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by fwungy 3y ago
Governments are basically becoming organized crime syndicates who use their state monopoly on violence to enforce taxes on their subjects. Yes, they do some legitimate good at times, but even mafia gangs support their community and police i
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by fwungy 3y ago
Yes. EROEI. Very familiar with that. This is an anonymous forum so you won't believe my credentials ( as is wise!), so I'll put it this way: do you think that the idea that oil is a precious and rare resource is good or bad for th
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by fwungy 3y ago
Gun control gets liberals writing checks. Abortion bans get conservatives doing the same. The skirmish lines move back and forth but they never really change ( oh yes they do! shout the stirrers of pots ). Our society is akin to rats in a s
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by fwungy 3y ago
Tell that to Putin. There's plenty of oil. They've been saying its going to run out for 50 years. Dead fields have replenished themselves.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Brazil is making ethanol from its vast sugar plantations. They are a special case, and ethanol isn't great on a full lifecycle basis. It doesn't make sense without agricultural surpluses or subsidies, as there are in the USA. Chin
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by fwungy 3y ago
The rising BRICS dominate hydrocarbons and they aren't giving them up, selling or using. We should be focused on mitigation strategies and superior technology that wins conversion based on market forces and not government mandates and
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by fwungy 3y ago
The much reviled Global Interpreter Lock(GIL) slowed python down, but also made it really easy to write libraries for. If you wanted to do something there was probably already a Python lib for it. Nothing else had such a rich library ecosys
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by fwungy 3y ago
What is the sun was smaller and closer than we think? One could sew the same result in that instance.
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by fwungy 3y ago
How can they sequence a thing that does not exist? It's the only way that 2023 Gender Science can be true, and all good community members know that it is true. All Glory to the Commune Leader! /s
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by fwungy 3y ago
When I sense I'm being informationally interviewed by a recruiter or discussing a job I realize I'm not interested in I offer up high salary expectations to push up the overall pay expectations for filling the position. I kind of
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by fwungy 3y ago
My latest alert, which triggered this post, turned out to be because there was a Mom's for Liberty protest at our local school. I don't agree with their positions, but come on, an emergency alert to the whole city for some women w
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by fwungy 3y ago
Interesting. I recently ran across research that showed nicotine consumers had reduced Parkinson's symptoms and incidence. It's good to see they're learning more about this devastating illness. https://www.ncbi.nlm
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Ask HN: Emergency Notifications Explosion
7 points by fwungy 3y ago|8 comments
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by fwungy 3y ago
Only in places that can afford to replace them. Liquid fuels are well understood and supported in the developing world because ICEs are relatively cheap and liquid fuels have amazing energy density. A village with a tank of diesel can be am
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by fwungy 3y ago
This solves so many problems. It's great.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Tell me you don't have children without telling me. When a child makes it to a top tier of media attention parents are always involved. Children do not have the drive or capability necessary to do such things on their own. Of course t
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by fwungy 3y ago
There's still a couple billion people there who need energy to survive and progress and don't care about the climate increasing a couple of degrees by 2100.
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by fwungy 3y ago
It was just so obviously stupid. I don't have time to wade through German government websites finding the trail. Modern civilization, like in Germany, requires a certain per capita level of energy resources. If you increase the cost of
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by fwungy 3y ago
There is no reason at all for anyone but the Head of Household to vote, who's ever paying the bills and keeping it together. Democracy becomes less stable as voting increases and individual equity falls. It becomes a race by politician
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by fwungy 3y ago
Yes, and if we all go burn our houses down the GDP increases became we create more economic activity. The point being the statistics don't necessarily mean what you'd think they mean, and they do redefine/game them when they
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by fwungy 3y ago
Doesn't matter. They'll still happily buy the fossil fuels the West leaves on the market.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Same people are writing the energy policy here. Germany just was further along. Climate change mitigation doesn't work if the fossil fuels just make it cheaper for other countries to use them. Russia and the Middle East aren't wal
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by fwungy 3y ago
I know a lot. Her parents are quite well connected and used their child because it works well in the media. Children want to please their parents and mimic their views. It's not a great idea to push young children into the media spotli
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by fwungy 3y ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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by fwungy 3y ago
It's a good way to game performance reviews.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Flag the code and unit tests for multiple petty issues and then forget to review your change requests. Eventually accept them weeks later without comment after multiple prompts from the developer.
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by fwungy 3y ago
The incentives of science are often orthogonal to making a career in science.
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There are ao many reasons that comparison does not work.
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I can see from my Oura ring data that late night eating is hard on the body and the harm is correlated with the how heavy the meal was. The issue is that it takes work to digest food. Your body does not get to rest as well when you eat late
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by fwungy 3y ago
It's rooted in the sexist idea that women are not capable of making decisions about their sexuality. There's a weird double standard around "love is love" for women. No one is concerned if an adult male has sex with a su

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