elago

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by elago 8y ago
"* the parts of our food supply that are heavily dependent on pollinating agents rely entirely on commercial pollination services, not native ambient pollinating species." So the orchards that cultivate a healthy ecosystem through
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by elago 8y ago
Okay, if that was your point all along then I understand. Not to move the goalposts, just to share some food for thought. Making a distinction between native and invasive species implies there is some particular snapshot in time when things
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by elago 8y ago
In my strange corner of the world that hasn't been "agronomically optimized", there aren't giant monoculture farms spraying insecticides, and there are dozens of species acting as pollinators. No one pays for "polli
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by elago 8y ago
Referring to "price of pollination services" means the natural ecosystem has failed.
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by elago 8y ago
Most programmers/coders/software engineers could easily be considered capitalists by this quote from your article: "X-ray techs can't take X-rays without access to expensive X-ray machines in the hospital, owned by the h
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by elago 8y ago
"and can grow indefinitely" It's accurate only given this flawed assumption.
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by elago 8y ago
The site of every airplane crash doesn't become an inhabitable danger lasting for multiple lifetimes.
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by elago 8y ago
What is your justification? You already know JSON and you don't wanna learn another notation? You know XML but the use of "<>" are too offensive? If you're such a hacker why not just write a script for yourself tha
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by elago 9y ago
Cool tech, scary direction for a business model. Don't like the idea of only being able to compile code as long as I'm paying rent for the compiler. At least with the web hellscape you can download the ridiculously-large-number of
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by elago 9y ago
But the dangerous tables saws were still used to build things by lots of people before 2009 when riving knifes were mandated. I don't see why it's a crime to build a battery pack if you aren't working for Tesla. I still don&#
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by elago 9y ago
If that's your interpretation then we fundamentally disagree. "Random guy on Youtube" happened to be an intelligent and capable human being who learned all the relevant techniques and principles from available information wit
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by elago 9y ago
All the table saws I've ever used have been super dangerous. Car crashes are a leading cause of death for young people. I could go on, these sorts of things can't be made safe while still being useful. Beyond a point, it's up
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by elago 9y ago
As a counterpoint to the hysteria expressed in most of these comments, a few years ago I was watching a youtube series by "Rinoa Super Genius" where a similar project was undertaken to create an e-bike battery from disassembled la
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by elago 9y ago
This comment thread is taking place on site with no (obvious or well known) google or facebook integrations. Honest question, do you think the same content with same title with a different domain rather than 'medium.com' could not
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by elago 9y ago
If only there were some sort of free non-democracy-eroding microblogging platform the author could have used instead.
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by elago 9y ago
Could you please name the technology? I work with renewable energy and I have no idea. Are you talking about nuclear?
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by elago 9y ago
"Local storage" is the name of something most web browsers implement https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_webstorage.asp
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by elago 9y ago
That's confusing. I'm a G Suite customer and it comes with either huge or unlimited amount of google drive storage. I can access that storage either through a browser, or with a program from google called "drive file stream&q
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by elago 9y ago
>But nobody wants that. Oh, that's exactly what I want, and have been researching for myself. I'm taking it even further and planning on being able to switch individual circuits between battery and grid. If that idea is dumb
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by elago 9y ago
Dang, okay, that was a stupid analogy I made. It should have been something like "If you're obese and sickly, should you spend your time evangelizing the importance of diet and exercise to other unhealthy people instead of eating
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by elago 9y ago
Wait what? How? Is this a Tennessee specific thing? This seems absurd and impossible to enforce. If I hypothetically spend a couple hundred bucks on a solar panel, 12v lead acid battery, and basic 12VDC -> 120VAC inverter, put those item
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by elago 9y ago
As a US citizen it is a valid argument because those "other guys" is our own country. It's not "don't go after those guys", but "take care of our own problems first". This way, when offering solutions
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by elago 9y ago
What data have you found regarding superiority of the Tesla Model 3 battery pack vs the Bolt. From my research, the Leaf is far behind, but the Bolt and Model 3 seem very similar almost to the point where I'd guess driving style and he
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by elago 9y ago
How is it crooked? The utility company pays to builds and maintains the grid infrastructure with the expectation they can use the infrastructure to sell power to consumers. One person selling back some unspecified amount of solar with quest
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by elago 9y ago
How has it ever been a problem? Create a new account on a new server, post a message on your old account "hey I'm moving to <url of new account>". Conversations are usually only a day or two old before going stale, who
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by elago 9y ago
In theory I agree, but in my experience the 'IoT' bits are less reliable than the underlying physical component that's being monitored. What's more likely? A brushless motor fails, or my wifi password changes when I repl
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by elago 9y ago
"It's going to end with cereal crop farmers committing suicide" Do you think cereal crop farmers are paying migrant workers with scythe's to harvest their grain? "Or they can start building the robots." What do
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by elago 9y ago
Hopefully this isn't too off topic, but could you explain how to even start approaching this from a RE/malware analysis perspective? I'm guessing there's no drag-and-drop de-obfuscate tool like there is for some of the
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by elago 9y ago
Maybe I'm missing your point a little, however for me today Starbucks is not like McDonalds when I was a kid. Starbucks is interchangeable with any of the many coffee chains. The service is fast, prices won't be insanely high, yet
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by elago 9y ago
How is that either childish or pedantic. It just took you 7 lines to describe your interpretation of the definition of product in this case. I think it's a reasonable point to discuss. The author's example was good: when at Starbu

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