y ago
35 wet-bulb temperature is not survivable. That is not a matter of opinion, it is a fact. Your body generates heat and at that temperature it is unable to shed it through any means and you will die in a couple of hours. If a major city
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by elbasti 5y ago
Super.mx | Senior elixir, ruby-to-elixir engineer, design systems engineer | REMOTE or Mexico City At Súper we help millions of Latin Americans get insurance for the first time, so that they have some resiliency in their life when things go
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by elbasti 5y ago
> and more efficient roads. The efficiency of roads is limited by the fact that the vehicles occupying them are large, individually piloted, and have slow reaction times. Throughout is limited because, as cars go faster, they need to be
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by elbasti 5y ago
> We're at 50% over pre-industrial CO2 with no viable way of getting rid of it, so at best it's going to stay that way for a long, long time. It's much worse than this. For a long time the "worst case scenario" w
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by elbasti 5y ago
This is not a question of mindset, it's a question of statistics when you're trying to identify anything that is rare. Take prostate cancer as an example. It's a relatively common cancer, with an incidence of .1% [0]. If you
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by elbasti 5y ago
It just seems counterproductive. Like, as wildly unpopular as a $250 price per carbon ton would be, that would be orders of magnitude more palatable than a one child per couple policy.
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by elbasti 5y ago
Sorry to burst your bubble but this optimism is just completely unfounded. Carbon removal is clearly a piece of the puzzle but if and only if we get to zero emissions first . This is basic thermodynamics. It takes more energy to remove car
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by elbasti 5y ago
Most countries on earth--US being a notable exception--have a better version of this: the VAT. It's a very elegant tax on paper, but significantly complicated from an accounting POV. It's one of those areas where there are huge ga
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by elbasti 5y ago
One of my favourite anecdotes about Lem+Dick is that while Lem held PKD in high regard, PKD thought Lem didn't exist .[0]. He was convinced, in paranoid-Dickian-realityisweird fashion that Lem was actually a committee of people, and a
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by elbasti 5y ago
> many people will come out of the woodwork to say that they really did believe it was hopeless the whole time, but that declaring it was hopeless before the consequences happened would have been labeled counterproductive for the people
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by elbasti 5y ago
Question: How do you folks deal with the hopelessness of it all? It's pretty obvious that emissions are not going to drop to zero, that the positive feedback loops due to arctic methane emissions have kicked off, and that runaway warmi
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by elbasti 5y ago
Actually, the prediction was "If we don't do something in the next 30 years, the scales will tip, so we have to act now." Turns out we didn't act, the scales did tip, and it may actually be too late to do anything about
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by elbasti 5y ago
And a quick reminder that the IPCC reports/estimates excluded arctic methane emissions...which we a) now know are definitely happening and b) are just catastrophic positive feedback loops. The gun seems to have been fired.
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by elbasti 5y ago
These massive land holdings are the best possible use for a "Harberger Tax", also known as the Weyl-Posner " Common Ownership Self-Assessed Tax (COST)." The idea for these taxes is that one self-assesses the value of a g
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by elbasti 5y ago
The theme of the movie isn't so much "not knowing what's going on" as "not knowing why this is happening to _me_". There's a phrase that's repeated again and again (in one way or another), which is &q
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by elbasti 5y ago
Maybe! Hopefully! But it begs the question: why is the situation so bad now? What will change? It's not like the apps I mentioned are inherently complicated.
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by elbasti 5y ago
I am actually in Mighty's market if it cost ~$10usd per month, not $50. At our startup we have a small org of customer service reps. They basically live in four tools: Notion, Slack, Chrome, and Front. These four tools have one thing i
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by elbasti 6y ago
Funny story around heroku and pricing. I know a company that used to spend enormous amounts of money on heroku. Like, seven figures a year. The company was growing quickly, billion dollar valuation, raised hundreds of millions, etc etc. O
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by elbasti 6y ago
This leak is putting people's lives at risk. What is truly damaging about this breach is that it allows for bidirectional mapping of phone ⭤ name (and often location, since the data can include town/employer). The risk is much bi
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by elbasti 6y ago
Super.mx | Full-time | Mexico City, REMOTE (western hemisphere only) | Elixir Engineers Come build radically simple insurance products so that millions of Latin Americans can be protected when things go wrong. We're a team of fintech &
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by elbasti 6y ago
I've never understood why cuneiform is so _complicated_. There's only 112 syllables in the chart in the linked blog post... why do some of them require more than 10 "wedges"?
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by elbasti 6y ago
Súper | https://www.super.mx | Mexico City, Mexico | Senior Elixir Engineer | Full time | REMOTE At Súper we build insurance for the millions of uninsured Latin Americans. We're working on earthquake, health and life insura
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by elbasti 6y ago
Super.mx | Full-time | Mexico City, REMOTE (western hemisphere only) | Elixir Engineers, Product Managers, and LatAm specialist growth hacker At Súper we're building radically simple insurance products for LatAm. We're a team of f
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by elbasti 6y ago
Super.mx | Full-time | Mexico City, REMOTE (western hemisphere only) | Elixir Engineers and Product Managers At Súper we're building radically simple insurance products for LatAm. We're a team of fintech & insurance veterans a
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by elbasti 6y ago
Súper | Senior UX Designer | Full time | Mexico City, Mexico | ONSITE when safe Súper designs and sells radical new insurance that pays automatically. We pay fixed amounts when bad things happen, automatically and without adjustors. We&#x27
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by elbasti 6y ago
Reminds me of the joke "if you're a mouse and you still have Alzheimer's, you need to get a new agent"
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by elbasti 7y ago
What's the endgame for the pandemic? Assume all governments act more-or-less correctly; people self quarantine, companies switch to remote work, etc. When does the world get back to normal? In two years after a vaccine is developed? Th
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by elbasti 7y ago
I love Laika movies. I love that they exist, and I love the sheer craft and effort required to make them... but I think they look _too_ good. I think most people laypeople that see a Laika movie doesn't realize it's stop-motion. I
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by elbasti 7y ago
Of course "weight" does not mean the same as "accuracy".
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by elbasti 7y ago
The IPCC report is actually biased--it's too conservative. It doesn't consider positive feedback loops that cause "runaway" change: > By largely ignoring such feedbacks, the IPCC report fails to adequately warn leader

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