wildmanxx

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by wildmanxx 4y ago
You are kinda arguing against your point. Around the year 1000, it's a reasonable guess to assume that emergence of new species and species extinction were roughly in balance, so net extinction rate was indeed around 0. Today, it'
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by wildmanxx 4y ago
And then pay somebody to guard it. Aka the "pay someone else to do it" option that your sibling comment talks about (and of which there are many different flavors, S3 being another one).
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by wildmanxx 4y ago
> And it's overwhelmingly likely S3 will still exist in an easily readable form in 30 years time. There is no indication that this statement holds true. Not even remotely. Businesses fold all the time. How many services still exist
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by wildmanxx 5y ago
Why not just mix human rights in China also into the discussion? Make everybody into vegans cause animal cruelty? Police brutality? School crisis? Obviously different problems are always best tackled in combination! Practically guarantees s
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by wildmanxx 5y ago
Funny, I had this exact discussion with a colleague at work the other day. She claimed this is nonsense and won't change anybody's mind. Then she mentioned that she just had bought a new car. I asked what kind, it's a hybrid.
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by wildmanxx 5y ago
Maybe convince somebody then to have final storage for nuclear waste anywhere close to where they live. Once this crap is in your backyard, the armchair philosophers find excuses really fast. Similar with wind turbines, but at least those a
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by wildmanxx 5y ago
> jaw droppingly pigheaded incompetence which would also never happen in a country like Germany. Hahaha! Haha! Ha. #sad
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by wildmanxx 5y ago
Right, playing world police should be right at the top of Europe's plan for saving the climate.
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by wildmanxx 5y ago
And closer to war. Great solution! It's going to do so much good for the climate!
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by wildmanxx 5y ago
Sad that this is downvoted. The hidden cost of nuclear is one of the biggest issue the tech-affine crowds tend to ignore and not want to hear about. You may not pay it on your utility bill, but society and later generations will pay it.
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by wildmanxx 5y ago
Which is a good thing. Just converting energy sources is not going to save us. We need to tackle the energy sinks too, i.e., getting smarter about how we use the available energy, i.e., mostly being more energy efficient. ("We" as
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by wildmanxx 5y ago
Come on, could the title be any more click-baity? Arts and U.S. Ivy are missing key words in the title. If you lift your eyes beyond the U.S., there are countries where the student does not pay tuition and the offered degree program actuall
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by wildmanxx 5y ago
> All-or-nothing thinking – which psychologists call ‘splitting’ – is a symptom of certain personality disorders. And yet it permeates American culture right through its core. With me or against me. Good or bad. Right or wrong. Amazing o
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by wildmanxx 5y ago
And none of the people in this thread did provide even a hint of an answer either...
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by wildmanxx 5y ago
The ability to do some changes like that is not the same as doing it always . Most commits are quite localized, and those should not be penalized by the ability to have a few cross-cutting ones.
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by wildmanxx 6y ago
>> Cryptography has rules, which are both simpler and more fundamental than we might think. > <Proceeds to describe Cryptography in a way that confirms that it is exactly as complex as I set it out in my head> This. Soooooo m
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by wildmanxx 7y ago
This article is surprisingly and disappointingly simple-minded to appear on a place called Hacker News. It's a list of things aimed at my mom, not at a "hacker", whatever meaning you assign to this term. The most telling may
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by wildmanxx 7y ago
My advice to anybody in general would be: Do it. I did a Ph.D. and I had a blast. You need to be in an area of your field that you really like, and over the Ph.D. candidate years you will meet essentially everybody on the planet working on