Aaron_Putnam
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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
GDP per capita change for 2018 was negative for sub-saharan Africa:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG?locat...
Be careful what you wish for: economic growth in Africa is going to come directly at the expense of the local and international environment, in the form of land clearance and coal and oil emissions.
Africa desperately needs to stabilise its population, so that it can focus on infrastructure and capital deepening. The West can help by redirecting all food aid instead towards education, contraception and abortion for women.
Comment · 6 years ago
I'd highly recommend everyone buy a CO2 monitor. You can get an all-in-one monitor on AliExpress for about $80.
Comment · 6 years ago
Interesting it doesn't mention the test dummy was modeled after Rosie the Riveter, and they are all feminist power for the flight, going so far as to pose for this photo:
https://twitter.com/BoeingSpace/status/1207977494277738496?r...
Comment · 6 years ago
You'll be getting a headache from the excess CO2 buildup with the windows closed.
If you want to effectively control and monitor indoor pollutants, you also need to buy a CO2+PM2.5 portable monitor. They cost about $80 on Aliexpress.
Comment · 6 years ago
The problem I have with the 2S is that the button clicks are really noisy - I had to swap out to another mouse in my office, since the noise was just too great.
Comment · 6 years ago
Including use in urban poverty: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/health/antibiotic-resista...
Where antibiotics are handed out without prescription and people live in squalid conditions.
"70 percent of salmonella infections in Kenya had stopped responding to the most widely available antibiotics, up from 45 percent in the early 2000s."
"Even when the drugs are authentic, many poor Kenyans try to save money by buying just a few tablets instead of the full course — not enough to vanquish an infection but enough to allow bacteria to mutate and gain resistance."
The current population of Kenya is 50m, forecast to increase to 95m by 2050, and 156m by 2100.
Kenya also currently has the scientific output of Serbia, a country 14% the size. Its likely that Kenya will continue to import drugs developed in advanced nations, and internally produce only antibiotic resistance.
https://www.natureindex.com/country-outputs/generate/All/glo...
Comment · 7 years ago
This still relies on bureaucratic changes - in many jurisdictions, connecting to the grid is mandatory.
That's the current situation in Australia, for example: https://reneweconomy.com.au/the-40-australian-towns-that-cou...
Comment · 7 years ago
I was gearing up to buy an iPhone 12 with USB-C (and replace my iPhone 6S), but going completely portless is totally idiotic.
1. I can't use my phone whilst charging.
2. I can't use ANY headphones. Bluetooth is not a solution because it adds considerable latency.
Ethiopia has a population of 105 million, yet it has the gross scientific output of Latvia, a country of only 1.92 million:
https://www.natureindex.com/country-outputs/generate/All/glo...
What is growing is CO2 emissions, at 14.9 million tonnes. By contrast, Latvia emits only 8 million tonnes.
On a per-CO2 basis, Latvia is twice as efficient as Ethiopia in producing science. On a per-capita basis, Latvia is 55x as efficient.
The situation is the same across the world when you compare countries populated by Europeans or East-Asians against everyone else.