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by tjansen 7y ago
Yes, but the potential of hydro is already maxed out in many countries. According to Wikipedia, Austria produces 55% of its energy using hydro. That's great, but most other countries can't do this. In Germany it generates less tha
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by tjansen 7y ago
Question: do you also get electricity on days without wind, or what's your power source on those days?
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I agree that this paper, at least the 'summary for policymakers', is trash and comes pretty close to denying. It scratches on the surface of some good points, but doesn't follow through. But even then, I rather have someone o
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by tjansen 7y ago
Living in Germany, with its history of ineffective but expensive actions against climate change, I do wish people would stay a bit calmer. Germany could have used its money to fund research that would help solve the issue globally. Instead
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by tjansen 7y ago
Does any of them literally deny climate change? I did a quick Wikipedia check on first two of the mentioned organizations, CEI and the Heartland Institute. Both seem to acknowledge that the climate changes because of human action. They ar
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by tjansen 7y ago
I can't know what research is 'made-up' and what isn't. I just know that it's not helpful as an argument to always claim that the other side it lying.
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Everybody who urges to cut funding for 'climate deniers', for example. And people who call any discussion about it 'dangerous'. I certainly didn't talk about Greta Thunberg. From what I know, she's embracing th
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by tjansen 7y ago
Doesn't it scare you when somebody urges you to make radical changes, but at the same time tries to shut down any discussion about it?
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by tjansen 7y ago
While I am not familiar with any of the organisations mentioned in the article, I think it is a good thing when non-mainstream views are financially supported. The headline is "large contributions", but later it is specified as &q
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by tjansen 7y ago
Not sure why this has been downvoted. It's an interesting way of looking at the issue. You don't have to agree with what China does.
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by tjansen 7y ago
Yes, gasoline engines emit less NO than (old, pre-Euro6) diesel engines. Their particulates emissions may be higher though. You can see the exact values allowed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_emission_sta
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by tjansen 7y ago
The article describes what used to be called a 'radio mix' or 'radio edit': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_edit The only difference is that today it is less common to have several mixes of the
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by tjansen 7y ago
> implying that all climate scientists are alarmists Not exactly. I said that, to my knowledge, all employers of climate scientists are either on the alarmist side or on the denier/sceptic side. And I have yet to see an organisation
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by tjansen 7y ago
Thank you for answering the question far better than I could. Nuclear energy is the conundrum I fail to understand, especially here in Germany. If climate change is the most important threat to humanity, why not choose the relatively easy s
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by tjansen 7y ago
I am saying that employers of climate scientists have expectations, because they are in one of the two camps. Do you know any major organization that the other camp would consider neutral? Have you heard of a climate alarmist organization
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by tjansen 7y ago
I agree that there are fewer climate scientists, but I would also expect that any climate scientist who is not also a climate alarmist would have no chance of employment. Unless the employer is on the climate denial side, in which case the
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by tjansen 7y ago
The other side argues that climate alarmists are often backed by organizations whose funding depends on the existence of a climate catastrophe. Without a looming catastrophe there would be less public funding and far fewer donations. I call
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by tjansen 7y ago
management issues that lead to 30% of people leaving Agreed, but it would even be better to give a numbers, like 5 of the 15 members quit, so it doesn't look like you're exagerating. If you need to say something negative about
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by tjansen 7y ago
Not sure where you grew up, but where I grew up most kids spent at least 95% of their computer time playing games.
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by tjansen 7y ago
If the Macan is a too large, that would mean that practically all family cars are too large. The groups that have been quoted in the article were demanding a 'large SUV ban' even before this accident. Now they are using this accid
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by tjansen 7y ago
What the article doesn't mention: the "SUV" was a Porsche Macan, a compact SUV that's smaller than most german station wagons and about the size of an average family van. They just say 'Porsche SUV', and most p
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by tjansen 7y ago
I think daydreaming is not a wast of time, if you can use them to motivate yourself. You have to make a habit out of remembering that you need to start in order to make that daydream come true.
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by tjansen 7y ago
I never used dating apps, it always seemed like a ridiculous waste of time, at least for men. But as I am semi-introverted and don't drink, I also had no idea where to meet people. One day I found meetin.org, which was a very active co
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by tjansen 7y ago
* using public transport / not having drivers license: I got a driver's license only in my mid 30s and I really regret not doing it earlier. So many beautiful days wasted at home, lost touch with friends etc because getting out of
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by tjansen 7y ago
But to replace it with what? I assume not with solar and wind, as that would mean that you won't have electricity on windstill nights.
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Java's GC does it. When a reference becomes unreachable, it will automatically free the resource. That's not the issue. The issue is that GCs are not predictable. All current implementations either have issues with circular refere
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by tjansen 7y ago
Closing files manually is manual resource management, not memory management. C++ uses its memory management for resource management, but Java doesn't. Java improved resource management with "try with resources", but generall
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by tjansen 7y ago
I think demonetizing them is a better solution. It discourages their production, but creates less attention.
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If you censor conspiracy videos, you're validating them. It looks like you're trying to hide the truth. There is just no way of getting rid of them, unless you want to censor all of the internet.
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by tjansen 7y ago
It's kind of true, but how could you let people ride bikes? They don't even have airbags.

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