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by neolefty 8y ago
And the effort in China was definitely deliberate. Maybe not having world wars for 70 years has helped — Steven Pinker's renaming of the Cold War to the Long Peace resonates!
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Or even accidentally turns it into a username. Honestly, it wasn't political when I picked it.
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One thing that Factfulness does is take a more nuanced look at wealth. Rosling makes 4 categories of prosperity — the majority of which by population are in the middle, neither ultra-rich nor ultra-poor. Something he wrote that helped me
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by neolefty 8y ago
Yes, having wealth and not fretting about it — and finding truly important things to focus on — is a skill too!
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I agree with both — I think it's a false dichotomy to say "either it's getting worse or it's getting better". 1. Yes, so much is getting better. 2. There are new injustices, and also we'd be even better off if
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What OS?
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It's in Grantham's interest to encourage regulation that minimizes carbon emissions (because of his investment company's "Climate Change Fund"). Is it good or bad to set yourself up to profit from that?
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I got the impression from the article that this was more about framing it to appeal to investors. "We'll use your money to support green tech, and you'll also make a profit." Grantham seems pretty personally committed to
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Of course you should be suspicious. However. He just turned 80 and realized there's only so much he can do before he dies and that seems to have focused his priorities. A couple of quotes from the article: > Grantham turned 80 on
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by neolefty 8y ago
Yep. You can definitely "grow" topsoil very very quickly. Similar to the ratio between the productivity of land for hunting-gathering and agriculture. Source: Farming & gardening background in the midwest.
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As a parent I try to focus on "constructive activity" rather than screen time / non-screen time. Which means really cultivating a love of accomplishment — which can be encouraged, but ultimately it comes from inside them.
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Even my support calls have gone well. Used it for about 2 years now, me + 3 family members.
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This is an attempt to explain the details of the trusted ceremony, why it was needed, and what is being trusted. I like that it describes two different levels of trust required — trust in both the destruction of the initial secrets and in t
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It's a learning experience too, for both China and African societies. I believe Chinese people and institutions working in these countries are finding themselves in positions of responsibility and connectedness that they didn't ex
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> but at what cost? Yes, and at what cost to those who didn't make it! Thank social progress that it's getting better, but there's still a ways to go.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution
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True, he seems to be addressing high-resolution immersive AR vs VR. Is that because he's looking for something to invest in? If so, it's definitely putting the cart before the horse for the average software dev, since AR can be ve
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by neolefty 8y ago
Thank you! I found that very enlightening, regarding systemic thinking about the American economy, especially this paragraph: > How did we get here? Our analysis shows there have been two major regimes since 1960. Before 1980 too much mo
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The article says just a decent model would help — it claims there was a glaring flaw in the models that predicted disaster: > Much of the hand-wringing was based upon a deeply flawed University of Washington study. As we noted in 2017, t
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That's acknowledged in the second-to-last paragraph from the article: > Now of course, we should consider the argument that Seattle’s economic growth has been so strong that it overwhelms any negative effects from the higher minimum
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A 0-day vulnerability in their OS, exploited ...
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GMail — still the anti-social network that I both rely on and ignore every day. No friend discovery, funded by ads, people mostly ignore emails I send them, but everyone has it and depend on it being rock solid. It's like air.
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I thought it was the other way around — Chrome OS was absorbed into Android.
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I gathered (from the outside — no inside knowledge) it was two big things: * A response to Java lawsuits * Something to work on that is interesting But you raise a good point — why let go of Linux? Seems like a risky case of rewrite-from-sc
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What will happen afterwards? Will it become the only UI?
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Are income inequality and environmental progress linked somehow? Do people believe they are? Is there propaganda that climate change is a conspiracy of the wealthy? If people think they are linked, we're in deep trouble, and we need to
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If you define dark matter as matter whose gravitational influence we infer but whose nature is still mysterious, then sure it is right now!
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(Parent may be referring to Shuttle solid-rocket boosters. From what I've heard they were as expensive to reuse as to manufacture from scratch. In other words, they found the break-even point, which is something good at least.)
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If our goal is basic research, sure, fusion is great. But if our goal is to achieve carbon neutrality ASAP, we can't count on fusion to help because we don't know when it will start working. On the other hand, renewables + batte
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Yes, fission creates waste, but fusion reactors as currently envisioned would also create radioactive waste — not the fusion products themselves — but materials of the containment vessels which have been bombarded with neutrons.

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