justasimpleman

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by justasimpleman 8y ago
You need to rely on large scale studies to make statements about the population at large. You can use your small number of data points (anecdotes) to generate hypothses, but you need a lot more data to test these hypotheses.
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by justasimpleman 8y ago
How does the effectiveness of tracking down individual cases in this way compare to e.g. improving the eoconomic incentives overall? Commercial child abuse is mostly a result of deprived economic circumstances, in which people see more bene
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by justasimpleman 8y ago
At least in 1st world countries. The contribution of those are rather small compared to China and India. WorldBank Pollution data: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/en.atm.pm25.mc.m3?end=2... Maplecroft Deforestatio
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by justasimpleman 8y ago
Also, manufacturing and charging li-io batteries for cars currently still produces more CO2 than petrol vehicles: https://www.industryweek.com/technology-and-iiot/lithium-bat...
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by justasimpleman 8y ago
Wear from car tires cause the majority of microplastics that get into the seas (around 50%, if I'm reading understanding this study correctly): http://epanet.pbe.eea.europa.eu/ad-hoc-meetings/workshop-pla...
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by justasimpleman 8y ago
My next car will be "no car at all". Even electric cars have huge externalities that you do not pay for, but your children, namely, the disposal of the batteries, pollution created by the manufacturing, costly extraction of rare e
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by justasimpleman 8y ago
That's incredibly fascinating. It seems counter-intuitive that a random placement would be superior to a more regular one. Does this merely optimize for minimal length of the datalines?
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by justasimpleman 8y ago
No, but I'm loving this song. Thanks.
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by justasimpleman 8y ago
What is this scattered design about? https://tomverbeure.github.io/assets/swerv/slides/13%20-%20S...