JamisonM

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by JamisonM 4y ago
It seemed crazy to me from day-1 they didn't have a "I want to always run my furnace fan" option since it is such a common requirement. And it seems to not exist to this date so when I want to turn my furnace off and circulat
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by JamisonM 4y ago
Seems like lower corn prices, higher beef prices, some marginal environmental benefit, and lower fuel prices is kind of reasonable trade off all-told if that was where it netted out.
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by JamisonM 4y ago
I can't speak to the exact circumstances in your garden but too much organic matter can have the effect of "tying up" nutrients in the organic matter in a way that makes them inaccessible to crops - if you grow to large a mic
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by JamisonM 4y ago
What is the implement you bought?
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by JamisonM 4y ago
Zero-till farming will come to parts of the mid-west in fits and starts as farmers realize that the current methods are unsustainable, in most places there is no need to "plow it up". In western Canada farming practices involve mo
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by JamisonM 4y ago
I am a disinterested observer in all this but the issues seem to be in the concentrations involved in the production of the materials, not in the wearing of them. The grandparent comment seems to imply that wearing these materials is a ca
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by JamisonM 4y ago
It is not a big deal if Argentina defaults on its bonds because they were already paying a huge premium because everyone expects them to default on their bonds, South Korean governments municipal to federal do not pay that premium because t
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by JamisonM 4y ago
Yes people overthink it but it was essentially a resource economy boom-bust cycle situation, the belief that the good times will last forever is a hell of a drug.
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by JamisonM 4y ago
Everything you are saying here is orthogonal to the developments described in the story. A provincial government refused to honour bonds in a tiny development in their region and it caused a contagion across the country.. none of this has a
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by JamisonM 4y ago
I think the issue here isn't that the people winning elections have changed their views, it is that the people with bad opinions are winning elections. (In this instance the politician in question believes that the protest movement tha
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by JamisonM 4y ago
99fang in 2009, ByteDance in 2012, Vine in 2012.. I don't know your definition of "a while back" but if you have some background on this I would be excited to hear it!
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by JamisonM 4y ago
I have not seen such a definition in the wild myself.
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by JamisonM 4y ago
This is an incorrect definition of relative poverty as on that basis then number of people in poverty will never change - no one interested in serious analysis would use such a definition as it is not useful.
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by JamisonM 4y ago
"Filling quotas" vs "hiring as many people as I can for clout" are different things and I suppose both are possible, but one imagines that both are enabled by the fundamental metric of generating revenue as justification
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by JamisonM 4y ago
If the marginal return per employee is still good then "lowering the bar" makes sense, not lowering the bar would be throwing money away - right? And during the pandemic certainly some of the new talent showing up was good, things
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by JamisonM 4y ago
I didn't take that as the unsaid implication of the comic at all.
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by JamisonM 4y ago
The network techs at my telco tell me that Cell towers hate trees and that is why I have no service at my home except intermittently on the second floor since I live along a well-treed river at the edge of a coverage area. It makes some sen
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by JamisonM 4y ago
>> The idea of the "existence" of a trans person is subject to debate. There are a significant number of people that believe that "being" trans is actually not something of substance, that it is "all made up&q
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by JamisonM 4y ago
I would argue additionally that once the person in need of blood has recovered they can simply donate blood and in so doing enjoy the benefits of reduced PFAS levels and hopefully save someone else's life with that blood!
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by JamisonM 4y ago
If my recollections are accurate South Korea had a lot of fibre laid by power companies that turned out to be useful for internet precisely because it was a corruption situation where there was an infinite budget and no oversight and they r
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by JamisonM 4y ago
People always be linking to the Corruption Perception Index, there may be no worse resource for assessing actual corruption: "The CPI scores and ranks countries/territories based on how corrupt a country’s public sector is perceiv
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by JamisonM 4y ago
> Your existance and your selfconciousness as a human being is not in any way affected to some words somebody is using to describe their views. IDK, if every time you encountered someone they referred to you by the wrong name, after bein
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by JamisonM 4y ago
I think you might be mischaracterizing the issue a little bit, not maliciously but still a mischaracterization. The idea of the "existence" of a trans person is subject to debate. There are a significant number of people that beli
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by JamisonM 4y ago
You should continue to support the LGBTQ community and ignore "organized LGBTQ"! Vote out folks engaged in this absurd "grooming" moral panic but don't pay any attention to people that want to cancel your grandma fo
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by JamisonM 4y ago
I don't think it is bizarre, it is a pretty clear effort at highlighting the fact that you are a transitioned trans person in an effort to hurt you and let all of the people seeing the message know what's up, and harass further. I
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by JamisonM 4y ago
I wouldn't have, I was hoping for some specific stories because I would really, really like to know more about "normies" on these platforms getting banned! I don't want names and addresses, I just would love to know exam
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by JamisonM 4y ago
I don't think we have a long term solution for nuclear waste, but I have always held that we don't have a long term plan for the wastes from fossil fuels either and they seem much harder to manage so I think it is a win. I would m
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by JamisonM 4y ago
This speaks directly to the "the board is the problem" argument, if Facebook is the same then the board is not the problem. Can you elucidate an instance of someone you know getting banned from Facebook with the actual content the
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by JamisonM 4y ago
"[Stallman] seems to sincerely believe his all-or-nothing stance" Richard Stallman has largely been not averse to pragmatism, he is the sort that is willing to clearly articulate his stance as to what he thinks is right, but has a
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by JamisonM 4y ago
Meta nee Facebook "solved" this problem by being set up so Zuckerberg would always have effective control of the company, no? Have they arrived at a better place? What does "stake-ownership management" mean?

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