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by yongjik 3y ago
You are the one making a logical leap. We do know that the Earth's climate is entering conditions never seen during human history. We know how CO2 warms up the Earth. We just don't have a detailed knowledge of exactly how and
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> >...Thus, projections of future Antarctic sea-ice extent and the associated climate implications are highly uncertain. > Point is - we don't know. People keep interpreting "we don't know" in the same way a mut
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Man, Steve Jobs' Palo Alto must have been a truly special place. The only memorable thing I encountered in Palo Alto's street (while working there a few years ago) was the overwhelming stench of urine in the underpass beneath the
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by yongjik 3y ago
> "If Trump is jailed, every US President will be from this point onwards." Maybe America should consider doing that. South Korea has jailed four ex-presidents so far, and will likely continue to do so in the future. Somehow
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by yongjik 3y ago
Except that the very graph in your link shows 2023 as an unremarkable year. "El Niño after a few years of La Niña" practically happens every decade or so. Similar thing happened in 2002 and 2009: 2002 was an average fire year an
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The graph shown in the link ends at 2021, with was apparently a somewhat bad year but not horrible, with 4 million hectares burned. Clearly, there were worse years in the past, like 1989 or 1995, when more then 7 million hectares were burn
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LNT is a funny model: it's extremely simple yet people misunderstand it all the time. Like, it's basically how you would model loss of money would affect your finance. You lose ten cents, you're out of ten cents. You lose
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On the flip side, there was a lot of what I'd call, hmm, "unreasonable" skepticism. If I had a dime every time someone said "This is fake because Korean culture (blah blah armchair sociology)" ...
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"Scaling across all sectors" is, at best, irrelevant. For decades, most developed countries have run their trains on electricity and their vehicles on gas and diesel, and it caused no problems. If anything, having multiple energ
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For decades, when climate scientists said "We don't know what will happen," people naively assumed "Well, they don't know what will happen, we'll probably be fine." Turns out they literally meant they didn
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by yongjik 3y ago
From what I've heard, the chief of the Korean Society of Superconductivity and Cryogenics had personally called LK-99 out as a hoax - which might have been justifiable, given evidences, but it might explain the reluctance by the LK-99
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by yongjik 3y ago
> The design plays with the confines of a traditional acoustic frame at 84” long, 18” deep, and sitting at around 500 pounds. So, this thing doesn't actually exist, does it? That's a lot of bold and assertive language for some
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I think it's a matter of priors. If a Youtuber shows, say, how to make non-Newtonian fluid from starch, then it's much easier to accept it at face value, because we already know such a thing exists, and what would they gain by
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Thanks for the thoughtful response. You put it much better than I did.
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The most bizarre is people who view this as a fight between underdog citizens and established big science, ignoring that the most useful commentaries and replication efforts are coming from universities and big science labs. (And no, a phot
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Collapsing marine ecosystems are not theoretical risks, they have been happening around the world for decades (if not more). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfishing#Examples_and_evide... Or did you mean "Don&#x2
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I don't think that makes sense. China is communist in name only, and there must be a lot of places where the biggest source of income is tourism. And what happens when the majority of people in a town suddenly lose jobs? They start t
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Well, the whole thing must be at liquid helium temperature, so probably not practical ...
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Not an answer, but if you think superconductor is weird, look up superfluid, now that's going to make your head spin.
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I agree that Korea has a lot of idiotic bureaucrats who apparently think the purpose of scientific pursuit is to win a Nobel prize, but "pent up national shame" is a bit exaggerating. Go to the streets of Gangnam and ask random p
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> Then there's some discussion about who the people who created the video are and the letters DOD appear but I have no idea if that means "Department of Defense" or some other acronym. I don't think there's any m
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by yongjik 3y ago
A few hours ago people found a Facebook post dated June, by some professor in Korea, where he posted a photo of a cold-call mass mail by the Quantum Energy Lab (the lab in question), claiming that they had discovered room-temperature superc
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I think you're underselling your country. Australia is big and important enough that the US can't just ignore it or casually overthrow its government and install a puppet one. Obviously, it would benefit Australia to keep a good
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But my point is that the US is hindering China's chip industry development just fine, without a single gunshot fired, and it's considered totally mundane. There are a lot of ways developed countries can nudge developing ones towar
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> To ask these countries to reduce their energy requirements is to ask their citizens to live a lower standard of life. Hypocritical of those in the West to make that request. That's a weird take. The West has colonized the rest of
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> Per-capita is useless in practice because a factory pumping out 1000000 units in Canada will look bad per-capita. > A factory pumping 1000000 units in China looks great per-capita. A factory pumping out 1000000 units, each earning $
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by yongjik 3y ago
I have to disagree based on my experience. In my country (South Korea), many have voted for conservative politicians under the notion that while they might be corrupt, they come with long careers inside the government and hence more "
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by yongjik 3y ago
I'm on the fence whether I should just flag this and move on. On one hand, there's an interesting discussion to be made: EVs are heavier, which means (while they cause less CO2 emission) they may cause more pollution in other area
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> If you start under the assumption that materialism is true (...) you can't trust any of your thoughts since they are: 1. Out of your control, since it's all physics. 2. Created by a brain that evolved to survive, not to creat
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My 10+ yr old Yaris is leaking some fluid (I forgot which), and the dealer said it would be $1k+ to fix it, I didn't know if I could even sell it for $1k, so I said forget it. Thankfully the car is holding up valiantly, but if the lea

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