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by dbingham 4y ago
You probably have seen it, but didn't realize you were seeing it. It powers the check out flow for many, many independent e-commerce websites. They don't brand it, so if you weren't oaying close attention to the details of
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by dbingham 4y ago
That doesn't explain the losses from left leaning accounts.
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by dbingham 5y ago
From the US Department of Energy. You can get emissions numbers per Kw for each location. You can get miles per KW for most EVs. From that you can calculate emissions per mile for an EV. Which is a number you can get for most standard g
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by dbingham 5y ago
Yeah, I agree we can't afford to wait for the urban planning model to change (and that changing it is going to require massive investments) so in the mean time we need to be encouraging people who can to go EV. But we need to do that
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EVs still have a ton of embodied carbon in their production. Creating those batteries is not easy, we still haven't figured out how to remove carbon emission from the steel production process, and at the end of the day we can't b
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by dbingham 5y ago
All of those questions have pretty straight forward answers. But your first question has really just floored me. Really? If money can't go into the pockets of the very wealthy it has nowhere else to go? The money would spread out thr
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by dbingham 5y ago
I do want to push back against the professor quoted as saying that this leg is conclusive proof that the herbivores didn't have feathers. Because to me, that leg looks like a bird leg. Bird legs are scaly and don't have feathers
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by dbingham 5y ago
It's an important question. A lot of the discussion around basic income takes place in the context of Modern Monetary Theory. I mean, it kind of has too, because otherwise basic income is pretty unaffordable. I've done the math,
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Scientists find fossil of dinosaur ‘killed on day of asteroid strike’(theguardian.com)
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by dbingham 5y ago
I posted this to their feedback, but I'll share it here too. The new algorithmic feed gives me absolutely nothing of value - it's giving me a bunch of information I have no need for or interest in. It's just adding pure noise
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by dbingham 5y ago
Arguably our genetic engineering of grain crops that we grow in large monocultures contributed directly to the current ecological crisis. Because right after putting too much carbon in the atmosphere, the next threat to the biosphere'
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by dbingham 5y ago
The article wasn't accounting for other possible effects, it just jumped straight to concluding organic farming was the culprit. During the same time period covered by the policy, agricultural yields in the US dropped significantly as
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by dbingham 5y ago
What if he never retreats and just keeps pushing? You have a o draw a hard line somewhere, and the longer you wait the harder it is to do it.
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by dbingham 5y ago
What's to stop Putin from doing this again after Ukraine? Serious question, if sanctions don't work and he discovers he can annex whatever he wants using traditional military power - then where does it end?
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by dbingham 5y ago
Did we learn nothing from World War 2? Appeasement doesn't work on someone like this. Only force. The only thing keeping dictators like this in check was the threat of nukes and mutually assured destruction. Apparently that has sto
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by dbingham 5y ago
They almost certainly are. Retroactive studies of climate predictions made by the IPCC found that they were consistently much too conservative. And there have been multiple climate related events in the last few years that were worse tha
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by dbingham 5y ago
This seems strange to me. The market for engineers is really, really competitive right now. I know we're struggling for applicants - to the point where we've started reaching out to people rather than expecting people to come to
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by dbingham 5y ago
Yeah, similar to other responses to you, I got into the industry in no small part due to building a game. I also built a recipe website to learn web development (which is pretty low hanging fruit). It may have more to do with the quality o
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by dbingham 5y ago
Please tell your friend to report it. If it survived and is still producing seeds, then that has a good chance of having blight resistant genes! There are a lot of people working really hard on bringing the species back, and the benefits
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by dbingham 5y ago
I'm curious what you mean by 'geopolitical vulnerability'. How are they vulnerable?
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In this case, the Republican party is objectively authoritarian - and arguably neofascist. For all of the faults of the Democrats (and there are many) they are not actively hammering on the foundations of Democracy. Their leader did not j
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I'd love to.
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Malthus didn't lose this argument - malthusian assessment of scarcity ultimately lives at the heart of capitalism and free markets. If it didn't, we'd all have access to whatever we wanted. Instead, we use markets as the be
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by dbingham 5y ago
1) Nuclear is not renewable. 2) Reddit arguably produces value by facilitating information exchange and dialog. (The quality of that value varies highly by community and it's fair to argue about whether Reddit as a whole is a net negat
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by dbingham 5y ago
Regulations are like code - buggy and iterative. That's why you need a responsive democracy (which the US decidedly does not have). So when a regulation has bugs, the people can get their representatives to update it. We don't
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by dbingham 5y ago
The US is not a good example of a functioning democracy. Our federal representatives have to represent 700,000 people. The state legislatures get to shape the federal districts, which means the representatives effictively get to pick thei
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by dbingham 5y ago
A democratically elected government. Look, there is no such thing as a "natural market" that can keep the power of the actors in it in check. The internet was the closest thing to a perfect market that has ever existed and all it
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by dbingham 5y ago
> With most NP, someone is usually on the take Citation needed. My experience with non-profits -- and I've been involved in a number of them, including in board roles -- is that they are usually groups of people doing their utmost t
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by dbingham 5y ago
The Glassdoor link fills in some of the details the article leaves out. https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Black-Girls-CODE-Reviews-E...
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Nor something created by the left and the woke :shrug:

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