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by jnurmine 6y ago
Speaking of global trends. The famous Limits to Growth report was published in 1972. In 2008, Graham Turner wrote "A Comparison of The Limits to Growth with 30 Years of Reality" where he compared 30 years of historical data to The
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Isn't it cheaper to go there and pump out the oil and sell it, than to fix the ensuing environmental catastrophy? One would think at least the insurance companies involved would be all over this.
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by jnurmine 6y ago
OK, sounds like one or more satellites could be destroyed and a lot of orbital debris created. Is it known which satellites might be at risk?
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by jnurmine 6y ago
If we disregard the Kessler syndrome/ablation cascade happening, what kind of worst case scenario are we looking at?
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by jnurmine 6y ago
I believe it can be interesting to examine how for example the GPS jamming situation in Northern Norway has developed: There are reports of GPS jamming happening already in 2017. In 2018, GPS was jammed during the NATO Trident Juncture exer
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Or maybe Russell himself is orbiting Mars, but it is irrelevant to this discussion. Those are possible, plausible and falsifiable reasons for having non-internet-based evidence. If any of those reasons were true, Norway would likely stay qu
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Who says they use the internet for the evidence? Maybe they have infiltrated the organization who did the attack. Maybe they were warned by some other nation who had done so. Maybe they were listening in on the C&C traffic. Maybe they w
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by jnurmine 6y ago
>> no amount of evidence would be enough or credible enough or good enough or acceptable enough etc >Where did you get that? Well, from the fact that there usually is evidence provided, and such evidence usually gets denied by ei
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Norway likely has irrefutable proof, at least enough so that it can confidently claim another nation was behind it all. Also, presenting detailed proof could reveal something about Norway's capabilities which they'd rather keep hi
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by jnurmine 6y ago
I'm happy with Spotify and tried to figure out what this story was about. I saw "SongShift Pro starting at 4.99 USD/month". Do people go for a monthly pricing for this kind of service? I mean transferring playlists from
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by jnurmine 6y ago
If I were having a pint with Penrose, I'd take it a step crazier: what if the earlier universe is actually this one? And our universe ends up in a Big Bang, which begets a new universe, which is the one we are now in.
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Thank you!
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Exactly this. Paid subscriptions have no ads. Furthermore Spotify has a handy family subscription (not sure if valid in all countries), which covers several persons living under the same roof. Disclaimer: I'm extremely happy with Spoti
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Recently I've been playing with the idea of writing a sci-fi book. ...and that's mostly it. I don't know what could be the next step, except actually writing the thing. Are there websites/communities? I don't follow
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Except there are already products on the market as a result of the Graphene Flagship... https://graphene-flagship.eu/products Also many new innovations on the way. Like "green graphene" composite, made from biomas
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Are you familiar with Jem Bendell's "Deep Adaptation"? Its premise is that near-term (climate-induced) ecological-societal collapse is inevitable and unavoidable, and the way forward is to adapt to this, as there is no longer
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Somehow advertisements serve a dual purpose. The other side is the "beat your drum so people can find your great product" mind-set, or, depending on your point of view, the fightclubian impetus to "make them buy shit they don
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by jnurmine 6y ago
In Swedish, the last station of e.g. a subway line (the terminus) is a "slutstation". (slut=end, station=station) It should be the same word in Danish, too. I've seen native English speakers giggle at that word, for obvious r
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Calling Linux testing a "total joke" is a total joke in itself -- of course Linux is not perfect (nothing is). As for testing, there is kernelci.org, LTP, Syzbot, LKFT and so on. It's not just a bunch people in basements boot
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by jnurmine 6y ago
"Linux kernel patches regularly get added in a way that bypasses public review and discussion, a practice that opens at least a theoretical risk of backdoored code" I wonder about how theoretical this risk of backdoored code is an
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Hah, when I read this, I envisioned a movie poster of a B-class "cyber" action movie and this line under a picture of people holding keyboards and pistols.
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Software development perspective here, from the receiving end of project management. In my experience, waterfall needs unlimited time and money. Waterfall fails hard when money or time are limited, in which case the likely outcome is that t
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Answering to myself: the above was not entirely accurate; the no-deal has not yet happened, though it looks like that is what will happen. Great Britain still has time until December 31 2020 to bang out a deal within the Article 50 (the wit
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by jnurmine 6y ago
No, it's not "newspeak" and there is nothing contradictory about those things. This is a long reply, but please read on. EU has absolutely never said that they somehow provide automatic free trade/movement agreements wit
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by jnurmine 6y ago
On a slightly related note, I've had a bottle of Russian Imperial Stout (from Courage) in the fridge for over 6 years now. The intent was to do an experiment in bottle aging and also to time the opening to celebrate a birthday. I do ho
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by jnurmine 6y ago
I'm not sure I follow. What do Norway and Switzerland have to do with anything? Norway and Switzerland have never been a part of EU, so they have never left EU either. Their situation is in no way comparable to Great Britain, which was
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Well, the EU tried pretty hard to negotiate a deal, but as you know the negotiations didn't really go anywhere. The EU cannot force Great Britain to do a deal. That is not feasible. And it is just absolutely unrealistic to even enterta
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Not sure what you mean, care to give a summary of this guerrilla war?
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Brexit becoming a path-setting event encouraging other EU members would only happen if Great Britain gets a visibly good deal while EU makes a visibly lousy deal. However, it would make absolutely no sense for the EU to make such a deal tha
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by jnurmine 6y ago
With all this talk about microplastics in the environment, I was a bit surprised to learn that water cleaning facilities use e.g. "moving bed biofilm reactors" such as "Bioportz" which are small, round, hollow plastic th

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