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by njarboe 3y ago
Some serious impacts. That storm started over 600 wildfires via lightning strikes. It overwhelmed the fire fighting system in California especially since we had serious COVID lock downs in effect and 10% of the firefighters were not availab
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by njarboe 3y ago
This is not really true. China has seen a dramatic rise in wealth spread over much of the population with the rest of SE Asia seeing a smaller but dramatic per capital growth over the last 3 decades. India is also seeing huge improvements.
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by njarboe 3y ago
"short session timeouts, such as after 15 minutes of inactivity" I wish my bank, credit card, brokerage websites gave me 15 minutes of inactivity. It seems most have set it at about 5 minutes. My finances are not trivial so I am o
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by njarboe 3y ago
When looking at their axes I came across Walrus Oil Axe Oil[1]. When clicking on the description I was half hoping it was real and something so exotic still existed in the world and half hoping it wasn't real. [1] https://www
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by njarboe 3y ago
Telsa getting to full automatic driving and then putting that tech, plus advances, into the Tesla bot. That is the bridge. Maybe it's not going to happen soon but it could be only a decade or two out.
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As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, most of the forests in California were clearcut and the large, spread out, old growth forests that the Indians (native americans, indigenous people, etc.) used controlled burns on don't exist any m
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by njarboe 3y ago
No. But I do ask my friend, who is a doctor, about human health and medical issues here and there.
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by njarboe 3y ago
Often not gravel, especially in California.
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Startups at their best are worker cooperatives. Not everyone has an equal share or say in the company, but with each person having a meaningful amount of stock options you can look at it that way. It's not clear exactly what would be t
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by njarboe 3y ago
If you son can make 4x the hourly rate doing something else and does not do that because he is doing yard work, then you have decreased wealth. The key is in the if.
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by njarboe 3y ago
As Snowden said himself: "Privacy is the right to a free mind," Snowden said. "Without privacy, you can't have anything for yourself. Saying you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like sayi
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by njarboe 3y ago
It is sort of like how when some people want to prove something is true they quote the Bible. I find the behavior especially strange when they are quoting the bible to prove the bible is true.
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by njarboe 3y ago
Go where you want (99.99% of places where there is a building there is road), when you want and carry with you 0 to 80,000lbs of stuff at a mile a minute. People who are into doing stuff and going places like that. Freedom, as they say.
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by njarboe 3y ago
Plus tobacco.
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I wonder what the future will say about the 2020's.
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Maybe you could say that for the 2016 election. Trump lost in 2020.
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by njarboe 3y ago
But I think the idea here is that the elephants in question are at a similar level to humans intellectually. They will be able to overcome fears (be courageous), plan with others, use tools, etc. Hard to know how would come out on top in th
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by njarboe 3y ago
If the Emu's were killing humans and livestock instead of crops the outcome would likely have been different. See grizzly bears and wolves in the continental US.
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Scholars from the middle ages wrote on the edges of their scrolls and codexes. Some of these notes are very interesting and useful to scholars. In elementary and primary school most are taught not to write in books because they have to be u
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by njarboe 3y ago
If the section of the 14th amendment regarding debts means that all US debt must be paid, I would interpret that to mean," If the debt ceiling holds interest on the debt will be paid and spending must be cut so that no more debt is inc
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by njarboe 3y ago
Seems like a reasonable point of view from Sam. Better to have some kind of AGI catastrophe when some kind of Butlerian Jihad is still possible.
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by njarboe 3y ago
One of the big problems is that controlled burns can and do become uncontrolled burns. The largest ever wildfire in New Mexico was started as a planned burn (more honest label) just last year. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com&#
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by njarboe 3y ago
If French nuclear power plants are getting bombed, then France is in a full scale war. Since they have nuclear weapons I think the limited radioactivity from power plant bombing will be a minor problem compared to mushroom clouds over large
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by njarboe 3y ago
You know how you are warned not to eat too much of some types of fish that come from the sea because of getting too much mercury? That is due to mostly mercury from burning coal. If coal was discovered today and people tried to create coal
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by njarboe 3y ago
Nicotine is not that bad for you. It's the smoke in smoking that is the main health hazard.
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by njarboe 3y ago
Tesla produced about 1.3 million cars just last year (2022)[1]. It has been successfully meeting its goal of an annual production rate increase of 50% per year for around a decade and is on track to continue this until they reach their goal
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Hopefully in the future we will have two beautiful worlds full of life. Doesn't that dream seem great?
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by njarboe 3y ago
Having children play outside did not used to be a "very narrow use case". Hopefully that is not our future.
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by njarboe 4y ago
I think it is much closer to bullshit. The bullshitter cares not to tell truth or deceive, just to sound like they know what they are talking about. To impress. Seems like ChatGPT to a T.
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by njarboe 4y ago
Cool video but it sure would be nice to have the dates when the rockets launched (if they did) and if they have not yet launched. For example Sea Dragon was a 1962 study design; never built. If they are going to have that one they should do

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