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    Comment #49221913

    Very cool.

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    Comment #49209445

    And yet ... read the articles. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy04ykxrj5eo Like all such articles they present a LONG list of politicians with "we're committed to/promising to/.…

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    Comment #49208628

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    Comment #49208113

    We have 5 known antibiotics. There are "MRSA" bacteria (which is a property of bacterial species, not a name for a particular species (anymore)) which don't care or react to about …

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    Comment #49195568

    Thank you. Twitter has become such a terrible website in the last years. Well, since Musk, really. Real disaster.

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    Comment #49195511

    Extremely "Googly" responses there. Not a single mention of the strategy of Google to include, oh, payment, social gaming, ads ... effectively building it into the system and total…

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    Comment #49195397

    Ahhh, right. I get it. You are now "part of the unhinged fossil fuel lobby", because the Green party in Germany and it's adherents: 1) have a 20 year history of increasing fossil f…

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    Comment #49194372

    Indeed. They're based on the assumption that reversing these functions is inefficient using standard or quantum computing primitives, depending.

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    Comment #49193218

    I've always found that it's pretty amazing how much effective speed can be gained by thinking about your memory usage and doing things that "don't make sense", such as leaving requ…

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    Comment #49192805

    Exactly, this is MUCH less betting anything as it is evaluating options and picking the most thinly veiled excuse to keep spending: 1) economic reality of an aging population and t…

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    Comment #49179757

    Oh, you forget - we lie about social status, including to ourselves. Women and men. And as for what determines status ... first rule of social interaction: you can't ask a woman he…

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    Comment #49179358

    Ireland can't even switch away from diesel trains in Dublin city ... I doubt they will be a good example.

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    Comment #49179309

    From different perspectives: 1) political: the only economical natural gas comes from Russia, which means it's a betrayal of Ukraine (especially after the many German, and worldwid…

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    Comment #49172221

    You are obviously referring to trees. So assuming that's what you mean: that won't work. https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/why-dont-we-just-plant-lot-t... Trees quickly reach equilib…

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    Comment #49171356

    We won't stop pumping CO2 into the atmosphere (Germany, India and China actually increased coal burning in 2026, in all 3 cases despite all the good news about solar installations)…

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    Comment #49170989

    Goes to show every army does the same: they make, especially the lower echelons, largely correct predictions of future conflicts. Then they refuse to prepare for them. The more thi…

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    Comment #49170869

    TLDR: 3 reasons. First the quickest warming is actually the poles (technically the south pole) which means the North pole cools Europe less. Europe's reduction in CO2 and other pol…

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    Comment #49169474

    > Sure it's annoying to find a streaming service but once done it generally works. I have 2 words for you: "soon leaving". You may have seen them on Netflix. And in the US you have…

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    Comment #49165670

    The country has also modified the tax code that any EV is ~5000 euro cheaper in acquisition costs (through tax punishment for ICE + tax advantage for EV), about ~800 euro per year …

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    Comment #49165294

    You mean: it can recover. Also 3M people is probably a lot easier than 220M (and that's just Brazil).

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    Comment #49160625

    The thing about the past is that it's the past. Things change, big changes do not bring back the past. They change things. If you are market-corrected out of a job that situation m…