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by eloff 5y ago
I don't think that's perfectly done. I was hiking on the North Shore in Vancouver and there's a sign over a stream warning about untreated sewage. If it's a problem in the one of the biggest and wealthiest cities, I can
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by eloff 5y ago
You are comparing different variants as if they are equal. That makes no sense. If you look at the data so far available it does seem to reduce incidence of infection.
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by eloff 5y ago
> Re the other two revolutions I'm glad MAD (mutually assured destruction) is no longer talked about Yes, it's not talked about much, but there are more nuclear powers than before and the risk is very much still there. I don&#x
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by eloff 5y ago
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or serious, so I looked it up. It's for real.
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by eloff 5y ago
Your crypto logic doesn't matter. If the end good isn priced in dollars, why would the finance company price it in something else? How many US mortgages are priced in gold or Yen? Even internally?
846.
by eloff 5y ago
Stablecoins are an obvious exception. That's not what people mean when they talk of paying with crypto though.
847.
by eloff 5y ago
Because my mom is going to do that when she wants to buy something. Crypto logic sometimes...
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by eloff 5y ago
Cryptos are extremely volatile. That's not possible until that changes.
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by eloff 5y ago
Are you in Canada by chance? I have fond childhood memories of smuggling cheese across the border from the US because the dairy protectionism has resulted in prices that are 3x higher. We used to do that with electronics too, but Canada has
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by eloff 5y ago
> We already have access to far more energy than we could possibly use on earth for any technology that's actually buildable. But we're not using it because we don't have the species IQ to make the right choices. That&#x27
851.
by eloff 5y ago
You're not wrong, but you're vastly overestimating the possible effect here even if you are right about the reasons for being unvaccinated. And I'm quite certain you're wrong about that. The reasons are mostly the same a
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by eloff 5y ago
Why would you assume Russia when we don't even know what the cause is?
853.
by eloff 5y ago
That'd be a very large cheeseburger. I burn more calories in a typical 50 min workout (weights, not cardio, it's easier with cardio.)
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by eloff 5y ago
> no government would be crazy enough to permit it to be built Why? Nuclear fusion doesn't have the meltdown risk or waste problems of fission.
855.
by eloff 5y ago
Thank you for sharing that, it's more detailed than other information I've come across.
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by eloff 5y ago
This is one of those rare few times where I feel I did not waste my time disagreeing with someone on HN. I like your attitude towards things you don't understand.
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by eloff 5y ago
This requires that you earn your income through a company under your control and that you can pay to setup a complicated tax avoidance scheme like that, and pay to defend it, and even then you may get it wrong and end up paying taxes and pe
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by eloff 5y ago
I can say that for Canada, yes, you're correct. It starts as of the day you left (or the day you become resident somewhere else, whichever is later) As long as you meet the requirements of non-residency. Which is basically no primary t
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by eloff 5y ago
> It was only so long ago that an ice age was eminent, right? Yeah, we go through ice age cycles. We've disrupted that now, and that might actually be a good thing on a long enough timescale. I think your hang up is that you think i
860.
by eloff 5y ago
That's the consensus view. If you want to present evidence to support your contrarian argument, I'll discuss with you.
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by eloff 5y ago
Why would you doubt that? People are so much richer in the US, they drive more, they have bigger houses to heat and cool, they consume more in general.
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by eloff 5y ago
> From what I understand, atmospheric physics is extremely complicated, and it sounds like a _very_ hard problem to develop accurate models for. You are very right about that.
863.
by eloff 5y ago
I object to the use of the term pinhole. Per capita the United States is one of the worst offenders. It's also up there in absolute numbers too.
864.
by eloff 5y ago
That's a tired talking point. The investigation has been done and it's human activity by a country mile. You can Google it if you're curious. Basically all countries have to cut emissions to zero or nearly zero. I think this
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by eloff 5y ago
We've done that though. The climate stayed in a narrow 1 degree Celsius range since the end of the last ice age. It's likely that very stability that allowed agriculture and civilization to flourish. That epoch is called the Holoc
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by eloff 5y ago
I was looking at the glacier above Joffre lakes (north of Whistler) on Wednesday and thinking that it will probably be gone in my lifetime. It looks smaller this year than the last time I was there four or five years ago. I looked for photo
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by eloff 5y ago
We've been "enjoying" your high pressure system up in the Pacific Northwest. There are plenty of places at the equator that were cooler than Vancouver yesterday. You can have it back. Please.
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by eloff 5y ago
Global averages don't tell you much about any specific place. Weather varies considerably.
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by eloff 5y ago
Why do you need carbon sequestration to reach net zero new emissions?
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by eloff 5y ago
There are five existing transmission lines in the world of 2000km and up (all in Brazil and China.) I think a cross USA interconnect is within the reach of current technology.

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