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by mrpopo 5y ago
>>> mylist_1 = [1, 2, 3] >>> mylist_2 = [4, 5] >>> print(id(mylist_1), id(mylist_2)) 1614327515784 1614319969800 >>> mylist_1 = mylist_1 + mylist_2 >>> print(mylist_1)
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There are significant wolves populations in NW Spain, Northern Europe and Eastern Europe. They are being reintroduced in other countries as well. There are ~600 wolves in France, they were reintroduced in 1990.
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No one discusses IPCC reports. It came out this week, and was discussed at most 10 min per day on major news channels. IPCC scientists are volunteering for the report, they are not wealthy. They are literally spending their own free time an
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No. IPCC 6th assessment report, summary for policymakers, page 8/42. Read it. IPCC is the most conservative science body ever created. It comprises hundreds of scientists from all over the world, including Saudi Arabia and others, who
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I think it's good to note that Yakutia is burning at a rapid rate. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/20/everything-is-...
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Yes. In first approximation, if we reach a global temperature increase of X degrees, the actual temperature increase that people will actually feel on land will be double that. Oceans are warming up much more slowly because they are so de
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Electric cars don't solve the problem of particulate matter, in fact if you buy an electric truck, it may make the problem worse because of the weight (wear on the tires is one of the biggest sources of particulate emissions).
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I lived in sendai for 3 years, and I have lived in Seoul currently for 5 years. Sendai Station has a giant underground bicycle parking, the likes of which I've never seen in Korea. There are cars in Japan, of course. Families own one b
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And Japan's urbanization rate is 92%, so car ownership in Japan doesn't make sense for most people. I've been to tons of tourist spots and onsens in Miyagi by train/shuttle bus with no issue. In Korea, because of the hig
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Almost everywhere in Japan is accessible without a car. Car-ownership doesn't make sense for most people.
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Without being that categoric, I agree there's a psychological side of things that needs to be studied. I heard there is a brain mechanism that allows us to "ignore the inevitable". This makes doom-saying predictions a hard se
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Western living standards (especially American) are stupidly high. Just talk to average people. Just today, I heard one person say they keep the AC on 18C all day because they don't like sweating, one person bought a bigger car to give
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Reminder: what is happening now is the result of past emissions and will keep happening year after year no matter what. After humanity finally stops emitting greenhouse gases, it will not get better, it will just stop getting worse. The ear
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You're not just a consumer though, you are a citizen living in a democratic country, and by giving up on the latter, you are passively eroding it.
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Sure I believe that. It's happening more and more around the world. The problem is that the alternative isn't democratically elected, can't be held accountable for what it's doing and doesn't have any incentives to
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If your government is bad at installing fiber/high-speed internet connectivity to a not-so-rural town of 160,000, you have to fix your government, don't just throw money at global unregulated corporations. This is a common thread
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> There is a clear transition happening to non oil energy sources. No transition. Energy usage is stacking up. Globally, renewable energy sources are built in addition to fossil energy sources. See source below - compare relative vs. abs
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Your answer makes no sense. There is no peak wheat, it's not a non-renewable resource. The difference between peak oil and shale oil is the EROI which is very bad (between 1 and 2) compared to conventional (20 to 50). This would make i
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Yes, world3 is meant as a simulation exercise that is sometimes taken too seriously. But even its critics consider that the conclusions of the model are valid. Here is the continuation of your quote: > He does however consider continuou
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Not if you want to consider environmental impact. The petrol in the ground is free, sunlight is free, biodiversity is free. The cost is only a human factor. Higher efficiency on the other hand usually means lower resource consumption.
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Also the part where the toaster version is outdated and it won't start toasting before it's up to date.
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> S. Korea's population is 51 million. The US elevated far more. You can't talk about countries with relative sizes and use absolute numbers. If you want to use this fallacy, I can tell you that the US is dwarfed by the whole o
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And yet 5 million humans swarmed in and Singapore is among the highest nominal GDP countries in the world. Shows that there's little hope bringing balance between humanity and other species in the current economic system.
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> The US has seen the most spectacular rise from poverty to wealth ever seen in history. This is not true, historians collectively agree that Korea has seen the most spectacular rise. Also, your comment was spectacularly off-topic and an
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And the US isn't a good example of a country where people have a fair chance at success in life IMO.
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> I wonder if and how they managed to properly control for things like obesity or stress. Most middle-aged working professionals are in a terrible shape from my observations. Obesity and stress were considered both as a mediator and a co
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> Part of something like gold is the shared social belief in it as a store of value. Gold has inherent uses as a precious metal. Bitcoin mining only computes SHA256 hashes for no actual purposes.
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What you're saying about bitcoin power use is just not true. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2021-03-04/china-s-inn...
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> The Great Depression was caused by the government making gold illegal Look, I'm not going to try to convince you. You're trying to protect your assets by denying reality, maybe you have a family to feed, maybe you just want t
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> I understand, certain people really hate bitcoin— and fir good reason. Bitcoin will eventually obsolete the fiat inflation system which has created all the wealth inequality in much of the world. The system that lets politicians buy po

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