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Conspiratiorist posted:toc stop threatening to kill DJT so you don't get banned anymore, I love you.
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i like rats. i love rats. they are my friends
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i love them too 
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pokemon posted:we've got some seriously cute native animals that nobody can be persuaded to care about because scientists are morons and refuse to change their names from what the europeans originally called them; the europeans were extremely bad at naming animals and had zero imagination so these adorable creatures have terrible names like Good field biologists want to call all of those small mammals unpronounceable latin gobbodly gook and get passively aggressively upset when you try and talk to them in English. Now if you want those critters to get good names try harvesting a few thousand tons of them and get some serious marketing firms involved to sell it to the public like they did with the Patagonian Toothfish aka Chilean Seabass. Though given the decline of that species this may not actually serve your conservation goals. . .
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Dec 4, 2017 04:17
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there is exactly one person in the australian conservation scene with marketing credentials it's me
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The Snoo posted:i like rats. i love rats. they are my friends I like the ones that don't work in DC.
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rats are job creators, if you think about it they contribute more to society than I could ever hope to
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pokemon posted:there is exactly one person in the australian conservation scene with marketing credentials Yeah well once you've found a branding that highlights the peculiar bouquet of Conilurus penicillatus call me for the tasting.
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pokemon posted:we've got some seriously cute native animals that nobody can be persuaded to care about because scientists are morons and refuse to change their names from what the europeans originally called them; the europeans were extremely bad at naming animals and had zero imagination so these adorable creatures have terrible names like Hah, yeah. There does seem to be a push for reclaiming the name "rakali" over "water rat" at least.
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i just don't understand how anyone can refer to something as a rabbit-rat and expect australians to like it
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"one of our rarest and most elusive creatures, the mozzie bush oval office"
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the most annoying thing is that these pseudo-rats need conservation help more than pretty much any other species on earth (besides like polar bears etc) because they are in what is called the critical weight range, which means they're not only the preferred prey items for every native carnivore but also cats and foxes. that is to say, they are getting completely annihilated right now and going extinct at the rate of like ten species per month. and they're so beautiful and sweet and nobody cares.
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pokemon posted:"one of our rarest and most elusive creatures, the mozzie bush oval office" whose rereg are you
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enraged_camel posted:whose rereg are you Honestly you can't tell?
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Dec 4, 2017 06:07
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He has a very distinct mix of style and content.
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Conspiratiorist posted:He has a very distinct mix of style and content. She.  But yes.
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like the marsupials, my gender is irrelevant to my purpose
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Just as the mackerel’s gender is irrelevant to the porpoise 🐬
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Can we just pause for a second and marvel at how that username wasn't taken yet?
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Not directly climate-change related, but underlines how we're trading away a stable climate for incredibly stupid reasons:Ars Technica posted:The skyrocketing value of Bitcoin is leading to soaring energy consumption. According to one widely cited website that tracks the subject, the Bitcoin network is consuming power at an annual rate of 32TWh—about as much as Denmark. By the site's calculations, each Bitcoin transaction consumes 250kWh, enough to power homes for nine days. Here's one of the studies study mentioned in the article. Previously I took some comfort thinking massive western over-consumption of energy at least meant large emission reductions were possible without sacrificing too much quality of life. Instead we're discovering new and creative ways to waste energy.
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Bitcoin is possibly one of the worst human activities for the climate from a values versus harms perspective. Also, a lot of that electricity is being used in china to mine bitcoins, not the west. So we're mining Australian coal to burn in china to mine bitcoins to drive our fancy ponzi schemes. edit: drat this comparison puts it in a starker perspective - quote:Number of U.S. households powered for 1 day by the electricity consumed for a single transaction 8.44 That's loving unconscionable. Trabisnikof fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Dec 6, 2017 |
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quote:This is the methodology the Digiconomist website uses to estimate the Bitcoin network's energy consumption. It assumes that the industry will spend 60 percent of its revenue on electricity and then extrapolates from the current bitcoin price and prevailing electricity prices. It finds that the network is consuming energy at an annual rate of 32TWh. That's... that's not a remotely accurate methodology. That's a description of a wild guess.
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Their implied 0.296 watts per GH/s appears to be about inline with what I see online with the lowest estimates for high-end rigs at 0.1 watts per GH/s. Even if the entire network was running at that lower watt consumption, we're still talking about consuming more electricity for 1 single transaction as 2 average homes would for a day.
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A really long and well-research article on carbon capture that makes it seem even less feasible as a viable solution, or even stop-gap, than it already is: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/can-carbon-dioxide-removal-save-the-world?reload=true
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LLSix posted:That's... that's not a remotely accurate methodology. That's a description of a wild guess. It's a pretty reasonable assumption given the major costs of mining are electricity and rapidly depreciating ASICs. It also gets around the complexity of estimating average machine efficiency, impact of bitcoin prices and the general opaqueness of an industry that is essentially scammers grifting other scammers to sell drugs. I don't care about the exact energy expenditure so much as the order of magnitude, and it's pretty plausible bitcoin consumes O(10TWh). This is already pretty damning. Rap Record Hoarder posted:A really long and well-research article on carbon capture that makes it seem even less feasible as a viable solution, or even stop-gap, than it already is: This was very interesting in a crushingly depressive way. It wasn't mentioned in the article but I've often wondered about the viability of treating Canada + Russia's boreal forests as massive tree farms for the purpose of direct atmospheric CO2 removal via bio-energy + carbon-capture. The scale is large enough, no new technology is needed and those trees are just going to burn down anyway once climate change gets serious. I'm guessing it's not viable until carbon pricing becomes widespread.
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It’s been reported that Rupert Murdoch‘s Bel Air estate just burned down in the Los Angeles fires. http://thehill.com/homenews/media/363573-report-rupert-murdochs-la-home-burning-down-in-wildfire The home of 21st Century Fox and Fox News Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch, located on a vineyard outside of Los Angeles, is "burning down" in Southern California’s wildfires, according to an NBC News report on Wednesday.
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VideoGameVet posted:It’s been reported that Rupert Murdoch‘s Bel Air estate just burned down in the Los Angeles fires. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Nocturtle posted:It's a pretty reasonable assumption given the major costs of mining are electricity and rapidly depreciating ASICs. It also gets around the complexity of estimating average machine efficiency, impact of bitcoin prices and the general opaqueness of an industry that is essentially scammers grifting other scammers to sell drugs. I don't care about the exact energy expenditure so much as the order of magnitude, and it's pretty plausible bitcoin consumes O(10TWh). This is already pretty damning. This whole thing is stupid when there are much more serious problems, so I'm not going to continue after this, but it's really not a reasonable assumption. Why not 80% or 6%? Their total estimate is wildly larger than every previous estimate. And that's not a proper use of big O notation. Big O notation has nothing to do with order of magnitude estimates. It's about growth rates. Big O notation is a mathematical notation that describes the limiting behavior of a function when the argument tends towards infinity. Getting upset about a thoroughly unscientific claim is not a going to help convince people that think climate change isn't real science to start taking the problem seriously.
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LLSix posted:This whole thing is stupid when there are much more serious problems, so I'm not going to continue after this, but it's really not a reasonable assumption. Why not 80% or 6%? Their total estimate is wildly larger than every previous estimate. And that's not a proper use of big O notation. Big O notation has nothing to do with order of magnitude estimates. It's about growth rates. Big O notation is a mathematical notation that describes the limiting behavior of a function when the argument tends towards infinity. It's probably the easiest waste of resources to stop. Even using lower estimates, bitcoin is still consuming 200+ GWh a day for nothing. And a lot of that electricity is coal.
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People expanding huge and ever-increasing amounts of energy to mine a useless virtual currency seems more a logical end-state of capitalism rather than a weird thing that we should be making hay about.
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If you want bitcoin to stop wasting energy then you should put a price on carbon. Blockchains don't have to be wasteful, bitcoin is just a stupid primitive living in a world of cheap electricity.
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https://twitter.com/washpostbiz/status/938506286622216197 Greater future global warming inferred from Earth’s recent energy budget: quote:In particular, we find that the observationally informed warming projection for the end of the twenty-first century for the steepest radiative forcing scenario is about 15 per cent warmer (+0.5 degrees Celsius) with a reduction of about a third in the two-standard-deviation spread (−1.2 degrees Celsius) relative to the raw model projections reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Our results suggest that achieving any given global temperature stabilization target will require steeper greenhouse gas emissions reductions than previously calculated.
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blowfish posted:Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Apparently that's what it takes to get Trump to acknowledge a disaster in a blue state.
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Evil_Greven posted:https://twitter.com/washpostbiz/status/938506286622216197  hell yeah, death is coming
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enraged_camel posted:
On a scale from 1-10, how hosed are we?
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Trainee PornStar posted:On a scale from 1-10, how hosed are we? Depends on who you consider as "we".
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Trainee PornStar posted:On a scale from 1-10, how hosed are we? 
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Trainee PornStar posted:On a scale from 1-10, how hosed are we? Hopefully 99 million billion
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Trainee PornStar posted:On a scale from 1-10, how hosed are we? 
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Trainee PornStar posted:On a scale from 1-10, how hosed are we? how old are you and how young is the youngest person you care about
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