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by gmuslera 5y ago
Don't forget the feedback loops that adds even more carbon, like permafrost thawing and more frequent/extended forest fires. Even if we stop extracting and burning fossil carbon, still new carbon will be keep being added to the ca
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Global yearly average temperature keeps increasing because not directly by our emissions, but the excess of CO2 and other GHG (that yes, that was mostly our emissions, mostly adding fossil carbon to the cycle). This way we are going head-fi
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by gmuslera 5y ago
(gentle) Escalation till the point where Russia will have to give up or concede, something far bigger than Ukraine, from an region with an strategic resource to something digital, like encryption keys or forcing West backdoors in their sys
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Like in a crime scenario, if you have the means, the opportunity, and we keep providing motivation, it may eventually happen.
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by gmuslera 5y ago
I suppose that the title comes from https://xkcd.com/386/ I miss those old times when people were honestly wrong because lack of technical knowledge or understanding, instead of today's standards of fake news, mis
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by gmuslera 5y ago
It's not very surprising. They are dealing with an incomplete knowledge of a very complex system, and getting surprises as more knowledge and real world metrics challenge previous assumptions. Probably it was a surprise that the bigges
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by gmuslera 5y ago
As you named a game Stardew Valley was my first idea. But a lot of essential tech tools, apps and libraries, are mostly one man creation (fitting in https://xkcd.com/2347/ ). I think that calibre, keepassx (no longer ma
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by gmuslera 5y ago
We aren't talking about a system with an evenly distributed energy. It wouldn't be life on Earth if the global temperature average was between what is now the temperature of the atmosphere, and all the ones below surface. As long
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by gmuslera 5y ago
My first thought when starting to read about this was xkcd's Thing Explainer. But will this carry all the meanings (including cultural ones) of those words to the translations to other languages ?
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by gmuslera 5y ago
The creative accounting was done by others. They say that Nostradamus "predicted" this because they choose what they read, when they read, and apply it to particular situations that fit, and not to others that don't, being aw
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by gmuslera 5y ago
To mine unobtanium, by now it should be enough of it there.
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Predicting the future is hard, specially if you think in 20-30 years forward. But, giving enough predictions, you will have a lot of hits in a sea of misses. A lot of development happened in the middle that could had turned things in differ
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Ignorance is bliss. How trivial was to make a simple CGI taking input as it were without ever worrying about escape characters, codification, SQL injections, XSS and so on. Everything previous to a (security) arms race looks so easy, intuit
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Extreme weather will be far more noticeable than that amount of sea rise over 3 decades (if no less). We are not good noticing slow changes, but a hurricane hitting a big city, a heat dome or an atmospheric river drowning a populated region
825.
by gmuslera 5y ago
We have a slow motion impact event with climate change, that we didn't do anything to avoid, and we are at a stage where trying to push the brakes when we are going at a 500mph and close enough to wall won't help neither. And we a
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by gmuslera 5y ago
The headline looked like something taken from Greg Egan's Diaspora, but what happened there was far closer and with just neutron stars. Anyway, it was pretty dramatic for the not-so-nearby solar systems, I wonder what means an event li
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Could those billions be used to change all electrical generation facilities to not use fossil fuels? And then turn all public transport in the world to electric ones? And then private cars, heating, and so on? Yes, that could be expensive,
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by gmuslera 5y ago
It would had captured more carbon (or at least, less carbon in the atmosphere) if you didn't turn it on. It would be great a carbon capture technology, on which companies should invest billions in a technology that turns carbon into (n
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by gmuslera 5y ago
It is not just about the present temperature and how it affects marine ecosystem or global weather. A hotter ocean fuels a few global warming positive feedback loops, like that warmer water holds less CO2, can emit more methane from the sea
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by gmuslera 5y ago
I try to use "smaller" commands instead of more versatile but complex alternatives. I'm not sure if I get better cpu/io/etc usage by using cut or tr instead of sed or awk (or perl and so on) but it is a pattern I fo
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Should be be worried that the author of Accelerando complains about things going too fast? Future is complex, and not only "good" developments happens and start changing everything faster than ever before, bad ones does too. And w
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Think in how the Pentagon and CIA shaped movies into propaganda ( https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-pentagon-and-cia-have-shaped-... ). Now think how something that puts directly information in your brain, without any critical a
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Sometimes is easier to transmit how it should really sound using the phonetic alphabet (i.e. ˈtɔrtəs instead of tortoise), but it is a bit harder to write with normal keyboards, and you have to learn how each phoneme sound. Used a lot topho
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Never cross a river 4-ft deep on average. That 1ºC over normal is the yearly average global temperature. It doesn't increase evenly over the globe (in the arctic has been over 4ºC, a region where permafrost thawing and ice melting will
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Technology is not there yet, far from it, and not just from the hardware side. And it may have some appeal for some tasks for i.e. artists and designers, but they are not the only ones that use computers, nor those are the only uses for com
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by gmuslera 5y ago
More than an achievement it was a Discovery.
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by gmuslera 5y ago
I don't. Big oil is still doing things with impunity. They knew 40 years ago that this was going on, they expanded operations, funded a denialism campaign, bribed left and right, no consequences besides doing more, getting even more mo
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by gmuslera 5y ago
The yearly average global temperature is moving slowly (but at increasing speed. we are increasing emissions, old emissions accumulate for centuries, and we are already triggering positive feedback loops). Extreme weather is not, both in se
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Your house can't run. And not everyone can leave their house and belongings behind, much less doing that frequently. And there are more things that just can't pack and leave, from crops to infrastructure in general, and such stron
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Brain upload afterlife will be a lot more like https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

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