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by mempko 4y ago
Actually we only have proven reserves at the current rate of consumption for 47 years. USA has only reserves for 5 years. The bet is that oil companies keep finding new reserves, but that's not looking well. Rate of finding oil reserve
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by mempko 4y ago
I think what we are finding out quickly is the true death cults are those that think we have a future if we keep doing what we're doing.
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by mempko 4y ago
What's striking and sad is how much of their business is now people living in an Airbnb staying longer than a month. Signals something wrong with housing and the economy.
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by mempko 4y ago
maybe just ignore the link
815.
by mempko 4y ago
Can we stop promoting IQ tests? They are pseudo-scientific garbage.
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by mempko 5y ago
Synthetic from carbon captured from the air.
817.
by mempko 5y ago
Yeah, it sucks but the industry has no future. We need to get off fossil fuels because it's causing global heating.
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by mempko 5y ago
Thanks! Unfortunately I haven't done much with it in a while, just enough to keep it running on modern linux systems, but it still works nicely. (code is here: https://github.com/mempko/firestr ) Data lives on the
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by mempko 5y ago
Yeah, it's hard for me to believe his views are completely separate from the project. Note how the Urbit universe is organized is highly hierarchical, likely because he believes this is how things must be. When I wrote Firestr ( http:&
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by mempko 5y ago
Thank you, I have said the same thing but you said it better than me!
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by mempko 5y ago
Great idea! https://onemilliontweetmap.com/?center=48.1367666796927,33.4... I found the site above. Is there a better map?
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by mempko 5y ago
What? You believe 50% of residential buildings in Ukraine have been destroyed?
823.
by mempko 5y ago
I feel like this article is over-representing how much SpaceX kept the country online. How much of Ukraine's traffic went over the SpaceX satellites? Even in the east where most of the destruction and fighting happened, people have cel
824.
by mempko 5y ago
Telegram is turning out to be really good at this. Tons of Telegram channels churning out realtime info.
825.
by mempko 5y ago
Their other value add is customer support which is fantastic.
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by mempko 5y ago
Kind of interesting then that Mercedes was an early Tesla investor. Seems at least someone in Mercedes saw the future.
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by mempko 5y ago
> I don't know what the right solution is, probably some mixture of the two. Clearly you don't want manufacturers to be incentivized to ignore the risk associated with their systems, but you also don't want these systems n
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by mempko 5y ago
What's even more confusing is when they thank the Russian soldiers. Probably because some percentage of people in Mariupol are pro-russia and some percentage are pro-ukraine. Once you understand this, it becomes less confusing.
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by mempko 5y ago
I understand Russian and have heard interviews from those who evacuated Mariupol. Many are saying Azov isn't letting them leave. A lot of those who evacuated were saved by Russian soldiers under fire from Ukraine. Unfortunately most of
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by mempko 5y ago
I think it's underappreciated how much Christopher Alexander influenced a generation of software engineers. Those building in the 1980s,1990s, and early 2000s were directly impacted by his work. I feel a lot of that culture has been lo
831.
by mempko 5y ago
Really cool. Does this have a climate change model? Without one this is useful for maybe a 5 to 10yr window.
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by mempko 5y ago
None for Ukrainians. A lot for merchants of death. Example, Germany is increasing it's military budget by 3x. Who will they buy from?
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by mempko 5y ago
Their reality really is different. But we should be careful to recognize we are subjected to just as much propaganda as they are that just tells a different story. The truth is some combined version of both realities and the hidden untold r
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by mempko 5y ago
This is wonderful. I like that it's Red Cross and not for support of military aid.
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by mempko 5y ago
Western information war is also related to current events. For example NYT claiming there was no evidence of Ukrainian shelling Donbas when the OSCE reports showed that over 80 percent of shells landed in DPR/LNR even during the escala
836.
by mempko 5y ago
Only focused on Russian information warfare. Doesn't look at US and European information warfare. This article is onesided.
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by mempko 5y ago
Ok, now do all of it.
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by mempko 5y ago
For those cheering this on, I recommend you watch this video from David Graeber. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxJW7hl8oqM TLDR; Government debt is private sector surplus. Government surplus is private sector debt.
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by mempko 5y ago
> which are so common nowadays. Has anyone actually backed this with data? Threats are more common now? Really? How do you know? Just because some "free speech" media pundit says so doesn't make it true.
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by mempko 5y ago
It's not mobs that make decisions to censor but owners of companies and universities. Twitter can't get you fired because that decision falls on the bosses.

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