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by dbingham 7y ago
Well, and the externalities of the driver's carbon emissions are a massive negative impact on all of us. In a city as dense as San Francisco, transit, walking, or biking can easily cover most people's transportation needs. The m
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The current structures we allow today are "top down bureaucratic". How do you think the C-corp and S-corp got defined? The LLC, the partnership, the sole-proprietorship are all organizational forms defined and allowed by the gov
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No, that's not the alternative. The alternative is a system that isn't profit driven, where all the companies are worker cooperatives. In that system, there are no stock holders demanding ever greater returns, those doing the wor
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We need a replacement for the universal public forum. In my community, Facebook has essentially become the public square. It's where most of the local public political dialog happens. It's where I get my local news, it's w
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Propotional representation is not with out its problems, but I think given that our current system has a bicameral legislature where one body (the Senate) basically just represents entrenched power interests and is badly divorced from the w
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Far more interesting than the mimosa plant is the fact that Gagliano went on to perform Pavlov's experiment with pea plants - successfully. She trained Pea Plants to associate airflow with light, causing them to grow towards a breeze e
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Encourage possums to move in. Indiana has its share of ticks, but we also have plenty of possums. Chickens are another option. This is about learning how to fit ourselves comfortably in to nature - because pretending we can be above, outsi
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As it happens, my neighbors are of varying opinions on the matter. The ones I hear from, love it. I'm sure there are those who hate it, but I don't hear from them. But this is how you make change. You need the pathfinders to sho
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We do have bugs and snakes. And we love that. The big old black rat snake that shows up every spring has become a marker of time for us. She's pretty docile and friendly, she ignores us and we ignore her. The possums, groundhogs, a
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If you're going for a perfectly maintained look to wild plantings, then yeah, that's a a lot of work. We've replaced our lawn with wild savanna, and it's zero work. We just let it go. It looks totally wild, and I'
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It also talks about venture capital. So it's unclear.
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You're not wrong that herbal supplements are completely unregulated, and I totally agree that its a huge problem. But I still think you're putting far too much faith into the regulation we do have for the drug market. The regula
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IV Saline Solution is not a good analogy, that's a very different case from herbal medicine. People have been using willow bark for pain relief for hundreds if not thousands of years. They have not been injecting saline solution. Ther
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Are you for-profit or non-profit? How do you make your money?
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In the case of pain treatment, it seems likely that the psychoactive affects of THC may be a large contributor to its effectiveness. In that it distracts you from the pain. And there are a lot of people who are going to be more comfortable
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No, it does matter, we should use Warming Equivalent. "Warming equivalent" is the correct metric. Warming equivalents are typically given in Tons CO2 equivalent. It's a way of converting methane and NO2 and other more power
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If your measuring climate impact, then the "warming equivalent" is the correct metric and pure co2 is the wrong one. Am I misunderstanding what you're saying?
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Crows also have vocal chords capable of producing human language, and - similar to parrots - they can learn human phrases in the right conditions. My partner used to volunteer at the local Wildcare and they had an injured crow resident that
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I really wish they'd replace the commit feed with a PR comment feed. I honestly don't care who committed what. I don't need to know about it until I'm reviewing a PR. The unit of review is the PR, not the commit. I ne
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Hi. Former Permaculturist here. The problem with Permaculture is that it takes the classic "Anecdote is not data" misconception and turns it into a design philosophy. This can lead to some serious problems and you end up with a
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Slack with access to video calls at need. I've worked remotely for over 8 years at 3 different companies. Two have had some variation of this (Hipchat/Slack + Google Hangout / GoToMeeting or Slack calls) and it works great.
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...you've never read much labor history, have you? Business has the power to do all of those things. And has _frequently_ exercised that power through out history. The fact that it isn't right now (or is to a lesser and less obvi
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Much of the country is gerrymandered. The popular vote skews less center right than the outcome of the election suggests. And only about half the country votes in the first place. If you look at where the newly appearing votes went in big
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You should really distrust them equally. They're effectively one in the same in our current society. Who do you think is paying the government representatives to make business friendly choices that enrich their friends?
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Those bans have been drastically watered down by the gun lobbies. Those advocating bans on assault style weapons want much, much more included in them.
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And the difference between that salary and the company's revenues (the value the workers created) is the profits. Which the shares represent a right to. Can we at least agree that - whether voluntary or not - the share literally repre
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No, it doesn't imply that. When an employee works at Microsoft he creates value. He didn't have that value before he did the work, he created it through the work done there. Microsoft pays him a salary in return for his value. Ho
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He took them from the employees of Microsoft who's work helped make those shares valuable. Edit: Apparently this statement needs further clarification. What do those shares represent? A share of the profits. And what are the profits
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Yes. Ever done manual labor? Or something that requires both intense manual labor and intellectual problem solving, like carpentry or many of the building trades? Or think about all the various fields that require intense intellectual outp
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The thing that holds me to Facebook is that it's become the town square for my local community. It's where people go to discuss the community's political challenges. So many important dialogs about local issues happen on Fa

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