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by ebbv 8y ago
Far more balanced and informative write up of this story: https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/blogs/how-...
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by ebbv 8y ago
Definitely possible but kinda hard to know for sure.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Again you keep talking like insolvency was inevitable. It wasn’t. It happened because politicians misused the funds. I’m bored of arguing with you though. It serves no purpose because you are just regurgitating right wing talking points.
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by ebbv 8y ago
You realize 401k programs at most companies are treated as a pool just like pension funds right? The difference is politicians had domain over the pension funds and decided to "borrow" from them and make them insolvent. The worker
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by ebbv 8y ago
I don’t even know where to begin your comment is so full of deliberate half truths. The people work under 25 years because you only need to work 20 to qualify. Why’s that? Because you only need to work that long to have paid enough into the
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by ebbv 8y ago
Pensions are not a pyramid scheme any more than any other form of retirement fund is. Give me a break.
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by ebbv 8y ago
What a pathetic ploy to divide the working class against each other. The reason states are short on cash is the race to the bottom we’ve all been participating in since the 1980s when government policy and general economic policy moved from
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by ebbv 8y ago
Could you be a bit more clear in the question? Do you want to know how to actually write a database system? Or how to design a good schema? Or how to write classes that implement a schema for you using a framework? Or something else? In any
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by ebbv 8y ago
Off topic pointless comment. Literally listing one tangentially related reference in a movie with hundreds of them (because it is nothing but.)
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by ebbv 8y ago
I loved the Mass Effect games but I disagree it’s an automatic home run. The characters are all very thin and the main character, like most main characters is a vessel for the player to project themselves into and not a compelling protagoni
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by ebbv 8y ago
1) Lore != character development or plot 2) See the part about grading games on a curve.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Kinda cheating to call the Spirits Within a video game movie. It was titled Final Fantasy but was a wholly unique story and new characters and everything.
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by ebbv 8y ago
This is an easy answer I’m sure I’ve given on here before; when you adapt a book to a movie you have an excess of story and character development. You boil it down to its essential ingredients. Sometimes it still turns out bad but this is w
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by ebbv 8y ago
Cool write up and classification system. A category that affects us is VendorDebt. Things that are inflicted on us by external vendors. Classifying then in a similar manner might help us decide which vendors to dump.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Depends on your goals and your audience. My channel is about guitar stuff, I joined an existing community and am easily finding viewers on Youtube. It might be an uphill battle for me on one of those alternative platforms, and frankly I hav
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by ebbv 8y ago
What a load of crap. Major channels are not giving up their enormous paychecks from Google to take a flier on blockchain powered alternatives with no audience on it. The only people switching are people who have a vested interest in everyth
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by ebbv 9y ago
Company valued at $30 billion. Artists continue to receive almost nothing for their music being played. Something doesn't add up here.
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by ebbv 9y ago
The success rate of never smoking/vaping in the first place is 100%. The success rate of quitting is really up to the individual, much like weight loss or other self improvement stuff. But even if it's hard it's the thing you
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by ebbv 9y ago
Abstinence isn't effective? For sex maybe. For smoking it is, though. It's the most successful method of quitting.
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by ebbv 9y ago
Nothing other than what I said; "monkey see, monkey do." / peer pressure. Same as adults. It's just a really stupid fad.
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by ebbv 9y ago
The tobacco companies have bought into the vaping industry, along with a lot of random other corporations and small businesses. But there's certainly NO reason to vape other than "monkey see, monkey do."
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by ebbv 9y ago
Except the thing that kept twitter around through the problems was celebrities. People following celebrities like Ashton Kutcher and Kim Kardashian and comedians kept it relevant until it became used in the Arab Spring and then it became “l
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by ebbv 9y ago
Except we know that existing fossil fuel burning plants are about 30% efficient. No battery is that bad. This is a really weak idea that only sounds good if you don’t think about the details at all. (And remember that 30% is only on the rec
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by ebbv 9y ago
It wouldn’t help because at best this is carbon neutral. But in reality it’s unlikely to be anywhere close to carbon neutral, in which case a tax on carbon makes this much more costly than battery storage.
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by ebbv 9y ago
Your suspicion is correct. This is a film flam. At best this is an extremely inefficient way to store energy.
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by ebbv 9y ago
A lot of bad developers like to use this excuse but it doesn’t hold water. Open source has a history of producing better security results.
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by ebbv 9y ago
How is this at all surprising? Controlling what third parties are allowed to make accessories and games has been part of Nintendo's business model since the 80s. They truly believe (and you can argue this if you want) that the Nintendo
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by ebbv 9y ago
They’re not absurd pensions. They’re nothing compared to what many, many executives even of failing companies get paid.
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by ebbv 9y ago
Those workers didn’t decide their own pay and benefits. And frankly they aren’t ridiculous. They are very reasonable and frankly a joke compared to the compensation of executives and bankers who bribe politicians to undermine and kill worke
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by ebbv 9y ago
This is a dishonest characterization. Those people put their work into those pensions. They deserve them as much as you deserve your paycheck. The problem is we keep electinng crooks and weasels who undermine services and programs so they a

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