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by timmg 3y ago
> What seemed to be missing was a critical and self-aware statement of why his critics may be right or at least his strongest argument. I imagine for any talk (or any theory) about just about anything (worth giving a talk about) will h
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by timmg 3y ago
I see you’ve met my wife…
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> Since 1973, at least 190 people have been exonerated from death row in the U.S... I don't really have a dog in this fight, but I'm wondering if you know if "exonerated" in this case means "found clear evidence
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by timmg 3y ago
> Do you also avoid getting life insurance because you've never died before? No, I get life insurance for free from my job ;) But if your question can be translated to, "Do you avoid every possible risk in your life?" The
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by timmg 3y ago
I'll probably get hate for this, but: I've never used an ad blocker. I (generally) always "accept all cookies" from that European thing. I do use "incognito mode" sometimes -- but not often. I've never g
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by timmg 3y ago
What really annoys me about Windows: I build my own PC and bought a new license for Windows Professional and it still is filled with adware and other MS bullshit. Like what does "professional" even mean? Steve Jobs said it best
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I mean, it's nice to blame Republicans. But they are more likely to support nuclear than the Dems. So...
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by timmg 3y ago
I really can't square this idea that "global warming will end civilization" if we don't reduce CO2 with not using nuclear power. (Even worse, shutting down existing, working plants.)
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by timmg 3y ago
Lots of crazy things in the weather this year. The obvious thing is to blame climate change. But these are pretty sudden and extremely unusual. I don’t think this is at all what is predicted. I wonder how much the Hunga Tonga eruption of
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by timmg 3y ago
> I was invited to be a mentor in a career-focused program for college students. The number of students who wanted advice about how to get easy remote jobs where they didn’t have to do any work was depressing. This is likely one of the
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by timmg 3y ago
Speaking of which, I recently saw this: https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/what-the-ipcc-actually-... which is kinda a review of what IPCC report says about "extreme weather". For me, this summary is a lot
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by timmg 3y ago
Came to say, essentially, the same thing. I will add that I also enjoyed the move Fat Man and Little Boy which was about the Manhattan project. Not an Oscar-worthy movie. But told a good story, centered around Oppenheimer.
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by timmg 3y ago
It could also mean: smarter people make more money -- and they pass down intelligence -- both genetically and through teaching.
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by timmg 3y ago
Honest question: how can you expect stuff for free without ads?
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by timmg 3y ago
Wasn't the last hottest year like 2016? Seven years ago. Is it really that fast? We've had a few consecutive years of la nina. This year is the revenge el nino. It was going to be hotter.
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by timmg 3y ago
We know and have known the earth is warming. Since there is some natural variability, we don’t set a new record every year . But if there wasn’t, we would. And so it shouldn’t be a surprise to us when we do.
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by timmg 3y ago
Even without any genetic adaptations (probably?) the world is "greening" due to increased CO2: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...
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Shouldn’t the government simply make a law enforcing that? Maybe a CO2 tax? I assume Oregonians would be happy to vote for such a thing.
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> EDIT2: While I don't know youtube's average revenue per user, both Facebook and Google's ARPU for the NA segment is ~$100-$200/y, which would put $6/mo quite close to the replacement cost of lost ads revenue. $
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by timmg 3y ago
> "You made me do it” is a standard gaslighting technique, common in abusive relationships.... Amusingly, when I first started reading this I thought you were referring to all the comments justifying using ad blockers for the variou
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Do you think any of that is because they hadn't paid the pain of failing to scale? I probably spend way too much time thinking about how things I build will work when I get to the "limits" of how much data I will store. (I&#
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by timmg 3y ago
Anyone know how trustworthy that data is? I sometimes check the AirDNA blog and they don’t show a drop like that (overall): https://www.airdna.co/blog/airdna-market-review-us-may-2023
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by timmg 3y ago
Thanks! That’s around 4% of the sea level rise since 1950. Crazy!
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by timmg 3y ago
I’m really curious how much all our aquifer draining has added to sea level. I have no idea what the scale is. But I suspect it is enough to show up in measurements.
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> How much more are you willing to pay to rebuild Miami after bigger hurricanes do more damage? We have continued to build in disaster-prone areas. That's a real problem. But that is somewhat orthogonal to climate change. Imagin
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I can say, personally, I was not for the blackouts. It just seemed counter-productive to me. For whatever subs I subscribe to, that means the mods went against my will. Maybe I was a small minority. Maybe I was in the majority. Not su
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by timmg 3y ago
> We are effectively shitting in our only home and pretending it won't make things really unpleasant, but instead we'll adapt. I mean: yes. We (including you ) could stop using any form of fossil-fuel derived energy tomorrow.
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by timmg 3y ago
> but it is very blind to the real impact global warming is already having. Can you be specific? Like, I get that every time there is a natural disaster, the media blares about climate change. But, for example, there's been no tren
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> "A lot of your coastal historical cities are going be be underwater and parts of your country will become uninhabitable, meaning you and everyone else will need to move elsewhere" is absolutely horrific. Which cities and what
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I'll say two things that will be controversial. But first, just want to be clear: global warming is real; human caused; and will have negative effects on many parts of the world. 1) We are not heading for "the end of the world&qu

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