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by avar 7y ago
You seem to be unaware that Tesla already has a sizable presence in Europe, including a final assembly plant in the Netherlands. Some of the details are different, but I don't see employing a significant amount of Germans being novel f
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by avar 7y ago
Yeah Iceland's definitely a big outlier in this regard, but searching around a bit it seems this pattern holds to some degree in the sort of landscape you referenced, see [1] and [2] (just a couple of relevant papers I found). I.e. som
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by avar 7y ago
I don't know about Norway, but in general you might be underestimating how much that landscape looks like that because grazing animals range on it. See e.g. this thread about Iceland & my top comment there, but perhaps the amount o
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by avar 7y ago
How does that make any sense? In the real world we have resource constraints, so positing something like "there won't be any chickens" as a moral loss doesn't make sense, we'll have something else instead since the
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by avar 7y ago
I'm not vegan, but that's absurd. Right now we spend an inordinate amount of land on the relative monocultures of raising these animals, consuming vegetable matter is generally more efficient when it comes to land use. So we'
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by avar 7y ago
> isn't it more likely that they were real, and only played a show or two in some backwater town, rather than being invented whole-cloth? I only briefly paged through that page, but in the sommary for almost all of those bands it sa
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by avar 7y ago
Then don't do it the hard way and store something like a password in some general text file that needs to be parsed, just have the password in its own file. This is also good practice when that's otherwise a sane idea because you
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by avar 7y ago
> Yet people still live next to the ocean in Japan as we speak. Completely, utterly irrational. There's entire towns that are still part of an exclusion zone people can't live in and around Fukushima. Even if you live near the
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by avar 7y ago
> even if everybody went zero waste today, those landfills would still be emitting large amounts of methane. If everyone went zero waste then nothing would be added to the landfill, and its methane production would taper out to nothing a
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by avar 7y ago
Based on whether or not they happened in the UK, which is the subject of this discussion. Perhaps I missed some, but as far as I can tell only 4 of them happened in the UK.
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by avar 7y ago
That's really not the case. Plenty of storage vendors will sell you storage exposed as an FS that scales wonderfully, provided you follow some sane best-practices like e.g. sharding your directories. The same goes for storing things in
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by avar 7y ago
How are you tallying up your [1] source? 4/4 by my count meet the criteria GP pointed out, 3/4 if you insist on splitting out "revenge for military action in the middle-East" as having nothing to do with it, which is a s
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by avar 7y ago
When I'm dropping off my kids and other kids run in my way I usually just stop to chat or play with them, but I'm doing this when walking or on a bicycle. I guess if I wore a 2-ton suit of power armor I'd just be pissed off i
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by avar 7y ago
> Obviously certain capabilities, such as nuclear weapons, would be entirely excluded. Why is that obvious? Nuclear weapons are state assets like anything else, and if you're going to follow your logic that a seceding state gets its
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by avar 7y ago
The question isn't whether or not they'd prefer it when they were alive, it's whether we should care now that they're dead. I'm willing to bet you agree with this notion in principle, and would just like to quibble
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by avar 7y ago
It's a good question. The reason we know how devastating and inhumane wars like say the Eastern front in WWII is in no small due to these sorts of records, otherwise we'd mostly just have contemporary state propaganda, statistics
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by avar 7y ago
I wonder if by moving to digital communications we won't paradoxically be leaving a black hole for future historians when it comes to such records. I.e. now what would previously have been letters from the front might be sent as a text
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by avar 7y ago
Are you really responsible for your car accident record, or did you through no fault of your own develop an adrenaline addiction, propped up by auto commercials and a neighborhood that normalized street racing? For any tax or public policy
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by avar 7y ago
If you don't do that you're on the other end of that slippery slope. Should a chain smoker and someone with no elective risk factors have equal eligibility for a lung transplant? They're otherwise comparable patients. One&#x2
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by avar 7y ago
Sure, but the reverse is also true. If you drink sugary drinks in levels where they're the primary cause of some massive health problem your healthcare costs will far exceed what can be recouped from sugar taxes. I'm not saying it
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by avar 7y ago
Those sorts of sin taxes are the poster child for dumbly implemented tax policy. Tax the waste and pollution, or obesity and other health impacts that cause societal externalities. There's nothing wrong with drinking sugary water in mo
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by avar 7y ago
I'm Icelandic. This person seems to have done more research than most, but there's a common misconception that Iceland's some sort of Internet freedom haven. It isn't, and I think most of that came from foreign coverage
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by avar 7y ago
That's obviously not the point being made, but it's funny how you've still managed to name things that in the West are at least built around the needs of cars in most cases. How many dams have helipads? Not many, how many can
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by avar 7y ago
Helicopters, hovercrafts and yachts also have this appeal. Nobody's saying cars will go away, just that the entirety of human infrastructure might not be constructed around them.
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by avar 7y ago
Sure, my point is that without BTC the options most people have are cash, which requires a physical meetup, cash in the mail (risk & can be/easily traced), or a bank transfer in their native country. I'm pointing out that even
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by avar 7y ago
Or, buying BTC via a credit card from an exchange in a legal jurisdiction local police isn't going to bother with, so the money->BTC trace is lost. Tracing transactions in a local currency is a lot easier than having to issue warran
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by avar 7y ago
> I'm of the type that I absolutely want to hear both what you want and reasoning why you want it. Skipping straight to the 4th step doesn't preclude us from discussing that, we can always backtrack and talk about that. It&#x27
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by avar 7y ago
That's what makes it passive-aggressive, it can be perceived as three steps of manipulation to get to a fourth step. If your ultimate intent is to make a request, then make a request.
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by avar 7y ago
Montenegro, Slovakia and a long list of other countries would like a word with you[1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_da...
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by avar 7y ago
You don't need them to be networked to get large benefits from computer controlled, and doing so adds a lot of complexity. At 60 mph the stopping distance including reaction time is typically referred to as around 80 meters[1], and tha

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