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by deepdriver 4y ago
>On one hand, I understand the "what right do we have to kick homeless people off busses" argument. Every right, take them to shelters or drug abuse centers, living like this a choice you made
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by deepdriver 4y ago
There is less than zero political will to fix it, or even honestly address it. BART Withholding Surveillance Videos Of Crime To Avoid 'Stereotypes‘ (2017): https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/bart-withho
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Story to which the parent comment refers: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/brett-kavana... Man (allegedly self-identified trans woman?) arrested outside Justice Kavanaugh’s house with load
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Did some searching, looks like pyrolysis can convert waste into biochar in way that eliminates pathogens: https://www.susana.org/_resources/documents/default/2-1832-2... >Complete elimination of pathogens
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Thanks! Had never heard of Milorganite. My interest is purely one of curiosity, specifically how waste might be recycled in a Mars or Moon colony. The Chinese regenerative life support project Lunar Palace 1 claims 41% nitrogen recapture fr
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Would combustion affect poop’s fertilizing qualities, or spread bad stuff around in the steam and smoke?
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Are there effective best-practices to sanitize human waste for manuring? I’ve skimmed the “Humanure Handbook” which suggests a combination of composting (aerobic decomposition) and time (about one year). Are quicker and more energy-intensiv
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by deepdriver 4y ago
"Burgers?" https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/are-you-sure-this-will-help-u... The meme creator is unfortunately quite racist. I see it is a problem if extremists are the only ones comfortable making certain obvi
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by deepdriver 4y ago
>And, furthermore, I would rather tech giants err on the side of less censorship. Agreed, but censoring some hate speech less than others is worse than uniform censorship. >The only time they ever bother enforcing their own rules is w
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Official hate speech policies and enforcement patterns on Reddit, Facebook and Twitter explicitly allow racist speech that targets whites. Facebook: https://reason.com/volokh/2020/12/07/facebook-discrimin
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Remains to be seen whether periods like this post-Floyd were a one-off, or devolve into a regular occurrence. I am pessimistic. Ethnic and sectarian divides getting worse not better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovtLTPrB2
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Minneapolis is well on its way.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
The assertion was "zero talk" of such intervention, my point is that there quite a lot of public and private discussion on the matter. Yes, Biden ultimately shot down the idea (thankfully). Unsettling to me that it picked up enoug
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by deepdriver 4y ago
>They have been preparing for a long time, but Taiwan is preparing extremely well, too. Are they? My coworker doesn't speak highly of his time in Taiwan's armed forces. Government ministers have begun to speak frankly on this i
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by deepdriver 4y ago
>There was absolutely zero talk of the US/NATO directly intervening militarily in Ukraine. NPR hosted the former commander of NATO who called for the US to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine, to include shooting down Russian jets. N
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Making robots more helpful with language(blog.google)
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Not nearly enough wood can be grown to meet modern society’s energy needs. Europe experienced massive deforestation back when charcoal was a primary fuel for heating and smelting. South America and parts of Arica still struggle with this to
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by deepdriver 4y ago
My understanding is this is still true in India, where live-in domestic servants remain relatively common: https://www.forbes.com/sites/leezamangaldas/2017/07/28/a-con... I'm sure others on HN
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by deepdriver 4y ago
This father-son fishing channel has posted frequent updates on the shrinking Lake Mead to an increasingly enormous YouTube audience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7eK7ChKaz0 Besides (formerly) sunken boats and old vehicl
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Your comment is flamebait, but I'll respond anyway. We can get a sense of where people like to live based on where they are leaving and where they are going. Of the five fastest-growing cities in America by absolute numbers, one is gov
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Dunno about "best" cities, but the most dangerous in terms of violent crime have mainly Democratic or nonpartisan mayors by a wide margin: https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-most-dangerous-cities-i... Edit:
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by deepdriver 4y ago
The "past 550 million years" includes the Permian-Triassic Extinction, or Great Dying, of 251 million years ago. Do they refer to the million-year death zone after this event as a period when "[CO2 was] measured in thousands
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by deepdriver 4y ago
As it turns out, that's what they were doing this whole time, at least with the Javelin program. Not something you can design and ship overnight. The military-industrial complex exists for sure, but it's good to have high-tech arm
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Are defense contractors still vilified? Americans (and Ukrainians) all seem to love Raytheon now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Javelin I expect this goodwill to vanish once the current war ends, and reappear the
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Don't forget rabies! Or those California ground squirrels that chew through cars' brake lines.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Related to this, is there an easy way to run arbitrary programs in the macOS sandbox? AFAIK sandboxing is opt-in for app developers at the moment. Does manual invocation of sandbox-exec on the command line still work, and are there GUI help
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by deepdriver 4y ago
>You are using terms like DEI and saying it is important. But what you are writing comes across as very racist. This as DEI working as designed. The latent condescension in the corporate propaganda is apparent and offensive when verbaliz
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by deepdriver 4y ago
If disks are failing and floodwaters are rising, I absolutely hope I have offsite backups!
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by deepdriver 4y ago
If we face an anoxic ocean event, this simply isn't true. Such an event could leads to the upwelling and release of huge quantities of hydrogen sulfide. Diffused throughout the Earth's atmosphere this would kill nearly all life, a
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Mister President, we must not allow a Mineshaft Gap!

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