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by jnmandal 1y ago
> Just because we invest these ressources in AI does not mean we could mobilize the same capital for other pursuits. No offense but you sound naive here. This is exactly how dry powder manifests in PE/VC and is even predictable unde
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by jnmandal 2y ago
I get that but isn't it like 100x more efficient to be storing that energy to offset intermittency/base power or selling that ammonium as fertilizer to offset hydrocarbon-based haber bosch ferts?
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by jnmandal 2y ago
Isn't the energy return on investment for this extremely low and/or negative? Am I missing something here?
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by jnmandal 2y ago
Cannot overstate how important investigations like this are as the polycrisis continues to accelerate. This is great work
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by jnmandal 2y ago
Meanwhile, my chickens cost exactly the same as they did 12 months ago. :)
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by jnmandal 2y ago
You guys have a map bug in your careers page which is causing a point to show at 0,0 (the center of the world!)-- just off the coast of Nigeria in the gulf of guinea. Well at least, I'm assuming its a bug since that's a common res
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by jnmandal 2y ago
Peter -- many thanks for your continued presence and accessible approach. My wife and I reached out to you several years ago and your response was immensely helpful and comforting. Thanks for what you do.
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by jnmandal 2y ago
Seems like you are working on a lot of cool projects. You keeping a blog or socials or anything like that ? Would be cool to follow along. I am doing some similar projects. I've got some acreage planted with chestnuts and a few other s
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by jnmandal 2y ago
Nice. Good luck. It sounds like we are up to similar things. Its nice to see that. I wish there were more forums for this specific type of discussion. > We have a list of "things we can't live without if the rest of you monkeys
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by jnmandal 2y ago
Nailed it. Indoor farming doesn't work at scale for tree crops. The soviets had quasi indoor "pineapple pit" style plantations of citruses in far north of their effective ranges. Imagine something like a subterranean greenhou
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by jnmandal 2y ago
No offense but that is bunk. To grow thousands of olive trees indoors would be nearly impossible. Perennial crops like this need huge amounts of soil for their root systems, and to replace the amount of olives with indoor plantation would r
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by jnmandal 2y ago
Ultimately I'm not giving up, and I would say being aware of this fact is the opposite of ignorance. The very first step here is to phase out extraction of fossil fuels. Kamala Harris was not going to even stop fracking, which is by fa
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by jnmandal 2y ago
Everything you say is true. However it's bizarre for me to read you lamenting as if this election somehow had any bearing on that trajectory. Under a continued Biden regime or a renovated Harris regime the climatic trajectory was simil
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by jnmandal 2y ago
Quite the opposite really, but I think it's naive to pretend that was on the ballot here. Both the candidates were in favor of a continuation of the petroleum based industrial society that will inevitably collapse in on itself. In fact
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by jnmandal 2y ago
That was going to be the case either way. In fact we have pretty much already blown through that
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by jnmandal 2y ago
Yes. More fundamentally than housing, this is about demographics. Human population will peak soon and then decline. Wether degrowth is embraced or forced upon actors who whine about it is the main question. Its increasingly looking like tha
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by jnmandal 2y ago
Its fundamentally not possible to replace NEW cement production with recycled cement without degrowth. The nice thing about degrowth -- and lets be very serious here: degrwoth IS happening in China, and many other demographically unbalanced
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by jnmandal 2y ago
Degrowth economics go brrr
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by jnmandal 2y ago
The state of affairs surrounding this practice as well as the amount of money used up in the election system generally is absolutely ridiculous.
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by jnmandal 2y ago
Being frank, I didn't even realize this was available freely. When I searched "Miski silphium" the first place I ran across was asking for a log in (researchgate I believe) so I just copied the DOI since its easier for folks.
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by jnmandal 2y ago
The Romans may have had difficulty cultivating it but based on recent findings, local peasants in the region were capable of doing so. See my other comment above or check out DOI 10.3390/plants10010102 -- its possible it never went ext
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by jnmandal 2y ago
Arguably, it never went extinct. Theres a Turkish guy, Dr. Miski, who thinks he rediscovered an extant patch of it that may have been grown in an old anatolian village. DOI 10.3390/plants10010102
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by jnmandal 2y ago
> Hack the backend server, send a coordinated page to all the pagers at the same time. I worked on these before and I don't think you'd need to hack anything at all to send a page. Its just a broadcast. Especially if you had ac
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by jnmandal 2y ago
Less targeted than even a car bomb would be. I can't think of a precedent really.
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by jnmandal 2y ago
> The west, or for that matter even most third world countries do not cause much plastic pollution at all. This is naive given that consumption, production, and use of plastics is distributed worldwide, but with a heavy concentration in
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by jnmandal 2y ago
No, you are right. A lot of effort is being poured into monitoring and advocacy because that is the only place those interested in tackling these problems have to go. If there was an appetite for reform or mitigation, the folks doing high t
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by jnmandal 2y ago
Good work Dylan. Many of us may want to follow suit if we hope to survive climate change
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by jnmandal 2y ago
This is obviously true but so could many of humanity's worst practices and behaviors. The problem is no one wants to make the various sacrifices that come with changing status quo. Debating what could have been done is silly. The only
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by jnmandal 3y ago
This should not be surprising to anyone. Anecdotally, what I've seen is RTO is often being used as a way to save money on doing layoffs. Announcing an aggressive RTO causes immediate attrition and doesn't require severance package
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by jnmandal 3y ago
It's true, but also takes way too long for the mission at hand. Trees already grow slowly, and squirrels/birds were going to eat a lot of the seeds which -- as we can see here -- is counter to incentive when there is a dearth of s

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