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kingsuper20 commented on Heat Domes Are a Red-Hot Warning on Climate Costs bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/montalbano

sokoloff · 5 years ago

> Martin Weitzman, one of the few economists who warned that these risks were being ignored, was snubbed for the Nobel Prize.

Is failing to win a Nobel Prize now a snub? That seems ridiculous on its face.

kingsuper20 · 5 years ago

Being nit-picky, there's no such thing as a Nobel Prize for economics.

kingsuper20 commented on Heat Domes Are a Red-Hot Warning on Climate Costs bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/montalbano

kingsuper20 · 5 years ago

> No politician could possibly admit it, but geopolitically, temperate climate countries are going to be net beneficiaries and will need to protect themselves from tropical and sub tropical countries.

In the case of Europe and Africa, I'd say that the main pressure will simply be one of demographics more than weather.

kingsuper20 commented on Heat Domes Are a Red-Hot Warning on Climate Costs bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/montalbano

fallingknife · 5 years ago

Wait I thought outlier weather events like blizzards and heat waves weren't indicators of global climate as the media so likes to lecture about when it's not in favor of their narrative.

kingsuper20 · 5 years ago

> Wait I thought outlier weather events like blizzards and heat waves weren't indicators of global climate as the media so likes to lecture about when it's not in favor of their narrative.

It's probably fair to hold two ideas at the same time.

. Climate change is a way to accumulate rank and wealth in society.

. Climate change is real

It's interesting to ask what everyone is really after in terms of climate. Lack of change or natural events occurring. Would an upcoming ice age result in a cry for more CO2?

I like to think of it in terms of carrying capacity. Too many people results in environmental degradation (of all sorts), social unrest, scrabbling at the bottom for wages, squabbling at the top for status.

kingsuper20 commented on Ask HN: How do SMBs afford such expensive software engineers in the US? · Posted by u/mnming

GianFabien · 5 years ago

In my experience, SMBs don't hire expensive software engineers.

Medium businesses use Excel and packaged software and consultants. Small businesses use Excel, cheap packages, open source and SaaS solutions. Basically their focus is on their business. To them computers and programs are an expense to be minimised.

Most small business owners I've met would rather buy a new car for themselves than update the office computer or software.

kingsuper20 · 5 years ago

> In my experience, SMBs don't hire expensive software engineers.

I've definitely seen that at the 'S' end of the scale.

Programmers who have been there for years, often with no formal education, the codebase looks like them. They tend to be stuck in those jobs.

kingsuper20 commented on Health insurers are threatening not to cover some patients’ ER bills vox.com/2021/7/1/22557401... · Posted by u/pseudolus

kingsuper20 · 5 years ago

It's weird that urgent care clinics aren't parked right next to the ER and that the urgent care clinics aren't 24x7.

No doubt this occurs sometimes but I've never seen it.

Anecdata. My wife says that most people at the ER don't need an ER. Of course they serve as a primary healthcare for the homeless.

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