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by ahje 7y ago
Luckily, Sahara also happens to be a somewhat decent place for production of solar energy. The question is, in other words, not if we can, but rather if we want to throw all those resources at such a project. I suspect the most difficult ta
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by ahje 7y ago
Precisely. We do have a handful of cases where it is known to have happened, and I can't see how it could be a few isolated incidents only.
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by ahje 7y ago
E-diesel ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-diesel ) would save us the hassle of using crops for fuel, assuming we can use a clean energy source to produce it. But yes; batteries are nice and it's good that we spend
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by ahje 7y ago
It's also worth mentioning that if we assume that interbreeding didn't occur somewhat frequently then that means that non-African humans evolved from the same ancestors that the Neanderthals' and Denisovans evolved from, whil
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by ahje 7y ago
Of course. EU citizens, on average, have very little information about what's happening in the eastern parts of Europe, no matter the subject, and since many people dis-trust mainstream media nowadays it's easy to spread one'
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by ahje 7y ago
Very jealous. Russia is simply considered the "good guy", standing up against the perceived oppression from globalism and European federalism. The people of the EU often want to see ourselves as progressive, but we're a very
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by ahje 7y ago
I agree with what you are saying, I really do, but it's still a really bad idea to give a child access to an store account connected to a credit or debit card. This problem needs to be solved in both ends.
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by ahje 7y ago
Yeah, add feathers and it'll almost look like a chicken. The question is if that's just the illustrator's bias, or if they actually did look like that.
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by ahje 7y ago
Back then, nullsec was definitely dangerous, but it was also very profitable. It would probably require that you invest quite a lot of time, though that's true with everything in EVE.
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by ahje 7y ago
Definitely! I got banned from multiple servers for repeatedly shooting rifle grenades into the tunnel the attackers had to pass through. Good times! :D
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by ahje 7y ago
When I played EVE it was perfectly possible (and allowed) to trade in-game currency for game time codes with other players. I assume they didn't remove that option.
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by ahje 7y ago
> I'm not so sure that FTP can be so easily ruled out. (This is assuming FTP means FTP and not FTPS or SFTP). It could be that they've simply checked the FTP server's log files and determined they didn't come in that
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by ahje 7y ago
> tech Several of the farms around where I live still use 40+ year-old farming equipment. Most likely, any new tech won't be deployed fast enough to make a difference, at least not on a global scale.
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by ahje 7y ago
Exactly. The French government decided that businesses should be taxed for profits made from French consumers. Some businesses found a loop hole using the laws of other EU countries to avoid paying those taxes, and now the government of Fra
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by ahje 7y ago
There are plenty of mountains in Iran. Can't be _that_ hard to water freeze over winter, and then bring large blocks of ice down the mountainside with a sturdy cart come spring. Bothersome, yes, but not that incredible. Edit: They had
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by ahje 7y ago
> simon w's datasette That's awesome. Thanks for the tip!
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by ahje 7y ago
Is it? Or is it more likely that a well-funded US government branch aimed at researching new technology actually managed to discover, or replicate, new technology? There's something buzzing around in the skies. Most sightings most like
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by ahje 7y ago
1) Even if the cost of products approaches 0, consumers will still need some kind of income to attain them. UBI could help in that regard, but it's still a far way off. 2) The transition period might not be that pleasant. A lot of peop
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by ahje 7y ago
Or material for a Clive Cussler novel. :)
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by ahje 7y ago
I tried fried crickets at a local agricultural fair and I got to say they're not half bad as snacks. As an actual food source, well, I think we need to find other ways of eating them than just eating them fried with various spices. The
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by ahje 7y ago
Overgrazing will ruin the land, and will counteract/nullify the benefits compared to well-managed grazing, and it's a no-brainer that further deforestation is a bad thing regardless of what we are using the land for afterwards.
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by ahje 7y ago
That's definitely true. Factory farming is definitely an issue, and in more ways than one. My point is that we need grazing cattle too, since we (as a species) took the liberty of wiping out most of the naturally occurring grazers and
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by ahje 7y ago
> Reducing one's meat intake is always a good idea Actually, areas used for grazing usually have more diversity, more flowers and thereby more insects, compared to something like a similarly sized wheat field.
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by ahje 7y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I've noticed this multiple times in the past, but I guess alt-tags are too archaic for Average Joe.
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by ahje 7y ago
There are definitely cases where you might need to expose a an SSH setup where passwords are allowed to the World, but there is usually little reason to allow anyone to log in directly as root. Set a long password for the user you log in as
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by ahje 7y ago
Yes, that sounds to be it. I can imagine such systems takes care of quite a lot of incidents in large power grids.
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by ahje 7y ago
Somewhat related anecdote: I live in the Finnish countryside, and since much of the power grid out here is still ancient, there are power outages rather often. However, if the power goes out, there's always something that tries to powe
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by ahje 7y ago
It's not about preparing for the Zombie apocalypse, it's simply a matter of attaining and retaining skills that might come in handy in one or several fairly unlikely scenarios. Very few preppers expect to actually survive armagedd
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by ahje 7y ago
Not really. Having reliable backups is 1) a legitimate interest for the data processor, and 2) possibly a part of the service in question (that's more generic and not really tied to Facebook). The data processor needs to make sure old
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by ahje 7y ago
If you set a master password for saved logins in Firefox then passwords won't be available with a simple click, and they will be encrypted on disk. In browsers that use the OS' password storage then they will normally be stored in

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