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by spfzero 5y ago
"places" uninhabitable is not the same as the planet being uninhabitable, as the parent post claimed. Parts of the planet have been uninhabitable for ages.
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by spfzero 5y ago
"they are aware that no amount of education can help them if the planet is nearing inhabitability" Do you really believe that? That Earth will be uninhabitable within the lifetime of a person alive today? Or their grandchildren? N
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by spfzero 5y ago
The long-term storage solution we're using now for CO2, is to put it into the atmosphere. Putting that there is much worse than putting radioactive waste deep underground in a stable salt formation. It's even worse than letting th
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by spfzero 5y ago
What is your idea of a catastrophic failure? A nuclear detonation? Because that actually can't happen. Not because there is some gizmo preventing it that might one day fail, but because it actually, physically can not happen. Is it a m
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by spfzero 5y ago
Lots of things depend on everyone doing their job mostly perfectly, and then inspections and tests, etc. to make sure. Chemical plants, oil platforms, airplanes, etc. We should expect the occasional accident, which there have been for all p
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by spfzero 5y ago
Realistically, it was the worst case as modern designs are much safer. What are you imagining would be the very-far worse case and how would that arise? I'd argue Fukushima was a worst-case scenario with a Gen-3 commercial plant.
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by spfzero 5y ago
"you have to factor in the externalities of the power used to charge them." Presumably that would be power from nuclear power plants, making electric vehicles that much more carbon free. So the vehicle part could change, and drama
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by spfzero 5y ago
I'm running on my 2015 still as well. The later Intel models never got me excited, with what seemed to be only marginal performance increases every year, and my 2015 being rock-solid reliable. The M1X definitely interests me. I don&#x2
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by spfzero 5y ago
How does "Record-high numbers of Americans working in other public-facing roles also quit their jobs as coronavirus cases surged" tell you anything about whether they returned to the industry or not? It doesn't even tell you
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by spfzero 5y ago
Supposedly, having a serious penalty for lying to the FAA should imply veracity. Same way perjury penalties should ensure truthful court testimony. Agree the FAA should cross-check, before a plane crashes, but when they catch this behavior
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by spfzero 5y ago
I think partly what's going on is that some people have immune systems that have a hard time generating an effective response, whether or not they area vaccinated. Vaccination gives the immune system a chance to respond and memorize, a
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by spfzero 5y ago
I can understand it though. If you're a cop, and you know how close you've come to busting someone's head who has been shouting obscenities into your face for the past 10 minutes, you might feel its just a matter of time unti
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by spfzero 5y ago
So, basically Free Drugs for Everyone is your plan? That doesn't seem to offer a solution to the waste of human potential. Why not include rehab and counseling to break the loop of drug addiction? Then you've helped the addict as
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by spfzero 5y ago
When the message was "masks don't work for the public", it was translated to "well they work, but not for you" and thus to "grab as many masks as you can before you are relegated to the no-mask-for-you public b
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by spfzero 5y ago
Solar panels are lasting about 10-15 years in practice. About half of what was expected.
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by spfzero 5y ago
Agree with this and have practiced and advocated for it. Make the schema changes to support the new feature first, then verify existing software still works. Deploy the schema change. Then develop the new feature, test, and deploy the progr
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I kind of guessed a different situation, where a small development team has asked repeatedly for more staff, since they were not making acceptable progress. Owner balks for months because maybe money is tight, but finally relents. Says &#x2
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by spfzero 5y ago
One problem with strings though is that they might, in the parent post's case, have been editable somewhere. In that case a user (admin user, for example) can unknowingly break the relation. A short string code though, only available f
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by spfzero 5y ago
Thanks for the insight.
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by spfzero 5y ago
I still don't think anyone would think 2.5 billion years ago would be recent, on a body that is only 4.5 billion years old. 2.5 billion in the past is less than mid-point in the moon's age, closer to the beginning than the end.
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by spfzero 5y ago
Right now Mars is a pristine snapshot of processes I think we'd like to learn more about. We should propose Terraforming only after we think we've learned pretty much everything we care about. I'm not against terraforming eve
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by spfzero 5y ago
Anything with Lyrics wrecks my concentration. Somehow my mind just can't stop tracking speech. Instrumental is OK, but silence is too. I know lots of people though who must have music on, or they simply cannot concentrate. For them, it
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by spfzero 5y ago
Sure, you have a right to your opinion. IMO Samsung software is far worse than Apple's. Many reasons why, but for one, with an older Apple phone you will still get very timely upgrades to their latest software for many more years than
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by spfzero 5y ago
Science certainly is. The "science" establishment in the USA... not so much. It is just as dogmatic as religion. Take the dogma of zoonotic origin of covid-19 in early 2020 for example. Where was the "less dogmatic" then
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by spfzero 5y ago
This was First Class International Package service, which is tracked by the customs form number.
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What she's telling, or not telling, is irrelevant, and indeed, partly because she has little experience at FB and not in a position that would make her privy to nefarious plots. What is relevant, is the documents, which are not being r
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I ship to Switzerland (for one) from the US. Never lost a shipment and delay is about one week. This is including this past year, when other shipments to other countries were delayed (though not lost). Completely understand it may work diff
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by spfzero 5y ago
> "This did not happen!" It did not happen, with DARPA money, upon this particular proposal. There are many other ways for that research, or similar, to have happened. This tells us there were researchers actively seeking to.
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by spfzero 5y ago
This resonates with my experience, which is basically doing this the wrong way and watching all of it play out the way OP warns it will. I'm sure there are others with the opposite experience but I can vouch both for the desire and exp
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by spfzero 5y ago
If they've already had and recovered from Covid, as in the case of this 100 MM, their case fatality rate is nothing near that, and may well be lower than that for vaccinated-but-never-infected people. Their choice is this, if they are

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