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by abenga 3y ago
Those are all suggestions, pretty much none of them are the Law; and many of them have a zero effect on you, especially when building new. You can use less AC and heating by building a much better insulated house + geothermal heat pumps, fo
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by abenga 3y ago
Exactly what has been enacted to reduce anyone's quality of life? Electrifying appliances and transport? Most of the alternatives are literally strictly better than the fossil powered equivalents.
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by abenga 3y ago
Be that as it may, every time I see a new database product I open the page, and if it doesn't support SQL, more often than not I never think about it and don't think about it again. I am never going to invest in some proprietary q
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by abenga 3y ago
Additions and improvements to SQL standards happen all the time though. My favourite rdbms drops a new version every few months with exciting new features. This sounds more like the slow and steady improvement you speak of than all these pr
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by abenga 3y ago
Then they should embed the supported version of python in Excel and manage it automatically for them. This can be validated with Excel before release.
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by abenga 3y ago
The difference is that search engines don't say, "I created this".
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by abenga 3y ago
Why should people in emerging economies stop improving their lives when it's emissions that made the first world into the advanced economies that they are that got us to this point in the first place?
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by abenga 3y ago
This sounds like a result of how often cars are replaced. What if you stopped a sample of 100 cars released in the last five years? That proportion would be far higher. Pretty much every car review I watch mentions support for either or bot
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by abenga 3y ago
I can't, even if I want to. Premium is not sold in my country. So, more creative solutions are called for.
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by abenga 3y ago
Haven't the Tories been in power for more than a decade?
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by abenga 3y ago
How many more did the same, but only managed to yield spectacular failure? Such lottery wins are not repeatable, and relying on them is horrible advice.
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by abenga 3y ago
Wow. Sounds dystopic over there.
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by abenga 3y ago
What do you mean? In some of those cases (Ozone, HIV, covid), people did a lot of work to deal with the problem, and succeeded. Are you saying the alarm was not warranted? We should have continued using CFCs? not worked on ARVs? Ignored the
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by abenga 3y ago
I do agree, there is significant unemployment, and it's possible that outside Nairobi, without rent and growing some food for yourself, $300 could go a long way. I was speaking more in terms of "should", not "is". I
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by abenga 3y ago
What instability does Kenya have? There are sporadic minimal localized protests about the cost of living that happen now and then, but nothing on the scale of the animosity that exists between different religious groups in India (that flare
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by abenga 3y ago
Mozilla makes money from whom? Isn't it like mostly Google?
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by abenga 3y ago
Wait, isn't this the Catholic church, having accumulated wealth for centuries?
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by abenga 3y ago
I haven't seen any durability issues with my modern fridge. I've had the same cheap (about $250) one for 10 years. It has worked without a hiccup all that time, and I live in a country with a relatively unstable power grid.
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by abenga 3y ago
There are thousands and thousands of papers with specific models. Do you have specific criticism of any of them other than a hand-wavy "I don't understand them, so they are probably untrustworthy"?
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by abenga 3y ago
What do you mean? I can take my plastic bottles back to the seller to get 10 cents per bottle back on the purchase (that's what it was when I was a kid, a non-trivial amount back then), and the bottle will be cleaned and reused without
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by abenga 3y ago
You wouldn't need to slam on your brakes if you are not speeding in the first place, right? Privacy seems a valid argument to me though.
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by abenga 3y ago
When I was a kid, coca cola products in my country came in glass bottles that you had to leave a refundable deposit to carry away, creating an incentive to keep them out of the garbage and take them back. By moving away from this, yes, they
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by abenga 3y ago
How do we know that is the software and hardware actually deployed?
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by abenga 3y ago
Isn't it going the other way?
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by abenga 3y ago
This is the second such anomalous thread I've seen today; something weird's going on.
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by abenga 3y ago
The Sahara. Famous breadbasket and feeder of billions.
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by abenga 3y ago
Fix the root causes of the homeless crisis. Home affordability, employment, mental health treatment (with consent).
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by abenga 3y ago
The point is _right now, as we speak_ there is a concerted effort to roll back rights and freedoms women and gay people have enjoyed for years; you should not give people doing this more tools to harm people.
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by abenga 3y ago
> Do you think they're suddenly going to put homosexuality and BDSM back in the DSM-4 and lock people up for it? Are you asking whether rights people enjoyed for decades can be rolled back? You can't think of a single instance
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by abenga 3y ago
> One could argue that failure to become a parent signals that you deeply, fundamentally, don't get biology - despite your superficial interest and theoretical knowledge? Like, you may talk about zygotes all day but you failed to ma

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