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by incangold 8y ago
Sure. But the French police barely use their guns, whereas the US police famously kill lots and lots of people. So for the purposes of the topic at hand, giving the US police military equipment is probably a bad idea. At least until there’s
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by incangold 8y ago
There are no islands, there is no outside.
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by incangold 8y ago
It is excruciating to think about. The consternation in Europe at a million or so Syrian refugees has been grotesque. Let alone hundreds of millions trying to get in, at the same time Southern Europe is having crop failures itself due to dr
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by incangold 8y ago
I forgot to mention Australia, which is trying to expand coal because it is currently governed by absolutely awful people.
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by incangold 8y ago
That’s the IPCC estimate assuming we take urgent global action now. But instead of taking urgent global action, Brazil are about to open the rain forest to agri-business; the White House does not believe it is possible to stop climate chang
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by incangold 8y ago
It’s fair to point out that I was being hyperbolic. Depending on exactly where we fall in the range of bad to catastrophic possible futures ahead of us, it may be hard to find too many people who would be more affected by giving up cars tha
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by incangold 8y ago
As it currently stands, the trajectory of our carbon footprint will take years off people’s lives- in one clear-cut chunk. Besides which, cars aren’t faster than trains.
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by incangold 8y ago
It doesn’t matter. Literally nobody can afford climate failure. Once you’ve got a realistic threat of civilisational collapse on one side of the equation, things look different. Not everyone being able to afford a car, or having to eat veg
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by incangold 10y ago
I still find sequence diagrams to be a useful conversation tool.
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by incangold 10y ago
I've come back to this article a couple of times a year since it was written in 1994 and it still generates great insights into what my users will want from my systems: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/goal-composi