roryisok

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by roryisok 8y ago
> How do you know at least some of our children are not going to starve, or worse, be forced into warfare over crucial resources? Of course I can't know that, I have no crystal ball. I'm saying that assuming that we're all
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by roryisok 8y ago
As someone who's been through several cycles of climate related depression this year, I just want to reach out to fellow HNers and say it's not the end of the world. Our society, and our civilisation is going to change, in massive
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by roryisok 8y ago
I've been in this same thread a few months back. Insect loss is definitely happening, but bear in mind your lack of splatter probably also has a lot to do with better aerodynamics of cars these days. Bugs blow over the windshield on mo
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by roryisok 8y ago
For me they peaked with the Lumia 925. The swiping keyboard had an accuracy unmatched by anything since, including the Lumia 950 I'm using to type this, which sucks (win 10 mobile rebuilt it for some stupid reason. It was perfect!) I s
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by roryisok 8y ago
> I'm old (gettin' there, anyway), and we don't have kids. Well I do have kids, so I can't just say fuck it. I basically have to cling to the hope that geoengineering is going to stop the worst effects. I yoyo from &q
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by roryisok 8y ago
Cars cost resources and energy to produce, but right now new fossil fuel cars are being produced every minute. We don't stop that process by continuing to drive a car that belches out CO2. Sure, if everyone continues driving their 10 y
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by roryisok 8y ago
> Countries could start replacing all cars with electric ones for free right now, CO2 would just go higher and higher. How? I wish people would stop fixating on this magical 12 years figure. It's not a countdown. If we keep our curr
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by roryisok 8y ago
Electric cars are not massively more expensive than regular cars, for those of us in touch western countries. A tesla is, but a nissan leaf is not. And sure not everyone can afford electric vehicles and solar panels, but if everyone who co
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by roryisok 8y ago
This is not a plan in action, it is a list of ideas
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by roryisok 8y ago
I agree, on both counts. Rereading my post now it seems hopelessly pessimistic, and negative. I was mostly just trying to explain what we can expect to see as we approach 2 degrees of warming. We won't get to to zero carbon in the next
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by roryisok 8y ago
We're all tired of hearing "eat less meat" etc. But honestly these things would make a difference. We need to switch everyone who drives a fossil fuel car to electric, or no car at all. So make the switch. Buy an EV. Nissan l
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by roryisok 8y ago
> suicide is an an increasingly pragmatic and attractive option. Don't think that way. Climate despair is real. People get seriously depressed about it and a lot of people probably consider suicide. Messages like this are irresponsi
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by roryisok 8y ago
What is this thing about peeing on trees
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by roryisok 8y ago
It's generally accepted that if we don't zero our carbon emissions in 12 years we'll see 2 degrees warming minimum. Best case scenario is drought, heatwaves, forest fires, lose half the wildlife in the world, all the coral re
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by roryisok 8y ago
Republicans (and the equivalent rich conservatives in other countries) believe that climate change is happening anyway, and that anyone who doesn't try to make money off it is an idiot. They don't buy the survival of the human civ
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by roryisok 8y ago
Drawdown is great, but at the end of the day it's just a list of ideas. OP is more concerned about action
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by roryisok 8y ago
> They also said the world would be overpopulated and we wouldn't be able to feed everybody by the end of the sixties so who knows. Thanks to the green revolution, we figured out how to massively increase crop yield, otherwise we wo
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by roryisok 8y ago
Actually last time I checked Brave was an electron app so technically based on Chromium but also running in Chromium.
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by roryisok 8y ago
> It's difficult for me to imagine how this cartoon-level villainy could get any worse, but I guess I'm numb at this point. There are days when i feel like reality is trolling me
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by roryisok 8y ago
Why 2030 specifically and why di you think Saudis don't want jobs installing solar panels?
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I don't know either. Such an important project should transcend money. Governments should provide the manpower to build the rocket, companies provide the parts for free, scientists work Pro bono to get it done and save the planet. Othe
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by roryisok 8y ago
Reading this stuff makes me borderline suicidal, and the only thing that stops me is that I have young children who would be worse off without me. I've gone from hoping science will save them, to hoping we have a decade to make a few h
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by roryisok 8y ago
I always find it laughable when people talk about how much it'll cost to take carbon out of the atmosphere. It's farcical to me that our imaginary numbers game stops us from trying to prevent the end of the world. If there was an
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by roryisok 8y ago
Blade markings on the bones, rib cage I believe. They were also able to say the victim was 17-20 years old
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by roryisok 8y ago
Reminds me of a local story - a 200 year old tree fell in a storm and pulled up a 1000 year old murder victim as the roots had grown through his corpse
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For scient!
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by roryisok 8y ago
You'd need node for file system access though. Unless you write your own io layer
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by roryisok 8y ago
When I heard what they were charging for the iPhone X I thought it was a joke. but I know several people who now have them, and they all say it was worth it. And they can't explain why. I suspect they're all deluding themselves, l
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by roryisok 8y ago
I've read a lot about carbon capture lately, and this is one of the most promising approaches. Another very interesting idea is simply splitting the CO2 into oxygen and carbon monoxide
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by roryisok 8y ago
I think this is going to have to happen for bio capture to work at all. We need land for food, and we'll need increasingly more of it in the next decade thanks to overfishing, and population growth

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