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by dubfan 12y ago
The city government is just beginning to emerge from bankruptcy, so there is some hope there. But they still have a chicken and egg problem: the city has to provide a reasonable level of services to attract businesses and their workers, but
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by dubfan 12y ago
The problem is that the American left has decided to make climate change "their issue", which leads the right wing to engage in denialist tactics. It's important to note that both of these positions are not really based in so
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by dubfan 12y ago
From the article: > Let’s face it, businesses won’t make sacrifices and pay more for clean energy based on altruism alone. Instead, we need solutions that appeal to their profit motives. This is what I keep trying to explain to my enviro
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GMO trees could rescue American chestnut from invasive fungus(arstechnica.com)
2 points by dubfan 12y ago|0 comments
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by dubfan 12y ago
That's a good thing. We can't grow our ancestor's wheat anymore, because it's vulnerable to crop-destroying pathogens.
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by dubfan 12y ago
This is the Internet in 2014. We don't refute controversial arguments, we scream "wow, just wow, hate speech, what a bigot", publicly shame and defame their character and derail their careers. We're enlightened now.
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by dubfan 12y ago
Maybe people are downvoting you because you're showing an incapability to distinguish between someone's expressed beliefs and their personal character?
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by dubfan 12y ago
I was in the market for a new TV last year, and I found it difficult to find one that wasn't loaded with "smart" features. I didn't want the smart features since I already had a home theater PC, which I built myself. Plu
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FBI created fake Seattle Times story to implant spyware on suspect's computer(geekwire.com)
6 points by dubfan 12y ago|0 comments
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by dubfan 12y ago
#3 is probably unconstitutional but the laws for #2 are on the books in most cities. They just aren't enforced in cities like SF and Seattle.
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by dubfan 12y ago
The Atlantic should not be taken seriously any longer. They've been nothing more than a slightly upmarket Buzzfeed for several years now.
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by dubfan 12y ago
The Atlantic would not have published this if it was the other way around.
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by dubfan 12y ago
That misses the key qualifier: "near a river". The challenge there is what is "near", and what is a "river"?
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by dubfan 12y ago
It didn't work for me either. Pretty much the whole of the city I live in is under a flight path, so it's definitely not a lack of data. On a related note, Siri has regressed for me since iOS 8. It won't shuffle my music by g
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by dubfan 12y ago
You can't compare a physical phenomenon to a social one, especially when the existence and magnitude of the latter is heavily contested by people with agendas that rely on the phenomenon's existence and magnitude.
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by dubfan 12y ago
I always thought it was about "not being a bad person", a concept which predates feminism by a few millennia.
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by dubfan 12y ago
> I didn't know I was seriously making women uncomfortable. The vast majority of women are not hypersensitive. You're probably fine, and when dealing with someone hypersensitive, you can never really know what will make them un
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by dubfan 12y ago
The best thing about free speech is that it lets us identify assholes easily.
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by dubfan 12y ago
> Free speech and free thought should not mean that anybody give anybody else a free pass to cause harm or spread ideas that are likely to cause harm But then you don't have free speech or thought anymore. You only have the freedom
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by dubfan 12y ago
The eclipse will be visible in California, but the selenelion, the subject of the article, will not.
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by dubfan 12y ago
Right, so you end up with these subreddits full of people reaffirming each other's viewpoints. Nobody wants to hear anything challenging their views, but at the same time they stomp their feet and whine without a hint of irony, "w
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by dubfan 12y ago
> Companies have spent years cutting costs by replacing natural ingredients with artificial ones, while overselling the message that the products still taste great and are good for you, Dibadj said. Now that consumers are calling them on
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by dubfan 12y ago
Likewise, hopefully she can get bok choy growers to stop using toxic glucosinolates.
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by dubfan 12y ago
Given the rate at which QNAP issues updates I'm not expecting it to be fixed for at least another month, and that will most likely be a beta release. I like my QNAP NAS but I don't think I'd buy another QNAP product. They are
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by dubfan 12y ago
Thailand was never colonized.
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by dubfan 12y ago
After Keen 3, the id guys were still under contract with Softdisk for another game. They made Keen Dreams to fulfill this obligation, but it wasn't released until some time after Keen 6. http://www.thefloppydisk.com/art
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by dubfan 12y ago
Yeah, it does seem like it misses the point. The biggest problem I have with Reddit is that most sub-Reddits don't promote high-quality comments, and instead reward jokes and pop-culture references. Fun drinking game: Go on the Men&#x2
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by dubfan 12y ago
It's getting flagged, probably because it's of dubious veracity and the author doxxed GN employees.
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by dubfan 12y ago
In fact, that was exactly a line used by the anti-fluoridation side when it was up for vote.
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by dubfan 12y ago
Yes, Monsanto lobbies, just like every other relatively large company in this country. > The privatization of water and food as population control and hostile takeover of land is very real. I'm sorry, but this sounds like tin foil h

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