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by eesmith 2y ago
Here's an example of a US phone book from the 1980s, https://archive.org/details/1981-12-mc-lean-county-phone-boo... . It has two sections, typically called 'white pages' and 'yellow pages' bec
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by eesmith 2y ago
If homes are the analogy we want to use, then we should remember that some places have much stronger laws to protect renters, some places have housing co-ops, and some places have government-owned or government-subsidized housing.
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When I hear "Varda" I think of the 1980 movie Battle Beyond the Stars. Any connection? Concerning the business model, I can't help but think that small processes don't generate much material, resulting in a high cost. If
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The Current Market Size <> Timeline has "Pharmaceuticals", specifically, "space-grown crystals". This has been tried for decades. It has not proved all that beneficial. Certainly not enough to be a clear economic a
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I literally quoted someone else who said it, with a quote found on the Wikipedia page entry for the topic, linking to the paper at https://www.jstor.org/stable/3751606?seq=1 which goes into details. A Wikipeda entry wh
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Most if not all of those were met with complaints that we were on the slippery slope towards being a police state where the government forced its way into private matters. Given that, your argument seems to be that since we are on the slipp
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Mostly because they say things like "bike lanes make car congestion worse", when the evidence is generally that bike lanes improve car transit times. Or claim they don't want bike lanes because cyclists break the law all the
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> Does that make public transit "a prison"? No. It makes that specific type of low quality public transport a prison. Following the metaphor, a low-security prison, or house arrest, but one none-the-less. Good public transit ne
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Seen by many European immigrants. The poem was written one year after the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. In the Immigration Act of 1917, the US excluded people from British India. Hardly an example of "welcoming [all] immigrants.&quo
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Except there isn't a good general understanding. Quoting [3] from Wikipedia's entry at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism : > "The ordinary current use of the word terrorism is much too wide. Tha
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"Terrorist" is a political designation, and does not have such a clear definition. Dylann Roof and Anderson Lee Aldrich were not charged with terrorism. Luigi Mangione was. How does your grammar National Socialist mode distinguish
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Does that information improve or worsen the training? Does it justify the resource demands? Who pays for those resources and who benefits?
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You've got a long way from your original questions at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42552853 . What you describe now has nothing to do with a river and can no longer be called 'pollution'. For one, sto
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The consequences of acts of God are typically held to different standards than that of Man. That said, if your phosphate mine's tailings pond wasn't built to handle the expected consequences of a hurricane, failure to handle said
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by eesmith 2y ago
"If I own a piece of land then by virtue of that ownership I get an almost unlimited veto on what is allowed to be done to that piece of land." That belief is very culturally dependent. For example, in "freedom to roam"
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Water rights law is very well established, with several different viewpoints. The one I'm most familiar with is the prior appropriation doctrine used in the western US, specifically, New Mexico. Available water belongs to the public, n
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Some commentary about why you gave that link would be nice. I think you meant as a way to say "looks like you are right"? That is, as far as I can tell, it agrees with me ("responses to SDI were not a major factor in either t
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Quoting the top-level link to geraspora.de: > Oh, and of course, they don’t just crawl a page once and then move on. Oh, no, they come back every 6 hours because lol why not. They also don’t give a single flying fuck about robots.txt, be
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To my understanding, the costs involved in the Soviet response to SDI were small, and had very little effect on national spending, so I don't see how that's important enough to mention. Surely the falling price of oil was more sig
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Yes, you’re quite literally describing the solution described in the article: "There needs to be an express focus on building for people who actually live in a place. Once you give the market free rein to build for anyone, then you’re
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"developing a similar system"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative#R... says: > In 2014, a declassified CIA paper stated that "In response to SDI, Moscow threatened a variety of
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by eesmith 2y ago
"18 year old goes into space to build a secret space station." fails to find Lester del Rey's "Step to the Stars". The options were: * Skyward - Brandon Sanderson * Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card * Learning th
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Yes, and ..? The terms 'using more carbon-free power' and 'using more fossil power' are not exclusive. Their CO2 emissions are increasing, and that's all that matters.
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FWIW, at 6:28 of the linked-to video is a bar chart of CO2 emissions for Google and how it is increasing due to integrating AI into their products. Source is Google’s 2024 Environmental Report at https://sustainability.google&#x2
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Okay .... so until then we stick our heads in the sand? No additional regulations on tech and energy use? Continued subsidizes for oil and gas extraction? Nothing at all until someone cracks carbon capture? Because it seems like hoping for
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The first frame "we were on track for fossil fuel use to top out". That's not net zero. All I see is a hope for net zero future, and nowhere that we were on a path to net zero.
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So is your argument that we need to cut back on air travel first? Or that we need to cut back on air travel while also reducing CO2 emissions from data centers, with more emphasis on cutting back on air travel?
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It should be co-equal to the freedom of association, not foundational, as that would deprive us of liberty. As Mills pointed out in "On Liberty" at https://gutenberg.org/files/34901/34901-h/34901-h.h
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Try it out at https://archive.org/details/The_Print_Shop_1984_Broderbund , on an emulated Apple 2e.
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I went to the Geographic Names Information System at https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/searc... Name search, Names search mode is "Exact Match", Feature Classes is "Island&

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