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   by mac01021 7y ago

   How must/can those rights be paid for?
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   by mac01021 7y ago

   What words do New Englanders add and remove Rs in?
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   by mac01021 7y ago

   If only people would be less set in our ways, you could use the same calendar every year: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Calendar
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   by mac01021 7y ago

   Presumably, though, other surrounding places will be more radioactive than before?
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   by mac01021 7y ago

   Don't larger animals tend to have lower metabolic rates (per cell)? That could easily be the relevant factor.
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   by mac01021 7y ago

   This is weird. They might as well say "Fossil fuel companies are responsible for 100% of global emissions". There is a sense in which it is true, but the statement seems to me to be neither informative nor helpful.
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   by mac01021 7y ago

   I agree too, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable holding expertise in climate science up as evidence that one knows best when it comes to such policy decisions. I'm an expert at automation. That means I have an excellent sense
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   by mac01021 7y ago

   Uranium is not a fossil fuel.
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   by mac01021 7y ago

   Quotated, but not attributed?
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    > It would be good to have a system in place to reward measurable action on the individual level. Wouldn't a Carbon Tax do exactly that? At least it would bring your individual financial interests in line with with society's c
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    Interesting... In the USA we regard the solstice as the first day of summer...
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    How would it lead to privatization of those things?
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    I share your concerns, but in a rather vague way. I struggle to describe concretely any undesirable scenarios likely to follow from the rise of Libra. I fear this limits my ability to influence legislators it anyone else when it comes to
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    The efficacy of this as a deterrent seems to depend on the notion that India would like its citizens to be able to obtain H1 visas from the US. Is that the case?
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    > Isn't it possible that raising the minimum wage lifts more people out of poverty than it pushes into poverty through joblessness? Yes. It's possible. Probable even. But not certain.
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    I assume you mean automating away any job that they can figure out how to automate? Raising the minimum wage might accelerate that somewhat, but I don't think that is the main concern. Let's consider only jobs that there will be n
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    I actually don't want to give 3rd parties access to my financial data, but I do because there is no cloudless, desktop application that provides the functionality of Mint & its friends/competitors.
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    It seems like he may have switched more recently to calling it "the freedom dividend", rather than UBI. I'm not sure how consistently, though. Also, in most of the USA, $1,000 is enough for rent, food, and power, at least
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    Do you have concrete ideas about what other strategy we should use to fund and organize research?
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    Yes, but a single dynamic programming exercise is not a great test for the sort of programming experience you want your devops engineer to have.
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    I'd be curious to know what percent of cancer-related grant proposals to nih or nsf are being rejected due to bugetary restrictions.
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    I, as a layperson, can't say how legitimate this exact strategy is but, as I understand it the proposal is to change farming practices so that the soil's carbon content rises from ~1% to ~3%, reducing the atmospheric carbon conten
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    I think the company's own website is much more readable than this cnbc report. https://www.indigoag.com/the-terraton-initiative
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    1) Many of them already claim to care but won't benefit much from any policies they might implement if the US and China and India aren't going to act too. 2) The current carbon pricing bill in the House of Representatives (HR 763
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    I've been turned off of it by SBT in the past.
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    > which in most cases converts much of it back into kinetic energy Are you thinking of transportation here? We burn fuel to add kinetic energy to a car or airplane but, by the time the vehicle has stopped moving, all of that energy has
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    Oh, to have more than 2 parties to choose from...
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    That's true. Political effort is to implement policy that will disincentivize meat eating, among other things. Social effort is to persuade people to stop eating meat, among other things.
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    I wonder what the Venn diagram looks like of people for/opposed to each of those two things.
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    by mac01021 7y ago

    I hope it will be achievable soon. See my other comment in this thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20121618 ) to read about the carbon pricing bill that's in US Congress right now.