DemocracyFTW

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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> thus far there haven't been any [crazy consequences], despite centuries of human-driven weather changes. which obviously is not true, right?
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
@1 the part of the salt being an essential ingredient did escape me so thanks for pointing it out. It does make the whole thing more believable because then maybe (if it works) you can have more clouds for a fraction of mass moved. @2 yeah
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
It's good to hear from an Australian that environmental policies like fire management and cloud seeding have made ecological disasters a thing of the past in your part of the world /s
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Maybe my comment in this thread can encourage him to take the calculation further, like trying to find out how many Wh are needed based on physics alone to accelerate the requisite mass of water needed on a daily basis, which gives you a lo
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Under the conservative prime minister Scott Morrison, the government has yet to strengthen its climate pledge under the 2015 Paris agreement, as many nations have done in the past year. Morrison has personally ruled out committing to net-z
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
That doesn't read like an endorsement of planned geoengineering.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
No we're not engineers because we find it OK when the poll results get displayed before you even vote. Engineers would study a problem including user experience and user expectations, hence only tell results after the poll has finished
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
That's not "opposition to the science", that's a sane response to a madman's proposal to intentionally f*k with the biosphere at the grandest scale.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> solar radiation management first [...] Marine cloud brightening you mean, like, throwing a spanner into a machinery we hardly understand and see whether "it sticks"? Give me a hundred planets and start the trials!
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> Generally this is not seriously discussed by experts as a solution to global warming not because it is not feasible, but because it would diminish the sense of urgency Let us say it is not being discussed because it is not feasible. Un
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> surplus renewable energy is where you lost me. Hell coal is projected to get burned by the megaton for another half century or so because China and India have those resources and that demand. Mankind does not currently have surplus ren
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Your assessment of the properties of the display specifically seem to go counter what I perceived as a convincing argument by the OLPC guy brought up in a TED talk at the time, namely, that the two biggest cost factors of a new laptop are m
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
It would perhaps be a good thing if one could write SQL clauses in their logical ordering; as [1] explains: * The FROM clause: First, all data sources are defined and joined * The WHERE clause: Then, data is filtered as early as possib
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
[Q] Do we really want to be perceived as book burners? [A] Tbh I don’t care too much what a bunch of normies that probably didn’t even know the book existed think. The book would still exist but digitized and in the blockchain. [Q] Why
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Also worth to understand and remember, from the linked thread: "digitisation does not = preservation. All they’ve done is replace a long term, resource-light asset with a short term and resource-heavy one that doesn’t work in the way t
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
IOW similar to https://github.com/goodeggs/teacup and a few other libraries that produce markup from inside a programming language with minimalized syntactic fuzz?
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
The answer is we do plunder the planet like there's no tomorrow, notwithstanding what one ought think.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Are those citation quotes you're using around "experts" or scare quotes? The article literally says that the tunnel has been called a death trap by someone on Reddit. The word 'expert' does not appear in the text. W
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
The number itself is meaningless without giving some baseline. How many is 'many'? As compared to what? Also notice judgemental assumption creeping in, whether intended or unintended, that this is certainly a bad thing: Those many
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
It looks like any input is interpreted as "draw something"
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Æsthetics do play a rôle here
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Yet linguistically, it really doesn't hold up. Words are built up from phonemes, which undergo some alterations depending on their order and the context to become the phones (as in sounds, not telephones) which are actually pronounced
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> The Alliance for American Manufacturing blasted this latest move by Tesla. “I'll be blunt: Any company doing business in Xinjiang is complicit in the cultural genocide taking place there. But Tesla's actions are especially de
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Nitpick: the place is apparently the city of Baotou 包头市; pinyin: Bāotóu; Mongolian: Buɣutu qota, not Baitou; source: linked article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baotou
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
git is as simple as possible while being as powerful as possible This is far from being a foregone conclusion and would need a careful analysis to justify. FWIW Fossil manages to make do without Git's (insanely named) 'index&#x2
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
This is of course exactly what I've been meaning to say here. We want more specific datatypes (e.g. a true date(time) ADT) with better functionality (say interval computation) and constraint checking (AKA domains, such as 'let n b
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
The proliferation of field types has made data more difficult to transfer or share data between different applications and generates confusion. ITOP has only two fundamental data types: numeric and character, and perhaps a byte type for co
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
to be fair, in case the dependencies are pegged to specific known-good versions and are bundled into one or a few files then two concerns with dependencies go away, namely, insanely deep and wide file system trees and the lingering danger o
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
What you say applies to the Kowloon New Territories north of Boundary Street and the outlying islands (and it wasn't 100 but 99 years but I digress).[1] It does not apply to Kowloon south of Boundary Street and Victoria / Hong Kon
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
"Xism is not good or bad; it's just a way to organize power". Excuse me I gotta puke.

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