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by labster 3y ago
And yet that’s still better than carbon credits
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by labster 3y ago
Carbon credits are the only financial instrument that is scammier than crypto.
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by labster 3y ago
I’ve used worse than Jira. I didn’t think it was possible, but you’d be surprised what can be sold as a ticketing system. Surprised and horrified.
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by labster 3y ago
Are you honestly touting a 15 year old release or did you forget the /s?
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by labster 3y ago
Cool scenario, they have trolleys and switches in SF too. Do you feel the same about people driving to work who cause ordinary traffic that happens to cause an ambulance to arrive too late? Breathe your last breath with a smile, knowing you
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by labster 3y ago
I think you’re thinking of a people’s democratic republic.
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by labster 3y ago
Haha no, I learned English as she is spoke at a California Distinguished School. They taught English using the whole language method, because learning grammar is literally unimportant to learning language. I’m sure you can see how good I le
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by labster 3y ago
仮名より団子
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by labster 3y ago
As a child in a public school, you have no right to freedom of association, and no right to freedom from association. Your school chooses your classes, and the state will use violence to ensure you attend those classes, bully or not. In hom
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by labster 3y ago
Please send these fake eagles to Ukrainian Army, they will use them.
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by labster 3y ago
Being inconvenienced by a protest is your responsibility as a citizen of a democratic republic. If you don’t engage with democracy, democracy engages with you.
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by labster 3y ago
The thing that stood out to me was the second rung of the ladder, the Moon. Having a large companion satellite is not a prerequisite for life (probably), so how would aliens without one bridge this gap? It seems like it would take a lot mor
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by labster 3y ago
He definitely emitted more carbon from us by not including an abstract at the beginning.
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by labster 3y ago
No. Just spread anime and K-drama, and our birth rates will drop to match theirs.
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by labster 3y ago
I absolutely believe we can do this. Humans could stop climate change and prevent the worst of the mass extinction. It’s clearly in our power. What I do not believe is that we will choose to do so. Not in time, anyway. Not enough new storie
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by labster 3y ago
It wasn’t you. It really wasn’t. But you will be cursed all the same by the generations that follow, as part of the collective guilt we all bear. Sainthood is impossible in this world; who can do all that is asked of him? Being a climatolog
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by labster 3y ago
Don’t Look Up is a great movie. Like, okay, I’ve never been so full of furious rage while watching a comedy before, but I studied climatology. Explaining climate to people was my life, and I’ve lived through every frustrating part of that f
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by labster 3y ago
Camping will be great without all of the bugs. Of course all of the trees will be reduced to charred logs so it’s kind of a trade-off.
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by labster 3y ago
It would be a worsening problem if we stopped burning fossil fuels today; we’re already committed to more warming. Seas take a while to get up to the new thermal equilibrium.
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by labster 3y ago
The comparison to CFCs to climate is terrible and should stop. Telling a handful of companies to stop making one chemical and sell another is hardly the same as replacing almost all energy infrastructure. We all worked together to boil an e
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by labster 3y ago
The Law of Fives is never wrong! Incidentally Eris is the one who ordered the Muon.
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by labster 3y ago
I’m starting to think that Hacker News is on the wrong side of history on this one. Without the emotional channel, we make more misunderstandings, which leads to more hostile posts. Emoji are becoming a permanent part of written language. I
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by labster 3y ago
As a meteorologist, I don’t understand why people don’t spend more time looking up. Clouds are pretty. So are stars. Being aware of the weather means you aren’t caught unaware. Being able to orient yourself by the sun means you don’t get e
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by labster 3y ago
That much nitro is bound to be bad for their engines.
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by labster 3y ago
The alternative to early aviation was taking 2-20 times longer to reaching your destination, with the vast majority of the risk borne by the passengers. The alternative to self-driving is paying a guy less than minimum wage to take you in t
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by labster 3y ago
I hear you but some of the big fire driven storms really do get up to the mid-range of mesoscale, where Coriolis force starts to play a role. It obviously won’t have the same role as synoptic phenomena, but I suspect most fire whirls have c
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by labster 3y ago
Air rises in fires so they are cyclonic (counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, clockwise in the Southern)
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by labster 3y ago
Coastal California and Hawaii are both on the Pacific Plate, not the North American Plate.
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by labster 3y ago
Other sibling comments have answered this one better, but I’ll just add: one TSMC fab is worth more than the entire natural resources of some countries. And those “slaves” you mention are also called an insurgency, which is very expensive t
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by labster 3y ago
> stealing other countries' shit at gunpoint, which went out of fashion after WW2 It didn’t go out of fashion. Industrialization made wars of conquest unprofitable by 1890-1910 or so, and it took the world that long to get a clue. (

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