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by dbingham 7y ago
When we're talking about a law enforcement group that has near complete power in the 100 mile border zone? These are people who aren't restricted by the constitution in their exercise of authority. They don't have to have pr
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by dbingham 7y ago
Honestly, I would add this whole comment to the list of "absolute truths" juniors unlearn as they get more experience. And I would also point to the original post's point that types of experience matter - just because you&#x
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by dbingham 7y ago
Are we so sure that plants aren't sentient or can't be sentient? We originally assumed we were the only sentient and self aware animal on the planet. We've gradually realized that we're definitely not, but the assumpti
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by dbingham 7y ago
The problem with the ethical argument - that meat production is cruel and vegetable production is not - is that it makes all kinds of assumptions about plant anatomy and behavior that may be wrong. In fact, the growing field of plant behavi
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by dbingham 7y ago
Aerobic composting done right largely sterilizes the compost pile. It kills most harmful bacteria (and in the case of garden compost, weed seeds) because the pile heats to a really high temperature (140F+).
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by dbingham 8y ago
Yeah, and how are people in the rural areas of BC going to be doing if we don't hit zero emissions by 2050? We need to be treating that as a hard limit. And yes, that means sacrifices, behavioral changes, and - probably - a drop in st
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by dbingham 8y ago
The conclusion of the article is that even though we don't have conclusive research, the early signs are worrying and the risks are far too high to wait for better data to act. This is the problem with things like climate change and ec
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by dbingham 8y ago
You don't need "get tons of power" as an incentive. Most people are plenty motivated by the "make enough to live a good life" and "have meaningful work". Plus, in a democratic socialist economy, the aver
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by dbingham 8y ago
It is, technically, a form of Democratic Socialism - you could also call it Free Market Socialism, but it hasn't been tried anywhere. Only state socialism has been tried.
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by dbingham 8y ago
The "well regulated capitalist environment" of which you speak is the fantasy. It has never existed. What could exist is a world based on economic democracy, where no one becomes rich or powerful and everyone has to work together
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by dbingham 8y ago
Welp. And this is why I think Ann Rand was deeply evil and The Fountain Head was a horrible work of propaganda. It's not okay to be greedy, nor is it okay to be selfish. And these ideas are responsible for much of the harm in the w
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by dbingham 8y ago
Your post is run through with faulty assumptions. You're assuming public transit would remain in its current under funded and under performing state in a world where we ban cars and can, thus, stop paying to maintain car infrastructur
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by dbingham 8y ago
Ideal in terms of travel time efficiency, not energy efficiency or space efficiency. Travel time is the wrong property to optimize for when we're looking at transportation and urban design. It's the mistake we've made in Ame
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by dbingham 8y ago
You can remove the second reason and it's still just as valid. But that said, this kind of thinking is exactly the sort of problem we have when looking at complex systems. You can't examine any piece of it in isolation. Health
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by dbingham 8y ago
A couple of reasons, it's the only thing that does seem to consistently match across all the studies. Though, there are plenty of counter examples of cultures that have an almost all meat diet and are perfectly healthy, there are othe
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by dbingham 8y ago
For the love of all that is holy, can we please just admit that our current methods for studying nutrition _do not work_, that we need better ways to handle this sort of complex system, and the mean time, the best knowledge we have about wh
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by dbingham 8y ago
Having been intimitately involved in politics at the city level for some years, I think it's less of a "the kind of people who are in power" issue and more just, people naturally disagree and get defensive. I think those who
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by dbingham 8y ago
The federal government can literally print money if it wants. I don't think we need to worry about concentrating wealth in its hands through taxation.
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by dbingham 8y ago
I think enough of the money would go to supporting necessary services that it would still be worthwhile. And the more we can get the population on firmer economic footing, the more they'll be able to participate in democracy, hold the
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by dbingham 8y ago
But not for the odd shape, or for the apparent change in acceleration with out any off-gassing.
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by dbingham 8y ago
I have one of the old MacBook Pros where the homerow was centered on the case, and so was the touchpad. Which is exactly what I want.
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by dbingham 8y ago
What screen resolutions do the Librems support? Their tech specs don't actually list the resolutions, just the graphic card and size of the display. That's, honestly, one of the main things holding me to my mac: I want the retin
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by dbingham 8y ago
I think what the previous commenter was reacting to in your post was not your defense of Chan an his memoir as inspirational, per se, but rather the specific phrase "If he can do it anyone can" as ignoring the fact that Chan -- an
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by dbingham 8y ago
I could never do this. Because even with really good sleep hygene and good early bedtime habits, the earliest I ever wake up is 6:30 am. And those are rare days. More often bedtime will slip to 10 pm or later and I will awake naturally b
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by dbingham 8y ago
For the most part, the things we need to do to prevent the consequences are the exact same things we need to do to prepare for them: - Build dense, walkable housing with solid bike infrastructure and public transit so that people don't
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by dbingham 8y ago
Yeah, we don't know exactly what's going to hit us. But we know the IPCC has consistently undershot the mark. We know that many well respected scientists have identified feedback loops not accounted for in the IPCC's calcul
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by dbingham 8y ago
Working remotely is great for any knowledge job. I work remotely and have done so for over six years. The team I work on is very collaborative and we often pair program or do video chats to consult about a piece of code or a problem. Rem
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by dbingham 8y ago
I don't think anyone commenting on this post who is downplaying the reaction has really grappled with what we're up against here. I may work as a software engineer, but my degree is in physics. I've read the reports, as well
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by dbingham 8y ago
Trust me, she tried that. She tried pretty much everything. There was nothing listed in settings as taking up the storage. She took it various apple repair shops and they couldn't find anything wrong with it. They were the ones who
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by dbingham 8y ago
My partner switched to a Pixel because she got tired of having to restore her old iPhone from backup every 6 months when it complained it was running out of space - inspite of the fact that she wasn't doing anything that should be gobb

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