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by loceng 3y ago
Too much legitimacy to her being a scientist so they couldn't just put "so-called scientist."
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by loceng 3y ago
Re: "unsupported by the scientific literature" Einstein received the same treatment before relativity was widely accepted. In medicine the man who started the practice of cleaning hands before surgeries and childbirth, was essenti
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by loceng 3y ago
Are you unconsciously keeping nuclear energy out of the equation, or why is nuclear not an option in your mind - where then bird populations will be better off, and where solar also isn't destroying the surface environment where life a
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by loceng 3y ago
Yeah, I think this is why Elon Musk's companies can thrive - the flat "hierarchy" he's setup: - try to hire very smart, competent, passionate people - give them as much rope as they need, even if that means they hang the
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by loceng 3y ago
Sounds like a customer service issue, as a starter. In a long running business where "things just work" - due heavily as you point out to existing standards in product design, I can see the problems you ran into being an area that
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by loceng 3y ago
Are there any figures available anywhere as to how many people actively-passively maintain a personal-private archive?
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by loceng 3y ago
It seems most, if not all, big-successful companies use the formula to over higher and then you prune off the lowest-poorest performers - however that metric is determined.
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by loceng 3y ago
It's only worth something if someone else values it vs. physical gold.
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by loceng 3y ago
Indeed, big pharma loves how well this fear mongering tactic works - and they'd love a renaissance of "the war on drugs" to ban all cheap-relatively natural, highly effective medicines, so their patented drugs can make mega p
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by loceng 3y ago
The whole Matthew Perry situation has a lot of odd behaviour to it, and I'd make a bet and put odds on ketamine being a cover story to detract from the likely culprit.
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by loceng 3y ago
Good point. It's also covered, ketamine via IV, for pain management in some Canadian provinces.
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by loceng 3y ago
MDMA is the furthest down the road to being clinically available.
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by loceng 3y ago
I think it's for society buy-in and relatability - that we can assume, because we see in entertainment (or real-life footage) the horrors that happen during war, but other professions may be harder to relate to.
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by loceng 3y ago
One interesting thing I had a sense of but only recently could put it into words, in regards to aging-degradation-disease progression, is that there is an inherent mechanism to prune off population that isn't emotional (and perhaps inc
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by loceng 3y ago
Only if it's equally applied globally, at the same time. Otherwise currently, for example, Canadians are suffering with the increasing CO2 tax - while the East is skyrocketing their CO2 emissions - where arguably the majority of Canadi
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by loceng 3y ago
We have developed some insights at least, for example a certain type of algae fed to cows reduces their methane released by something like 80% - so mass producing that food additive, ideally in non-harmful way to environment like monocrops
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by loceng 3y ago
Great questions - I wish the side who's wanting to do drastic-widespread and costly changes would also ground their reasons in facts; in contrast, authoritarians-tyrants manufacturing consent to implement policies to control and limit
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by loceng 3y ago
"The bad actors are not actually bad; they're just responding to market forces." You seem to be assuming, and wrongly assuming who I'm including in my referencing bad actors. Where did I name call? Saying bad actors isn&
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by loceng 3y ago
The same goes for great design, of course figuring out the constraints is the trick with design - when there aren't really the same hard hardline guardrails that programming languages have; I suppose platforms like Figma attempt to cre
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by loceng 3y ago
Perfect! Now we just need "everyone" to align on a common understanding of the COVID "pandemic" and the Israel-Palestine "conflict" - so people can be calm enough to find common ground for resolution, rather th
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by loceng 3y ago
Firstly, this "random talking head" theory is based on basic-foundational economics: when costs go up, less people can afford those costs - and if it's survival related, they will cut down trees if that is available for heati
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by loceng 3y ago
Oh, good, HN is showing it's ideological-uncritical side - smearing/attacking individuals rather than argument points. Good job!
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by loceng 3y ago
It goes one step further than you're thinking though: the government will become corrupted by the worst of the worst for-profit tyrannical bad actors, which is precisely why it's the free market - people en mass - who must actuall
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by loceng 3y ago
"The political difficulty with handling CO2 appropriately is orthogonal to whether it's bad." I think rational-reasonable people, who are usually the most competent and resourceful - aside from industrial complexes with wealt
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by loceng 3y ago
Of course, you missed my point though. You can't look at climate in a silo, just like you can't look at the economy in a silo, nor can you look at any one nation in a silo - geopolitics mattering - and the harmful increase in cost
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by loceng 3y ago
Fair enough, so instead more CO2 will be captured in more plants and more animals - and more infrastructure if we use wood or capture it in concrete, etc.
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by loceng 3y ago
Adaptation can happen far faster than that, and even faster if facilitated further by conscious effort of humans - like tree planting but on specialized steroids; we could technically "seed bomb" areas with seed species that we kn
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by loceng 3y ago
Huh? How under my scenario do millions die like how you stated? What assumptions did you insert in order to conclude with an ad hominem straw argument? If you're willing to implement policy that increases the cost of energy then you&#x
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by loceng 3y ago
"Folks often try on these arguments: it'll cost too much (to save all our lives). Or 'it got terribly hot before so somehow it's natural and ok'." This is a straw man argument. I didn't say it costs too mu
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by loceng 3y ago
Saying we have "too much CO2 in atmosphere" isn't evidence and historically there was much higher levels, and much more life. And yes, there will be a delay as part of evolutionary process for when plants and wildlife can ada

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