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by ridicter 7y ago
This sounds very similar to cap and trade, no? Place a cap on total emissions, and decrease that cap over time. Correspondingly, have pollution permits that are allocated according to this cap. Companies that are especially CO2 efficient c
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by ridicter 7y ago
There are tons of real world proposals that do this. Here's one that's in Congress now that you can support: the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act ( http://energyinnovationact.org ) . All revenue from a carbon ta
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by ridicter 7y ago
>Have you ever heard of Marilyn vos Savant or Chris Langan or Terence Tao or William James Sidis or Kim Ung-yong ? These are, as far as IQ tests are concerned, the most intelligence members that our species currently contains. >Whilst
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by ridicter 7y ago
I think this is a very worthwhile point to consider, and my thinking is moving in this direction as well, which is why I've been getting more involved with the Green New Deal in recent months. 1) In British Columbia, consumption of fue
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by ridicter 7y ago
Thank them for their support (these calls actually matter)! You may also live in a city or state that is passing its own form of climate legislation, and CCL is a great way to get involved with that. Similarly, you could provide support fo
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by ridicter 7y ago
I think their position is: 1) don't shut don't existing nuclear plants to replace them with fossil fuels and 2) wind and solar should make up the new energy mix. But for what it's worth, the membership has diverse views. I&#x
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by ridicter 7y ago
If you're interested in getting involved in addressing climate change, here are two options for citizens to get involved: 1) The Citizens Climate Climate Lobby has been around ten years, and it currently has a bill in Congress that has
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by ridicter 7y ago
For what it's worth, my multi-monitor settings are remembered just fine in Ubuntu 19.04. I _just_ switched from Macbook Pro to Dell XPS 13/Ubuntu, and I couldn't get multi-monitor to work for Ubuntu 18.04, but everything work
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by ridicter 7y ago
I'm a UX engineer who recently switched from Macbook Pro to the Ubuntu version of Dell XPS 13. Now that I use Figma, a web-based design app, I no longer need any Mac-native design software. I am pretty pleased! The XPS 13 has an edge-t
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by ridicter 7y ago
This. I've been in the climate movement for some 15 years. Our basic stance has been, "We have the technology; we just need the political will." There are many groups that you can become involved in. If you're a pro-mark
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by ridicter 7y ago
This was more or less my situation. I took an unpaid internship at Frontline on PBS while in college, accrued credit card debt, and realized this was a path for my richer peers--not me. They could afford to work their ways up to a financial
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by ridicter 8y ago
This feels like astroturfing since more than half the comments are "cool"...
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by ridicter 8y ago
I should add: Lutz is a climate change denier. [1] He has spent a lot of energy sowing skepticism towards the IPCC and anthropogenic climate change, calling it a "crock of shit." His antagonism towards Tesla goes deeper than just
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by ridicter 8y ago
Yes, I just saw this. I hope it's true. I remember seeing an interview about 5 years ago that featured both Elon Musk and Bob Lutz, vice chairman of GM. In the interview, Musk was incredibly deferential to Lutz and talked about his res
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by ridicter 8y ago
Sorry, we live in a world where News Corp has been at the epicenter of cultivating "Merchants of Doubt"[1] when it comes to anthropogenic climate change. Anyone tied up in that universe deserves skepticism if not outright rejectio
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by ridicter 11y ago
Arkansas alum here too! Still some of my fondest years! I think schools like this are _especially_ useful in rural/poor states like our own, where cultural and educational norms are a bit behind. Imagine going from a school where the
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by ridicter 11y ago
There is little federal movement on climate legislation, but there are a decent number of state-level campaigns to price carbon. The goal of many of these organizations is to establish a model that can then be replicated nationwide. (As t
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by ridicter 11y ago
As someone who avoided the startuposphere so that I could focus on climate change activism and pricing carbon, seeing Elon Musk implore the world to avoid winning a Darwin Award was so incredibly rewarding and validating. He will most certa
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No Warming for Past 17 Years. Why Choose 17?(rpubs.com)
4 points by ridicter 11y ago|0 comments
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by ridicter 12y ago
Wash U alum here. I agree: unacceptable. I believe Wash U uses the term "need-aware." It aggressively recruits based on "merit" at the cost of socioeconomic diversity. While I was attending, Wash U had the most Nationa
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Frontline report on surveillance relationship between NSA and Silicon Valley(video.pbs.org)
2 points by ridicter 12y ago|0 comments
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by ridicter 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE/Portland, OR I'm a designer, front end developer, and data visualizer based in Portland, OR. I'd love work on more projects in Drupal, Wordpress, or Javascript ( especially Javascript)! You can see sc
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by ridicter 13y ago
2.4 M is the highest point. In other words, on a number line, the rest of the country falls to the left of it. Averages are an important concept to master. Also, as positive feedback loops kick in (e.g., trapped methane will be released fr
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by ridicter 13y ago
The highest point in the Maldives is 2.4M, and by 2100, nearly all inhabitable land will be underwater [1]. Likewise the average elevation of Bangladesh is a few feet. In effect, these countries will be wiped off. With tens of millions,
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by ridicter 13y ago
Yes, the climate has fluctuated over geological time. Scientists know this. The difference is a) the rate at which it is warming and b) the fact that all living things have adapted to a completely different climate. Climate change means ma
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by ridicter 13y ago
Fantastic translation by /u/ellipticcurve on reddit [1]. Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of CNES, warns of "garages in california" a la the computer revolution of the 70s: == The three perfectly successful launches of the
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Head of French nat'l space agency warns of American/Spacex dominance(parabolicarc.com)
1 points by ridicter 13y ago|1 comments
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by ridicter 13y ago
Your point's valid as far as the importance of depth of engineering talent, but I will push back and say the talent's not nearly as sparse in St. Louis as you think. St. Louis has two strong universities: Washington University[1],
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by ridicter 13y ago
I went to Washington University in St. Louis, and I was overall impressed with the beauty of the city (especially forest park) and the sense of community. The kids at the school were wicked smart (ranked 7th in the nation in terms of avera
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by ridicter 13y ago
This book looks fascinating! Thanks for mentioning it. (I do a lot of climate change related activism, and I'm always on the lookout for resources like these!)

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