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by avip 7y ago
Not unrelated to the patent https://patents.google.com/patent/EP0105949A3/ko
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Telegram drugs ring founder flees extraditions in Kiev(haaretz.com)
2 points by avip 7y ago|1 comments
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by avip 7y ago
Interesting to contrast this with popular demonstrations in US or France. No windows broken? Burnt city infrastructure? No beaten up police? All so quiet.
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by avip 7y ago
Because people like Idlewords are rare. And even once they exist, they don’t get the exposure they deserve.
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by avip 7y ago
EU grids are interconnected. They will buy electricity from neighbors.
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by avip 7y ago
Most of the world is already on sub-replacement. The only worth mentioning exception is Africa.
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by avip 7y ago
Most of the developed world is already reproducing below replacement rate.
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by avip 7y ago
It starts to resemble a meritocracy once your cv is in the “for interview” pile. The expected shredinger-distance of your cv is given by G * N^2, G being cv weight and N your networking coefficient.
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by avip 7y ago
Good interview method is characterized by: 1. It hires me 2. It can be used to unhire others thereafter
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by avip 7y ago
"reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not". It's a good story, let it live.
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by avip 7y ago
Mandatory quote: >If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know - Louis Armstrong
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by avip 7y ago
Mr. Wilson's understanding of Tumblr is flawed [0]. There's a simple objective test (now irrelevant) to tell if a platform is largely about porn or not: [required ingredients: 1 searchable user-content platform, 1 keyboard, 1 daug
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by avip 7y ago
I treat Pinterest with the same established suspicion as the Ikea catalogue - a reliable signal to predict unnecessary family expanses.
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by avip 7y ago
Pinterest was only discussed on HN as a dominant search leech. Now that google finally deplatformed that viral disease, there's no reason to talk about it.
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by avip 7y ago
I had to google turn an ocean into a pond as I was not sure what the phrase entails. I got few images of small cars and your comment. QED
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by avip 7y ago
Remove modern chemicals (detergents, perfumes) from the equation, and lots/most of what we call “body smell” would be VOCs, the composition of which depends on nutrition and microbiome among other things. So I find the concept of age&#
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by avip 7y ago
When Chine sends military to solve this “concern”, surely NYT will call both sides to “stop the circle of violence”.
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by avip 7y ago
Support of Arab spring reflected ignorance and naivety, not something we need more of.
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by avip 7y ago
Yes
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by avip 7y ago
In order to ignite the required social shift we need global mobilization roughly the size of Christianity, Islam and Buddhism combined. So in theory if Christ, Muhammad and Buddha were all alive, and they could agree among them on the path,
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by avip 7y ago
I'm going to wildly extrapolate from here and go meta about the future, though this is just a piece about your usual visa abusers finally getting the treat they deserve. In 10-20 years there will be one viable immigration policy: close
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by avip 7y ago
How does that reconcile with the actual (admittedly outdated) facts? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ratio_of_...
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by avip 7y ago
Lots of info here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2018.0191... (does not directly answer your Q2)
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by avip 7y ago
>Regenerative agricultural practices include: no tillage diverse cover crops in-farm fertility (no external nutrients) no pesticides or synthetic fertilizers multiple crop rotations https://www.drawdown.org&#x2F
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by avip 7y ago
I think OP is right suggesting this could be possible. But (my addition) only within scope of deconstructing the entire agriculture system as-is (and was for decades), and replacing it with something else. IMO this will be forced upon us
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Secret Communication System (patent)(patents.google.com)
2 points by avip 7y ago|1 comments
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by avip 7y ago
In French Hebrew is used (c’est de l'hébreu)
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by avip 7y ago
My way: x1.5 for speed limits, x2 for hikes.
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by avip 7y ago
You can look at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%E2%80%9398_El_Ni%C3%B1o... for the extreme answer (spoiler: picked at 11 °C)
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by avip 7y ago
5 operating BECCS currently do 1.5 Mton/year per wiki. Single pilotish DAC in Squamish does 1 Mton/year. Why do you disregard this tech?

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