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by dmm 8y ago
> blue states are subsidizing the red states. Two things should be kept in mind when discussing this topic, The US, a large economically diverse nation with a single currency, only works because of fiscal transfers. Even the economists w
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by dmm 8y ago
It was interesting reading this person's viewpoints but I think they misunderstand the point of copyleft licenses. > They’re forcing a world view that everything should be free and shared like some sort of make-believe Star Trek fu
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by dmm 8y ago
I miss the old rust site. The new one removed the faq and broken links all over the web in the process.
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by dmm 8y ago
This waste wasn't created from power generation and bringing up power generation is misleading.
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by dmm 8y ago
The alternative is the government intervening to internalize externalities. For example, a revenue neutral carbon tax or deposits on food/drink containers.
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by dmm 8y ago
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." - Eric Schmidt, Google CEO until last year.
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by dmm 8y ago
I'm not saying it's a mystery I'm saying it's the fault of the food industry and they should be the ones forced to change.
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by dmm 8y ago
> .there should be some mandate on parents to “treat” their child with diet You're considering forcing parents to change, presumably with the threat of taking their children away. But consider this, in the past type-2 diabetes was e
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by dmm 8y ago
If security means living in a prison I don't want it. But I don't think it does. I think you can implement something like the T2 while preserving user's freedom to use their devices. Apple just doesn't care about that.
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by dmm 8y ago
> wash your greens. Washing greens will not remove E. coli contamination. > birds The contamination causing the current E. Coli outbreak was almost certainly caused by feces from an animal farm and has nothing to do with wild birds.
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by dmm 8y ago
I wish I could buy salad uncontaminated by feces but I guess I'll take irradiated if feces salad is all we can get.
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by dmm 8y ago
Only 47% of federal revenue is from income taxes though. 34% is from regressive payroll taxes. Taxes need to be way higher. Federal revenues this year barely cover mandatory spending.
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Bits from the Debian Anti-harassment team(lists.debian.org)
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by dmm 8y ago
The absence of specific dangers is not the same as safety, but the former is all that water supply testing can provide.
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by dmm 8y ago
Google also provides epubs, which show the OCRed text.
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by dmm 8y ago
If we ceased all carbon emissions today the earth would continue to warm for centuries, sure. But if we did that then it wouldn't the total temperature rise be lower, requiring less geoengineering? How is that pointless?
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by dmm 8y ago
It's not all of the US. My state has always used paper.
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by dmm 8y ago
That makes sense, thanks
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by dmm 8y ago
What they are discussing is simply an acceleration of a natural process: the carbonate-silicate cycle[1]. Silicate rocks are transformed into carbonate rocks through weathering. This captures CO2 from the atmosphere. When carbonate rocks ar
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by dmm 8y ago
I think the idea is that they will eventually create something called 10nm but it will be very different from the current process in development.
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by dmm 8y ago
Regressive federal payroll taxes are almost equal to income taxes.
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by dmm 8y ago
> Cattle are a huge source of methane; in fact, if they were a country, they would be the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases! Imagine how opposed to a carbon tax the beef industry would be.
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by dmm 8y ago
Nitrogen would be a lot safer for everyone else around. You can release lots of N2 in a reasonably ventilated room without harm but that's not the case with CO.
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by dmm 8y ago
Cigarettes kill 50% of long term users. Being safer than that is not a big accomplishment.
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by dmm 8y ago
I'm working on a problem where I have a single executable that is run as a dynamic number of long-running processes where I'd like to restrict each process to a separate directory. For example, process 1 could only r/w files
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by dmm 8y ago
> Even more importantly, on whom does the criminal liability fall? Observing how these things are usually handled I would say the liability would fall on no one. Unless the driver is intoxicated car crashes, even those resulting in death
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by dmm 8y ago
The grandparent was using a type of figure of speech called hyperbole which is an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
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by dmm 8y ago
The best thing of all would be having the cost of recycling included in the price of the product. Then manufacturers would be incentivized to make recycling as effective as possible.
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by dmm 8y ago
Women make up 51% of the US population so clearly men are a minority. Ha! But really they probably mean a minority in a specific career or environment. For example, ~6% of truck drivers are female but only ~18% of primary and secondary teac
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by dmm 8y ago
In principle I agree with you that in general we should attempt to internalize externalities whenever possible. But, for example, burning coal kills thousands of Americans every year from fine particle pollution. Why not internalize coal co

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