mrpopo

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by mrpopo 3y ago
Looks like jwz links also have a "noreferrer" tag added as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3132752 New silent HN policy to avoid showing its users that some people don't like them.
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by mrpopo 3y ago
I remember going through all the specified points in the graph over my first 5 years of C++-ing, except the exception handling (probably because we had set rules on using exceptions for error handling). Also, this graph is from 2010, so it&
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by mrpopo 3y ago
> If that all sounds like a tricky balancing act, it is. Previous research has found that burning woody biomass can create more CO2 emissions than what’s captured. That’s because only capturing smokestack emissions fails to account for a
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by mrpopo 3y ago
* EVs are not a solution to air pollution, most air pollution from modern cars is from brakes and tyres. * OTOH, China is really ahead in battery-powered 2-wheelers, that replace the old scooter fleet, and that ought to do something. * Stil
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by mrpopo 3y ago
Sure, go tell the people in Turkmenistan that they should pay more taxes to pay for the installation to flare or plug that hole. And hope that nobody on the supply chain will sell critical components in order to buy nice things for their ch
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by mrpopo 3y ago
I'm not trying to assign blame (if anything, all other top comments do, one of them is talking about putting Turkmen on trial for crimes against humanity). I'm looking at the emissions and see Turkmenistan and the US are clear lea
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by mrpopo 3y ago
No one here talking about the US being right behind, despite being an alleged democracy, with regulatory frameworks in place (supposedly), orders of magnitude more money invested in fossil fuel extraction, a much larger population, free pre
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by mrpopo 3y ago
Those people don't end up at the top mostly. You need a unending thirst of money and power to make it as CEO of Google and stay there. The same happens in politics actually.
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by mrpopo 3y ago
For Apple, the wall around the garden is so high that you don't realize there is an outside in the first place. So no one notices it.
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by mrpopo 3y ago
Apple blocking iPhone browsers without Webkit (excluding Chrome and Firefox). Android not exactly making it easy to change the default browser for average users either tbh Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1118/
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by mrpopo 3y ago
OK thanks for the life lesson. I think what you're doing is completely meaningless too.
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by mrpopo 3y ago
You have made your point, 3 times the same one, but you are yet to discuss mine. "We should solve coal immediately": Who is "we" (I for one don't have coal at home) How can coal be "solved"? Coal is in Ind
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by mrpopo 3y ago
Global coal consumption is 8MT, same as 2012, whereas world population is 15% larger and also richer, it is absolutely on the decline as a percentage of primary energy. Coal is also unfortunately an essential resource for many impoverished
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by mrpopo 3y ago
Coal is on the decline, and flying is on the rise (I'd give numbers but recent numbers are inaccurate because of the pandemic-induced crunch). With data from 10 years ago it was at most 6 percent of the worldwide population who ever se
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by mrpopo 3y ago
You say you heard me but didn't seem to understand it. That's okay, I notice a lot of misunderstanding of things by anti-nuclear people in general :) (I'm copying your rhetoric in case you don't notice) Thank you
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by mrpopo 3y ago
It's possible to build nuclear plants by the sea, and it's actually commonly built. There are some in France, China, Korea, etc.
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by mrpopo 3y ago
I talked about Flamanville because the article is about France and I mentioned France's underinvestment. If you want to talk about well funded projects then yes the Chinese have done a much better job. But you're not really talkin
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by mrpopo 3y ago
The failure of EDF in France is not due to nuclear power inherent limitations, but to massive underinvestment from the French government. The Energiewende has cost the Germans more than 150 billion €, all that with lenient EU regulations. W
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by mrpopo 4y ago
And why would that be?
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by mrpopo 4y ago
But why? Why do we need to stop rurality and farming? If people want to keep doing it, why stop them?
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by mrpopo 4y ago
We are losing many basic nutrients in our food content simply because of farmers selecting their produce for taste and appearance. Even if all foods were cells (not true), even then not all cells are equal. 75% of people in the US are overw
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by mrpopo 4y ago
I don't understand how powdered beer can end up carbonated just by adding water, unless the carbon dioxide is locked in a chemical compound, but then this compound will remain in the drink, which is bound to have health issues.
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by mrpopo 4y ago
I think you are too much focused on global agricultural productivity, which will not be a life-or-death problem for anyone with access to the global market, such as you. Fear not, global warming will not leave you starving. Global warming a
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by mrpopo 4y ago
It's not "activism" or "proving a point", it's the prisoner's dilemma. You maximize the global reward (fewest accidents) by putting yourself on the most risky position.
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by mrpopo 4y ago
> So it sounds like they are not accounting for things like changes between crops or changing which areas are cultivated, which could be pretty significant. > it seems like you would have account for more Canadian land becoming arabl
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Page 16 https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/ > Have they modeled all the different plausible crops and agricultural techniques, which regional environmental conditions they're most suited for, and the
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Of course, 1.5C will not kill 800+ million people. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/ 1.5C is the (likely to be overshooted) goal. The IPCC report assesses that 2011-2020 is already 1.1C warmer than 1850-190
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by mrpopo 4y ago
From my limited knowledge and viewpoint, there is a generational divide, a regional divide, and a class divide. When everything is averaged though, the household income is still the strongest indicator of how many cars you own, and most nat
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by mrpopo 4y ago
1 car/household is still entirely feasible with children (and the norm for many lower-class in Europe). We live with 1 child and no car and it's been working fine thus far. You have to be careful about where you live and work thou
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Not saying that you're wrong, but your line of reasoning is incorrect. It could also have been because all the people with peanut allergies have died and the people surviving all have some sort of genetic advantage against peanut aller

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