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by ben7799 4y ago
This is not a new theory, non-US media laid out reasons why the US was a plausible culprit last year. Most of them also put out relatively balanced reasons why the US would not do it as well. Lots of logical reasons have been laid out why t
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I'd somehow expect some paid pro-oil/gas/propane commenters to show up in these comments and tell us we're all wrong, no different then the industry plants going out to these people in the article! My house has natural g
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I've seen Google do exactly that on paid APIs, get partner to build out something based on new Google API features. Then the feature the API depends on goes up 10x-100x in cost at I/O on the launch without ever telling us they we
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ATK does some amazing stuff. Their gluten free baking concepts in their cookbook are like a decade ahead of most of the gluten free products you can buy at the store. Crazy stuff.
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Joy of cooking has been updated many times since 1950. The editions from 30 years ago already had changes and guidance related to the changes in the way pork is raised/bred/produced. All those Aspic & gross molded meat recip
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Lots of oil gets shuttled around the world on ships, which emit lots of CO2. The "last mile" of oil delivery in the US is all with dirty diesel trucks as well.
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The oil tankers that shuttle the oil around the world have very few or non-existent emissions controls on top of everything else. Global shipping is a race to the bottom where all the ships are flagged in the country with the least regula
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What's so weird about these stories is there is almost zero need for HarperCollins and similar companies to even exist any more in a world of eBooks. The authors can self publish. The artists can be independent freelance contractors w
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I wish they did a better job at educating the public about the energy cost & pollution cost of moving all this gas around in this process. Climate deniers have done a great job of making the public aware of all the externalities of batt
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If you're in a place with ethanol in the gas as an octane booster you're done right there. Ethanol is fantastic at removing deposits. So much so when it was phased in 20 years tons of engines that had been running on non-ethanol
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Having written my first Python & Java way before this article was written some of this stuff doesn't hold up all these years later. It took a while for startups to start using Python but there was already big OSS software infrast
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Excellent point. It's easy to remember google stuff used to be limited and "cool" and it was desirable to get an invite. G+ was around the time that started to swing around and people didn't think Google was so amazing
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Totally.. Disney has completely missed the fact that a big part of the pent up love of some of these franchises had to do with people having to wait their entire childhood for a new release. I went to ROTJ for my 7th birthday party. Ther
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Most of us weren't Netflix customers yet at the time this was going on. Whatever the case I was an active in-store Blockbuster customer at the time their stuff started to launch and I never had an inkling they were doing anything onlin
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I'm totally hooked on digital navigation but one thing I've noticed is it takes me longer to learn an area to the point I know my way around if I use digital navigation. There are times digital navigation is a million times better
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It seems like most casual listeners just don't understand this no matter how many articles there are about the current model not being sustainable or how many time their favorite artists complain about it. There is not enough money in
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Artist revenues on streaming have been dropping substantially over the years, not increasing as the companies get larger. There is no shortage of artists talking about what a joke the payments have become. If Spotify can't make money
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$3k is a lot of money to rent music. It's kind of odd to realize people have spent that kind of money to rent music and have nothing to show for it without continuing to spend money. $3k would still buy a very large physical collecti
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Very few actually feel good about bringing their music to spotify. Other than the very few giant artists getting the sweetheart deals with guaranteed payouts most feel like they're forced to bring their music to spotify even though the
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I've seen some good analyses lately showing spotify's business model just can't survive in the long run with the way things are going in the economy and the record companies are squeezing them while simultaneously maneuvering
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And yet his writing style works in some stories and not in others. When he is writing a story that largely consists of internal dialog and a character mostly in isolation his writing is brilliant. His style is painful in the Passenger and a
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"Show your work", "Correct answer without showing your work earns a zero". These were things that were extremely common in STEM classes when I was in school and were rare in English classes. This author/professor ha
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Most of it is an improvement, but the change in the first sentence could really change the meaning in a way that may or may not be appropriate. That change is ambiguous but could be important. Proofreading shouldn't change the meaning
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The Amiga is such a perfect example. I grew up in the 80s in a software engineering household and all my parents friends were likewise engineers in the computer industry. So I grew up and ended up in the industry too. I was around lots a
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The article is talking about public chargers. I don't have an EV.. but my driving pattern would put me at 99% home charging. Basically I'd never need to use a public charger other than 4-5 road trips a year.
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I find it interesting that everyone is arguing about AGI-hard or AI-complete or whatever and trying to find where those boundaries are. Those are interesting problems for sure. But that's not what he's talking about, it's no
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The new Prius is probably larger & faster and meets more safety & emissions standards as well. And it will get much better fuel economy than the Civic as soon as traffic gets bad or some city driving is required. Picking highway MPG
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I had the P-51 Mustang one in the late 80s. At the time I wanted to be a pilot and was busily building balsa models, windup flying models, plastic Testors models, and Estes rockets. The thing with the Cox airplanes was they were cheap enou
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For sure and I'd imagine these have to be designed with pretty high sampling rates internally to make sure they don't introduce too many artifacts and sampling issues. But beyond musicians being able to hear what they like and don
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I play electric guitar.. I really doubt what you're saying. I'd bet I could ask 10 other people who play guitar and none of them even know what aliasing is. And none would be able to talk intelligently about what it means and what

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