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by throwaway6532 5y ago
I know that that's the hope, but there are some very questionable assumptions it's based on. The more I dig into it the more I get the sense that while there are solutions being investigated across a wide variety of domains for ho
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>If you believe that human society cannot afford to continue relying on fossil fuels, because they are an existential threat to civilisation, then it follows that the tax on those fuels also needs to become unaffordable. I think if you c
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>The point of disaster planning for a hurricane, tornado, earthquake, or wildfire, is not to be “not-screwed.” It’s to be notably less screwed. This times 1000. Thanks for sharing this article! This is the exact type of analysis that res
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Well I live in New Zealand, so that's a start. However, it's honestly not much help. It is for everyday run of the mill disasters. We did fantastic in Covid. But my assumption is the full breakdown of globalization leading to a ma
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>preppers would be better off hiking, hunting, fishing, gardening, and learning homestead skills for the psychologically grounding effects For me at least this is definitely an aspect of it that is very important. My assumption is that g
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Damn. That's incredible.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
After nearly a decade of slowly forming this picture and having it constantly shift and update as I acquire new information about the behavior of systems, human nature, complexity, and understanding history I'm not likely to radically
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
From what I've started to dig into online seems like rice + beans + canned foods. And from what else I've seen you treat it as an extended pantry that you do FIFO rotation on.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Yes. Though that's only a probabilistic outcome. And for what it's worth... I'll take that bet! Edit: On second thought maybe I should hedge that bet by inviting my wife's BJJ blackbelt coach to live with us as security
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>A lot of people survived in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That wasn't an exchange. That was a sucker-punch. I made a bet with my friends several weeks before Putin invaded that I think that's what could be on the cards for Ukraine b
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Which is why it's far, far better to pre-panic buy than to panic buy. Surges are one thing, but they're not going to end the system by themselves. There are other things which the supply chains can't deal with are what worry
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
This is a solid position to be in. We're so far out of balance with nature and living in a 'food bubble' essentially that what I'm actually most worried about is the correction of the food bubble essentially. Those who c
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Or for as long as the bullets last and the trucks will have stopped rolling a loooong time ago, but it sure will provide you with a nice long buffer to figure things out in the meantime.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
It's definitely highly dependent on where you live in some ways, but in other ways it really doesn't matter. I live in a remote corner of the world that is far from any conflict zones, so I'm not worried about that side of th
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>I don't expect shortages in the sense of starvation risk, more like - they won't have the brands or types of food we're used to. The stores are mainly protection for if goes worse than I expect. That's probably true
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
I largely expect this to be true. I also expect that with the passage of time there will be a decrease in population density to the point where an equilibrium is found between people and resources and behavior becomes more sociable again as
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Yes, I'm very much with you on that.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Yeah, I've only just recently come to see how sensible it actually is from just a daily life point of view.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>Focus mainly on real, independent solutions to being self sustainable. Solar power, solar greenhouses, self defense, farming methods. Don't buy into rhetoric or belief systems. Have math lead you. This is my line of thinking here t
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
I'm going to include this in my plan. Got any recipes?
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>I don't think it should be anyone's duty to accept widespread, severe adversity based on the mistakes of world leaders I think this is a worldview that's very centered on humanity and civilization as it stands today, and
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
I score in the 76th percentile for trait neuroticism and had a traumatic upbringing so my HPA-Axis is fried, I admit. I know that how I react to things is definitely not in-line with how others do, and that sometimes my worry isn't nec
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>If the world becomes the kind of place where those preparations are necessary, it's no longer the kind of world that I'd like to exist in. That's my position in the case of a nuclear winter as that's fundamentally un
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>The main thing currently that no one seems concerned about is the reduction of grain production from Russia and Ukraine because of the war. This is going to have a global impact and will increase food scarcity that a 3 month individual
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Ask HN: Anyone else suddenly become a 'prepper'?
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Cargo culting. Of course. Derp! Why did that not immediately spring to mind???
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Shipping to a warzone costs more and in some cases things start to get uninsurable and the crews don't want to go there etc.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
It there some sort of technical name for this phenomenon? Maybe like "pattern decay" or "technical decay"? From what I have observed in all throughout my career this happens to every pattern eventually. People that come
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Going from working at a company with an engineering team of 40 odd engineers to a company with thousands of engineers where the small company was trying to move towards microservices and it was just really slowing us down and the large comp
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>My advice would be to carefully construct an explanations of the scenarios when microservices do apply, and then explain why you are not currently in that situation. I tried that once. Didn't work. End result was just pure pain.

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