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Farming for Failure – how European animal farming fuels the climate emergency [pdf](storage.googleapis.com)
1 points by ciconia 6y ago|0 comments
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EU's farm animals 'produce more emissions than cars and vans combined'(theguardian.com)
3 points by ciconia 6y ago|0 comments
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World's richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam(theguardian.com)
81 points by ciconia 6y ago|116 comments
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Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration(propublica.org)
1 points by ciconia 6y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 6y ago
Remember when playing an instrument was a thing? Not like a dude in a basement playing four triad chords on a midi keyboard, but actual people playing their instruments with mastery and finesse. It is a dying art...
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by ciconia 6y ago
OMG It looks just like OLE: https://github.com/microsoft/FluidHelloWorld/blob/main/src/d...
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by ciconia 6y ago
I'm an expat living in France, and I always tell my French friends they don't know how lucky they are to be living in such a wonderful country. Really when you come to other countries I lived in, there's no comparison.
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Slowly does it: chord changes in John Cage's 639-year-long organ piece(theguardian.com)
1 points by ciconia 6y ago|0 comments
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Hunger Persists in a Rich Country Like America(nytimes.com)
3 points by ciconia 6y ago|0 comments
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Facebook, the PR Firm(themargins.substack.com)
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by ciconia 6y ago
Why should a startup get a better deal than an independent plumber, or a farmer? You pay your taxes like everybody else, and in return you get a more level playing ground, more solidarity, and a safety net in case you fail... (I'm also
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How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer (2019)(spectrum.ieee.org)
51 points by ciconia 6y ago|72 comments
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MIT develops new solar “reverse air conditioner” for the developing world (2012)(newatlas.com)
2 points by ciconia 6y ago|0 comments
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Scheduling in Go: Part I – OS Scheduler(ardanlabs.com)
4 points by ciconia 6y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 6y ago
I think the Go scheduler makes a good case for multiplexing a large number of user-mode threads (or goroutines) over a limited number of OS threads: whenever a goroutine needs to make a blocking syscall (e.g. writing to a socket), the work
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A Great Human Revolution(sgi.org)
1 points by ciconia 6y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 6y ago
"I buy, therefore I am"
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by ciconia 6y ago
Population growth and increasing extraction and consumption of natural resources are phenomena that feed each other in a vicious cycle. Note, however, that carbon emission per capita in the US is twice that of China and 8 times that of Indi
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by ciconia 6y ago
I think the target audience is mostly non-programmers AKA normal people. It's a general-purpose tool hence the feature set.
710.
by ciconia 6y ago
> Obviously, a private company with hundreds of millions in stable recurring revenue shouldn't operate debt-free -- debt can be a useful tool, even if only as a rainy-day tool for situations such as the recent pandemic. Why obviousl
711.
Show HN: Polyphony – Fine-Grained Concurrency for Ruby(github.com)
9 points by ciconia 6y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 6y ago
I have a side project that I've been working on for more than 2 years already, and it still hasn't reached the point where I'm ready to show it to people. What I find useful to do when I get stuck with some problem that I don
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by ciconia 6y ago
I have been mostly flying to visit my family who live in another country, but in the last 10 years flying has become such an unpleasant experience, even when not being singled-out by airport security. Actually, with the current crisis going
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by ciconia 6y ago
I love to spend time in my garden looking at all the different creatures: all insects, for example, seem to have a very intricate behavior. Recently I noticed how bees, not being able to drink nectar from comfrey flowers due to their elonga
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Alarm at record-breaking heatwave in Siberia(theguardian.com)
3 points by ciconia 6y ago|1 comments
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How I Make Yogurt (2019)(rmosolgo.github.io)
118 points by ciconia 6y ago|104 comments
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'It's not capitalism': why are global financial markets zooming up?(theguardian.com)
1 points by ciconia 6y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 6y ago
That and the transportation costs from the US to the UK which are also not negligible.
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Coronavirus is our chance to completely rethink what the economy is for(theguardian.com)
5 points by ciconia 6y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 6y ago
A 3-minute summary for those who missed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1mlCPMYtPk

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