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721.
Billionaires like Elon Musk love outer space. Earth is too small for their egos(theguardian.com)
3 points by ciconia 6y ago|3 comments
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by ciconia 6y ago
Fwiw just how many of the people posting negative comments on here are paying SO users? It's still a business that needs to make money. Just saying...
723.
by ciconia 7y ago
How? Central banks are essentially buying stock. The aid given to "normal" people is peanuts in comparison. This will further tip the balance between rich and poor, capital and labour. Lots of people lost their jobs, the value of
724.
by ciconia 7y ago
> ...these moves by the Fed and governments are the equivalent of flooding a drought stricken area with water for a few days. It feels like a relief, but if there is no rain in the months after, it does little good. That's a very in
725.
by ciconia 7y ago
Somehow the idea that time is our only currency is conflated with efficiency. Yes, time is the most limited resources we have, and therefore the most precious, but does this mean we have to squeeze every last bit of productivity from our ti
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Could Microsoft’s climate crisis ‘moonshot’ plan work?(theguardian.com)
1 points by ciconia 7y ago|0 comments
727.
Rethinking the World: Conservation and Sustainability Without Economic Growth(conservationinaclick.com)
1 points by ciconia 7y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 7y ago
I agree it remains to be seen how the crisis will evolve, but I think the article makes a good case for why this crisis is different: the speed, the scale, and the fact that even before the crisis, since 2008, markets were being propped up
729.
by ciconia 7y ago
One of the outcomes of the present crisis is that capital has in a way lost much of its value. The stock market took a beating, people who bought apartments for renting on AirBNB now have dead weight properties with possibly a mortgage to p
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Blogposts Later(medium.com)
1 points by ciconia 7y ago|1 comments
731.
by ciconia 7y ago
Pilots already use iPads for checklists.
732.
by ciconia 7y ago
It's funny how everybody (in the first world) just takes for granted the fact that a large part of the agricultural workforce is low-paid migrant workers. All of us want our food to be available all year round, and cheap. It's bee
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White House suspends environmental protection, citing coronavirus(arstechnica.com)
22 points by ciconia 7y ago|2 comments
734.
Kraftwerk: Where to start in their back catalogue(theguardian.com)
2 points by ciconia 7y ago|0 comments
735.
by ciconia 7y ago
Despite the loss of human life, and the economic suffering of a great chunk of our species, a lot of good may come of the present pandemic. I believe this crisis has the potential to bring about a fundamental change in the way we relate to
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by ciconia 7y ago
You don't need a bidet! I just sit on the edge of the bath tub and clean my self with the shower head as needed. Takes 10 seconds tops and costs 0.
737.
Ask HN: GitHub Community Advisors – Is GitHub Outsourcing Support?
3 points by ciconia 7y ago|0 comments
738.
by ciconia 7y ago
This is one of the things Ruby nails with its ensure statement that lets you clean up properly even if an exception was raised.
739.
by ciconia 7y ago
> This creative accounting suggests that wasting less food would somehow undo all of the harms of food production. But the nutrient cycle does not care whether or not you clean your plate. This nails it. Unfortunately people who compost
740.
by ciconia 7y ago
More flights = more trains, buses, taxis and cars...
741.
by ciconia 7y ago
> ... capitalism itself is regressing to a class-based system. Capitalism has always been a class-based system. There's the people who work for wages, and the people who live off rents from their capital.
742.
by ciconia 7y ago
Here in Burgundy the winter has been mild and dry. Some trees have started flowering in February, normally they do that in April.
743.
Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s (2015)(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
223 points by ciconia 7y ago|58 comments
744.
by ciconia 7y ago
I'd really like to see a simple EV for a change. No screens, no AI, no Autopilot, just a 5-seat vehicle with a reasonable range (400+ km) and AC.
745.
Bill Gates orders £500m hydrogen-powered superyacht(theguardian.com)
7 points by ciconia 7y ago|1 comments
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by ciconia 7y ago
There's another solution to the problem of the environmental cost of energy production: reduce consumption. Is there anyone who would not agree that we, humans, are over-consuming?
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Why Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale ‘wants to know who you are’(theguardian.com)
6 points by ciconia 7y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 7y ago
> If so, how come a church organ doesn't sound like a chip tune, which is also built up from simple waveforms? Well, actually it will, if you remove the church. That's not true. In the real world an acoustic device will never g
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Only 15% of the Basecamp operations budget is spent on Ruby(m.signalvnoise.com)
3 points by ciconia 7y ago|0 comments
750.
Angola's state oil firm was left with just $309 in its account(theguardian.com)
4 points by ciconia 7y ago|0 comments

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