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by growlist 6y ago
The point I'm making is that (at least as far as the UK is concerned), you can't get away with painting the right as nutters engaged in whipping up fears over nothing when there is rock solid substance that what they (the right) w
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by growlist 6y ago
If they really can get the cars running at 150 mph regularly these might be competitive for long journeys in Europe. Obviously it will depend in some part on the self-driving technology.
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by growlist 6y ago
> mass migrations that will be required later this century due to carbon emissions. ...only if we choose not to do something about controlling fertility. But in the end I strongly suspect we'll all be travelling about a lot less. Wh
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by growlist 6y ago
I strongly suspect there are few large settlements worldwide where it's not possible to grow produce either outdoors or in polytunnels to cater for this need. But if it were the case, we (humanity) could either move the settlements or
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by growlist 6y ago
> blaming the supplier will never solve the problem, everyone's consumption of fossil fuels is the problem as it drives a high price of oil that funds these projects. Up to a point - but the UK for example deliberately destroyed its
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by growlist 6y ago
Here's a wild, crazy, dangerous idea for discussion: how about we start curtailing globalism, and encourage people to live less carbon intensive lives by building economies based around what's available nearby?
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by growlist 6y ago
> cheap things humanity can do to offset carbon emissions Contraception.
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by growlist 6y ago
Can't we all just trust Snopes though? /s
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by growlist 6y ago
Yeah the biomass thing in the UK is an absolute joke - cynical greenwashing. So much of what I hear makes me question whether Oxbridge humanities graduates should be kept far, far away from any decision making involving science: 'James
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by growlist 6y ago
Shale oil/tar sands really are a truly disgusting and ongoing environmental catastrophe for which there can be no reasonable explanation in 2020, and about which Canadians should be ashamed. If there were any justice in the world Canad
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by growlist 6y ago
I always wondered why the hell I would feel so wrecked at certain times of day. It's a nightmare. Thank god I WFH these days.
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by growlist 6y ago
It's going to be interesting to see how the defence handle her apparently pretty rapid recovery to good mental health post-Theranos, i.e. new boyfriend, posting smiley selfies etc.
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by growlist 6y ago
Another GIS-er here. Your comment made me think about the modifiable areal unit problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifiable_areal_unit_problem The coastline paradox and MAU effectively seem to be of the same clas
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by growlist 6y ago
It's remarkable how all the woke stuff seemed to go to a different level very soon after Occupy Wall Street.
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by growlist 6y ago
Yet somehow, magically, there are no environmental impacts from mass migration.
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by growlist 6y ago
One of the main positive effects for me is not having to attempt to function in an oxygen-deprived office.
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by growlist 6y ago
Hard times make strong men: and they seriously needed to perform an academic study to prove this? Nice work if you can get the grant money... And I await the counter-study, i.e. on the detachment from the realities of life of the average ur
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by growlist 6y ago
When everything's urgent, nothing's urgent.
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by growlist 6y ago
Trust me, my communist Welsh coal-mining grandfather would be disgusted by the modern left.
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by growlist 6y ago
It's funny how attempts at creating utopia always seem to end in horrific bloody violence.
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by growlist 6y ago
> tribal leaders striving to unite people via voluntary consensus, tolerance and moderation 'Citizen 99234832, we have received reports that suggest you are insufficiently consensual, tolerant and moderate. Please report to camp X10
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by growlist 6y ago
> 1. No one working in tech actually wants to solve a problem and move on. The problems are too fun to leave alone once there's an MVP. Enter stage left, all the framework churn. Adoption of graph databases that don't fit the p
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by growlist 6y ago
Corryvreckan (Scotland, but still) has one of the fiercest tidal races in the world - the story goes that George Orwell almost drowned in one of the whirlpools. 'Although not, as is sometimes believed, formally classified by the Royal
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by growlist 6y ago
The resurgence pool at Porth Yr Ogof (Wales) is another innocuous looking stretch of water in Britain with a sad tally of deaths associated: http://www.ogof.org.uk/porth-yr-ogof.html 'Another sinister danger in this ca
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by growlist 6y ago
Kind of a patronising comment in itself, as if the poor little snowflakes are so weak that they'll run away from tech after an extremely minor bit of ribbing at their expense.
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by growlist 6y ago
Correct.
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by growlist 6y ago
I've come to the conclusion that many of the powerful in the UK view the nation primarily as a means for personal gain of one kind of another, and have no particular attachment to the UK's history, culture, and people, indeed, man
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by growlist 6y ago
> spatial queries being executed on the globe But it's perfectly possible to create geodesically-correct buffers, for example - such as you might see when calculating ballistic missile range over thousands of kilometres - in a 2D pr
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by growlist 6y ago
But why, if completely 3D GIS would be so super awesome, do you think that that decent tech stack doesn't exist? The answer is that for the vast majority of applications of GIS, 3D is just an unhelpful distraction. I don't want to
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by growlist 6y ago
It would certainly be interesting as an exam question, for example, to compare 2D and 3D for what it would reveal about each, but in the end it's all about choosing an appropriate model for the task at hand. I'd therefore suggest

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