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by akamaka 4y ago
Maybe urban agriculture doesn’t work in theory, but in practice the Netherlands already has many regions where productive farms mingle with urban areas. For an example, have a look at a satellite view of the Westland region, directly south
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by akamaka 4y ago
This person worked for Intel for 47 years before retiring last year: https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Intel/We-Are-Intel/Inte...
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by akamaka 5y ago
https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
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by akamaka 5y ago
What a dreary article. If the author put down her Marx for a moment and ventured out into the real world, she’d be able to tell a much different story. > the logic of late-stage capitalism dictates that new markets must be identified an
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by akamaka 5y ago
Heating and electric vehicles are in fact the perfect example of the phenomenon I’m describing. Already today, it would be more efficient to heat your home with a heat pump powered by a natural gas generation station, than to burn that same
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by akamaka 5y ago
Not really true, because electricity generation is only a fraction of energy usage. Most of our greenhouse gas emissions come from other sources like transportation, industrial processes, and agriculture, so there are actually a quite a wi
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by akamaka 5y ago
I searched for “what about” in the article, and it is indeed there. Chomsky responds to the question asking if the war is about Russia trying to stamp out democracy by saying “What about what the USA is doing?”
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by akamaka 5y ago
Thanks, this looks excellent.
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by akamaka 5y ago
Thanks. I didn’t realize you could scroll them from left to right on the website.
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by akamaka 5y ago
Indeed, and in another example he complains of someone getting “only” a 10 year sentence, instead of the maximum 20. If anything, that’s a counter-argument, proving that the changes happening are not of great significance.
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by akamaka 5y ago
As I understand it, signing bonuses started out as upfront payments that would be negotiated to compensate top executives for taking the risk of leaving their current job. Using this for warehouse workers sounds like little more than a tool
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by akamaka 5y ago
Can anyone explain to me how Amazon gets away with calling these a “signing bonus”? It seems very near to an outright lie to use that name to describe a payment that is only given after you’ve proven yourself at your job for some period of
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by akamaka 5y ago
There are a lot of people commenting on how difficult this will be to achieve, but it’s worth keeping in mind that even the “conventional” roadmap for improving aircraft efficiency is full of enormous challenges. Some of the proposed techno
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by akamaka 5y ago
Maybe the parent poster means US Customs and Border protection? That’s different from the TSA which could potentially search you leaving the country, or on internal flights.
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by akamaka 5y ago
The EFF article never mentions the TSA once.
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by akamaka 5y ago
> Am I saying the quiet part out loud? Yes, in some sense. This is your own internal process of turning all the information into a picture of what is really going on. When you start projecting it on other people and making judgements ab
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by akamaka 5y ago
This is an extremely big mistake. Not in the sense of politics, but because domain name providers are entrusted by the community to manage a very important and valuable asset. You shouldn’t be making these decisions amongst yourselves and
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by akamaka 5y ago
Thanks, it is the eastern edge of the Piedmont I was looking at.
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by akamaka 5y ago
Thank you, that is exactly it! Goes off to binge read Wikipedia
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by akamaka 5y ago
This map highlights an interesting geographic feature I’ve never been aware, which is a distinct line running down the east coast of the USA, from Philadelphia, through Wilmington and Fayetteville, all the way to Florida. Looking at another
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by akamaka 5y ago
This is an incredible visualization! It brings out both fine details and larger patterns I wouldn’t notice on a typical terrain map, or even a 3D view. I particularly like how water features disappear into the surrounding landscape. The M
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by akamaka 5y ago
Where did you get these outlandish expectations of how much progress would have been made by now? The plan, above all else, was and is to eliminate wild polio virus. Even in the best case scenario, we’re still 5-10 years away from being a
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by akamaka 5y ago
I think you’re being overly dramatic. There have been dozens of cVDPV outbreaks that have been successfully contained in countries around the world. We know how to do it even with our existing vaccines. These outbreaks don’t just come and
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by akamaka 5y ago
Canada didn’t stop building nuclear reactors because of political reasons. New reactors in Ontario were approved as recently as 2011, but the project was shelved because the costs were excessive.
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by akamaka 5y ago
Yes you can in theory power the entire world with renewables. The sun is always shining and the wind is blowing somewhere. Of course, doing that would be stupid because of the diminishing returns. But the same is true of nuclear power. N
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by akamaka 5y ago
The Lazard presentation isn’t some kind of rosy green energy fantasy, it’s written for energy investors who are making decisions today. Investors don’t give a damn about shortages, and will happily undercut everyone else’s business model i
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by akamaka 5y ago
I’m definitely in favor of keeping and upgrading existing plants and building some new ones, but there’s no source of energy that has 100% availability. A few years ago, France had 1/3 of its reactors offline at the same time for main
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by akamaka 5y ago
It's mind-boggling to me that so commenters are blaming fear and brainwashing for the demise of nuclear power, when the answer is crystal clear in the numbers. As of this year, the cheapest wind and solar farms have a lower total cost
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by akamaka 5y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted for thinking aloud. It’s very much worth reading in depth about how the activists of the 1960s formulated their views. MLK wasn’t a born messiah, he refined his philosophy over the course of his life and onl
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by akamaka 5y ago
Apple now is managing to give 7 years of support for iPhones, so that’s a good number to aim for.

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