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by erentz 6y ago
It’s not a science book, but this did bring to mind an enjoyable sci-fi book by Greg Bear called Darwin’s Radio, for reasons that’ll be obvious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_Radio
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U.S. may cut some Moderna vaccine doses in half to speed rollout, official says(reuters.com)
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That’s an impossible question for any organization but it’s entirely irrelevant and that’s what you’re missing. The information they leaked was real and important. Where it came from is secondary matter. People only got worked up about it b
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by erentz 6y ago
An interesting thread here on this topic. That 0.7 increase can have devastating impacts. Also worth noting this variant is now spreading in SoCal, CO, and most recently found in FL too. So the post holiday surge that’s already underway cou
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by erentz 6y ago
You can’t know, and you don’t need to know. I think that’s really missing point of what I said. There is no requirement that Wikileaks or any media only publishes simultaneous dirt on opposing politicians. That would be impossible and can n
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All early of course. But it doesn’t appear the new variant is more deadly, but also its not clear its less deadly yet either. Assuming it’s about the same severity as the current variant then that spells bad news. This thread here does a de
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I would like to see the dirt on every politician also. But I'm not going to complain because I can only see the dirt on some of them. And if Wikileaks received information about Politician D and did not publish it because they did not
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by erentz 6y ago
Be warned Yascha has become (or always was, I'm not sure) a grifter hack. He jumped on the cancel culture grift now he's joining in with other armchair epidemiologists such as Matty Yglesias and Nate Silver in misreading slides an
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I’m a Journalist. Apparently, I’m Also One of America’s “Top Doctors.” (2019)(propublica.org)
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> What we really need is a switch from "first past the post" to approval/score/range voting, which would dissolve the two party system by eliminating spoilers and thereby making third parties viable. Systems like appr
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by erentz 6y ago
I think you’re being a bit unfair. Certainly there will be some like you suggest but a lot that just never thought about it or as the article says couldn’t spend the money to renounce it: “in part because the fees to relinquish American cit
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> “I think the pilot crisis that the planet is facing is real,” Neumann said. “You know it’s a very global world and airplanes are critical, but there’s just not enough pilots…” I’ve heard this for years. And yet I’ve also seen what new
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by erentz 6y ago
Given how much this behavior can vary from region to region, I think a lot of this behavior can be driven by culture, road design, and how drivers learn to drive. It may be easier to address it through those channels.
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Keeping tax low for the rich does not boost economy(lse.ac.uk)
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Treasure hunter in jail for 5 years(cbsnews.com)
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I get what you’re saying but 1) as shocking as the past year may be it hasn’t really been all that revolutionary. Some portion of people got shifted to working from home, but just about nothing else changed. And 2) there isn’t all that much
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by erentz 6y ago
It’s not as disconnected as you might think. The pandemic is on track to cause a roughly ~7% drop in emissions for 2020. And (depending on the ever changing forecast) something like ~5-7% drop in global GDP for 2020. So the link and magnitu
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Slowing Climate Change with Sewage Treatment for the Skies(bloomberg.com)
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This would make huge waves of distortions around these events. Who is going to be able to get a 30 year mortgage to buy a house if the debt reset is in 15 years? Now only people who can afford 15 year mortgages. As you get closer it gets w
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The Essex Boys: How Nine Traders Hit a Gusher with Negative Oil(bloomberg.com)
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I’m dealing with my own fire safety related conflict at the moment. Maybe I am the asshole in the story but my building recently announced its annual fire inspection to all residents of the ~350 apartments, by email, the day before it was t
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by erentz 6y ago
I’m kind of surprised there isn’t an OpenWRT style project out there to provide a replacement OS for common Smart TVs. At least I couldn’t find one. I’m obviously lacking in understanding the massive difficulties such a project would likely
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by erentz 6y ago
A strange choice that possibly explains so many of the stories of peoples lost balances over the years. Even recently (in the past two weeks) Coinbase is still having periodic outages where they cannot process orders and where orders get ex
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To sign up with any US exchange today don’t you already need to share KYC information anyway?
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How the CCP Does Job Promotions(chinatalk.substack.com)
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Oh. But surely carbon offsets in the best scenario are an accounting gimmick, and inappropriate for a case like this where you want to compare truly CO2 free production of a resource. If a mine releases CO2, but doesn't actually remove
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by erentz 6y ago
How do you offset a ton of emitted CO2 for $8? Here Stripe is paying between $75 and $775 per ton: https://stripe.com/blog/first-negative-emissions-purchases
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The AMA is a tax-exempt hedge fund and licensing corporation(epsilontheory.com)
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Note original title “AMA? BITFD!” is vague so chose another line from the article that better describes it.
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A thousand! We’d be so rich in carbon free energy we’d be exporting it to Canada and Mexico and still have hundreds of GW left over to, I dunno, produce hydrogen 24/7 for other uses. We could decarbonize our grid today with only someth

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