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by eloff 5y ago
Your point is pointless. Life doesn't expand to take advantage of new resources in environments where there is no life. First you need life.
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by eloff 5y ago
That's a dumb example, there's no life in those environments. You could look to the intertidal regions near the equator for more reasonable comparison. They are much less rich in life compared to the waters around Vancouver.
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by eloff 5y ago
If you read the article it says in warmer places like Hong Kong the much of the intertidal life dies off every summer. So, yes, if it becomes a regular occurrence life could go from a year round habitat to a seasonal cycle.
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by eloff 5y ago
I don't want to go further down a tangent here, but you also see how little Americans trust their government in the number of people reluctant to get vaccinated and the number of people who seriously believe the election was stolen. Bo
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by eloff 5y ago
No, that's not my premise. You can't write a non trivial rust program that doesn't use unsafe in it's dependencies , often the standard library. But this is true of every other programming language I'm aware of. So
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by eloff 5y ago
You're missing the whole point of the article. If you set this up in an active-active configuration (if that's even supported) you have the exact same distributed systems problems as the author.
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by eloff 5y ago
> A downstream consumer might not need to use the keyword unsafe, but by calling such a function, they have de facto lost memory safety. That's a silly definition of memory safety. You can't write a non trivial rust program tha
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by eloff 5y ago
Here's a crazy idea of dubious ethical value: The problem with Russian hackers is the law there doesn't give a damn, so they're untouchable. Why not ignore the law then? Put a price on their heads and use the same Russian cri
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by eloff 5y ago
The money they don't spend on advertising is a huge part of their competitive advantage.
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by eloff 5y ago
The US would block that acquisition. No way they'd let Intel go to a foreign country.
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by eloff 5y ago
Bringing PC gaming to a portable form factor will probably be successful, but I don't game on my phone, so I don't think I'd buy this. I am in the market for a gaming laptop that can dual boot Linux as my work machine. If the
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by eloff 5y ago
Its not enough to own it, you have to actually have armed security on the ground to protect it. People are killed in Brazil trying to defend the forest from illegal logging and clearing. I think the state should take on that role, but there
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by eloff 5y ago
I agree it's unfortunate. I don't know of any alternatives to globalism and capitalism that aren't worse though. But it's important to recognize where capitalism fails (tragedy of the commons situations, negative externa
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by eloff 5y ago
I would guess that process is not 100% efficient and some stays buried in the soil. Just a guess though. The big deal with forests is they keep a large amount of carbon out of the atmosphere on a rotating basis. We really need that right no
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by eloff 5y ago
> It’s an interesting thought experiment as to what it would take for the world to force protection with an external military force (e.g. this might be the only solution, but the chances of it happening are zero). Brazil would never tole
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by eloff 5y ago
> Only a moron would base a world view around the low quality entertainment they kill time with. I think it's naive to assume it doesn't shape your world view in subtle ways, even if you understand it's a poor source of in
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by eloff 5y ago
Its not what it spends now specifically that is haunting it, it's the decades where it didn't educate the majority of its citizens. It's an effect that lags multiple generations.
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by eloff 5y ago
Are there domestic heating systems that can work on both oil and gas? I've never encountered that, and it's pretty important in Canada where I live. I've only ever seen gas or electric here.
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by eloff 5y ago
South Africa was doomed by apartheid. Democracy doesn't function if you have an uneducated populace. They were uneducated because of apartheid policies. It will take many generations for that stain to be undone. Leaving the policy in p
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by eloff 5y ago
I find that believable, but we're talking about carbon, not oxygen. Forests do sequester carbon for a period, although most of it is released again in fires and decomposition (chemically just a slow fire.) But the point is that a fores
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by eloff 5y ago
How is natural gas a competitor to oil? I know of nothing that can be powered by both. Natural gas is way more competitive in electric generation, but oil is not commonly used for that if there are other alternatives. These are two very dif
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by eloff 5y ago
Are you saying there isn't informative content on tv? That's pretty obviously false. There's a lot of misinformation too, but I don't see how the internet is better there either. You need good critical thinking skills pe
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by eloff 5y ago
The Amazon rain forest is not net zero because of animals. It's net zero (actually net negative last I heard) because humans are burning it to make way for agriculture. Trees sequester carbon. They also return that carbon to the atmosp
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by eloff 5y ago
Adhesives are not built for high-humidity environments. My parents live in the tropical rainforest of Panama. One of the challenges is that anything stuck together with adhesive usually comes apart over time. The glass panel on the door of
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by eloff 5y ago
I was talking about in cars specifically. It would seem to me that adding some kind of TEG around the engine and part of the exhaust system might be worth it on a hybrid vehicle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelec
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by eloff 5y ago
I'm going to get downvoted to hell for saying this, but instead of "not letting the world make you feel bad about yourself" you could also harness that negative feeling as a motivation to do something about it. Because being
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by eloff 5y ago
I think you're referring to the hole drilled in Oklahoma back in the seventies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Rogers
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by eloff 5y ago
It can, through the second order effects you mentioned yourself. Eating more x or less y can definitely help you reduce your calorie intake without feeling hungry all the time.
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by eloff 5y ago
Yeah, that makes sense. If the heat at the bottom of the dam, to mix your metaphors, has no further to fall, that is the temperature gradient compared with the external environment is low, then you're right, you can't really do an
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by eloff 5y ago
I think the car is a bad example because the temperature gradient is high and it should be possible to harness some of that waste heat. We just don't try. With hybrids we could definitely put that electricity to use, so I'm surpri

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