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by pms 7y ago
They are coupled. The consensus among scientists and economists for mitigating global warming is carbon pricing: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/bxgd5p/single_mo... If there is a sunshade, th
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by pms 7y ago
I would add to it that a large part of this skepticism is fueled on purpose by respective interest groups. The real obstacle is the confusion in the public opinion spurred by big oil marketing and lobbying. It's really hard to find qua
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by pms 7y ago
It is easy -- tax the pollutants and ban greenwashing marketing/lobbying. I am not the first to propose this: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/bxgd5p/single_mo... The real obstacle is the
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by pms 7y ago
It's impossible for the US public to change their mind quickly as a whole. Would you disagree if I said that the US public is the public that is the most affected in the world by corporate media and marketing? Even prescription drugs a
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by pms 7y ago
From a comment above: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1m...
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by pms 7y ago
I meant that Mojave does not support Nvidia drivers [1]. Sorry, I've confused Carbon with Metal, the 3d graphics API. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappetta/2018/12/11/appl...
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by pms 7y ago
I switched from Linux to Mac about six years ago, because I believed it's better. Now I think that it wasn't worth it and I'm not even talking about money. It's overhyped. From the start, I was annoyed by various things
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by pms 7y ago
> Do you want the majority of the USA geography being controlled by the will of people least knowledgeable about it? So you prefer that the majority of the USA population is being controlled by the will of people least knowledgeable abou
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by pms 7y ago
Isn't this against Hacker News rules to call another user "completely brainwashed"? Brainwashing is what WSJ does since Murdoch took control over it and what mainstream Western media were doing to motivate the last deadly inv
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by pms 7y ago
"Nothing" you say? What about wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, with hundreds of thousands killed in the name of lies hidden behind "human rights" narrative? It's rather glaringly clear that we, Western populations, are
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by pms 7y ago
I recommend reading comments in this thread: "Tibet used to be a feudal serfdom with the Lamas lording over everyone else. Most Dalai Lamas were murdered by their rivals for control over the country. So yeah, of course the Lamas are up
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by pms 7y ago
I find it informative to see other points of view and an impressive number of facts that are presented in this Quora answer, rather than just the Western point of view, which arguably could be also called as "propaganda". Let&#x27
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by pms 7y ago
I think there is a difference between public funding for research (it's how majority of research is funded) and public funding for open-source software (isn't happening yet, to my knowledge, so it's an interesting and potenti
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by pms 7y ago
An earlier comment mentions that they are for-profit now (changed from non-profit a while ago).
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by pms 7y ago
It's really uninteresting that the machine wins simply because it doesn't have to deal with the inaccuracy and delays of mouse clicks and selection boxes. You can say that it's a limitation of humans, but aren't we searc
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by pms 7y ago
Sounds fine, but I think you need to correct this statement "A volume of 7 cubic miles (11 km^3)", because 1 cubic mile = 4.17 cubic km.
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by pms 7y ago
Wow, didn't expect this. Good catch. They underestimated the volume of olivine rock about 3 times, which means that its mining would cost about 15% of the overall cost of mining of fossil fuels, assuming current prices of olivine rock
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by pms 7y ago
They do that already and they mention it in comments in this thread. The photo on their website is from there.
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by pms 7y ago
They mention that only 5% of tropical beeches would need to become green.
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by pms 7y ago
What matters is not the volume but the cost. A back-of-the-envolope calculation shows that olivine rock is about 20 times cheaper than crude oil. Olivine rock: 10-25$/ton Crude oil: $60/barrel, so about $400/ton Their website
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by pms 7y ago
What about ads in general?
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by pms 7y ago
So far, Boeing stocks went up since the time before the first crash...
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by pms 8y ago
This is a ridiculous stance. Essentially it's the same as saying that you're scared to pay for anything online and you only trust Apple for making online payments. There are other solutions to feel secure about paying online or vi
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About Deepmind’s Starcraft 2 AI’s Superhuman Speed(medium.com)
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A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go(science.sciencemag.org)
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by pms 10y ago
It sounds interesting. Could you give some pointers to read more about this?
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by pms 11y ago
I fully agree with that, yet they were right since over a year. They do a decent job making the most out of the "open-source" evidence they have access to.
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by pms 11y ago
Not at all. I lost my account. I've used my offline local copy of the database to reproduce most of it though.
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by pms 11y ago
It was all known thanks to Bellingcat since at least 1 year.
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by pms 11y ago
Some time ago LastPass automatically DELETED my five-year old account on Mendeley. The "AutoFill" option of LastPass was turned on. I was browsing my profile settings on Mendeley. Somehow LastPass automatically commenced the accou

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