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by exoverito 2y ago
Probably not as humorous as this: https://i.redd.it/000igemozcl61.jpg The Berlin Wall was officially called the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart". Russia claims they are fighting in Ukraine to denazify their regim
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Can you tell me what the Department of Education has measurably accomplished since its establishment in 1979? Inflation adjusted spending per student has increased by about 3X since then, and test scores have not improved, even falling in r
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by exoverito 2y ago
The significant increase in non-binary gender identity and rapid onset gender dysphoria suggests there's a cultural factor at work. A 2021 systematic review found mixed results for transgender brain structures mirroring their self-iden
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by exoverito 2y ago
Medicine is extremely complex and medical errors are the 4th leading cause of death in the US. The science on the next steps of treatment is often incomplete, variable, and dependent on the practitioners' experience. You shouldn't
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by exoverito 2y ago
Baltimore would be a counterexample. They spend $22k per student, with a student-teacher ratio of 15 to 1. This still results in remarkably poor performance, with only 8% of students proficient in math and 22% in reading. Culture and geneti
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by exoverito 2y ago
The CIA was actively involved in the Maidan revolution, which sought to pull Ukraine out of Russia's sphere of influence and into the EU / NATO. Obviously this is antagonistic towards Russia, especially when they have so few natur
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by exoverito 2y ago
Increased spending is the simplistic solution. Government spending as percentage of GDP is 35%, compared to about 25% in the 50s/60s. Since then inflation-adjusted spending per student has increased by roughly 3X with no measurable inc
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by exoverito 2y ago
Luckily most of my courses did not require textbooks. Though it was easy enough to get PDFs on libgen.
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To be fair the American government acts like an enemy to most of its people too.
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Large cryptocurrency networks like Bitcoin are extremely hard to execute a 51% attack upon due to their size. Though ultimately there's no perfect solution. As the saying goes, democracy is 2 wolves and 1 sheep deciding on what's
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by exoverito 2y ago
Blockchains facilitate trustless transactions enabling truly decentralized currencies not under the control of any government. Many people find this quite valuable, as evident by recent trends in authoritarian overreach, fiscal repression,
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Calcium carbonate aerosols are proposed as a good alternative to sulfur dioxide since they are basic and do not react with ozone. Calcium carbonate is used an additive to soils to reduce acidity and is used by organisms to construct bone ti
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by exoverito 2y ago
I also find it interesting that climate change has taken the role of eschatology for an increasingly secular society, and I say this as an atheist. The industrial revolution acts as original sin, mother nature will give us her final judgmen
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By women of color do you mean African Americans? Soul food is notoriously unhealthy and probably why Black Women are the most obese demographic in America. Changing diet would absolutely be necessary, though the deeper problem is their surr
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by exoverito 2y ago
Climate is the premier example of a non-linear chaotic system, as evoked with the butterfly effect and unreliability of weather forecasts more than a week out. Making predictions of the far future state of chaotic systems is obviously going
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by exoverito 2y ago
Entropy is inexorable and must always be resisted. Humans need to drink water and eat food, again, and again, and again. Unimaginable amounts of time, effort, and resources are spent every day maintaining civilization. If we build out solar
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by exoverito 2y ago
The optimal CO2 level for plant growth is between 800 and 1000 ppm, as observed within greenhouses. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/... There is no perfect solution. One of the ben
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There will always billions in losses from something, especially when global wealth is estimated to be around 450 trillion. The Dust Bowl was a disastrous incident of climate change, yet it didn't occur because of CO2. The damage caused
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Yes, proof of stake like Ethereum's blockchain is more energy efficient. However it could potentially be less secure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_stake The users of BTC also pay for that electricity con
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by exoverito 2y ago
Current nuclear fission reactors can safely and reliably supply all our electricity needs. France rapidly built out their nuclear fleet in response to the 1973 oil crisis, achieving more than 70% of their electricity generation within 20 ye
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by exoverito 2y ago
Exactly. In San Diego the peak electricity price is $0.75/kWH, the highest in the continental USA. There is literally a functional nuclear reactor sitting idle a few miles north at San Onofre, and NIMBYs oppose nearly everything all ne
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by exoverito 2y ago
Corporations also conspire, especially those deeply embedded in the military industrial complex.
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Anecdotally speaking I use google search much less frequently and instead opt for GPT4. This is also what a number of my colleagues are doing as well.
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China certainly would win from America going into civil war. It would be wise for American elites to focus on fixing the causes of unrest, but instead they use corporate media to blame the people for their distrust of the establishment. Int
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by exoverito 3y ago
That particular plot point is about denying all solar energy to the machines. Needless to say it's a fictional movie and more serious calculations should motivate our analyses. It's been estimated that current increases in CO2 hav
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by exoverito 3y ago
Sure, though it seems there are a number of near term paths for improvement. Short and long term memory mechanisms would go a long way towards active learning. Fine tuning could be iteratively performed through mechanisms like low rank adap
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Britain halved their emissions primarily because the West has been deindustrializing and offshoring their production to China. Global CO2 emissions have still increased significantly in the past 35 years, so these national figures are mostl
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by exoverito 3y ago
The guy I was responding to was literally a nihilist and didn't see the point in humanity persisting. While it may be true primitive tribes sometimes had satisfying lifestyles with relatively little wealth, we are far beyond the carryi
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by exoverito 3y ago
It's hard to enjoy the beauty of Earth if you're poor, destitute, and only see worsening economic prospects. Innovations like fusion and asteroid mining would arguably do far more to preserve the environment than degrowth. People
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by exoverito 3y ago
I make no such assumption, only pointing out the obvious fact that a world of no innovation, declining living standards, and a dying population will only exacerbate bleakness. It's essentially the dystopian setting for Children of Men.

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