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by mac01021 8y ago
Do you have an example?
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by mac01021 8y ago
I also think so. Moreover, I wish there were a way for me, as an average nonmillionaire, to invest in that as an industry.
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by mac01021 8y ago
Absolutely not definitive, but the biosphere 2 experiments provide a data point. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
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by mac01021 8y ago
It's really a capitalist state managed by an authoritarian government. Despite that the ruling party used "Communist" as it's name.
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by mac01021 8y ago
What do you think you'll be investing in?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Unless you're a freegan
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by mac01021 8y ago
Address it how? Stop buying goods from those companies?
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by mac01021 8y ago
I've done all of the following at various points, and announced that it was for environment reasons: - Gone vegetarian - Bought a tiny used car instead on new one or one with more space. - Moved to a neighborhood where I could walk to
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by mac01021 8y ago
Exactly. We need a carbon tax, or a fee-and-dividend system. And we need it yesterday. Doing the above can't hurt (and while you're at it you could forego long distance travel too). But it will be much better/more-useful to
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by mac01021 8y ago
> it’s animal populations that are decreasing rapidly, not species. Should this really console me? If there are only trace amounts of each species left, isn't that practically the same as extinction?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Is that true? Don't blue states tend to have a lot of people with low 6-figure incomes? Didn't all such people get a substantial cut in their effective tax rate?
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by mac01021 8y ago
I'm not sure that's ever been demonstrated empirically.
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by mac01021 8y ago
The shower should be an easy problem to fix. I'm sure he can find access to running water _somewhere_ (if you're not in the desert).
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by mac01021 8y ago
You mean in 1849?
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by mac01021 8y ago
The article links to its context.
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by mac01021 8y ago
You think the Trump administration and the US congress are looking 50-100 years in the future?
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by mac01021 8y ago
> "If you want to wade into public policy, you have a moral responsibility not to put a Band-Aid on cancer," he says, adding that Mr Bezos could work to influence policy instead. Noone interviewed for the article talks about wh
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by mac01021 8y ago
The article illustrates the crisis, producing an example of how farmers fail to make ends meet: >A gallon of milk costs a farmer approximately $1.90 to produce, but in the last year, farmers have been receiving as little as $1.35 per gal
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by mac01021 8y ago
Since I'm mostly ignorant of such practices, what _can_ one do on the sabbath? I assume it's not the case that your entire day is consumed by worship/ceremony/Judaism? Do you spend any time pursuing hobbies? Are there
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by mac01021 8y ago
Anyone else have a ton of trouble understanding the example schedule and how it's represented as a graph? I don't know if it's poorly written or if my brain is deteriorating.
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by mac01021 8y ago
I don't disagree in general but is Haskell a big language?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Gave it to my father after reading it. He thought it was too slow and didn't have enough of a narrative arc, and he opted not to finish reading. I loved the trilogy, though.
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by mac01021 8y ago
What about compared to that of all his contemporaries?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Carbon offsets are tricky. In the current world, that's probably the best you can do, but it's hard to be sure that you're genuinely displacing as much carbon as you want to be. And it certainly won't work for everyone
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by mac01021 8y ago
Why isn't a fee&dividend widely accepted as the solution here? I don't mind if you buy and drive a dodge ram or a Sherman tank, as long as you reimburse me for the harm it does to me and my child.
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by mac01021 8y ago
> it really makes sense for me to pack functionality into a class. Why? Where you would ordinarily write class Foo { int x; int my_method() { ... } } can't you just equivalently write type Foo
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by mac01021 8y ago
Does anyone here know of a good account (something I could read, preferably) suitable for someone without much knowledge of modern physics of how the Standard Model came to be constructed on the basis of experimental evidence? Most descript
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by mac01021 8y ago
The board is supposed to be all about shareholders, right? Why are executives a consideration?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Unless you can substitute automation for the kids that are supposed to enter the workforce. Or unless demand for labor decreases along with the decline of the workforce.
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by mac01021 8y ago
Surprisingly (to me) it seems this is approximately true [1]: > San Francisco reportedly is set to spend nearly $280 million in its next budget fighting homelessness – an average of $37,300 for each of the city’s estimated 7,499 homeless

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