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What are you talking about? I spent years munging climate datasets from various research institutes around the world. The upshot: it doesn't look good for humanity. I seriously don…

Yeah it did. I'm just sad that it took down ActionScript with it. IMO this is the language Javascript should have been.

From the mouth of John Roberts himself: "courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority." This is not going …

As an aside, I've always wondered how society will drive the response to climate change into a ditch - it'll be at the hands of lawyers (because, you know, they are policy experts)…

>People who have worked in the second type of environment (deadlines are real and have consequences) become quite good at estimating and managing progress toward deadlines without …

There is work to do in this world that offers no remuneration or very difficult paths to said remuneration.

Work must always revolve around a pecuniary interest at all times?

Anecdata: I tell a relative that climate is going to get hotter and more variable and that said relative should be concerned that an unaffordable electricity bill may be in the car…

I spent half a decade working with climate data from institutions around the world. There are dragons in those datasets and it is really frustrating to watch denialism at large and…

I'm actually not as opposed to belt tightening as you might think. I just get aggravated seeing narratives without a whiff of empirical evidence to support them. (I've informally s…

Let's set the rhetoric aside. What debt to gdp ratio would be reasonable? Do you have any sources to support said ratio?

OK. Let's take the U.S. out of the equation and look at Japan's inflation - https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/inflation-cpi . Hmmm... you'd expect with the 'unsustainable' governm…

>It’s so clear this isn’t sustainable. Maybe. Having that much debt is problematic in a household budget. However, governments are a different animal - just look at Japan's debt to…

FWIW, I don't have kids. And given what I've seen in the data, don't intend to.

IMO, it seems these people exist to muddy the waters. I spent half a decade munging temperature and precip data from multiple institutions around the world (MPI, fer instance). The…

Let me contextualize that "some" for you: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=17rEg Real wages have effectively flat-lined over the past 50+ years.

I'm not sure removing options from the desperate and dying is a good idea. Those with means will just ignore your concerns and the rest will have _nothing to lose_.

I miss AS. I used it to build a gis engine that packed 5D into what superficially looked like 2D - item renderers helped make that happen. It is aggravating to no end to watch peop…

I wonder if gpt3 has a use case here?

Uh, then don't use it? Problem solved methinks.

Definitely. There is a weird elision on the author's part that other forms of artistic creativity exist. FWIW there is plenty of room at the bottom for those artists that can pull …

Ex: A down arrow button attached directly to the right side of the year input field. Make it a deeper blue and then wrap a 1 or 2 pixel wide rectangle around the field itself of th…