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by wtdata 7y ago
No there is nothing contradictory, the points are simple: 1: These catastrophic scenarios have historically been great exaggerations of reality. 2: The major culprit at the moment, by a long margin, is China, while the EU has actually a ver
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The thing is, those Thatcher speeches (and of course all the movement in Europe) worked, we reduced our emissions by almost 30% in 30 years. Which makes it specially bad when a bunch of people from the comfort of their life in here, now dec
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by wtdata 7y ago
Did you though the same when we were told that in 20 year the Earth would be unhabitable due to the holes in the ozone layer and that it would take hundreds of not thousands of years to heal (that was 25 years ago btw)? How about when Al Go
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by wtdata 7y ago
> However, I also think that the old adage "desperate times call for desperate measures" applies here. If they were really into desperate measures, their actions would be targeting China (you know, that country that now produce
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by wtdata 7y ago
Any idea of a similar extension for Firefox?
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Been desperately searching for something similar for Firefox, but no luck so far.
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by wtdata 7y ago
I actually changed to Chrome only for this. I have been looking for months for something like Workona for Firefox but to no avail. I used Firefox for years and I want to continue using it, but for my way of work (multiple tabs open in sever
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by wtdata 7y ago
Again this tired strawman argument? Gold mining produces several orders of magnitude less CO2 pollution than Bitcoin. Besides that, gold mining processes are ever increasingly more efficient, while Bitcoin, by design, is every increasingly
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by wtdata 7y ago
Sincerely, the present question for me is if I should start investing heavily in Julia. Eventually Python (like every other language) will be superseded by some new and better suited language for a set of problems. The question is if it wil
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IKEA is introducing robotic furniture for people who live in small spaces(theverge.com)
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Type A blood converted to universal donor blood with help from bacterial enzymes(sciencemag.org)
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Windows 10's Linux Kernel Is Now Available(m.slashdot.org)
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by wtdata 7y ago
India is the country with biggest population density in the planet (barring some micro nation), why does everyone keep giving India a pass for having absolutely no regard for sustainability and keep exploding their population by having way
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by wtdata 7y ago
> just wait till you see the number arriving due to the fuel we burn. But in the case is the fuel they burn, right? India is projected to become the 2nd biggest producer of CO2 (behind China) this decade. Also, I go around here and gasol
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by wtdata 7y ago
The Guardian became a joke, they are so biased they can't even recognise humour.
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> People are not forced to stop talking about politics on a public forum the day of the elections, that's complete bullshit. They actually are in some European countries. France included. EDIT: Link to the law in question in the off
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In the article it points out that although the results are negative when it comes to cold fusion, they had positive results about connected themes like materials research.
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by wtdata 7y ago
I see people being attacked to - the point of destroying their life - for denouncing far left propaganda though. At least you can denounce far right propaganda without the fear of repercussions. Let's look at the BLM movement. Just sho
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by wtdata 7y ago
I would like to see an open source project taking the spot here, not Huawei doing the same (actually probably worst) thing as Google and create their own semi-closed OS. In fact, in Huawei's particular case, I don't even think it
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by wtdata 7y ago
It's the new-age version of the Western exceptionalism: Everything that happens in the world - as long as it is bad - should be attributed to the West. Most people pretending to care about the environment, aren't really interested
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by wtdata 7y ago
Developed countries actually are doing relatively well when it comes to CO2 emissions. EU reduced theirs in 25% the last 30 years. USA and most of others maintained them in those 30 years. It's mainly China (it increased theirs in 300%
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by wtdata 7y ago
That is an interesting explanation, but felines usually hunt in the night and our low light vision wouldn't allow our ancestors to defend themselves in a way that relied so much in accuracy during the dark.
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by wtdata 7y ago
I would say it's because of their consumerist culture and financial illiteracy, not because of extremely low wages. I wonder how many of these 40% have a high end smartphone and a big LCD TV in their living room.
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by wtdata 7y ago
Again, why shouldn't they? 2.5 children is a perfectly acceptable number. Also, the birthrate in the USA (and most Western world) is already below the replacement rate for decades now. [1] [1] https://www.iheart.com/con
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by wtdata 7y ago
Why were you shocked? 2.5 children per couple is just slightly above the replacement rate.
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by wtdata 7y ago
Sincerely, all this environmentalist's manifestations we are seeing in EU, would actually make sense if they where in front of the Chinese embassies here. Instead they keep demanding local actions from the EU, as if the EU hasn't
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by wtdata 7y ago
Actually what the proper article tells is that woman productivity increases with temperature, but that man productivity decreases (up to a point). [1] But of course, that title wouldn't be "click-baity" enough in our present
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"Soylent green is people!"
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But we actually do as long is it's not a life treatning disease. As an example, I am now waiting 2 months to see my family doctor (I just need prescriptions for simple anti histamines, since it's cheaper that way), and 3 years
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by wtdata 7y ago
Sure, but on the other side, the pay for those jobs would also have a bigger pressure on them to increase. Someone will always have to do those jobs (at least for a long time until when/if machines do them), we shouldn't expect th

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