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The horse population has decreased by half or so since the early 1900s. And horses have stayed pretty valuable, too. Most of them just don't have to work as hard anymore. The horses used for sport never went away, only the horses used for labor or transport. So if your horse analogy is accurate, then maybe half of software engineers lose their jobs and the industry stops growing. Those that keep their jobs keep their salary and have to either be very fast or very good at jumping over artificial obstacles. Seems accurate. I should probably stop beating a dead horse.

As a former doomer, this post does a great job of building a flimsy strawman of doomer thinking and then tearing it down. It does not respond to any of the real concerns brought up on doomer subreddits such as r/collapse.

The fundamental stance of doomers as far as I have understood it is fundamentally Malthusianism - infinite growth cannot occur on a finite planet. The majority of people alive today are only able to eat because of synthetic fertilizers. Phosphates in particular are mined and are being lost to the ocean via soil erosion due to industrial farming practices. Freshwater is being depleted unsustainably all over the world. The EROI of oil is consistently declining. This post totally ignores the Hubbert curves that are fundamental to much of doomer thinking, and doomers only have to be right about one of them for there to be a massive population and living standards collapse.

This post also largely ignores that doomers acknowledge the mainstream climate models but believe they don't properly account for feedback loops such as the clatharate gun hypothesis. It is especially egregious that the IPCC numbers are cited, when so much of doomer discourse surrounds criticisms of the IPCC and its consensus-based methodology resulting in excessively cautious claims.

I have stopped being convinced we're doomed, but that's not because I think doomers are wrong, I just think we really might pull off the technological miracles required to kick the can down the road far enough not to worry about it. Better to look forward to space mining and virtually limitless energy than spend my days feeling angry we didn't do something sooner.

If you read Overshoot by William Catton (one of the most important doomer books), you know that there's nothing we really could have done. We will always grow into the size of container we have. So the best we can hope for is a galaxy sized container, and that's what I choose to do.

Cleveland,List of sovereign states,Australia,Flora of Australia,Eucalyptus,Eucalyptus camaldulensis,Australian Plant Census,Australian Plant Name Index

It is harder than it needs to be because the Taxon Identifiers at the bottom of the page of plant species is missing from the wikispeedruns rendering of the page. That box seems to pretty consistently link to APNI.

Why would a ledger be necessary? Couldn't a root certificate store be used, such as today with HTTPS? Then, the bar doesn't even need to connect their verification system to the internet, other than for the occasional patch.

Here's the article I saw the $4/100g: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-23/meat-grow...

Future Meat Technology can already produce cultured meat at roughly the prices quoted in the article ($4/100g, which would be $18.14/lb). It seems unrealistic that the industry would have already reached its lowest price point considering large scale facilities are just now being made.

They know it is infinite. They want to understand the cardinality. Any two sets (including infinite sets) A, B have the same cardinality if there exists a bijection from A|->B

Why shouldn't a chair be provided by the employer? Chairs are ergonomically important and leaving it up to employees could lead to work injuries if they choose cheap chairs.

Though it considers it "non-standard" the word also exists in the Oxford English Dictionary: https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/99668

Looks like Apollo (the Reddit client) for Hacker News. Very nice!

Yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLeYYMT-3BM

Are you part of the Personal Genome Project? It's a large community of people who share their genetic data for science. http://www.personalgenomes.org/us

While I haven't dealt with that precise situation, I know from experience that it is more likely that your friend (deep down) does recognize their own mental health issues, but confronting that will require them to change their perspective on the things they have valued for years.

When I was being abused, I knew deep down that it wasn't right. All my friends told me so. But recognizing that abuse meant I had to change how I view myself and my experiences for months (if not years) before, and that's really hard. It's easier to live in a delusion that everything is okay.

If they are as depressed as you suggest, they probably don't have the energy to reframe their entire experience around the facts you are presenting to them, regardless of how believable those facts are.

You cannot 'save' your friend from their self-destructive behavior, and you should stop trying. Instead, do your best to acknowledge them and make it known that your friend can trust and rely on you. Hopefully, your friend will reach a point in their life where they have the energy to start working on becoming healthier, and you can be supportive of them then.

I suggest looking at this WikiHow article that deals with a similar issue: https://www.wikihow.com/Help-Someone-Who-You-Think-Is-Cuttin...

It did a good job of finding other artists that I like, but the playlist didn't have any central theme or mood.

This is super cool! However, I notice that the generated PNG isn't high enough resolution for Retina or other High-DPI displays. It would be great if this gave the option to export different sizes.

Amazon customers connect their Facebook friends to find people with wishlists. Someone who has the contact could have information that could link the two accounts, for instance if the OP has someone in their friends' wishlists and they have someone with OP's name in theirs. Or could be connected to a subsidiary like IMDb.

"What Qt application has as much reach as slack?"

- KDE

- AMD's Radeon control panel

- VLC

- VirtualBox

Qt apps feel far more native than Electron apps in my opinion.

I totally agree. The text was hard to read. I thought that Timoni West's design was much better than what exists today, however.

I wish this would link directly to the Internet Archive instead of showing it in a frame so that it would be easier to send links to people.

Have you heard about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...

You may be interested in the GHTorrent database on BigQuery:

https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/ghtorrent-bq:ght

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    var WEB_CLIENT_SECRET = '<redacted>';

This may be helpful: https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2UserA...

When I was 13, I remember setting up a forummotion account for this exact purpose. I know that many others have done the same. Very cool to see dedicated software for this purpose!

If someone put data in a column that wasn't valid, like a string in a bigint column, would the table be altered or would the FUSE driver refuse to make the change?

I did this [1], and so have thousands of others through the Harvard Personal Genome Project and other associated projects. So far, I haven't faced any consequences. If you decide to do so, I encourage you to make your genes accessible to researchers by participating in the Harvard Personal Genome Project [2].

The main risk of sharing your genes is genetic discrimination. It's irreversible to share your genes, so I'd ask yourself: if you were to find out you are a carrier of a genetic disorder, would that change your mind? If so, I wouldn't share your genes publically.

[1] http://genes.howderek.com/ [2] http://personalgenomes.org/

Me and many others have done this for a long time. The Harvard Personal Genome Project [1] is a large open database of people's genetic and phenotypic information. Here is my profile: https://my.pgp-hms.org/profile/hu1247AF

You can add your Personal Health Record to it.

[1] http://personalgenomes.org/

This is absolutely beautiful but I found the text difficult to read.

Google and Facebook are everywhere, it's practically impossible not to touch their ad networks without filtering, and since many sites aggressively punish ad-blocking, "not using Facebook or Google" is looking increasingly like not using the internet.

Consensual, transparent censorship. Interesting.

These prices seem too high. Low-end mobile homes are around the same price, are larger, offer nicer interiors, and face fewer legal complexities. I also know tiny home builders who can custom build homes with similar square footage as these for around the same price. I live in Missouri so housing is cheap, but isn't the advantage of pre-fab homes the ability to ship them for a much lower cost than building on-site?

I don't see how this could scale past cities where rent is insane and have housing regulations that allow this kind of home.

What is the advantage of this versus other pre-fabricated homes? What justifies the price?