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by greeneggs 5y ago
Yes, of course it can. And this doesn't seem like cheating. I would be interesting in knowing how the difficulty (worst and average case) for the different models changes over time. Of course, on the last day (in 2027?), there will o
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by greeneggs 5y ago
It enables differential pricing, which is not zero sum.
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by greeneggs 5y ago
Indoor rowing
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by greeneggs 5y ago
Physically separated bike lanes are even worse. You can't get out of them easily if you come across a lot of debris. And they are harder to street clean, so debris accumulates more.
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by greeneggs 5y ago
> Paying out ~100% of the take equally per-person to make it so it helps rather than hurts the poorest, a "carbon dividend". Poor people use less carbon on average (directly+indirectly) than wealthy people, so they will usually
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by greeneggs 5y ago
I don't see why looking at something closely is evidence of "malign intent." After all, the whole point of spy satellites is to look closely at other countries. You could say that it is risky, because there could be a colli
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by greeneggs 5y ago
Doudna has her own memoir, "A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution." Why would you read Isaacson's third-person account, when you can get the information from the scientist herself?
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by greeneggs 5y ago
Your first link is from 2008, and analyzes data from 2004. I don't see how this proves anything, or even suggests much, about the industry today. Your second link shows that the pharma companies spend almost as much on R&D as on s
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by greeneggs 5y ago
Well, for example, climate-change-fueled wildfires have draped large areas of California and the western US in wildfire smoke for weeks on end, the last few years. Aside from that, large cities and suburbs can be smoggy, very hot, and extr
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by greeneggs 5y ago
We don't do anything now because it is easier to put it off till later. In the future, the humans should be wealthier on average, and have access to better technology. But even then, it will always be easier to put it off till later.
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by greeneggs 5y ago
For me, it is the opposite. I don't feel any shame from a computer marking a book as "late" in its database. I do feel shame from having to walk up to the library desk and tell the librarian that I owe them $0.50 in late fe
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by greeneggs 5y ago
To be fair, in this case and I suspect in many others, the popular article has greatly oversold the importance of the problem. When you are considering a problem that only a handful of others have ever looked at, there's no reason why
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by greeneggs 5y ago
Here's a similar story about eliminating Argentine ants from Santa Cruz Island (near Los Angeles, California): http://www.californiaislands.net/argentine-ants The page was last updated in 2016. I'm not sure of th
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by greeneggs 5y ago
The Google Cardboard app does this. (Did this? I haven't used the app in a long time.)
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by greeneggs 5y ago
This is a book review. The book itself certainly discusses Lemaître. For example, regarding the paragraphs that Lemaître removed from his own article, > It turns out that Lemaître, who had translated his paper himself, had left out cer
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by greeneggs 5y ago
This might have worked twenty years ago, had we as a society done anything. But it is too late for that now. Since we put off doing anything, it is now going to be much harder to solve the problem. Eating any beef at all now is immoral.
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by greeneggs 5y ago
For anyone who flies, aviation is a huge fraction of their personal emissions. It isn't about "targeting aviation." Just any individual (who isn't an anarchist) should reduce their flying. But as you say, they should
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by greeneggs 5y ago
> I say ban all single-use plastic. The alternatives are worse. They use much more energy, and you can't go outside without seeing how bad global warming is now, and how devastating it soon will be. We need to forget plastics recyc
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by greeneggs 5y ago
Planes are more intrusive. Bigger, brighter, and there are more of them. But they still don't ruin the night sky. At least for me, for naked-eye stargazing, satellites are a non-issue.
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by greeneggs 5y ago
Statistically, combat veterans are 6 percentage points more likely to shoot than non-veterans. (32% versus 26% have discharged their service firearm while on duty, other than at a gun range or during training.) https://www.pew
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by greeneggs 5y ago
> The vast majority of police never actually need their weapons. So why are they routinely carrying them? Your link doesn't support this. How many police have drawn their weapons?
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by greeneggs 5y ago
Well, that's certainly makes sense in a roll-coal, stick-it-to-the-libs, screw-the-next-generation way.
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by greeneggs 5y ago
It's worse than that. Not only will social security be more difficult to fund, but private retirement savings will also be more difficult. Saving for retirement is much easier with a fast-growing economy in which you can get high rat
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by greeneggs 5y ago
A grocery store plastic bag weighs about 5.5 grams. A gallon of gasoline weighs about 2.86 kilograms, or 520 times more. Minimizing your use of gasoline is far more important than worrying about a plastic bag. If you worry that plastic re
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by greeneggs 5y ago
Sure, but the doctor doesn't have to do much research in this case. This is front-page news in the NY Times. And about "every single medication": this is the only approved medication to delay clinical decline due to Alzhe
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by greeneggs 5y ago
> The number of humans will reduce rather drastically in the next fifty years. It doesn't look like it. The UN predicts the population will be ~10.5 billion in 2070. Of course, there is a large range of uncertainty. [1] Given sus
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by greeneggs 5y ago
> The overall point is OUR resources were exported at a loss so OUR prices would increase. Forests are part of the wealth of our country. Letting a timber company send it overseas to increase domestic timber prices should be illegal. The
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by greeneggs 5y ago
This is common in the United States as well, known as "heir property." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heir_property It is a major factor why Blacks have lost ownership of farmland in the United States. Rathe
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by greeneggs 5y ago
From Wikipedia, "Swanson's law is the observation that the price of solar photovoltaic modules tends to drop 20 percent for every doubling of cumulative shipped volume." (Swanson's law is a special case of Wright'
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by greeneggs 5y ago
Quite a lot of detail is available at http://timetree.org/

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