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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> Everything within those separate zones is synched up. So you’ve got your 60 hertz AC wave; 60 times a second the AC power flow is changing direction. And all of the generators, all of the power consumption within each zone is doing tha
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'm super curious about retorts and other systems as well. And how complex it is to capture the syngas for use as a fuel (e.g. could I heat a home with it?)
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You own your dependencies. An end user shouldn't be expected to investigate and trust your entire supply chain, they expect you to do that. Imagine if a food company was like, "Oh, well, the marble dust sold to us as flour was fro
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I really love this idea. There's a part of me that wants to take this idea of biochar seedballs to support reforestation elsewhere. I live in the PNW, and it would be really interesting to see what it would take to convert lumber scrap
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I do wonder, however, how our environment is different. There's water everywhere , it's very hilly, and Seattle is literally built on top of older versions of Seattle. I'm open to the idea that we spent more than we should h
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Me too! Join the DSA! :D But also, historically, these sorts of communities have been targeted by governments. Police literally went to war with unions to break up community power for coal miners. While communism is different than socialis
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Quite a few. Maybe not at the national scale as much , but definitely at the community scale. For instance, socialists in Seattle are collecting donations to buy school supplies, laptops, tablets, etc. for kids who are unable to afford the
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I've seen this in a lot of socialist circles -- an emphasis on building resilient communities, supporting your neighbors and fellow workers, and trying to lift everyone up. I expect that there will be a strong reaction on this forum to
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Here in Seattle, we've built out a light rail system under budget and ahead of schedule. And of course, we've also really flubbed the cost/schedule for a highway tunnel. I'm not sure that the result is axiomatically over
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> Do we have evidence of what happened with coral reefs in earlier historical eras with much lower temperatures? Some extinctions happened. In most of the other cases, the corals had much, much more time to adapt. Imagine going 0 to 60 i
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You've clearly selected your data to match your existing understanding of the world. You've selected one carefully curated statistic and used it to justify a sweeping generalization you already held about "Marxists". You
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It seems like those two causes plausibly amplify each other - machismo warrior culture more likely to take military gear, which in turn makes it easier to recruit more machismo types.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Sure. I will add that the city council did describe them as "chemical weapons and crowd control devices" in a press release on the legislation.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Ah, I see. Those are pretty radical stances. You just compared Marxists to terrorists, which is pretty far out there. Are folks like David Harvey, Cornell West, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, etc., unwelcome in your hypothetical country? Sounds
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I absolutely love Unity, and it's what I reach for as my default for new projects, despite several years working in the games industry. It's easy to get started, iterate on ideas, there are tons of examples of things online. That
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Wouldn't McCarthyism 2.0 be, for example, the ongoing efforts to stigmatize Communism and Socialism in the States? The administration recently banned visas for anyone affiliated with a Communist Party. Socialism, meanwhile, is very muc
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Oh, for sure. As much as I'd love to see them totally ban the use, it seems like every step was fairly reasonable. City Council enacts a law, Mayor (who cannot veto it because the council will override it) works with the police to push
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Tear gas is absolutely a chemical weapon. It's use is not allowed in war. It can be lethal, and can cause significant harm to people sensitive to it. Sure, it's a milder chemical weapon than, say, nerve gas but it is absolutely a
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Yeah, funny, I've been in the tech industry for a decade working on some of the highest scale systems there are. But yeah, Luddite, lol. Fun fact, Luddites were not anti technology. They destroyed machines because they were worried (co
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Good. A model for the rest of the country. The idea that anyone should be allowed to track the movement of everyone in a city is incredibly dystopian. No one needs the power to automate tracking people, and the potential for abuse is overwh
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Seattle also banned chemical weapons, but unfortunately the mayor sued to allow their use. Because Seattle's police dept was under a consent decree, any changes to tactics and weapons needed to be approved by the judge who is monitorin
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Gasification produces syngas, which is more transportable, operates with existing gas infrastructure, and depending on the equipment, can actually be more efficient than trying to maintain a combustion reaction. Logistically, it also decoup
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You've made a strawman. I didn't say that all politics must exist in the workplace. Work is inherently political. There's no escaping that your workplace is making decisions about wages, benefits, access to their products, ho
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You've misunderstood. Not all politics belong in work, but all work is political. You cannot escape politics in work, because every workplace is making decisions about benefits, wages, their use of energy, who they hire, who they donat
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I think you misunderstand. I'm not saying all politics belong at work, but that all work involves politics. I, likewise, am not interested in discussing presidential candidates with my coworkers. But every employer makes decisions abou
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> There's a particular narrative they seem to want to advance... This is true of every media outlet. There is no media outlet free from some agenda. By exercising editorial control, they are fundamentally choosing which articles to
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Exactly. This is why I specifically choose climate change for coinbase.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
"Apolitical" is the default. It's another way of saying, "The way things are is fine". The problem is that this is, in itself, a political stance. An example could be climate change. If Coinbase is doing nothing to
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> The 50 cash transfer recipients not only found stable housing, they freed up space in shelters and, according to project data, saved the shelter system $8,100 per person over those 12 months. Key takeaway. Turns out it's way cheap
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/Jemsinger/status/1312457634306424... “The problem with Democracy — you can look at quotes from famous Chinese leaders like Mao, Gorbachev — they loved Democracy because Democracy is a st

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