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by lumberjack 7y ago
Ecofascism is what it is called and it is an inside joke. It is not a serious political position. It is meant precisely to confuse people like you.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
What is more likely? That some climate scientists are scamming the whole world and making enemies of the most powerful governments in North America, Europe, Saudi Arabia and the rest of OPEC + all the billionaires and corporations and inves
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by lumberjack 7y ago
100km range fits the commuting needs of 95% of the people in western Europe. In any case, the target demographic is likely not wealthy, so for them, less range for less money would be ideal. Plus, the smaller the battery the easier it is to
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by lumberjack 7y ago
I seriously gave thought to doing this exact thing. The problems I was uncomfortable with: 1. when you are working with multiple cars+models it is much harder to scale, every car is its own challenge, as such the operation is likely to rema
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by lumberjack 7y ago
A council flat is an apartment rented as part of a socialized housing scheme to low-income households. Usually the rent is much much much lower than renting on the free housing market. Sub-letting is usually explicitly forbidden when you a
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by lumberjack 7y ago
"The paper has been criticised for not being peer reviewed and other climate scientists have refuted the conclusions reached by Kauppinen and Malmi. Critics have said that in addition to not being peer reviewed, Malmi and Kauppinen fai
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Many unis offer a prereqs class just for people like you and for others who might have had inadequate secondary schooling. You might want to check out whether your prospective college/university does this.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
> The intense desire for personal wealth that one truly owns. Not at all. It's the desire to get rich quick without lifting a finger. Also philosophically speaking, "wealth that one truly owns" as in "wealth that is n
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Cost of bureaucracy is just abating the risks, so it is 100% a real cost.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
What he means in the paper is, geopolitical boundaries. For example, Japan and China depending on each other's grids. Or the various African countries depending on each other. Or the middle eastern countries sharing a grid.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
From the paper, the proposed technologies are: "Key elements of the solution applicable to different cases are to (1) produce heat directly from solar and geothermal heat resources and from electricity; (2) store electricity as heat af
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Not taking sides in this debate (which is over whether or not nuclear power should be used), however the paper has four authors and in the introduction they say: "The main purpose of this study is to explore whether low-cost mixes usin
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Do not buy into this stupid nonsense trend of late to attack the legitimacy of science. "Scientists say" is a perfectly legitimate way to convey scientific results. There is neither misinformation nor propaganda in the video. The
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by lumberjack 7y ago
William Nordhaus and his cost estimates are themselves controversial and by no means some kind of standard in the field of climate mitigation economics. For people who paid attention, this was brought up when he won his prize. [1] I dare sa
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by lumberjack 7y ago
At first I was sympathetic to his point. But then I realized that this is a classic case of picking the metric to push your agenda. What matters is that climate change is causing more severe weather and that weather is causing increasingly
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by lumberjack 7y ago
> which is that they have nothing to hide from companies or the government, especially law enforcement Which is not true when you consider that all your life events are being used to estimate your suitability for life changing opportunit
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by lumberjack 7y ago
No it isn't. It does not have any long term exposure effects due to ingestion of residue on produce.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Latex is not that hard to learn. The very basics you can learn in under 20 minutes. Then grab a template from openlatex or sharelatex and don't mess with it. And if something doesn't work out, ask on tex.stackexchange.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
> Yet climate change scepticism is rising. It absolutely isn't. The opposite is true. Climate change denial is falling very rapidly. Just check any of the multiple recent polls and surveys. You will see a big difference especially i
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Everyone is susceptible to propaganda, including you and me. Democracy is based on information, so if you mess with that information, you can most definitely have a noticeable effect. The propagandists exploit the asymmetry of resources and
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by lumberjack 7y ago
The courts think in a similar manner. When rich couples divorce, the courts mandate that the poorer parent and kids get enough from their other parent to retain the same lifestyle the were used to previously. If that means enough to maintai
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Because a lack of empathy for other human beings is problematic, because it means that as soon as your self interest does not perfectly align with their well being you will think nothing of harming them.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Actually, it is the other way round and there is nothing wrong about that. In fact it is an essential part of any anti-climate change action. Poor people cannot afford a lot of the necessary proposed taxes on consumption and re-alignment of
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by lumberjack 7y ago
There is really no "they". There are various not well defined groups pushing for some kind not well defined "Green New Deal". There are some who are anti-nuclear and some who aren't. The thing is, you can still use
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Ask HN: For a Facebook clone in 2019 what tech stack would you use?
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Just want to point out that "Christians" in this context refers to some sects of Christianity in America and these beliefs are not the norm amongst Christians worldwide. Actually I hazard, not even the norm amongst Christians in t
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Although I'm sure that the NSA do their best, I would bet that Facebook and Google have a much more accurate profile. Not sure if there is a point in making this distinction, though.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
It would not make sense today, but in 10 to 15 years, with climate regulations, having a carbon neutral jet fuel might start making a lot of sense.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
1. The Democrats are not leftists. Liberals are not leftists. 2. Ideologically speaking both US Republicans and US Democrats are Liberals and pro-free trade, Trump is an exception.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Internationalist yes, but not pro-free-trade. And in practice it was always almost always the opposite of that. In Europe all the hard-left parties were anti-EU precisely because they were opposed to free trade and wanted to protect the lo

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