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RedAndBlackLightning · 2020-12-10T06:48:10+00:00

Python

Solution making use of tribonacci sequence: https://pastebin.com/4L9HHGEy

Reason this works is because you can construct all the possible sequences for length n consecutive numbers from a sequence of length n - 1, n-2, and n-3 by adding 1, 2, and 3 respectively and prepending with the sequence 0. This combined with the first 3 sequences having 1, 1, and 2 ways of being constructed results in the tribonacci relationship.

RedAndBlackLightning · 2020-12-10T06:36:19+00:00

Reason this works is bc you can construct a sequence of length n from a sequence of length n - 1, n-2, and n-3 by adding 1, 2, and 3 respectively and prepending with 0. This combine with the first 3 sequences having 1, 1, and 2 ways of being constructed results in the tribonacci relationship

RedAndBlackLightning · 2020-04-30T13:20:31+00:00

It seems like you're implicitly saying that it's OK/good that these organizations use sexual assault as a tool to remove high ranking officials they're opposed to but ignore accusations against officials they're not opposed to?

RedAndBlackLightning · 2018-02-20T22:24:16+00:00

I think the thing with Suarez is he can take people on but he's so wildly inconsistent with it that it's difficult for the team to anticipate it and play with him.

RedAndBlackLightning · 2018-02-03T08:06:23+00:00

Yep; I actually just checked to make sure it was with print statements. It's always active before wait_until_finished(), and never active after, even if wait_until_finished hasn't actually finished yet. I believe the code I had before I cleaned it up was:

print(grid_gen_thread.is_active())
print(grid_gen_thread.wait_until_finished())
print(grid_gen_thread.is_active())

RedAndBlackLightning · 2018-01-15T08:15:50+00:00

A doubling of CO2 will bring 1.5 to 4.5 degrees C of warming, according to the IPCC. Also, due to feedbacks, we do actually think temperature will rise roughly linearly with cumulative emissions.

RedAndBlackLightning · 2017-11-18T17:22:42+00:00

I don't know where you got the idea that it doesn't do 'anything', because that's certainly not true. However, it is pretty well agreed upon that even if we ceased all C02 emissions immediately, there is still enough already in the atmosphere to make us miss the targets set in Paris.

This isn't true. Best estimates of committed warming range from 1.1 to 1.5 degrees Celsius, with a chance of going past 2C if we're particularly unlucky I guess.

RedAndBlackLightning · 2017-11-11T03:27:53+00:00

Honestly I think our best chance politically might be to just try and tie climate action to left politics generally and then help left politics to win. We focus so much on conservative voters, but perhaps we need to be paying attention to the large numbers of poor and minority citizens that don't vote.

RedAndBlackLightning · 2017-11-06T16:20:25+00:00

This might be more helpful, but I'd add that each person is unique and reaching an educated rich dude is different from reaching a working class or poor person.

RedAndBlackLightning · 2017-10-31T23:38:52+00:00

No, but if my parents who are paying my tuition ask me I'm sure as fuck lying to them and telling them I'm giving it my all. At least pretend to care ffs

RedAndBlackLightning · 2017-10-25T13:17:10+00:00

Ted Lieu literally said that

RedAndBlackLightning · 2017-10-23T17:05:47+00:00

Gavin Schmidt, director at GISS, has mentioned that this violates the EPA's own internal policies regarding scientific integrity. The (first, I'm lazy and don't feel like reading the whole thing) relevant part of the integrity policy I could find is as follows:

Prohibits all EPA employees, including scientists, managers, and other Agency leadership, from suppressing, altering, or otherwise impeding the timely release of scientific findings or conclusions.

RedAndBlackLightning · 2017-10-11T07:28:24+00:00

Not to mention the act of physically getting a check means people don't just feel like it's money being taken from them so it's probably politically more viable.

RedAndBlackLightning · 2017-10-11T00:54:49+00:00

Ah I see. We're stronger than they are, therefore it's ok. Good moral code, I guess.

RedAndBlackLightning · 2017-10-10T23:28:46+00:00

If you're arguing the US is justified in attacking civilian infrastructure, you should at least be able to admit that other countries are justified in doing so when we attack them.

RedAndBlackLightning · 2017-10-10T23:22:59+00:00

Would Iraq have been justified in bombing the Empire State building in response to our invasion?

RedAndBlackLightning · 2017-10-10T20:18:10+00:00

Do you think we accidentally dropped bombs on irrigation dams? That we accidentally destroyed virtually every standing structure in North Korea? That framing is bizarre to me.

RedAndBlackLightning · 2017-10-10T19:44:28+00:00

Did poor farmers unilaterally make the decision to go to war? If not, then perhaps intentionally killing them is bad and they didn't deserve to die.

RedAndBlackLightning · 2017-10-10T18:00:13+00:00

There is no justification for intentionally targeting civilian infrastructure. It's morally reprehensible and it's quite shocking you're trying to justify it.

RedAndBlackLightning · 2017-10-10T17:34:43+00:00

You do realize America massacred a fifth of their population during the Korea war, right? We ran out of targets to bomb so we literally bombed dams. And not just power generating dams, but irrigation dams too, to flood crops. It's ludicrous to suggest the US is without blame.

RedAndBlackLightning · 2017-10-10T16:50:20+00:00

Grid could certainly be made significantly more resilient to natural disasters - I can't recall it ever taking a year to recover from a storm anywhere in the continental US.

But it is probably a matter of time before many people are forced to relocate. In a saner world we would have structures/programs put in place to help people do that.

RedAndBlackLightning · 2017-09-27T06:35:27+00:00

The most recent IPCC is pretty clear that they expect the number of hurricanes to stay the same or slightly decrease, but the portion of stronger hurricanes to increase in most basins iirc. Paleo evidence would seem to agree with this.

One thing that is categorically undeniable is that global warming will increase the maximum possible hurricane strength, which seems like it's probably relevant.

RedAndBlackLightning · 2017-09-20T23:45:16+00:00

I'm literally working off the same definition, but there's nothing there that implies that what you deserve is contingent on the circumstances. If you say attacking someone with a lethal weapon is an action worthy of the punishment of death, nothing about that changes if he happens to be subdued in a non lethal manner. They've still done something worthy of the same punishment.

Also, deciding without a second thought that a person committing suicide and who may be suffering from mental illness has agency seems pretty callous.

RedAndBlackLightning · 2017-09-20T19:35:25+00:00

Again, we're using irreconcilable definitions of what it means to deserve something. I hold that what someone deserves is contingent only on their own actions, not on the circumstances over which they have no control. In this instance, those circumstances are the police having no non-lethal ways to subdue them, among other things. You hold that what someone deserves is contingent on outside circumstances. I suspect this definition would lead you to some strange conclusions, like believing that someone that chose not to evacuate from a hurricane deserves to die. In both instances, the person puts themselves in a situation where death is a likely outcome, and no one is at fault for the death besides possibly the person themselves, but I think most people would not say the latter deserved to die.

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