rocknor

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by rocknor 6y ago
"They do this all the time"? The ignorance of generalizing a large country with a big population is astonishing. The problem is your employer paying peanuts as developer salaries. You'd get the same bad code if you paid peanu
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by rocknor 6y ago
Absolutely. It's the same in case of climate change, easy to criticize other countries about their emissions when you've already had your industrial revolution. I mean, just look at this graph: https://www.gapminder.org
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by rocknor 6y ago
I think you should focus on the huge amount of garbage and carbon emissions produced everyday in the USA (biggest contributor to climate change), which is objectively a much bigger problem than this one-off event which media portrayed as so
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by rocknor 6y ago
Meanwhile USA has 25x the debris (as of June 2019). Glass houses... https://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/quarterly-news/pdfs/odqnv... https://www.businessinsider.in/us-russia-china-and-india-sta...
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by rocknor 6y ago
Unfortunately in 2021, lifting people out of poverty still always implies increased carbon emissions (historically that's how rich countries got to where they are). After the death of colonialism, poor countries also naturally want to
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by rocknor 6y ago
They probably know about all the things you mentioned better than you, since it's their livelihood.
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by rocknor 6y ago
> you want to have a rational reaction to the data, you need to have both numbers in mind That's exactly what Hans Rosling says in "Factfulness", always be wary of lonely numbers.