aperson_hello

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by aperson_hello 2y ago
The share of the world population in extreme poverty has gone down by about 80% since 1960. And the number of people in extreme poverty has gone down by about 2/3 since 1970. It's getting better. Not as fast as it could or should,
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
There's a philosophical discussion to be had here regarding the difference between a gigawatt and a jigawatt!
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
While 93% of trips are less than 30 miles...I bet the percent of miles travelled on longer trips are significantly higher. I'm probably 80-90%% miles travelled for trips longer than 30 miles (I also work from home, which skews this a b
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
Beyond all the safety stuff, it's also because that car often saves a huge amount of time compared to walking/biking - especially when there are multiple stops involved in an outing. And that car can haul groceries, etc. much bett
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
This footprint based fuel economy is (one of the reasons) WHY the civic is so much larger
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
Solar and wind are on an exponential trajectory. Our usage isn't. That in itself is enough to make a pretty good prediction that they'll make an impact. That said, there are absolutely going to be issues taking the entire grid to
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
This is exactly the problem. If you do your job as a PM, you get pushed out because doing your job means you'll be ruffling feathers in senior management. So to stick around, you schmooze instead of doing your job because doing your jo
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
Renewables have replaced roughly half of the coal production decrease (and the other half is gas). Gas just had its growth moment before renewables did. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=55960
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=55719 Most new capacity is renewable (and it's been that way for years). It's just that there was a whole bunch of natural gas capacity built out over the 90s a
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
Accelerating and who knows - everyone is extraordinarily terrible at making predictions about power generation. New solar/wind capacity is already significantly cheaper than new nuclear (and new plants of any sort other than natural ga
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
So I might be missing something here, but is there actual data showing autopilot to be unsafe? And if so...where is it? Elon's marketing claims are wild, safety isn't a priority in the factories, and data protection isn't exa
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
Yes, because despite there being setbacks, the ozone layer is still healing! The hole is getting smaller
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
Good luck rebuilding all of our built infrastructure in the next two decades to reduce car dependency in time to meet decarbonization goals...
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
Decarbonization will have negative externalities. Yes, even environmental ones. I'd argue that those externalities are necessary and delay to mitigate them is going to be worse than fixing them later.
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
Building new inventory and making housing more affordable would dissuade individuals from buying new homes?
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
Unless you're digging trenches in the soil or paying the elephant foot a visit, the radioactive material under your pillow is actually almost definitely worse for you (depending on exactly how radioactive we're talking)!
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
Because it doesn't give any perspective on any of the actions that Apple is taking. Facts alone don't make an informative article. This one's less egregious than many, but it suffers the same pervasive issue as most other art
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
But there's a distinction between what should be allowed vs. what is legally allowed. You're talking about what's legally allowed, the parent comment is talking about what should be allowed.
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
Are you talking Montana or Maine? One of those has a MUCH higher fire risk than the other (though both have risk!).
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
My point is that even if she had been paying full attention, the outcome wouldn't be different. If Uber hasn't wouldn't disabled AEB, it would have been different. Hence Uber is the most at fault (amongst the two of them - th
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
Imho - the driver is being scapegoated here. If you watch the actual video (graphic, don't recommend), the victim only appears for a few frames before the accident. In a normal car where the driver sees them and reacts, at best they hi
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
Who are we kidding...It'll recover within a century or so without humans. Millions of years for birds to re-evolve, but general recovery happens pretty quickly!! We're getting bombarded with messages from the fossil fuel industry
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
But that's a strawman when you can literally cut a hole down a skyscraper and be legal. There's literally no way for FDNY to get a ladder into that hole to rescue someone. To throw out more strawmen... "I want marble countert
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
You're not going to egress out of a 60th floor window...
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
Windows don't make you safe in a high rise. Especially ones in a donut hole in a structure - no way to escape through those!!
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
And my point is that desirable doesn't matter much if the goal is to get people housed. Yeah, you'll get less rent for the inner apartments, but that's how you make affordable housing - you make things cheaply and make sacrif
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
Undesirable apartments sound like code for low income/affordable housing to me... Add a few light pipes out to the outside walls and you can even get a bit of outside light inside!
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
Do you? Most newer buildings go without external staircases (typically have two+ internals firewalled apart from each other)
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
That's entirely false. Case in point: the veto power. There are checks and balances built into the system. One of them is the supreme court's ability to rule on constitutionality. And it's pretty clear that congress has prett
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by aperson_hello 3y ago
Clearly the answer is a personal Predator drone fleet carrying hellfire missiles. As is my God-given right to own and use as a red-blooded American.

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