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by jgreen10 3y ago
One theory is that it's too early in the cycle to attribute the warming to El Nino (which will make things even worse), but that it's due to a reduction in SO2 in shipping fuels causing lower solar reflection and heating up the oc
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by jgreen10 3y ago
Decades of optimism along the lines of "something bad is coming, but we can still fix it" did way too little. Perhaps now that it's actually bad something might happen. At this point, geo engineering is probably the safer opt
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by jgreen10 3y ago
The amount of carbon emissions is simply far too large for sequestration efforts, natural or otherwise, to make a significant dent. In the end, what the world needs is an abundance of cheap energy without proportional carbon emissions. Ever
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by jgreen10 4y ago
Does AI completely dominate the translation industry? I suspect not, though it made translation more accessible and widely used.
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by jgreen10 4y ago
When I was in university around 15 years ago, the idea of peer-to-peer currency was floating around as an evolution of the tit-for-tat idea in BitTorrent, which was still popular at the time. The expectation back then was that peer-to-peer
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by jgreen10 4y ago
I like the show so far. I don't mind that some people don't. Let's see what happens next.
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by jgreen10 5y ago
As a software engineer, I am seriously considering going back to college and studying nuclear physics. I believe an abundance of emission-free energy is about the only thing that can move the global economy to where it needs to be. Fossil f
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by jgreen10 7y ago
The numbers in the article are shaky. For instance, the Netherlands had a trade surplus of $76 billion in 2017, but shows up as having a trade deficit. France does not appear in the list of Germany's export partners, but it's actu
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by jgreen10 7y ago
Due to unprecedented urbanisation you effectively have runaway inflation in large cities, which is wiping out whole economic classes. Raising interest rates would be the only sane thing to do from the city perspective, but outside of the ci
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by jgreen10 10y ago
When I'm in Russia, I find the state-controlled media surprisingly critical of government policy and very outward looking. They are clearly ignoring the elephant in the room: the country being an ungovernable pool of corruption that ca
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by jgreen10 10y ago
Hey soneca, could you give me a transcript of the conversation between Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva on January 31st, 2011? If you can't, then you'll have to go to prison. It's an irrational, unreasonable request, which ma
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by jgreen10 10y ago
Well, applications that want to use Citus can just use whichever PostgreSQL client is available.
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by jgreen10 10y ago
Well, people use MongoDB... AGPL only requires open sourcing any modifications you make to the software when you give users direct access to a server running the software, which seems like something you would never want to do in case of a d
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by jgreen10 11y ago
Why?
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by jgreen10 11y ago
Russia and the US are more than capable of destroying the world already, but it's far harder to save it.
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by jgreen10 11y ago
Well, Germany has been allowed to act as the emperor with no clothes for a while now; an economic powerhouse sitting on empty pension chests with an ageing population. To compare pension fund assets: US: $46k/capita UK: $42k&
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by jgreen10 11y ago
Driverless car technology will be an economic development like cars and factories. In the long run, the economic opportunity it will create is far bigger than the cost.
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by jgreen10 11y ago
Don't you mean that Silicon Valley is improving DARPA-funded autonomous driving technology? Lets not rewrite history. Government funding drives most technological development.
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by jgreen10 11y ago
About 2000 elderly die of starvation every year, and about 30-40,000 people die in traffic. There are many cases in which the government doesn't have its priorities straight, this is not one of them. It was government funding via DARPA
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by jgreen10 11y ago
The three major powers in the world today are the US, the EU, and China. The trade that makes them world powers also makes military conflicts between them unthinkable. The US needs to focus on maintaining its economic superiority and not wa
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by jgreen10 11y ago
National football fans are not like club football fans. There is very little hooliganism in international football, nor would anyone have any energy for it in the searing heat.
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by jgreen10 11y ago
and then quietly renamed Treaty of Lisbon and ratified.
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by jgreen10 11y ago
It looks more like a long and steady decline that has slowed somewhat since releasing Swarm. https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=swarm%20app%2C%20fou... Note that you should sum the two together to be fair, meaning
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by jgreen10 12y ago
The reason naming things by hash is a good idea is that you can cache them "forever", until you decide to change headers. The only benefit of a UUID over a URL is that the lack of meaning makes it less likely that people will chan
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by jgreen10 12y ago
SQL databases had their imminent death coming. They were stuck. However, PostgreSQL is under more active development than most other databases, SQL or NoSQL. It is new and cool technology. In the end, whether you speak SQL or use NoSQL cons
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by jgreen10 12y ago
It's not. Everything is disconnected from everything, everything requires me to learn a new GUI, my devices are actively preventing me from doing things I want, using data gives me a headache, my tools don't tell me what they can
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by jgreen10 12y ago
No one believes everything authorities say. Congress has a 15% approval rating ... Something that confuses a lot of conspiracy theorists is that global issues just aren't as important as local issues to people. Having a house, doing yo
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by jgreen10 12y ago
The difference is really just in maturity. AWS started years earlier and has had time to work out the kinks. GCE will get there, but it'll need time and experience.
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by jgreen10 12y ago
They overthrew Milosevic, Taliban, Hussein, Austin, Noriega, Bosch, Gaddafi, ... Fighting guerrilla wars is the problem. Firepower obviously doesn't help in guerrilla wars.
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by jgreen10 12y ago
I guess this is an old discussion, but WhatsApp seriously threatened the dominion of Facebook, a company that is valued at $209B simply for owning a significant amount of the daily attention span of consumers world-wide. Essentially, the va

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