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There's a crash plan to save species of dying coral and another plan to develop/disperse heat-/acid-resistant species.

Ummm, planting trees is pointless, virtue-signaling tokenism that cannot capture any meaningful carbon because it doesn't sequester anything permanently. Thunderf00t throughly debu…

I bet this is unfortunately, uncomfortably true. There are major behavioral changes needed that can't be left to incentives or voluntary changes when survival is at stake. ICEs, me…

I needed this info because I was worried about exercising. I have anxiety-like physiological issues, tachycardia, high blood pressure and exercise intolerance without clear causes.…

Yes. Projection is a terrible thing to waste, but often contrary data points fall on deaf ears and empty bodies. If society wanted to be more humane and empathetic, it would force …

People think I'm crazy not to go prostitute myself for a job at Google; I think they're crazy for volunteering to be bridled and ridden around for 20 hours a day for years without …

It was an Airbus, so at least it was at less risk from breaking-up on a hard landing and killing passengers. https://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/2010/12/16/al-jazeera-w...

Speaking with a friend in a coffee shop yesterday, they mentioned this axiom: If you want expertise to engage, post something with a mistake and there will be no shortage of keyboa…

Be/CCS could realistically reduce CO2 to preindustrial levels (280-300 ppm) for about the cost of the needless war adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, therefore it's affordable.

Possible explanations: Everyday, I'm shuff-lin'. or Have you any idea how successful censorship is on TV? Don't know the answer? Hmm... successful, isn't it?

140 hours and no ownership equals slavery in my book. It's sad that more engineers don't insist on working at meaningful-ownership co-ops and ESOP's. Working for somebody else's C-…

Or all 1's, L's and I's with a license plate frame that "accidentally" covers up the differentiating marks. >:) PS: Reminds me, I should get one of those LPR T-shirts with license …

I like my new vanity license plate: DROP DATABASE;

Lol. Third vehicle should have N0 L1C

Wise move. All Boeing aircraft designed, built or remanufactured in the past 30 years (since regulation has been very weak / absent) are at systematic risk of being deficient in po…

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There seems to be a common mania state of irrational exuberance with unrealistic hopefulness. It has many examples: people in love, positive/devout Christians, big-idea startup sta…

The HP 48 calculator seems fairly homoiconic. Binary compiled programs and symbolic ones alike can be pushed on the stack, stored, dropped.

A dilettante complains about something they "learned," as opposed to committing to mastering it with real use and then forming an informed opinion. PEBKAC seems the more likely exp…

Why can't Flanders copy the nicer biking path system of Netherlands (Holland)? I've biked on both, ~300 km.

Hey Skippy, don't get any water or coffee on the helm controls, or it might either not respond or go full ahead/reverse. ^-- Just one class of examples of what could wrong with not…

Most of them work well. There's one I had to remove because it caused kernel panics.

This is concerning. It's also concerning when the country you live in contains as many idiotic conspiracy theories shared hundreds of thousands of times just like the DRC.

Never going to happen without leadership to force people to change. People are too stuck in their ways, even though meat agriculture is terrible for these reasons: - antibiotic res…

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