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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 ca…

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 poi…

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…

Does AI completely dominate the translation industry? I suspect not, though it made translation more accessible and widely used.

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 a…

I like the show so far. I don't mind that some people don't. Let's see what happens next.

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 c…

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 th…

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 …

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 c…

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 …

Well, applications that want to use Citus can just use whichever PostgreSQL client is available.

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 se…

Why?

Russia and the US are more than capable of destroying the world already, but it's far harder to save it.

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 p…

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.

Don't you mean that Silicon Valley is improving DARPA-funded autonomous driving technology? Lets not rewrite history. Government funding drives most technological development.

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 …

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…

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.

and then quietly renamed Treaty of Lisbon and ratified.

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 su…