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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…

> 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 fa…

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 m…

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 hydropowe…

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 g…

And the Paradise Papers as well.. but who knows - third time lucky?

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 du…

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 b…

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…

Just ban the fiat exchanges. The hardcore crypto types would carry on using it but like 95% would give up - that's sufficient.

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 amb…

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 - …

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 d…

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

Having seen Threads, I'm not sure surviving a nuclear war would even be desirable.

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 concentr…

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 emis…

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 mean…

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 …

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 …

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 matt…

I have no experience of Roblox development, but if it teaches transferable skills to 'real' programming then it's still probably a net good.

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 t…

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.

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 …