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by gmuslera 4y ago
Reduce greatly the extraction and use of fossil fuels (cleaner energy sources, efficient and not for leisure travel) at the same time than massive carbon capture efforts. And I mean not to keep emissions as something is being captured, as s
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by gmuslera 4y ago
Wasting a lot dealing with a symptom while still failing to address the real problem is the kind of solution that is not solution at all.
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by gmuslera 4y ago
The map is not the territory, you should contrast ideas with realities to see how that is playing out in smaller scales, to have a hint on how it could end in the biggest one. One of the most urgent planetary problems right now is climate c
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by gmuslera 4y ago
One should read old Neal Stephenson books (I don't know, The Diamond Age, Snowcrash, Cryptonomicon and a few others) to see what an abrupt ending means. Then try something different.
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by gmuslera 4y ago
It is important to show that the warming and anomalies are uneven, because in the north (specially over the northern polar circle) a few positive feedback loops happen, like permafrost thawing that emits CO2 and methane that were frozen the
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by gmuslera 4y ago
"Geoengineering" without saying which kind or at what scale is a bit too broad. Consuming less or putting solar shades in space may fit in that definition. I'm more worried about taking intrusive measures (that probably have
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by gmuslera 4y ago
So now will start again the pump stage?
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by gmuslera 4y ago
He had a column in the New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/column/good-question-randall-munroe-... ) that worked as a continuation of it in that 4 year gap.
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by gmuslera 4y ago
The name of the rose? We are talking about the name instead of what it really is? I mean, contributors, how much money they raised, github stars, language in which it was written and maybe some twitter mentions don't talk about the dat
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by gmuslera 5y ago
In the other hand, it may be about shifting blame. Sugar industry did that with fat.
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Meanwhile 100 million oil barrels are extracted (each producing 0.5/0.7 ton of CO2 equivalent), 23 millions of tons of coal, and 365 thousand million of cubic feet of natural gas are consumed. All those numbers each day, and without co
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by gmuslera 5y ago
A message is not a message if doesn't reach your intended audience. In the other hand, it could reach just your intended audience and not the whole world, your own citizens could take that message as something negative.
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by gmuslera 5y ago
"Known" nuclear weapons. Good part of the motivation of that arms race was to discourage the enemy to start a war, even if they had everything to win it. In that line, there had been rumours of doomsday devices (like Dead Hand fro
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by gmuslera 5y ago
What if he did the exact same presentation in youtube, and in NK they saw that presentation? What if someone in NK downloaded the open source implementation of that blockchain, participated on it, or even mined quite a few coins? Could be a
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by gmuslera 5y ago
There are hardware and software reasons. In the case of macOS, the company developing it only have to worry about a limited set of possible hardware devices, that they are even designed by them, or tightly approved what components have them
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Shouldn't be needed this kind of app. But if it is really needed (traffic related deaths are a big component of the total deaths, and you should count also other bad outcomes of traffic accidents), then it might not be a so bad idea. Y
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Last year (not 2100) a town in Canada reached 49.5ºC, in an event when a lot of places in US got temperatures 35+ºC for a week or something like that. Siberia reached past June the 38ºC mark. Those are the heatwaves that we are getting righ
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Interference between Zoom calls (being in different or the same one) is the killing factor here. Specially when not everyone is back, or there are more people from outside participating, and that it has become the new normal. One Zoom call
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by gmuslera 5y ago
The selection method for algorithms/AI is solving better the problem it have at hand, not reaching sentience. If that was just evolutionary the inefficient intermediate path points would have been pruned far before reaching anything re
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Sentience is overrated. What we have? A story we told ourselves about how its our life? Machines need that? It would be efficient to do that? Or would they optimize themselves to do better the task they are assigned to? Programs and AIs ma
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by gmuslera 5y ago
3.3 feet, around 1 meter. Yes, it would had burned up.
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Remote working happens, and its adoption increased during the pandemic. Some lifestyles may not need change to live in such places, for some some room for improvement may exist, and for others you will get some damage anyway. And, of course
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Consume even more Soma?
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Looks like Ig Nobel Awards material, not because its intrinsic value or being interesting, but somewhat seem to follow the pattern.
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by gmuslera 5y ago
It is not waiting. We are actively building it. Of course, we can be hit by a big asteroid, or the planet sterilized by a nearby supernova or some other totally unexpected events out of our control, but we keep turning our present reality s
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Never cross a river that is on average 4 feet deep. Storms, currents, each time more frequent extreme weather, disrupted climate features (like the polar vortex or AMOC). It won't be an orderly, even and without side consequences inch
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Focusing on economic gains? Cities flooded by each time more frequent heavy rains or directly sea rise won't come cheap, and that is where most of human population lives (and most will lose everything they have). It is not that new lan
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Speed of change matters. Walking downstairs is not the same as falling thru a window. You can't adapt to very fast change. https://xkcd.com/1732/
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Moon orbit (from there comes the original week and month) doesn't have to be proportional to Earths rotation (day), nor any of them with Earth's orbit around the sun (year and seasons). Those divisions had some original real life
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by gmuslera 5y ago
If they access you device your side may be compromised (and a keylogger or cache inspector may defeat most password managers, offline or not). And even if they get it because your online backup of it is leaky, it is encrypted using AES256 w

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