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by mac01021 4y ago
The GP was just setting a lower bound of 1B to establish a basis for calculating the cost to move humanity offworld. The cost for 5B people or 7B people would be even more cost prohibitive. But also the shrinkage would not have to happen ab
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by mac01021 4y ago
If you liked the first one you'll probably like the second one too. It sounds like the GP probably hadn't seen an avatar movie before?
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by mac01021 4y ago
So then they'd have formed on earth - no panspermia required?
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by mac01021 4y ago
The wings on the thopters described in the novel by Frank Herbert were more bird-like than insect-like. I don't know which type, if either, will be more practical to build as materials technology improves.
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Economics for the future – Beyond thes uperorganism (2020) [pdf](energyandourfuture.org)
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Shale Gas CEO Says Fracking Has Been 'A Disaster' for Drillers, Investors (2019)(desmog.com)
5 points by mac01021 4y ago|0 comments
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by mac01021 4y ago
Is training with dropout still a thing? Does that mess this up?
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by mac01021 4y ago
I think it's at least strongly implied in the movie that he has to work much harder than (for example) his genetically superior brother to achieve the same level of performance. So maybe you're both right.
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by mac01021 4y ago
I think you're both right. Introducing H2 as a fuel only helps matters if the energy used to produce the H2 is not from fossil fuels, and probably hurts otherwise. Right now the world produces a small fraction of its electricity clean
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by mac01021 4y ago
I don't know what this LOHC stuff really is, but it's easy to imagine that dissolving H2 in in an existing liquid would be much less of an undertaking than inducing it to become C8H18 or whatever.
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by mac01021 4y ago
OS kernels tend to use them simply because they don't have malloc at their disposal and so it's most practical to stick to fixed size memory chunks, right?
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by mac01021 4y ago
I'm glad you linked to that article, which I had not seen before. I think I agree with the author about degrowth as a goal being a political nonstarter. But I'm pretty skeptical about the notion that future growth can consist of
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by mac01021 4y ago
Are you sure it's not just that their hair and fashion styles are those of a previous decade and that that triggers the "this person is old" neurons in your brain?
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by mac01021 4y ago
> How so? Modern industrial farming practices, designed to optimize agricultural output per unit of labor, are an ecological and environmental travesty. They require the widespread use of pesticides and toxic fertilizers that are decima
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by mac01021 5y ago
> Produce is labelled not just down to a country level, but to individual farms, and often you'll see meat for sale in shops include not just the code for the farm, but the full name too. Is this true across all of Europe? If not,
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by mac01021 5y ago
> programming work in the next decade will be done by logicians using something like TLA+ How is that not software engineering?
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by mac01021 5y ago
That assumes we're the object of the simulation rather than a byproduct. Maybe what they want to simulate is a universe and we've just happened to pop up in a small part of the simulation.
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by mac01021 5y ago
I assume they meant rewilding.
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by mac01021 5y ago
It's not the only important thing harming the biosphere and GHG emissions are not the only unsustainable human practice. But we are talking here about global warming specifically and that is driven by net GHG emissions.
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by mac01021 5y ago
If we mitigate climate change, it will be through carbon pricing. So I support that. Mostly by giving time and money to [ https://citizensclimatelobby.org/ ], as I think their laser focus on passing a Carbon Fee & Dividen
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by mac01021 5y ago
It's just an english idiom that doesn't mean much. It's like saying "If you are looking for an honest response, the answer is no."
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by mac01021 5y ago
I suspect the GP is interpreting "Honestly?" as an expression of incredulity at being asked the question - as though the asker did not know their place as an employee. I can see how such an attitude would be offputting, but I do n
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by mac01021 5y ago
This is interesting. Clearly _something_ happened in the early 70s (noise in the signal makes it hard to be sure of the precise year - if even there is a single discrete event). I've seen the abrupt change in economic trends attribu
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by mac01021 5y ago
What is an example of a company that you see as having a positive impact?
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by mac01021 5y ago
What does it mean to be "backed by" carbon captured? Talk of backing a currency traditionally refers to some mechanism that guarantees people will continue to value it in the future: - a currency is "backed by gold" if i
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by mac01021 5y ago
Even extremely progressive consumption taxes?
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by mac01021 5y ago
https://jobs.disneycareers.com/search-jobs/dmed/391/1/1
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by mac01021 5y ago
You can work for Disney's DMED, which is a very large IT/software organization. You would have to become a contractor through one of the agencies they work with - "Happiest Minds" or "Globant" were the two I s
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by mac01021 5y ago
Since Fastmail is the topic here: Have any other Fastmail users been finding lately that their messages have been getting flagged by recipients' spam filters more than before? I've been using Fastmail since January, but getting fl
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by mac01021 5y ago
Precolonial New England was mostly forest and was home to less than 100,000 people. I don't know how concerned those people were with sustainability or with being custodians of the land. But, even if they cared nought about such thing

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