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by rocknor 5y ago
I wish more people understood this. No, 35°C is not "too hot", 90% RH is not "too humid" and 10°C is not "too cold", your body is just not adapted to it yet like the locals.
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by rocknor 5y ago
So many central and west Asian countries less or equally religious to India? Yeah that doesn't make sense.
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by rocknor 5y ago
As usual, racism and stupidity comes together. Immigration is not charity. It is a way for host countries to maintain global power and living standards for their citizens. In a way immigrants are saving the former colonial powers from colla
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by rocknor 5y ago
No need to spread FUD here. What you're saying isn't really happening and is not a problem. Mountains are being made out of molehills to spread FUD and derail actual useful discussion for the purposes of making a political point.
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by rocknor 5y ago
Countries are sovereign units of control that we've divided ourselves into. To actually get some meaningful work done we have to hold some countries into account. Example: the US obviously needs to be held to account for pulling out of
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by rocknor 5y ago
We do have that data: https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$model$markers$line$data$fi...
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by rocknor 5y ago
Yes it is because it is clearly mentioned in the article that the pros and cons were shown in a way that seemed equally important. This is fuel for conspiracy theorists who are always looking to brainwash children.
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by rocknor 5y ago
Because of the article. Remote work is not preferred by many because it simply cannot match face to face interaction. And I don't know what your problem is, I was merely pointing out the parent commentator was very wrong with the salar
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by rocknor 5y ago
> Note that in India people work longer hours Grasping at straws here. > I have many years of experience, and a history of being worth paying Seems like your ego can't handle it. Why do you think that there aren't similar pe
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by rocknor 5y ago
> Going rate for someone in India that is as good as me is about 60% of my pay Ah, totally not an inflated sense of self worth... do you have a source for that number? New grad salaries for even graduates of top CS programs in India are
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by rocknor 5y ago
> Yet China and India continue to build new coal-fired power stations. And the G7 - Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US - won't give a date to phase them out. The rich don't want to give up coal because they have
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by rocknor 5y ago
What's wrong with being idealistic? At least it aspires people to work towards the ideal. The statement I said is scientifically correct, the world is not inherently overpopulated . People like you with anti-science attitudes spread t
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by rocknor 5y ago
I'm hopeful as well. I believe that humanity will definitely suffer from climate change to an extent, at least in this century, but eventually will figure out sustainable energy and thus not go extinct.
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by rocknor 5y ago
HN is only good for tech stuff. For topics like economics and geopolitics it is only marginally better than Reddit and getting worse. Despite what programmers think, they aren't smart at everything.
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by rocknor 5y ago
20 years is more like it. Both countries were at a similar place until the late 90s / early 2000s. https://qz.com/india/404758/once-near-equals-china-and-india...
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by rocknor 5y ago
All of this doesn't take into account technological advancement.
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by rocknor 5y ago
Ignorant and myopic. There is no specific population limit after which you can say that overpopulation occurs. If we had unlimited nuclear energy and amazing battery technology figured out (who says we never will?), we could probably have t
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by rocknor 5y ago
The downvotes show how little the HN audience knows about economics and geopolitics, making dumbass statements like > Modern life is pretty damn great but let's not kid ourselves that it's basically theft from the poor and the
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by rocknor 5y ago
> if the 1 billion "rich people" drop their emissions down to below average then the majority of the problem will still be here. True. But the "majority" is not as big as you think. > there will be 1 billion less w
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by rocknor 5y ago
Bullshit. Can clearly see your bias here. Why are you ignoring the emissions by the rich 1B people, they are the ones that can actually do something about it (reduce consumption and invest in research) thanks to their relatively luxurious l
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by rocknor 5y ago
We're talking about different things here. I said per capita matters because it helps us blame the correct people, and we certainly need to do that because there are >1B people in rich western countries that have an unfairly high CO
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by rocknor 5y ago
Yup, consumption CO2 per capita is what matters: https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$model$markers$line$data$fi...
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by rocknor 5y ago
Why would you include India and not the EU? They are obviously a bigger player as a bloc in terms of emissions.
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by rocknor 5y ago
True. So western countries that have extremely high per capita numbers need to reduce their emissions by consuming less and supporting renewable tech research. https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$model$markers$line$data$f
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by rocknor 5y ago
> but we are not talking about historic levels, we are talking about current and future levels That's the problem. We need to talk about it. The west is causing a disproportionate amount of emissions despite the climate emergency, a
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by rocknor 5y ago
> Historical levels are irrelevant Yeah, no. The west industrialized by polluting the world, and it still reaping its benefits at the expense of the rest of the world. Historical emissions are absolutely relevant because they affect the
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by rocknor 5y ago
> the likes of China and India are by far the biggest culprits while Africa is projected to quadruple it's population while rapidly industrializing. The growing number of people is the main problem. Bullshit. The western ignorance a
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by rocknor 5y ago
BS, as if culture is something that is constant and does not evolve. It's more like a feedback loop. Culture influences results and results influence culture. Tip it the wrong way and it's hard to get out of a negative feedback lo
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by rocknor 5y ago
Hinduism is not really a "religion", as the western term implies. From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism#Definitions Hinduism includes a diversity of ideas on spirituality and traditions, but
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by rocknor 5y ago
There needs to be much more upper back work, especially in the full body strength routine, to avoid shoulder injuries.

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