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by mrpopo 5y ago
Can you back this up with some documentation please? Did that expert testify? > It's just that people's preconceptions about evil oil companies screwing indigenous communities get in the way of thinking about whether it's
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by mrpopo 5y ago
Where did I lie? This is what Chevron-owned Texaco has done in the 90's : > Chevron has argued that Texaco spent $40m ($31m) cleaning up the area during the 1990s, and signed an agreement with Ecuador in 1998 absolving it of any fur
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by mrpopo 5y ago
> That's a big claim. Any evidence to back it up? There was a reason the trial was held in Ecuador only - Chevron insisted that it would be held there. That plan kind of backfired but now they insist on the corruption in Ecuador to
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by mrpopo 5y ago
Not to worry about Chevron, because they did not give a single cent of the 9.5B$ to the Ecuador government, or indigenous communities who got toxic waste dumped in their drinking water, or Ecuadorians who discovered oil pools on their prope
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by mrpopo 5y ago
Just adding an incredibly larger amount of gases (the atmosphere is 5.5 * 10^18 kg) in the air doesn't increase global air pressure, it will just make more gases leak into the outer atmosphere over time. I am not sure how long that wou
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by mrpopo 5y ago
Having more people around you doesn't make you meet more people, quite the opposite in fact. I have lived in a 10-million metropolitan city for 5 years and literally made 0 true friends. All mega-cities are packed with people with no d
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by mrpopo 5y ago
Why do you wish to have 100s of billions of the same species, when its development obviously thwarts the development of all others?
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by mrpopo 5y ago
Or calculating SHA-256 hashes (ok this one already gets bashed out appropriately). Or running AC until you need a jacket.
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by mrpopo 5y ago
I think the point of breaking down Facebook into smaller entities is to reduce centralization of operations, and thus the impact of single-point failures. The same conclusion should be made of a giant state-owned company.
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by mrpopo 5y ago
The mote efficient computers are, the less developers will spend time optimizing their apps.
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by mrpopo 5y ago
I don't think you read until the end. Dr Fleischman isn't advocating against planting trees to store carbon. He is against planting trees as a metric, without proper follow up, without consulting local experts, without concerns fo
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by mrpopo 5y ago
Obviously, if we decided to limit warming to 1.5C at all costs, an extremely effective solution would be detonating nuclear weapons or triggering volcanic eruptions to block sunlight, but it's also obvious that would have far-reaching
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by mrpopo 5y ago
A take on SV planting projects by one of the authors of the cited study : In the last week I've started to receive inquiries from people running tree planting programs wanting my help. I am suggesting that they shut down their programs
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Downsides to planting trillions of trees(vox.com)
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by mrpopo 5y ago
If anything, customers should be suing ISPs every time they don't get the expected bandwidth. It's the ISP that fails to deliver according to the contract.
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by mrpopo 5y ago
The embedded video seems to show that you can 3d-print on top of an existing tire, which would let you "recharge" for a certain number of km. It's also more sustainable that way.
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by mrpopo 5y ago
I think the first paradigm change will be "why did they let humans drive cars??"
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by mrpopo 5y ago
Very cool. Would this also help with particle release from tire wear?
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by mrpopo 5y ago
> These population centers are some of the most diverse regions of the world. South Asia and SE Asia, maybe. But East Asia (NE China, Korea, Japan) has actually one of the most ethnically "pure" populations in the world.
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by mrpopo 5y ago
Again, in a life cycle analysis, energy use from utilisation is dwarfed by energy used during production. With IoT the number of chips will keep increasing and that's what determines the total energy (carbon) footprint, which is not th
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by mrpopo 5y ago
The main power consumption of electronics is the embodied energy (energy used to build the device), and the number of devices per person has kept increasing worldwide (24 per household in the US! https://www.forbes.com/sites
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by mrpopo 5y ago
The carbon neutral claim is a huge stretch, but otherwise yes.
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No point gaining a few points in efficiency if the cars themselves keep getting bigger and bulkier.
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> Now the world’s most valuable resource is data, not oil. Most valued? Maybe. Most valuable? Definitely not. Energy is largely undervalued today.
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by mrpopo 5y ago
Bitcoin has some arguably valid use cases like empowering online markets for drugs, porn, and illicit stuff. It is also an interesting way out for countries with a failed economic system, like Nigeria or Venezuela as explained in the articl
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by mrpopo 5y ago
Well, absolutely, and that's my original point. All the technology necessary to combat climate change is already there, but people aren't using it because it's marginally less convenient or more expensive.
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by mrpopo 5y ago
Sure, this should be part of the solution, but nuclear power doesn't cost nothing, it's either quite expensive or quite dangerous. Also, this only answers the question of decarbonization of the electricity, which is maybe 25% of t
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by mrpopo 5y ago
We cut down less trees in the 2010s that in the 1980s but we still cut down trees. The world's forested area is continuously decreasing, just less fast.
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The rate of deforestation peaked. Deforestation is still ongoing. We can sort out the climate problem with technology, sure. The thing is, we already have it. What you probably mean is, you want to sort out the climate problem with hypothet
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by mrpopo 5y ago
The whole save-the-trees movement did nothing for 98% of the world's population, and the mass usage of plastics was propped up by companies switching to a cheaper and more efficient material, with no regard for consequences (because wh

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