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by parsnips 7y ago
Solar is not a viable path for powering the energy needs for the world, it doesn't count as a solution.
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by parsnips 7y ago
Climate is not static. For example permafrost thaw - we have no idea how widespread it is. The areas we do observe have a valid, natural explanation for thaw via gas cavities. Some of these cavities get enlarged thermal-erosional piping,
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by parsnips 7y ago
These are going to occur anyway (along with freezing permafrost, lowering sea levels, stable weather patterns). These are ordinary problems that we adapt to. The problem I'm talking about is the idea that these are preventable. They&
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by parsnips 7y ago
Great. You should also read through https://www.nature.com/collections/prbfkwmwvz to understand how fallible science as practiced today is. It's 100% politics and money generation.
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by parsnips 7y ago
It always has existed, and the problems are largely imaginary. Hence the politics.
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by parsnips 7y ago
The US has lowered it's CO2 emissions 10% since 2000. Thanks to the "right" and fracking. 16% in the EU. If you eliminated US/EU production of CO2, atmospheric CO2 levels would still rise. The slight warming that would
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by parsnips 7y ago
Also US CO2 emissions are down since 2000, thanks to fracking. When you go to bed fearing climate change, thank a Republican for lowering US CO2 emissions.
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by parsnips 7y ago
And Parsons technology when he was young. Sold to Intuit for his first $64 million.
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by parsnips 7y ago
The US is a net exporter of soy as well.
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by parsnips 7y ago
Because violent felonies such as homicide proximity is the requisite factor in victimhood. ie The victim must be located near the killer. Given 1 homicide in 100k for 100sq miles called "rural" vs 1 homicide in 100k for 5 sq miles
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by parsnips 7y ago
Should proximity to potential assailants not be taken into account?
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by parsnips 7y ago
Comparing urban and rural and using per-capita numbers is a fallacious argument. You must control for land area. For example a square mile that is labeled “urban” vs square mile labeled “rural” the numbers per-capita tilt homicides way in f
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by parsnips 7y ago
because your narrative is false when accounting for land area/population density.
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by parsnips 7y ago
Great, now run the numbers on per capita per square mile and get back to us.
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by parsnips 7y ago
please digress.
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by parsnips 7y ago
How long must an item be buried before burning it loses its carbon neutrality?
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Year Record Low Temperature Broken(minnesota.cbslocal.com)
3 points by parsnips 7y ago|0 comments
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by parsnips 7y ago
These temperatures are breaking 60-70 year old records. For example the prior Paris record was set in July 1947. And is about to drop to seasonal averages starting tomorrow (80s F)... You're quite wrong on this.
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by parsnips 7y ago
Really, when was the record set?
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by parsnips 7y ago
Let's remember that equation the next time Arctic ice field expands...
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by parsnips 7y ago
I thought conflating climate and weather is what "deniers" do?
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by parsnips 7y ago
Conflate weather and climate, I thought that's what "deniers" do?
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by parsnips 7y ago
It's as if they want to find ways to do this without 1 or 2.
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by parsnips 7y ago
Plaid's execution is much better than yodlees. Dwolla isn't even in the same business as either.
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by parsnips 7y ago
Reading suggestion WRT to this approach: https://www.amazon.com/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove/d...
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by parsnips 8y ago
The Soviets spent a lot of time and effort with their premiere intelligence agents to steal a missile invented in an American garage. Amazing.
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by parsnips 8y ago
And a signing bonus.
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by parsnips 8y ago
Your answer should be a firm no.
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by parsnips 8y ago
I agree that with _a lot_ of effort Dell could have invested $15B in the stock market in 2013 and done well for himself. My objection is to the claim that he's somehow incompetent because he didn't outperform the market with his a
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by parsnips 8y ago
>The former is ludicrous to the point of being a strawman, and I don't understand what it proves by being true. The latter is trivially true and demonstrates that billionaires do choose to passively grow their fortunes. The point is

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