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  • You are asking two how to questions "combat climate change" and "reduce emissions"

    To realistically combat climate change:

    • Admit that we need to try geoengineering (we are already doing this with all the CO2 and CH4 going into the atmosphere)
    • Weather it is SO2 injection or cloud seeding to artificially increase the albido; we need to reduce incident solar radiation to give us a few more decades to actually reduce emissions

    To reduce emissions:

    • Tackle the biggest emissions first.
    • Electrification of the passenger fleet; that means batteries. Keep fuel cells for heavy transport (maybe)
    • Encourage electric biking. And other micro-mobility. Along with better public transport.
    • Normalise a historical style diet, meat is a treat only once or twice a week.
    • Reduce concrete construction; keep it for the important things like the foundations.
    • Reduce the practice of packaging everything in plastic; again keep it for the important things only like electrical insulation.
    • Massive ramp up of solar and wind around the world.
    • Where we use fossil fuels, ask is this important enough to use FF here?

    Carbon taxes:

    • Tax CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent) at a reasonable rate to encourage all of the reduction measures.
    • At less than $65NZD/T the cost is too low to encourage significant movement on the issues.
    • Have a ratcheting scheme in the CO2 market, i.e. add $5-8/yr/T for CO2e; in 10 years the price will be between $110-140/T. At the 10yr mark, make the ratchet $10-15/yr/T.
    • Add a carbon tariff; basically make it more expensive to buy from countries that are not pulling their weight.
    • Be careful not to double tax, this is important for buy in from the public. i.e. the carbon tax on fuel should be exempt from sales tax, taxing a tax is a great way to alienate people.
  • The children yearn for the mines looms

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  • The comparison is looking very favorable to Australia currently.

    If you use the thousands of kiwis, moving there permanently, every month as a yardstick.

  • Ah yes; the tactical wees discussion.

    "Yes, I know you don't need to go right now; but we are going to be in the car for 30 - 40 minutes; go to the toilet now please!"

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  • Some of us like it when we are not mentioned...maps without NZ (sorry for the Reddit link)

  • You are not; but they are not really assholes. They are optimising for some outcome that they want, with inferior tools/mechanisms. Depending on age, their brain runs on emotion most of the time, logic is a distant second place.

    In saying all of that....they can seem like assholes in the moment!!!!

  • I got ulcers, mainly mouth and throat...

  • Immune system: Fuck you, you're too healthy. I'm gonna attack these healthy (rolls dice), skin cells.

  • Market research?

  • Another vote for SyncThing.

    I've been using it for more than 8 years, just awesome.

  • I know someone with that.

  • Yep, I enjoy being involved in sports but watching them is a waste of time.

    The only exception to this is the team I coach, for kids hockey....great to see the development of the players from know nothing to team play.

  • It puts the lotion on its skin, or it gets the hose again.

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  • Na, it's just one "should"

    • "You are so smart, you should be a xxxxx"
    • "you should find this easy, why didn't you pass"
    • "you got 97%, you should concentrate on what you got wrong"
    • "you should work harder, you could be great"

  • I'll put in a word for my preferred sport here.

    My super energetic boy has been rock climbing since 7.

    Strength, flexibility, balance, self confidence, progression is based on solving problems, climbs are graded.

  • I get that, why import stuff that you produce locally....

    I try to never get imported food products that we make here.... It just seems wasteful.

  • Happy to help

  • I had a less experienced person with me looking at some code.

    I pointed out that a particular section of code is shit; just bad form, hard to debug and generally unpleasant to work with. I noted that the person that wrote this didn't really know what they were doing, sure the code works and has been working for a long time, but this is not how we would do things.

    They asked "wow, who wrote this?" I replied "it was me 13 years ago"; it is a great ice breaker, in a non-critical part of the system, new people realize we all have to start somewhere.

    It also allows me to go over the standards we use, why we use them and how to simplify debugging.