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by shawnb576 7y ago
> Nobody is dying from global warming. This is definitely not true now and will be less true in future. And its a very narrow view - climate change is spreading misery and destruction at massive scales. - More powerful hurricanes and cy
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by shawnb576 7y ago
This kind of stuff, well the whole fertility process really, is what really opened my eyes to what women have to deal with that most men don't seem to have any awareness of. The sheer amount of guilt, shame, tut-tutting, and general bu
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by shawnb576 7y ago
Is it? Models going back decades are pretty darn correct from what I’ve read https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/04/climate-...
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by shawnb576 7y ago
> Climate becoming warmer isn't about to stop insects I don’t think this is right. A good friend of mine is a PhD Entomologist. I asked her about the article last year that talked about the global crash in insect populations _incl
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by shawnb576 7y ago
Yeah (2) seems most likely to me. Semi-advanced civilization like ours is relatively common but almost always depletes it’s resources and collapses. Any civilization needs a lot of energy to grow. Energy is generally dangerous. Climate chan
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by shawnb576 7y ago
This is not a very good article. I fully agree with the authors point that GDP at the top line metric is a disaster. But there are several other proposed models out there. Why doesn’t he mention them? Organizations optimize around metrics
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by shawnb576 7y ago
Ugh, I shouldn't feed trolls... 1) AGM has hit the gold-standard of proof, it's not an open question at this point, and CO2 is the primary driver along with other GHG [1] 2) What exactly are the "potentially disastrous"
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by shawnb576 7y ago
I find this list a bit disappointing and not particularly insightful. I think that its because a lot of success is timing and luck (in addition to something being good), so it's like asking a startup founder why their startup was succ
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by shawnb576 7y ago
Exactly. Why doesn't the police dept carry insurance for _exactly this_? Yes it will be expensive, but it's a leveraged bet that allows them to do what they need to but have some consequences for doing things they don't. The
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by shawnb576 7y ago
this! i'm finding that people - educated, thoughtful, caring people - have real trouble wrapping their heads around this threat, how serious it is, and how fast its coming. these same people are very concerned about plastic pollution.
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by shawnb576 7y ago
Lost me at first sentence: “AI research is making great strides toward its long-term goal of human-level or superhuman intelligent machines.” Hmmm, really? What examples? Show me a machine that can do what a gnat does and we’ll talk.
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by shawnb576 7y ago
Did you read the article? This article is arguing large reductions, not complete eliminations. How is that black and white? A talk I attended by this same author, in maybe 2010, is what caused me to dramatically decrease my meat intake.
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by shawnb576 7y ago
This seems like the Occam’s razor solution to Fermi’s paradox: 1. Civilizations have a short “technological” shelf life eg when they can send and receive signals, say 200y 2. They are spread apart by space and time by natural distribution
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by shawnb576 7y ago
1000ppm decreases human cognitive ability by ~20%. It's hard enough to deal with these problems with the brainpower we have. [1] https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1510037
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by shawnb576 7y ago
No, that's clearly not what I'm saying. I'm not arguing that people shouldn't do these things, I'm arguing that we should be clear about what they actually accomplish. I do all of these things, but I don't ki
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by shawnb576 7y ago
These are great ways to live in line with your values. Kudos to anyone who does their best to minimize their GHG footprint. But no this will not prevent climate change and it’s best people don’t get the idea that they are “fighting climate”
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by shawnb576 7y ago
Decreasing population in its own won’t do it. A lot of the bad stuff will happen for millennia whether we are here or not. We need to get net negative.
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by shawnb576 8y ago
That's easy: this doesn't happen in a vacuum of supply/demand. Not everything is a perfectly efficient market. A daycare, like any other business has costs associated with rent (which has gone up a LOT) and employees (who are
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by shawnb576 8y ago
This all has to exist within your tolerance and commitment. In my case I have limited time and patience (kids, etc). It’s different for everyone. But the battery and sleep issues aren’t close. On Windows I get probably double the battery,
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by shawnb576 8y ago
I tried this last year and eventually gave up. I definitely prefer the Ubuntu shell experience, command line, etc. They’ve done a great job. But the last mile is still too rough. Battery life, sleep/wake, font rendering, Bluetooth, al
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by shawnb576 8y ago
What are some good reasons to run this vs Raspbian?
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by shawnb576 8y ago
This is denialist propaganda. We are the cause of the current warming cycle [1] and what this leaves out is timescales. The prior cycles took millennia, this is decades, and natural systems can’t adapt that fast. [1] https://www
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by shawnb576 8y ago
I think you’re being flip but that is quite the strawman.
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by shawnb576 8y ago
This article is fluff. However it touches on a base reality: Writing software isn’t that hard. The hard thing is knowing what software to write. This is one thing junior engineers misunderstand about senior people. They’re not necessarily
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by shawnb576 8y ago
What evidence do you have to support this? I don’t know if any tech that can stop this let alone reverse it. Even with zero emissions tomorrow we are in for real trouble. All the money in the world won’t help you if the planet’s ability t
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by shawnb576 8y ago
I've heard this a lot. Vancouver passed some laws to try to discourage the practice. That said, I live in Seattle, and have for 25 years. I've lived in some of the nicest neighborhoods (Kirkland, Capitol Hill) and I have not seen
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by shawnb576 8y ago
Anders was primarily focused on C#. He contributed greatly to some of the pre-FX frameworks (WFC), but once the VJ++ injunction happened, MS was very focused on getting a modern language out into the world. The part that you are referencing
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by shawnb576 8y ago
I think you're both right. Winforms was built on the Win32 stack, which is pretty basic and doesn't allow you to cleanly separate concerns. We had to build layout, hwnd recreation for style changes, clean wrappers around multi-hwn
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by shawnb576 8y ago
Sure, I work at Uber on developer tooling
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by shawnb576 8y ago
Haha, nah it's all good. Honestly I'm shocked (shocked!) that I still see Winforms on resumes to this day. My real claim to fame is the VS Property Browser, which is System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGrid to this day. I love seeing new

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