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Test all the things? With apologies to Allie (who is awesome and I hope leaves the depressive spiral) http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.ca Writing a slick iPhone app is exciting. Building a communication tool that changes how people communicate is stimulating. Hacking1 into a bank’s security system to pull of a heist is the stuff of Hollywood. “Liberating” information … Continue reading Testing is sexy As someone that placed an order for a MacBook Air within 24 hours of its announcement, I obviously have some bias when I say that Stan Shih, founder of Acer, is misguided in saying tablets and “ultrabooks”, laptops under 0.8 inches thick with longer battery lives, are just “short-term phenomena”. Ceteris paribus, most people would … Continue reading Ultrabook fad And now for something completely different: the post that I’ve alluded to for a few weeks (and as far back as last year)… The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a charitable organization that has laudable goals including improving healthcare and reducing extreme poverty. One of its current fights recently suffered a setback when it was announced that a polio outbreak had struck Tajikistan, a place that had previously beaten back the disease. With an infusion over the … Continue reading Peddling an idea While sitting in a meeting, it struck me that, though my laptop sips 8W while in use and it is usually better for me to read documents on the screen since I rarely spend more than a few minutes reading/re-reading consuming a page, on an almost daily basis, I spend more than an hour staring at a page making little … Continue reading More on Paper vs. Screen: The Creative Process Jorge Aranda tells me his brother is considering one of those newfangled iPads to reduce his environmental footprint… So will buying an iPad to replace print materials reduce carbon emissions or just result in more … Continue reading iPad? How bad? During the summer, I was musing on Vannevar Bush’s ideas presented in his paper As We May Think. Having the attention span of a… where was I? Oh, yes. So my mind wandered to thinking about by how much our carbon footprint could be reduced by switching to a paperless … Continue reading To Print or Not to Print? |
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jonathan lung
In defence of climate change deniers
I’ve heard some people say they don’t understand how people can hold the view that climate change is not anthropogenic yet claim that climate change can be countered cheaply using geo-engineering, e.g., by injecting sulfur1 into the atmosphere. The reason for their concern is that they think it’s logically inconsistent since the effects of geo-engineering …
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