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by salmonfamine 4y ago
We agree here. By "consumption," I'm not just referring to residential consumption. There is enough water in the Southwest for a sizable population, of course. The problem ahead is how to distribute a constrained resource to
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
I don't think "just move" is the answer either, but the fact remains that the region cannot sustainably support its current population (much less a growing population) given current levels of consumption. So, either the popul
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
Obviously this is referring to an individual section. Please take more time to consider the arguments of others before posting. This comment does not enhance the level of discourse of HN.
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
Ivy League universities are hedge funds that have colleges and research institutions attached to them. The function of admissions for these institutions is: 1. Secure revenue through donations and full-tuition-paying students to cover their
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
This is simply not true.
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
So what's the alternative? Move to a LCOL area, get a worse job, and watch as inflation turns it into a HCOL area?
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by salmonfamine 5y ago
Yes, I want everyone to die of natural causes after a long and fulfilling life. You're an animal. You're supposed to die. What do you hope to gain and accomplish, sitting around and consuming years after your prime has come and go
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by salmonfamine 5y ago
I hope everyone on this planet dies. No one should live forever.
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by salmonfamine 5y ago
Only the most naive understanding of capitalism holds those two things as opposites, or mutually exclusive.
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by salmonfamine 5y ago
Why would they allow more housing to be built? That would reduce the value of their real estate assets in places like SF and LA. Discard any notion that all but a very small minority of policymakers are truly motivated by ideology.
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by salmonfamine 5y ago
I think they effectively cannot. There would be a shareholder's revolt.
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by salmonfamine 5y ago
Is this not, essentially, the innovator's dilemma? Facebook has to increase profits at a large scale now, and doubtlessly suffers from middle-management power jockeying, and so is unable to repeat the small market growth process that m
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by salmonfamine 5y ago
> One American is emitting 15 Indians worth of carbon emissions. > it is important to realize that increasingly developed countries have been outsourcing most of their high polluting industries. Neither of these points apply to the OP
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by salmonfamine 5y ago
I don’t think OP is claiming he experienced seizures, rather he’s using the “thrown out back” metaphor to explain what he felt when he attempted to work — that is, a re-triggering of the initial symptoms.
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by salmonfamine 5y ago
Well I’ll be a buttered biscuit
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by salmonfamine 5y ago
If we get to a world with hydrogen-fueled rockets, we'll probably have much bigger dreams than just carbon sequestration.
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by salmonfamine 5y ago
I've always wondered if we could find a way to shoot it into space.
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by salmonfamine 5y ago
Depending on investment, greater than 100% growth is not necessarily absurd. The article is about the carbon capturing capability of a single, essentially PoC plant. Carbon Engineering is building a plant that will -- according to their own
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by salmonfamine 6y ago
Where are you from, if you don’t mind me asking?
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by salmonfamine 6y ago
> All of these things put together will put severe strains on unstable parts of the world first, but if the trends are not abated and we end up in 'Hothouse Earth' territory, modern civilization will not be sustainable. I hear
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by salmonfamine 6y ago
See my other comment.
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by salmonfamine 6y ago
How would climate change bring about the collapse of human civilization?
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by salmonfamine 6y ago
The "bad exponential stuff" that the online doomers seem to cling to is almost always: 1) permafrost melt, albedo feedbacks, etc., which has been considered in the most recent IPCC reports and is still being researched 2) sudden m
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by salmonfamine 6y ago
> It isn't over until it's over. However, COVID and the response governments around the world made it's clear they are NOT treating climate like an emergency. How does the COVID response have anything to do with the climat
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by salmonfamine 6y ago
If you're feeling compelled to act, now is a great time to look for jobs in CleanTech. https://www.angellist.com/blog/inside-the-venture-climate-te...
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by salmonfamine 6y ago
Climate research moves from papers to articles to headlines like a game of telephone. I think this is a big problem because it gives your average doomscroller a sense of impending dread and helplessness. Michael E Mann (the famous climate s
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by salmonfamine 6y ago
That was really only true for a narrow segment of the population that had access to wealth though.
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by salmonfamine 6y ago
"To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledn
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by salmonfamine 6y ago
I am not. Thanks though.
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by salmonfamine 6y ago
But we have before, at least in the US. It worked pretty well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine Just because there would be some democratic input doesn't mean there would be total democratic con

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