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by ciconia 3y ago
> There’s only so many notes and very few chords used in pop music. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, I find very sad the fact that pop songs have become nothing more than 4 chords just repeating over and over, with a thin v
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by ciconia 3y ago
> What can we do? Hmm, I don't know, how about flying less ?
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by ciconia 3y ago
> because I’m not an EU citizen. Are you a resident though? If you pay your taxes in the EU, you should have access to advantageous deposit rates and you'll pay no charges for transfers (inside the EU). FWIW In France currently bank
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by ciconia 4y ago
This isn't just about antibiotics, it's also about monoculture. Both of those combined lead to a never ending arms race.
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John Kerry: relying on technology to remove carbon dioxide is ‘dangerous’(theguardian.com)
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by ciconia 4y ago
> I cut out a bunch of roots and within a month the exact sections of the canopy corresponding to the roots I cut went brown. Root systems in general (for trees at least) mirror what's happening above ground. Pruning trees is a bene
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by ciconia 4y ago
> What magical property of fossil fuels is needed to mine? Energy density. You need large amounts of energy throughout the mining and refining process. Digging, grinding, washing, refining, transporting - all done with petrol and gas.
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by ciconia 4y ago
> A future of sustainable is a future of more consumption, but green consumption. This is a common trope among the HN crowd. There's no such thing as green consumption. Consuming resources means pollution, whether it be CO2, toxic s
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by ciconia 4y ago
"I don't think that word means what you think it means." > helping our nation’s airports support more travelers, grow their local economies and prepare for the future of low-carbon aviation. I doubt a vision of growth is c
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by ciconia 4y ago
https://archive.ph/lJqN5
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by ciconia 4y ago
I think we rather need Hacker News without AI...
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by ciconia 4y ago
https://archive.ph/Q2xds
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by ciconia 4y ago
https://archive.ph/p5DXV
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https://archive.ph/TkGS4
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by ciconia 4y ago
A few months ago I took the kids to Paris for a day. The move to bicycles is nothing short of amazing!
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by ciconia 4y ago
Both of my teenage kids are learning Scratch at school. They both find it confusing and annoying, and I don't disagree. I believe teaching them something like LOGO would have been much more efficient and gratifying.
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by ciconia 4y ago
> No other country can compare. No one else has this. These in-built advantages are incredibly hard to beat. You left out the most important advantage: the US has plenty of oil and gas;
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America’s destructive new rush for natural gas(theguardian.com)
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by ciconia 4y ago
The 125,000 figure is for deaths related to obesity. For traffic accidents it's 20,000.
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On Bullshit(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ciconia 4y ago
A really good read. A lot of the discussion I could not really comprehend, but it's just mind blowing how complex chip manufacturing had become.
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by ciconia 4y ago
It seems to me that advertising is one of the main reasons people spend so much money on totally useless crap. What would be the impact on GDP is advertising didn't exist?
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by ciconia 4y ago
As far as I recall Bernstein composed Candide on the piano and let someone else orchestrate it.
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by ciconia 4y ago
FWIW I have discovered a simple technique that solves this problem without any additional software: I create two or more services that are identical in all but name, so instead of a `backend` service I'll have `backend1`, `backend2` et
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by ciconia 4y ago
https://archive.ph/EA0EF
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by ciconia 4y ago
> Cool. And which of those can I generate using excess electrical energy from my solar panels? Perhaps use the excess energy to power an electric wood chipper to process your garden's waste? Wood chips made from small branches are q
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by ciconia 4y ago
There are so many alternatives to chemical fertilizer: manure (cow, horse, chicken, human), compost, planting nitrogen fixers, sowing ground cover plants... Depending on where you live each may be easier or harder to produce or procure. In
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https://archive.ph/XaHyI
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Could the Economy Shrink? (2014)(jancovici.com)
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Italy and Energy: A Case Study(jancovici.com)
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