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by kaybe 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_as_metaphor Even though that was meant tongue in cheek, I fear there will be innumerable deaths before this is over. We can discuss who killed them then. edit: A war-economy-level effo
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by kaybe 7y ago
I'd say that's not true any more. We do have a war to fight, the war against destruction of our planet by humanity. (Hoping our politicians would fix it has turned out to be ineffective so far.) If we could have a war against drug
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by kaybe 7y ago
Here we don't usually grade on a curve (just move the mapping of points to grades a little), and a general observation seems to be that there usually is an overlap of two normal distributions - the ones that understood the material and
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by kaybe 7y ago
Or is there a way for you to work from home some days? Then you can save on the commute and have more time for yourself.
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by kaybe 7y ago
> The FAA stance concludes that the sighting was caused by a weather phenomenon.. That's.. unspecific. The atmospheric research community would probably be highly interested in more details.
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by kaybe 7y ago
I really hope you are right. :) > The IPCC doesn't do any research themselves and don't check the data, its a meta-study. The people writing the chapters are involved in doing the research. (It's not like doing that is a f
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by kaybe 7y ago
Very often the reason we don't die from these things is because we take precaution. Imagine we had done nothing against ebola or aids, we'd have millions of deaths by now. (In the case of aids, not all places were so lucky [0].) S
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by kaybe 7y ago
And many climate scientists are in fact physicists.
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by kaybe 7y ago
He said the Great Barrier reef will profit from climate change and not die off because of it, is that the issue you mean? Sooo - if it's true, great, one problem less! Regardless, there are still many other problems caused by climate c
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by kaybe 7y ago
> Contrary to the IPCC's assessment, Lindzen said that climate models are inadequate. > According to an April 30, 2012 New York Times article,[67] "Dr. Lindzen accepts the elementary tenets of climate science. He agrees that
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by kaybe 7y ago
> And if you feel discouraged by the notion that they are bad omens, why not consider the silver lining: While it's true that the flowers signal the death of the plant, they also symbolize new beginnings, since those who rely on sup
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by kaybe 7y ago
Disclaimer: I have no experience with the specific field mentioned here. I do think these seemingly absurd images have tremendous value for learning. The openly visible motions and postures are easy to teach. But there is more to movement
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by kaybe 7y ago
Could you give some examples for "required to succeed" and "instant fail if this occurs" signals?
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Longest Trains(en.wikipedia.org)
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by kaybe 7y ago
So I was a bit incredulous at the claim of miles-long trains. If anyone else is - turns out, there's a wikipedia page which has more information on very long trains (it's true): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L
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by kaybe 7y ago
Might it be cheaper/easier/more ecofriendly to print in the destination country? (Which probably might not be possible for any country, but for example in Europe it might work pretty well. Many printers offer the services you&#x27
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by kaybe 7y ago
I wonder too. One idea I have: In these countries you don't really need that much more because you're already cushioned against risk. You also don't need to provide a cushion to anyone around you (since everyone's taxes
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by kaybe 7y ago
I think it goes further, in the spirit of those 'You wouldn't steal a car' clips. Pirates don't really steal data, they just copy. But this is actually a kind of theft. Most pirates would consider that immoral, I'd
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by kaybe 7y ago
Adding spices such as tumeric, pepper, cinnamon and/or vanilla can also be really nice.
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by kaybe 7y ago
It would really be good if the remaining cars were substancially smaller though. Driving an SUV into the city is not ok and does not provide significant increases in utility for the one doing it compared to a small car.
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by kaybe 7y ago
For rough estimations, a smartphone works reasonably well. https://phys.org/news/2014-06-smartphone-detector-app-positi... eg https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rdklein.ra...
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by kaybe 7y ago
Is there a good way to notice you're doing subvocal speech?
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by kaybe 7y ago
How do you proceed from there? Are the parts of that sub-bubble sufficiently interlinked?
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by kaybe 7y ago
There's still levels, you know.. just because we maybe can't make 1.5°C does not mean we shouldn't aim for 2°C, or even 3°C, this is lower than what we could do.
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by kaybe 7y ago
I think they were blindsided by how huge of an issue climate change has become. If we had started decades earlier (and the knowledge was there), it might still have been a somewhat comfortable path, even without nuclear. And nuclear does ha
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by kaybe 7y ago
I've heard this argument: It might be a good idea to get people into contact with the smaller problems you mentioned because they are less political and less scary, still somewhat connected and people feel they can make a change. That&
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by kaybe 7y ago
I really really wish that we are overdoing it. The data just looks that bad, and we are one the worst path. We emitted 5/6th of what's ok to stay below 1.5°C, and 2°C is not that much more, and we're not stopping. (500 Gt vs
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by kaybe 7y ago
And it's a lot easier to replace.
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by kaybe 7y ago
So... if I buy the land I need, can I just build a bridge over a river or do I need some kind of special permit? (Small streams are obviously ok since that is done a lot.)
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by kaybe 7y ago
It would be nice to have a house where you can regulate the draftyness better. In some seasons, draftyness is a feature, not a but, in others, not so much.

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