mikemotherwell

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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
What percentage of emissions is usage vs manufacture? I've looked, but I can't get a figure.
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
The bigger problem is India, Nigeria and Pakistan. India, Nigeria and Pakistan likely should burn more fossil fuels, as those three countries represent a large chunk of the world's desperately poor - with 1.33 Billion, 200 million and
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
Is capital raising relevant? When was the last time a fossil fuel company raised capital? How is that the way to hurt a company? Also, markets price in these sorts of things. If divestment was a real threat, that would already be factored i
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
I was shaking my head in disagreement, until I read: > If we were to have truly political discussions, we'll need to include all the other countries of the world, which none of us would want That's a really, really good point,
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Simulating Natural Selection(youtube.com)
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
Is that actually true? I just can't believe it is, when there is no backup source of power for overcast/windless days. can you show that this is actually accurate? I can see where places with bad power supply currently, with the r
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
Tax is undeniably complicated, and I have no firm opinion what is better, and I'm often shocked when people do. The regressive nature of a sales tax is bad, but then, income tax is so easy to avoid. We all need things, making sales tax
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
SEO should be a bridge between technical and non-technical people that build out sites. No site's output is 100% because of the tech team - content writers can put in weird code, marketers can add all sorts of stuff to say Tag manager,
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
Oh, so they lead off with REFRIGERANT MANAGEMENT did they? https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/materials/refrigerant-man...
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
We shouldn't do anything in any direction without detailed comparisons. https://www.drawdown.org/ has a big list of things that can be done, with the benefits of each in terms of cost and carbon reduction. It would mak
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
> Australia, with it's plentiful sunshine and wide open spaces It's funny, but that sounds an AWFUL lot like the Terra Nullius argument used to disposes Indigenous people of their land. Australia's "wide open spaces&q
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
> Coal has few friends on the buyer side Which type: metallurgic (used to make steel) or thermal (for power)? Metallurgic coal is the more expensive, loved kind (as you need it to make buildings) and that is what Australia produces, at ~
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
This is 100% true, but I wonder if the right level of abstraction for the 3rd largest country by population and 4th largest by area. The USA undeniably has a low macro rates of homelessness overall, but I wonder if it has high micro levels
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
... or he is jus more interested in raising his kids. I dunno, but that seems a sane choice in an insane world to me.
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
If Nuclear was committed to, would the number of these heavy forge presses likely go up, and costs come down? I have no idea, but it does seem that if there are bottlenecks in the process, demand for nuclear could bring costs come down dram
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
Does that account for the space available in India? How much land would it take to provide power for 1.3 billion people? I think the idea that renewables will be feasible in a country India's size with India's population, while pr
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
Yeh why was that? I kept wondering when we'd hear. I've got bets to collect on!
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
Is that how the system works? I'm not American, but it seems like race does get factored in. Or am I just sorely mistaken?
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
MBAs or just grads?
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
Problem is it includes distractions. A personal homepage would be better focussed on things I SHOULD do, rather than things I actually do.
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
We maybe need to consider a change to the order and timing of how rights are granted towards citizenship first, because when you become a citizen in any first world country you get a LOT of benefits, more than we realise, and it is all or n
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
... unless the use case is weird, e.g. you need massive amounts of processing power infrequently.
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
Further to that, delete the folders. Plugins are often targeted directly if written poorly, so if you don't need 'em, delete 'em.
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
Serious question: is a person always the same on every site? Can they be reached with the same message in different contexts? The argument for targeting says yes, but then why is porn ignored? Real people, doing, ahem, real things for signi
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
Instead, he recommends taking a supplement shown to be next to useless... This is a tough argument, because AFAICT this is the full argument: 1. We can do positive things for what the sun hurts, e.g. we can treat high blood pressure. 2. We
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
Was a few decades ago.
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
From the article: > Note that IQ tests correlate with SAT scores! That is (in part) Nassim Nicholas Taleb's point: we use IQ to select for success, then say IQ is correlated with success. It is circular reasoning. The more interesti
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
IQ is an EXCELLENT measure of "value, contribution, quality of thought". The idea it isn't is weird to me. What IQ fails at is being an ABSOLUTE measure of those things, e.g. John Nash is a genius, but his schizophrenia likel
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is saying that the second part is likely accurate - e.g. low IQ people are accurately assessed - but the former part is off. This graph: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/0*76fPv686eOXo

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