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The current trajectory has locked us into 2C+ of warming. Even if some magical technology appears out of nowhere and allows us to start capturing and sequestering carbon at the gigaton volumes required to make a dent we're still locked into 2C+ of warming. [1][2] At this point it is no longer a matter of doing enough, it's a matter of actively adapting to the reality of a warmer planet because no matter what we do 2C+ warming is an immutable fact.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s254IPHXgVA

2: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/th...

That's not enough time. My current assumption is that all the worst predicted effects of global warming are going to happen: mass migration, food and water shortages, general political unrest, increasing economic inequality and instability, dwindling energy resources, escalation of national and tribal conflicts, etc. All the signs are there and the question is now whether governments will manage to adapt fast enough to mitigate the worst effects.

If you want to expand your cognitive toolkit then Prolog is a good bet.

Is Halide used in any ML system for feature extraction?

Who are the clients for this thing? Who's going to sign up to go to space to do "business"?

> “Such an increase, unless changed quickly, may lead to a temperature rise of about 2.7C (4.9F) by the end of the century,” the U.N. said.

I'm pretty sure we are going to get 3C degrees of warming and end up having to deal with all sorts of catastrophic consequences like mass migrations and food shortages.

It's worse than that. I think they save the hashes on Ethereum. So once the hash is stored then it's there forever.

Social media with metrics is a failed experiment. The metrics need to go away and "engagement" needs to be based on something more substantial than getting likes and upvotes. Otherwise, democratic institutions will continue to deteriorate.

It doesn't even have to be Mars. Just getting to the point where everyone in the world has reasonable access to all of life's necessities like clean water, food, education, and healthcare would already be a great advance.

It would be interesting to keep track of these predictions and then see a few years later who was right. I don't think Bitcoin hodlers understand how much they rely on a functional fiat currency system. Bitcoin is not a standalone currency and there is no meaningful productive economic activity happening with Bitcoin which means at the end of the day they must convert their "gains" into fiat to actually realize them in any meaningful way. This means inflation hurts them just as much as anyone else. Whether 1 Bitcoin is worth $60k regular dollars or $120k hyperinflated dollars makes no difference since the purchasing power of the dollar or the hyperinflated dollar ends up being the same.