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by Graphon1 9y ago
> so the sooner that can switch over the electric, the sooner we can drop the 36% of energy being sourced from petroleum. but it's not a 1:1 relationship. A lot of electricity in the US comes from burning petro-fuels like natural ga
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by Graphon1 10y ago
> this whole celebration of reducing chronic homelessness is more likely just a PR piece. No... that's not a fair comment. We are measuring it. People are constantly going through rough patches and become homeless. In some cases, mo
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by Graphon1 10y ago
Habit, tradition, (Small-c) conservatism. It's true we (most of us) don't absolutely need to kill animals for food. On the other hand there is a vast human momentum in the direction of raising, killing, and eating animals. That do
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by Graphon1 10y ago
> The astronauts had faith in the laws of physics. You have used an analogy here, in order to aid your point, but it is not valid. Laws of physics do not intersect with faith. At all.
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by Graphon1 10y ago
oh, thank you for this. Really good stuff.
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by Graphon1 10y ago
> Time passes. A truly stunning insight. completely unnecessary sarcasm.
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by Graphon1 10y ago
> Rooftop solar as implemented today is not sustainable, and is a regressive tax. So are electric cars. Both are solvable problems, and will be solved as adoption increases.
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by Graphon1 10y ago
I don't understand why a large structure is automatically an eyesore. It doesn't emit smoke. It's mostly pretty quiet. Are windfarms uglier than, say... a nicely constructed bridge like the SF Bay Bridge?
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by Graphon1 10y ago
> It is, as you even quoted, a one-off deal between Ireland and Apple. no, the phrase referred to _possible_ one-off deals between Ireland and Apple. Just mentioning them does not cause them to appear. See: > the words “any aid” cove
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by Graphon1 10y ago
> Please remind me why is Apple dragged into this ? Because if Ireland "loses", then Apple owes 14B Euro. So, Apple is an interested party.
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by Graphon1 10y ago
if you're going THERE, why not get a cloud VM and a chromebook?
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by Graphon1 10y ago
> The difference being that the touchscreen doesn't take away anything, it takes away "thinness". I wanted a thinner screen and when the computer MUST have a touchscreen, then I lose the thinnness.
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by Graphon1 10y ago
> I have have to go through a lot of trouble to do my work on it (I work at a .NET shop), and I'm strongly considering just getting a Windows 10 laptop instead of dealing with this mess. If you work at a .NET shop, why would you NO
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by Graphon1 10y ago
a non-sarcastic phrasing might be.... "Do you use an Ad blocker? I do, and didnt have that experience."
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by Graphon1 10y ago
Yep, it has nothing to do with PHP. It's easy to produce this kind of frankenfile with an incorrect cp command. Or with incorrect stream management using any zip library that emits streams.
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by Graphon1 10y ago
> it's impossible to 100% reliably include non-ASCII filenames inside a zip. Yes, the spec does not accommodate this. However there are conventions among popular ZIP creation tools that allow it. If the zip spec were governed by an
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by Graphon1 10y ago
Is this prevented by HSTS?
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by Graphon1 10y ago
> We just use an outdated system built to appease slaveholders that does not necessarily represent the bulk will of the people. It may have been built with slave/free state "fairness" in mind, but even today the mechanism
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by Graphon1 10y ago
I had a variation of that for my household, except it applied 1:1 ratio, and only for shoes. For every new pair of shoes purchased, one old pair had to go out the door.
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by Graphon1 10y ago
Why would I switch from VirtualBox ?
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by Graphon1 10y ago
This project is yet another example of a thing someone built to solve some problem, but .... that someone didn't bother to explain just what the problem is, or why this solution is preferred over the other possible solutions. A readme
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by Graphon1 10y ago
> From 1960 to 1992 crime in the Western world grew by 800% citation? Also, same question for your 600% number?
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by Graphon1 10y ago
> Imagine a society without justice/police in which people must fend for themselves. It would quickly deteriorate to the point wherein there would be a fair bit of violence. that conclusion is not warranted by the premise. How about
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by Graphon1 10y ago
> there's nowhere on earth where a full tank of gas costs $150 (or even two full tanks). My vehicle holds 30+ US gallons. Filling up once is USD$75 at Costco (yesterday). Figure $90 at a regular station. (depending on the price of g
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by Graphon1 10y ago
ok, a receipt. How is this supposed to facilitate a recount? Not all voters will retain their receipts. Not all voters will retained receipts will re-present them in the event of the need of a recount. Are you saying a recount will be unne
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by Graphon1 10y ago
editor@bloomberg.com
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by Graphon1 10y ago
> there are regions where whole roofs are replaced by the majority of insured homeowners every 10 years or less. cite?
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by Graphon1 10y ago
Another major difference: iPhone was a platform. As more people bought the iphone, - the phone became more attractive to 3rd party accessory makers (protective cases, cables, etc) and apps makers. - the phone itself became more valuable to
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by Graphon1 10y ago
> Rumor mill has it that SC has been struggling It wasn't a rumor. Solar City was publicly traded and the struggles were documented. http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2015/09/09/e
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by Graphon1 10y ago
In the USA, - Strategic Petroleum Reserve - LIHEAP - exemption for farm vehicles on fuel See more: http://www.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2012/04/25/the-surp... Some people construe foreign milit

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