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by gmuslera 5y ago
If you say that the current photo is not so bad, you are forgetting that you are seeing a movie, the very start of it. The next frame may not be so bad? That doesn't matter if the movie keeps running, you will get increasingly worse fr
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Contrasting "old" predictions with reality is always a learning experience. This ranking was made a year before an actual pandemic and they had more misses than hits, and understanding why may help with other predictions about the
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by gmuslera 5y ago
It's not like every other RSS reader died that day. You have plenty of them, as a service, as an app, as a browser extension and much more.
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Who else is in that list of great men? The definition of the list may say if he belongs to it or not, or at least if he deserves to be there as much as some of its members.
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by gmuslera 5y ago
They are there a very high income company that can or cannot afford that protection for them or their neighbor communities, but what about everywhere else, where there are no tech giant with that possibility? They are making the wrong quest
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by gmuslera 5y ago
There are some blind areas. You are not counting people that weren't tested, or, people in different categories that were exposed but didn't got the disease, or people that got the disease previously, but it was asymptomatic or wi
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Sometimes, like with rabies, once you start to get visible symptoms it is already to late to do something. With coronavirus we saw what it means to not take action in something that is exponential, just because your reaction time and how br
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Even if we full stop emitting now, the CO2 and the methane in the atmosphere will keep doing its warming work. And there are now more sources GHG, some of them are methane from melting permafrost, or CO2 from forest fires, and not sure how
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Maybe https://qntm.org/mmacevedo may change your view about how desirable that may be. At least if we get to that stage, if we survive enough time, if that is feasible, etc, too many ifs.
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by gmuslera 5y ago
The carbon emitted by pigs is the one that already belong to the carbon cycle, depending on the kind of carbon (CO2 or methane) may stay more or less in the system but there is nothing new there. The cars (or if you want, their fuel), on th
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Solving climate change AND sea rising at the same time. Too bad we may end having as much water as Dune by the time we reach a healthy amount of CO2.
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Focusing in just authors may make this fall into the Simpson's Paradox ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox ), if you look at the bigger set the clear trend may vanish. Even if authors are part of the
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Wrong science fiction reference, it should be The Minority Report. Would your prediction cause it? avoid it? It was really about to happen? If you are "testing" it, stopping the people that is about to do it would mess with the te
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by gmuslera 5y ago
You have as hypothesis that the current process will stop in very short time leaving things like today, more or less. I don't know when it will stop, but before it does, it will have to deal with the excess of greenhouse gases on the a
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by gmuslera 5y ago
The big problem there is not that he does it, but that it can be done. You can't be sure if someone else (i.e. some intelligence agencies) know it already, and is actively breaking encryption, even if he doesn't. Your encryption i
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Plants get more carbon, but not more minerals or elements that are only in the soil. And that may mean more volume, maybe more calories, but less food. That, even if we assume that we get to an stable and livable weather plateau, and not an
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by gmuslera 5y ago
It's like getting debt. You start spending, and never end doing so, because the future you will be rich and will be able to pay it. And you keep saying that you will get rich "any time soon" but expend your time spending even
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Is global yearly average temperature what increases. It is an average that takes into account from the coldest night of winter in the south pole to the hottest days in the sahara. You should not see it as "today's temperature + 4º
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Even if he names mostly climate change, the case is mostly on change and unpredictability. There are "good" or somewhat intended change caused by new technological developments and discoveries. Something new is created (cars, plan
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by gmuslera 5y ago
You can die from fever, so taking or doing something for controlling your temperature seems a good approach for avoiding that. But if you only care about that symptom, and forget that it comes from a disease, infection or something like tha
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Dismissing the causes means that they won't be addressed. Something else will be tried to be done instead of the most obvious course of action if you know the cause. And that something else could go horribly wrong, as we are dealing wi
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by gmuslera 5y ago
It may be the Dunning-Kruger effect for civilizations. The ones that didn't reach the stage of interstellar travel think that is trivial to travel and settle in other star systems. But the more advanced ones may have different ideas, o
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Thinking by yourself is not enough. We have plenty of builtin bias, we carry a lot of (old and present) cultural baggage that condition what meaning we give to what we see Critical and system thinking (there are plenty of great books on bot
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Sea rise is not the only effect of climate change, and the gradual rise won't be as urgent as extreme weather floods and storms episodes. You will have also wet bulb temperature episodes, not all time, but more frequently and in bigger
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by gmuslera 5y ago
If Mathematics is a language to describe reality, maybe numbers are not its whole alphabet. Inherent complexity, things that are not discrete, and emergent properties may not be described adequately with numbers, and maybe a different alpha
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by gmuslera 5y ago
The streetlight effect, we are searching in our close neighborhood, for signals that we would use in our current kind and stage of civilization, and because we didn't find anything we conclude that in the whole universe there is no lif
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by gmuslera 5y ago
For me sounds scary to disable a mechanism in all our cells that is "rarely used". Negative knowledge covers what we don't know and what we don't know that we don't know, and that rarely could be less rare than we t
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by gmuslera 5y ago
COVID had some some circunstances that helped becoming so widespread. It takes several days for someone to caught it to develop symptoms, if ever. It happened at a moment in time and place with very high connectivity with the rest of the wo
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by gmuslera 5y ago
I use cut instead of awk, at least for logs like apache or ones with fixed amount of spaces between fields, because it means less parsing/work, specially for summarizing long log files. Also use cat of the log as input, because is the
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by gmuslera 5y ago
Would they qualify as stars? Would they be able to maintain integrity with the relativistic change of mass (across its volume) while still running the fusion process?

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