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by bassman9000 5y ago
China has literally a separate Internet, and fines/jails those who use it w/o permission; Russia crushes dissent, to the point of assassinating opposition leaders and incarcerating journos. The US doesn't seem to be as effect
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by bassman9000 5y ago
Your hunch is right https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/report-blm-co-founder-l... The co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza, partnered with a pro-Chinese Communist Party group to fund its lobbying
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by bassman9000 5y ago
Now we're shifting goalposts. No longer about the combination of local conditions/local expertise/local ingredients resulting in a unique product, but about if you'll be able to tell them apart.
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by bassman9000 5y ago
Yes it does, as locals know how to control e.g. drying of iberico, or cheese curing, as they've been doing for hundreds of years, with just basic construction techniques (most of the time meaning open buildings, or basic caves). And th
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by bassman9000 5y ago
But the thing is, what if you produce feta with the exact same ingredients and recipe in Australia? The customer gets the exact same thing, only made somewhere else. You can't replicate weather and other local conditions, specially o
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by bassman9000 5y ago
That the whims of a few, or even a single bureaucrat, are not normal business risk . Read Sowell's Basic Economics on how arbitrary regulations distort the market.
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by bassman9000 5y ago
I'd like that, but also been observing that only very specific topics trigger the stop telling me what to do .
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by bassman9000 5y ago
Browse HN threads on any other topic like guns, tobacco, or energy/climate change, and read multitude of harsher, simplistic responses to what are really tough challenges. But watch the mellow language, the "nuanced response"
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by bassman9000 5y ago
Ban social media
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by bassman9000 5y ago
you're counting on the economy Arbitrary regulation is not the economy . If CA decides tomorrow to pass a bill that mandates all tech workers to have proper accreditation, including a bar exam, and to fine to oblivion companies that
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by bassman9000 5y ago
You’re grasping at straws to support a failed technology. Tell that to the Finns or French. You're linking me "can do" articles. The industry itself states there's not enough data: https://iea-pvps.org/
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by bassman9000 5y ago
I'd appreciate some serious links on costs and current state of the industry, not anecdotal and wishful thinking "should be possible". https://iea-pvps.org/key-topics/human-health-risk-assessment... Spe
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by bassman9000 5y ago
Again, recycling. What's the lifecycle of a solar panel, and the aforementioned batteries. 10 years? 20? What do we do with millions of them then?
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by bassman9000 5y ago
Those plants can be licensed, easily, for another 25 years. What about solar panels?
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by bassman9000 5y ago
I don't think we've even started to account the immense costs of reciclying solar panels. Not even mentioning wind turbines, which today are partly not even recyclable. A nuclear power plant can last 50-75 years. What are we going
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by bassman9000 5y ago
A collection of iterated improvements that require the regulation, the local enterprises, and the workers to align in a particular way is not exportable, nor a breakthrough.
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by bassman9000 5y ago
Any specific example of a manufacturing or materials breakthrough the CCP has shared with everyone else? https://phys.org/news/2021-03-breakthrough-solar-cell-materi... https://www.forbes.com/sites&#x2F
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by bassman9000 5y ago
Are there any examples of breakthrough technologies recently developed by the CCP that have benefited other than themselves? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/breakthrough
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by bassman9000 5y ago
A bit unfair. This is not a public agency allocation to a publicly executed project. This is a private, for-profit enterprise with a public (_as in owned by the State_) customer. Vastly different incentives when the customer and the one exe
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by bassman9000 5y ago
This would be a great project for ML-enhanced audio.
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by bassman9000 5y ago
To be fair, there's the plotting phase, and the farming phase. When farming, disk speed is not critical, just size. Thus the idea of recycling millions of HDDs in a low power scenario. A few seeks here or there on your old, unused tera
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by bassman9000 5y ago
Major left leaning newspaper FTFY
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Chia HPool(github.com)
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by bassman9000 5y ago
Don't vote for Chesa, and recall him.
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by bassman9000 5y ago
"Evidence not yet provided" != "No evidence provided" The Higgs boson was theorized in the mid 60s. Final evidence not found till a few years ago. It's was a valid theory until then. It is exactly how it works: theo
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by bassman9000 5y ago
I hope you had as much fun reading this article as I had writing it. These five useless commands will now forever be associated with me. I'm also sure the hate mail will come pouring in to tell me how absolutely essential these comman
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by bassman9000 6y ago
Every time an industry calls for new taxes, what they're actually asking for is a way to hide unrelated cost increases. That is likely to filter through to consumers. The boss of the world's biggest shipping company, Maersk, rece
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by bassman9000 6y ago
I just noticed the top right Presented by signature sponsor: YouTube https://i.imgur.com/CwIpcbM.jpg
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by bassman9000 6y ago
Which is why you should start preparing for it ASAP.
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by bassman9000 6y ago
Distinctly American At this very moment there's got to be at least 100 countries with far worse police abuse than the US. Historically, any soviet/socialist country in the last 50 years would have been far, far worse. Either jou

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