alexgmcm

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by alexgmcm 5y ago
That makes sense if these price rises reflect real shortages of goods and not just more money in the economy. Essentially, we are seeing cost-push inflation and it's not clear when it will go away given the supply chain problems.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
> People keep saying we can feed 10 billion people. We can. But at what cost to the diversity of biological systems? Also those 10 billion people in the future will be consuming far more per capita as developing nations continue to indus
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I mean "Stop at two" isn't a particularly awful policy, yet that is sufficient to curtail population growth. I doubt it even needs to be a policy in many countries - I don't know many people with more than two kids.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
A dam bursting can cause mass fatalities, it's definitely a lot more severe than a minor inconvenience. And the alternative to nuclear at the moment isn't really solar or hydropower (most places aren't suitable for it) but ra
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
If Le Pen or Zemmour get through to the second round then I imagine Macron will win, as voters unite to avoid them winning, much as happened in the previous elections. Although I guess Le Pen and Zemmour might split each others vote, preven
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
And the Paradise Papers as well.. but who knows - third time lucky?
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I also left a PhD in the field (albeit right at the very start of the PhD) but this was also my impression. I was shocked at how bad the state of the literature was with so many dubious papers, especially since the explosion of ML technique
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Have EEG devices improved much in recent years? I read some books by Nicolelis' several years ago and it seemed back then that really useful BCI's still required invasive surgery because not only do you need to gather signals from
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Does the salary compensate the amount of effort to get there though? I had a friend who was a chemist but she left the field to pursue data science instead after her pharmaceutical company started even more layoffs in R+D - it seems pharma
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Just ban the fiat exchanges. The hardcore crypto types would carry on using it but like 95% would give up - that's sufficient.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
It worked quite well at first - I mean they had Sputnik, Gagarin etc. not bad for a country that was some backwards serfdom just half a century before. But then they lost their ambition - a major point being when they stopped trying to deve
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I did Physics and turned out okay (I work in Data Science now) but a lot of that seemed like good fortune. I think the future for CS education could definitely be online courses - the Nand2Tetris course has stuck with me more than anything
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I'd argue it's still worthwhile for degrees like Computer Science if only because HR like candidates to have a degree. (Although this is slowly eroding and may change in the next decade or so) But the value of less directly applic
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
If you want to do it old-school style you can go out and break some windows[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Having seen Threads, I'm not sure surviving a nuclear war would even be desirable.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Our "MASSIVE efforts" don't seem to be doing much so far: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-... And that's just annual emissions, Atmospheric CO2 concentration is even wors
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
The issue is I don't think that scenario is realistic. We don't have declining global CO2 emissions and there are no signs we will have that any time soon. In fact, annual CO2 emissions continue to increase at an almost exponentia
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
What concerns me about almost all of the Solar Radiation Management (SRM) proposals is that they don't address the root issue of high Greenhouse Gas (GHG) concentrations. This means that we would have to continue them indefinitely, for
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
We know that infinite growth is not possible on a finite planet. I also don't think we will be doing asteroid mining etc. on any scale or timeframe relevant to the current climate crisis. Therefore we know there is some limit - and we
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I think the CO2 graphs are trade-adjusted but those resource usage graphs come from USGS so I doubt it takes imports into account (especially given imports would include processed goods, manufactured parts etc. where estimating the resource
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
It should just say "hit by bus" given the self-driving nature of the bus had nothing to do with the incident and in fact would have prevented it. But that wouldn't be news. It matters because most people will just read the he
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I have no experience of Roblox development, but if it teaches transferable skills to 'real' programming then it's still probably a net good.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I mean, don't people learn that at University when they have to live with others? Or maybe if they are in their first job? But when housing costs are such that you have people in their late 20's and early 30's still living wi
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Yeah, it's weird as if I'm browsing /r/buildapc I wouldn't even mind seeing relevant ads - same for stuff like /r/books etc. It does seem like a huge missed opportunity.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I really dislike the new design, it feels super-bloated like it's trying to be a social app (and indeed they force the awful Reddit app on you too). I use Reddit Enhancement Suite and the old design and I find it far superior. It feels
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I don't understand how they expect tenants to be able to backpay all the rent if they weren't able to work due to the pandemic. If they were prevented from working or lost their jobs due to the Government lockdowns it only seems f
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Germany's per-capita emissions are significantly higher than other Western European nations like the UK and Spain though (9.44 vs 5.55 and 5.40)[1] and pro-nuclear France manages even lower per-capita emissions than those (5.13). [1]
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Neither of these reduce greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and I'd be concerned that rather than being used as an extremely short-term fix while we reduce emissions they would just become a band-aid to continue business as
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Still their per-capita emissions are lower, which is kind of what really matters given nations and borders are essentially a social construction, personal consumption/emissions are not. As I mentioned previously, reducing China's
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
But how much of this is due to Western nations essentially outsourcing emissions to China by shifting manufacturing etc. there? The per-capita emissions are important because countries with high per-capita emissions likely have a lot of low

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