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541.
by detritus 5y ago
You mean 'The Green Dot'? This piece of shit thing? https://www.pro-e.org/the-green-dot-trademark How this has been allowed to exist for so long is beyond my ken. The logo should look ENTIRELY different as it&#x27
542.
by detritus 5y ago
Especially, it has to be said, in places like Iceland - which were significantly forested until historically-recent human intervention. Apparently it had 40% tree cover as recently as 1000 years ago.
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by detritus 5y ago
Unfortunately, my existence - and that of the all the other comfortable people in the developed world, yourself too, I imagine - also includes some % responsibility of the oil consumption you refer to.
544.
by detritus 5y ago
Laterally, the amount of CO2 my existence releases each year is of absolutely no consequence to the global environment. The amount of CO2 that 1Bn others like me - or 8.5Bn if overall living standards increase, however?
545.
by detritus 5y ago
On a very local scale, the creation of all those skyscrapers has a significant effect on wind speeds at street level. As for the energy required to make the concrete, steel and glass that made those same buildings, that has increased the am
546.
by detritus 5y ago
I suppose not, but reducing wind energy at near sea level would reduce the energy of weather systems, including hurricanes, that whilst products of climate change are the pointy ends of the stick that cause irritation and woe in humans and
547.
by detritus 5y ago
Given that both of these situations draw energy from the atmosphere, they should be complementary to the goals of climate change mitigation. I suppose 'covering the Sahara in solar panels' might need a little thought in regards to
548.
by detritus 5y ago
Are cruise ships on ballistic trajectories and mostly controlled remotely?
549.
by detritus 5y ago
The term itself will become meaningless if hundreds, thousands (millions..) of people start lofting into the heavens every year. Fundamentally, these guys have about as much control over their experience as your 'real' astronauts
550.
by detritus 5y ago
Did you bother to read the article, or did you simply decide to take the headline here on HN personally and then respond snidely? Did that somehow improve matters? Did it help re-inflate the stature of your great land? "Wallace started
551.
by detritus 5y ago
I think you'd be surprised at how light and subtle these things can be. I remember seeing some on something printed back in early 2000s and they were yellow dots barely registerable under a magnifying loupe, never mind by eye up close.
552.
by detritus 5y ago
I feel the biggest advantage the West - in particular the US - has over china is 40-60 years worth of pretty much continual/high state of combat-readiness experience and culture.
553.
by detritus 5y ago
Whilst it's obviously true that Norway is able to afford such actions off the back of hydrocarbon extraction, even the article you linked implies it's not even begun happening in the Arctic yet. Deadline for concession application
554.
by detritus 5y ago
True, but I'd never have fritzed with the settings in the first place if Mozilla had allowed me to easily keep things as they were / customise things.
555.
by detritus 5y ago
Using what technology? I can imagine in some future there being the means, but I find it hard to believe we have that level of tech available to the sort of packages we can aloft into orbit now.
556.
by detritus 5y ago
Your decision to be a dismissive smartarse really annoyed me, because of course i'm not that much of an idiot. Turns out that like another respondent here, animesh, I had 'browser.proton.enabled' set to false too from an atte
557.
by detritus 5y ago
Containers are great! But since the recent v.91 update screwed the tabs up so much, there's no quick visual way to scan and see which container-type each tab is. Great stuff, well done Mozilla! What's the point in being able to cu
558.
by detritus 5y ago
As worthy a consideration as this sounds, one would trust that problems would either be fixed through development - allowing your poor civilians on the plane in the first place; Or be so thoroughly instrumental in meddling with development
559.
by detritus 5y ago
Aye, chillies and peppers generally are the one that blows my tiny little mind - to think of all the cultures, spanning right around the world, almost back to the Americas again - whose cuisine relies so much on those delicious things.
560.
by detritus 5y ago
Dunno - my Italian partner refers to fresh thick focaccia when we're in Italy as 'pizza', so I think there's a little missing from the translation into English. Suffice to say, I think Italians have a wee bit more of a r
561.
by detritus 5y ago
huh - that's wonderful! I had first wondered at the negative effect of being in the foot of a valley, so having light blocked out by mountains for a large part of a day, but this seems like an important takeaway: "Three factors co
562.
by detritus 5y ago
Makes sense, I suppose. Still seems a little perverse to charge someone for holding their money and, presumably, profiting from inaction even if only in some small way.
563.
by detritus 5y ago
> This fee was also introduced in the U.K. back in December 2020 Wat? I mean, I use PayPal fairly frequently, so this doesn't apply to me - but I'd be incredibly pissed off to note a random £20 (whatever) charge on my account f
564.
by detritus 5y ago
With the Soviet programme, perhaps. Just by sheer scale, even a small % of loss would amount to a worrying quantity. All the other nuclear regimes around the world? Less so, I'd imagine. They'd be counting their beans a bit more.
565.
by detritus 5y ago
Huh, I'd've assumed it the other way around given the infrastructure requirement at the time, but your cost sounds a lot more likely given its provenance than the [now, i realise belatedly, unvalidated] cost I Googled prior.
566.
by detritus 5y ago
That was the second 90kg of Enriched Uranium lost at that facility. The mind boggles.
567.
by detritus 5y ago
Crikey - 93Kg of highly enriched uranium is enough for 4 nukes and would cost about $1.4Bn in today's money. 'Curious' that the US didn't move entire mountain ranges to find the stuff... .
568.
by detritus 5y ago
Perhaps if my country were still in the EU I might, but I do accept direct bank transfers, which comprise the vast bulk of my payments. Sometimes however, clients can't pay by bank transfer and need instead to pay by card.
569.
by detritus 5y ago
I'm curious - what's your motivation?
570.
by detritus 5y ago
Not sure I'd want those in my mead, but thanks for making me feel like a total ignoramus - I'd never heard of either of those two spices! I've now found a site that sells them in my country and lo! Oh dear, so many other thin

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