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by walleeee 3y ago
That's where the rest of us come in. I for one would much sooner take a grocery delivery job if it's a critical service for the elderly and disabled rather than midnight pizzas for potheads. The idea that a car is the only lifelin
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by walleeee 3y ago
> Depending on who is counting energy consumption (this is all sources of energy not just utility electricity) either peaked or plateaued in 2017-2018. While this is my understanding too I would dispute the cause. Energy use did not peak
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by walleeee 3y ago
this framing, in making no reference to the thermodynamics of transportation, or of the human economy in general, mistakes mythology for reality pursuit of convenience and immediate utility with scarcely a thought for consequences propels u
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by walleeee 3y ago
It's a wicked and pervasive problem in academia. Put otherwise capable people in a pathological incentive matrix and this is what happens.
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by walleeee 3y ago
Sure, if you want to call a desire for a viable planetary ecology histrionics. What are we doing here if we can't critique the technologies we deploy or question the trajectories they set us on?
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3. Imagine that instead of continuing to build an enormously fragile, destructive world economy on a very temporary energy surfeit, we'd understood this could not sustain, and the car on the left was never manufactured
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by walleeee 3y ago
Pesticide/herbicide exposure is also plausible, either via direct mechanisms or by disruption of gut microbiota (e.g. glyphosate and the shikimate pathway). It seems likely that these and other factors could interact, too.
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by walleeee 3y ago
This is a foundation of the liberal tradition and one on which e.g. Smith and Marx would agree: human-scale industry is among our most fundamental (and prolific) predilections Moreover that it tends to produce better outcomes than the frant
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by walleeee 3y ago
Single meal delivery as an institution is wildly inefficient. The absurd inefficiency of the car as delivery vehicle does not make drones a meaningfully wiser choice. For every proposed technology, we need desperately to ask: does this real
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by walleeee 3y ago
This is the most important comment here. Everything we consider "wealth" is downstream of our ecobiological cocoon. If one's reaction to this is "we can just develop artifical life support": suggestions that a well-
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by walleeee 3y ago
> None will "run out" as in there is no more available, only that the remaining ones are too expensive to extract at the moment. Right, the issue is cost of extraction (in materials, energy, and externalities, the only real c
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by walleeee 3y ago
It is especially maddening that our fossil inheritance, dipped into with wisdom and in moderation, could have been a profound and lasting gift for all future life on earth, instead of threatening its very existence. The dose makes the poi
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by walleeee 3y ago
that's the intended effect
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by walleeee 3y ago
For a counterpoint, see Simon Michaux's work on what full electrification entails from a resource perspective.
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by walleeee 3y ago
Would you prefer he double down and not admit the elephant slaughter was a mistake? Ruminants are not "the answer" to climate stability, and big meat is as pernicious as big ag or big oil or anything else, but neither are ruminant
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by walleeee 3y ago
We switch away from disposable things in general
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by walleeee 3y ago
I dunno, I simulate quantum systems (you, myself, my friends) in my head all the time
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by walleeee 3y ago
It absolutely was suppressed at the beginning. A small cadre of scientists, in coordination with a high-level government official, published claims they knew or suspected to be unsupported or misleading in a leading medical journal. This is
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by walleeee 3y ago
The active Fortran projects I have seen (hydrology) are mostly f90+. That said, they were rewritten over years of dedicated effort and could easily have languished in original form had the federal funding landscape looked different in recen
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by walleeee 3y ago
While I think you're correct that goals and roles may be different, on average, for the scientist-turned-programmer trajectory, there are plenty of RSEs who come from the opposite direction, i.e. strong programming background, but pick
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by walleeee 3y ago
I am partial to the "Cuboid" as described here https://dynomight.net/better-DIY-air-purifier.html . Quiet, easy, effective, and get all the foam you need from the duct fan packaging.
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by walleeee 3y ago
> It’s hard to make a simple chart of how fast science and technology are advancing, the same way we can make a chart for economic growth. But I think that if we could, it would present a broadly similar picture as the economic growth ch
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by walleeee 3y ago
Thanks, I just wondered where you got the info and if it might be publicly accessible. I lived in the area too and was curious where my power came from.
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by walleeee 3y ago
I make no claim either way on that, just responding to your other point on inflationary forcings.
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by walleeee 3y ago
Energy/material costs and money-printing are not unrelated, in that the latter is being used to paper over extremely worrying trends in the former. 2008-induced QE and covid-induced direct payments are both can-kicking strategies which
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by walleeee 3y ago
Do you have a reference for AEP's coverage? I can't find anything on their website.
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by walleeee 3y ago
The guy is by no means a "doomer" and nowhere does he say everything is futile, give up now. That is the opposite of his point: he wants us all to reflect on our trajectory, subject it to serious critique, and try to turn it into
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by walleeee 3y ago
Money is a claim on energy, materials, and/or labor. Given that none of these are growing more abundant (except perhaps labor, depending how hard you squint), it may not make sense to plan for the same retirement prospects as the curre
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by walleeee 3y ago
The absence of global coherence does not mean it cannot be described as a world order, it just means it's not optimizing for long term success. If we'd like to continue lifting people out of poverty and give future life a fighting
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by walleeee 3y ago
> what's the actual issue you want capitalism to solve Seeing as it's more or less the de facto world order it should ideally solve global alignment for the long term wellbeing of Earth-borne life

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