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by vixen99 2y ago
And compared to what manner of assessment of that genius? Animals had the Earth to themselves for millennia. Humans for a very short period. You judge!
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> Then they cut off subsidies And now they're back: https://www.cardino.de/en/blog-posts/subsidy-for-electric-ca... 'In Germany, the government has introduced various incentives to accelerate this shi
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Major disruption of the Atlantic overturning circulation (AOMC) is not expected(science.org)
12 points by vixen99 2y ago|5 comments
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I'd never heard of this. For those who are time-pressed it's "Cultural materialism as a literary critical practice—this article will not address its anthropological namesake—is a Marxist-inspired and mostly British approach t
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by vixen99 2y ago
Link?
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by vixen99 2y ago
For those wondering as I did: HOA is 'home owners association'.
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If actions speak louder than words then the UK government is not massively anti-immigration. I would say that devolution of power in Britain has ensured that governments are not actually that powerful and unelected authorities with views of
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Prosocial motives underlie scientific censorship by scientists(pnas.org)
3 points by vixen99 2y ago|0 comments
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All models surely write 'its performance'.
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Microsoft Wanted to Be Carbon Negative. Then It Went Big on AI(bloomberg.com)
1 points by vixen99 2y ago|1 comments
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by vixen99 2y ago
>It's already cheaper than anything else and getting even more cheaper. Cheap but a lot of folk don't follow through. China accounted for some 50% of the coal capacity under construction in 20 countries last year. China (75%) d
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by vixen99 2y ago
Try that with the billions of folk in what we still call the developing world. 'Rewarding them' sounds a bit patronizing.
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by vixen99 2y ago
You are downvoted but it will be interesting to see which calamity (or maybe not) befalls humanity first. I say humanity because the survival of America as a successful trading nation is of immense importance for every one on Earth.
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by vixen99 2y ago
True but if it was also adapted to try to meet the promise of the current title then that would be really nice.
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Estimates of lynx in the Romanian Carpathians seems to be also around 1500-2000. Seems there are probably around 7,000+ in Europe altogether. As far as I can gather they don't seem to be threatened in this particular location. If you
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by vixen99 2y ago
Nothing particularly glorious about sapience trapped in a permanent bag of flesh especially one with a rather fixed view about the world about it. Never mind dictators; how about: 'The President of Global Enterprises Inc. is today 15
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by vixen99 2y ago
In thinking about this perennial problem it's worth bearing in mind that human beings pick up and process an immense amount of data on a continuous basis, that is currently unavailable to any LLM.
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by vixen99 2y ago
You mean you can't summarize it in a sentence of two?
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> there should be global evidence of this happening already There is. https://www.nasa.gov/technology/carbon-dioxide-fertilization... for instance. "From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown s
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Much appreciated
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by vixen99 2y ago
I wonder what you (or any of us) would like to say to N. J. Ayuk, Executive Chairman at the African Energy Chamber:- (his words, not mine) “Africans don’t hate Oil and Gas companies. We love Oil and today we love gas even more because we kn
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by vixen99 2y ago
Yes but how about answering the question because lives depend on it. What should Israel do? Live with Hamas and the 80% of Palestinians who support them? Give up and move ten million people (including some ~20% Muslims & Arabs) to somew
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by vixen99 2y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/ha... Really, objectively, I am wondering what on Earth any country X would do faced with a statement from an enemy Y as in :- The complete and u
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Less and less thank goodness. And there's always SciHub and others.
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I don't know the cost of the measures that have been put in place to date to reduce CO2 emissions globally but undoubtedly it's a massive sum. On looking at this graph, it seems that whatever the sum it's had no discernible e
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by vixen99 2y ago
No, we don't yet know what's happening in that area: as the DARPA 2022 report puts it in a press release entitled 'Solid State verification of nuclear particles in electrochemical cells'. "Work should continue - muc
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In Defence of Scientific Truth(spectator.co.uk)
3 points by vixen99 3y ago|0 comments
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by vixen99 3y ago
Doesn't a crusade, which I think it was, imply a set of strong beliefs not a dispassionate analysis of what might be the case? David Berlinski's 'The Devil's Delusion - The atheism and its scientific pretensions' of
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by vixen99 3y ago
You make a very reasonable point but I'm sure you would have been rather more accommodating if you'd known (via an acknowledgement) that the original author wrote exactly these words in 1910 in a style which was undoubtedly a lot
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by vixen99 3y ago
Just a reminder that this text was written in 1910 by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvanus_P._Thompson

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