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by bparsons 4y ago
And they didn't even do that. You could still view and reproduce a jpeg without paying for it. It was a classic ponzi scheme.
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by bparsons 4y ago
Carbon accounting is simply a way to build in a price signal to activity that produces an unwanted externality. Imagine if it were free and legal to dump garbage in your local park. That is how air pollution is currently treated in the US.
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by bparsons 4y ago
Imagine if the precautionary principal had to be used for any other technology. We wouldn't have electricity, cell networks, airplanes or antibiotics. It is an impossible standard.
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by bparsons 4y ago
Yeah man, everything is going great in the US. Extremely functional government.
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by bparsons 4y ago
Never had an issue with Teams myself. It seems most problems stem from people using a crummy wifi connection to videoconference on their laptop.
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by bparsons 4y ago
I am surprised at how little publicity Jeffrey Sachs comments on this issue has garnered. There is a good interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZa5k87ByOk
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by bparsons 4y ago
Isn't insider trading the entire purpose of these exchanges?
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by bparsons 4y ago
Move to Vancouver, Calgary, Hamilton or Toronto.
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by bparsons 4y ago
The Pentagon does this every decade. They constantly need some sort of existential threat to respond to in order to justify budget increases.
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by bparsons 4y ago
That is because you were a child. Not because you didn't have a phone.
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by bparsons 4y ago
Not if the technology is a currency. I think this finally ends the idea that bitcoin can be used for day-to-day transactions.
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by bparsons 5y ago
Most people have horrible sleep hygiene. They drink caffeine into the afternoon, ingest alcohol before bed and sleep in a warm, barely darkened room with ambient street/building noise. On top of that they spend the hour before bed star
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by bparsons 5y ago
And staring at screens after 8pm.
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by bparsons 5y ago
When you go shopping, only go on the outside aisles. Aside from the bread section, it allows you to avoid most of the bad stuff.
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by bparsons 5y ago
The biggest portion of this growth is almost certainly being driven by opioid poisoning. This was growing quickly pre-pandemic, but has skyrocketed in the last two years.
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by bparsons 5y ago
How do I power my house with a JPEG of an ape?
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by bparsons 5y ago
This is true in El Salvador, where bitcoin has the explicit endorsement of the state. Elsewhere, other than dark web drugs and jpegs of apes, what exactly are people buying with crypto?
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by bparsons 5y ago
Crypto still relies on the real banking system to feed real cash into and out of their system. States have tight control over the banks. If crypto exchanges/standards don't want to do KYC, they won't be able to interact with
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by bparsons 5y ago
If you live somewhere that requires a long commute to work (ie. an exurb) you are likely completely dependent on a private vehicle for all other aspects of your lifestyle. Good transportation policy is actually good land use policy, and goo
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by bparsons 5y ago
Very shocked that after 40 years of undermining public services, the quality of those services decline.
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by bparsons 5y ago
Pay doctors a fair salary in a properly resourced, publicly owned system. This is cheaper, and produces better outcomes than the alternative.
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by bparsons 5y ago
I have some swampland in Florida I would like to sell these investors.
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by bparsons 5y ago
The cycling network there is pitiful for city that size.
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by bparsons 5y ago
Maintaining existing plants can make a lot of sense in many cases, but the problem with nuclear energy has always been cost. Compared to alternatives, the cost per kWh is high once you take into account the initial capital investment, opera
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by bparsons 5y ago
It is usually just plain old development destroying their habitats. Suburbs, highways, logging etc. destroy their home and the species dies out.
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by bparsons 5y ago
Relative to perhaps, the seasonal flu.
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by bparsons 5y ago
One of my favourite games of the era. It could really use a reboot.
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by bparsons 5y ago
I mean, they do sell homeopathic medicine there. It is not that much of a leap.
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by bparsons 6y ago
I don't know about the US, but in Canada, you have at least three provinces that produce way more hydroelectric power than they can consume. Vertical farming would theoretically make sense in places like this where power is cheap, low
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by bparsons 6y ago
That is sort of the point of his recent films. The underlying thesis for his works is that the modern era has divorced us from any sort of narrative about why anything is happening. Instead of understanding personal and global events throug

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