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by graeme 2y ago
Have a look at the right hand chart. That shows the increase from 1960 until now. You couldn't spot 2020 by eyeballing the chart. 2020 was a 5% dip in the pace of the increase . It's like someone gained ten pounds in 2019, 9.5 po
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by graeme 2y ago
2023 is 37.4, which is a fair increase on 2019. More importantly the chart that matters is total CO2 in atmosphere. You can't even see 2020 on here. That was a one off 5% decrease. Imagine if you had $1,000,0000 in your bank account an
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by graeme 2y ago
Nice find. One tweet says this, hadn't seen this sort of data point before: >Well 1) the site lost the index after he started using the api - the spam redirects worked before that :) 2) it is quite clear that API has to be used for
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by graeme 2y ago
Note that this almost certainly uses Google's indexing API. rshzrh, please correct me if this isn't the case: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/qu... It's intended
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by graeme 2y ago
A fair point. This list has 468 above 1 million and I think that's the urban boundaries and not metro I hadn't actually googled concepcion, 200,000 in the urban area is quite small. It would be interesting to somehow workout the p
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by graeme 2y ago
There are only 26 areas in the world which are 15-30 million. They have about 550 million people, or about 7% of the world's population. 1 million is fairly large, especially in the context of Chile. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by graeme 2y ago
That's new PC shipments, not total PCs on the market.
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by graeme 2y ago
The thing is without force your stuff gets taken. We haven't got a good way around this. Our current peace is heavily based on nuclear weapons and the implied threat of force. Don't like the status quo? Use force to try to change
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by graeme 2y ago
If 10% get it then you'd get it roughly once in every ten years.
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by graeme 2y ago
I felt fatigued once and had a doctor tell me "sometimes you just have to exercise even if you don't feel like it and then you feel like it" There are some conditions this doesn't apply to, but it was good advice for m
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by graeme 2y ago
This really shouldn’t be the top comment. USD is very convenient and desirable to use and no other currency comes close as a replacement reserve currency. If the agreement was extremely inconvenient the Saudis would surely have found a way
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by graeme 2y ago
True, but Covid also has plenty of asymptomatic or low symptomatic cases. I’ve known a few who tested positive while reporting no symptoms. A Chinese field study estimated people got the flu once every five years. It is simply much less con
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by graeme 2y ago
Covid actually reactivates EBV. Different etiologies can have the same symptoms and it is silly to suggest there is no difference between diseases. They’ve found tests which can distinguish long Covid. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go
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by graeme 2y ago
They were speaking hypothetically. Even if denotes a scenario where the impact per infection is equal. In such a scenario Covid has worse impact due to the higher transmissibility. People seem to get it every 6-12 months. Flu infection is m
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by graeme 2y ago
Anyone have a good solution for ai email spam? I’ve been marking it as spam, but since it sounds like a human I realize some of my actual human correspondents are going to spam.
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by graeme 2y ago
I was in Brazil once, atm skimmed my card and 100% of money in the account was withdrawn. There was a resolution process, and it was great. Bank refunded 100% of the money….after 2-3 months. I was extremely happy all things considered but y
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by graeme 2y ago
The line seems to have been drawn at the T2 chip. One thing I can tell you though is that Intel has EOL’ed the chip in the iMac Pro. Meaning no more security support for the chip. So I’m not sure the iMac Pro will get the next update. Thoug
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by graeme 2y ago
Apple isn’t magic and can’t defy physics. The chips on the older devices aren’t powerful enough to run the new features. Hardware matters again now in a way it hasn’t for a couple of decades.
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by graeme 2y ago
I bring a bookbag to stores, but if I forget one I buy a "reuseable" bag and then get rid of it. If you need a bag you need a bag. Before plastic, stores had paper bags. Some stores offer these now but many don't. I find it s
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by graeme 2y ago
The emergencies act is extremely restrictive. The criteria: >There must be an urgent, critical and temporary situation that “seriously endangers” the lives, health and safety of Canadians, and it must be so significant as to exceed the c
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by graeme 2y ago
Acute stress causes heart attacks. People hit the ceiling. If someone dies of a heart attack while hitting the ceiling during intense turbulence it is not accurate to call the heart attack coincidental.
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by graeme 2y ago
Prohibition dramatically reduced drinking. 70% initially then 30% long run: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w3675/w3675... And alcohol can be used in quite a benign way. Good reason to t
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by graeme 2y ago
I should have been more precise. I meant in terms of being like the old Roman Empire. More in terms of vastness than anything. The army for example had dropped about 75% in size by the timeframe I mentioned. And this is only the eastern hal
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by graeme 2y ago
The Byzantines didn’t last all that long as anything recognizably Roman. By 641 they had lost 75% of their prior tax base. They pushed out now and again but were largely Greece and Anatolia for much of their history after that.
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by graeme 2y ago
This is often said in the sense that “we shouldn’t try to stop it we should just adapt” No one ever thinks of ports. Imagine rebuilding all port infrastructure every 5-10 years. Move to highlands all you want but simply giving up is not lik
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by graeme 2y ago
We have on a small scale. Methane is escaping as the permafrost thaws. Boreal forests are also burning down as their climate warms. Reduction in polar ice changes the albedo of the earth to reflect less heat. At a certain point sufficient w
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by graeme 2y ago
This isn't spillover. The virus mutated so it can transmit between cows, and now dairy workers are able to catch that. With the risk being that it mutates again into a human to human form. Spillover is you have sporadic cases caught *f
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by graeme 2y ago
Glad to help! Fehmiu's show is also good. And I should add that once I loaded the song's into Apple Music and started favoriting + adding to playlist, Apple has been able to suggest many similar songs and artists for me. I'm
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by graeme 2y ago
For anyone who wants a good source of random music, radio Canada has a great French station with an excellent show “l’effet pogonat”. You won’t understand the host if you don’t speak French but the station is mostly songs and I’ve found so
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by graeme 2y ago
No one has established that their prices are high, or are not offset by location, presentation, discounts, etc. If they were high priced with no advantage they’d be out of business.

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