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In Afghanistan’s War and Peace, WhatsApp Delivers the Message(nytimes.com)
1 points by g8oz 7y ago|0 comments
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by g8oz 7y ago
Personal: Onenote - for mobile and tablet Work: Confluence wiki How you organize/classify/process information is more important than the tool imo.
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YouTube regrets: Anecdotal claims of damaged users(bbc.com)
1 points by g8oz 7y ago|0 comments
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by g8oz 7y ago
Personally I'm more attached to uBlock origin than I am to Chrome.
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Why nuclear power plants cost so much–and what can be done about it(thebulletin.org)
2 points by g8oz 7y ago|0 comments
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by g8oz 7y ago
FYI The only DSL with a readme is the poop one.
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by g8oz 7y ago
Automotive 48v is happening: https://jalopnik.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-u...
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by g8oz 7y ago
Some perspective on EVs: Project Drawdown lists CO2 reduction by adoption of better cars as #49 in it's ranked list of of climate change solutions. #1 and #2 are refrigerant management and onshore wind turbines respectively.
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by g8oz 7y ago
This should be the top comment.
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by g8oz 7y ago
"the only state to eliminate single-family-only zoning in many of its residential neighborhoods." - this is the silver bullet. Minneapolis has done the same, I hope this becomes a nation-wide trend.
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by g8oz 7y ago
Couples could really cut down on costs if they apply this criteria to choosing people for the guest list: would this person be genuinely saddened if they heard I was getting divorced?
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by g8oz 7y ago
We need to articulate the changes we need from Apple & Google. Something along the lines of a) permission required for any app to use Bluetooth or BLE - preferably differentiating between whether the app is running in the foreground or
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by g8oz 7y ago
Wow, it's almost as if Muslim women have a variety of opinions on the subject.
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by g8oz 7y ago
On another note, when does influence become coercion? Is it only when it results in choices that the forces of global hegemony disagree with? Too many people are convinced that decision to wear a hijab can not be an authentically free one.
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by g8oz 7y ago
>>imagine Islam continues to fail to really integrate into nations and, through raw fertility rates, starts to become the dominant factor in a generally liberal nation One fallacy in this type of speculation is to assume that Muslims
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by g8oz 7y ago
Social coercion goes both ways https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-44411333
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by g8oz 7y ago
Related: Japan's birth rate is 1.43 children per woman now, far below replacement rate of 2.1. If the trend continues forever (which is a silly assumption) the Japanese people will completely disappear by the year....2500. I don't
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Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling Soil Once Meant Shame(nytimes.com)
2 points by g8oz 7y ago|0 comments
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Storing Energy by Heating Stones to 600 Degrees – Could Power Denmark for Hours(cleantechnica.com)
9 points by g8oz 8y ago|2 comments
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by g8oz 8y ago
It seems it did, at least in the realm of frequency regulation and with an attractive ROI to boot. https://cleantechnica.com/2018/10/08/teslas-battery-in-south...
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by g8oz 8y ago
Oh and they were busy in Kenya as well. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/...
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by g8oz 8y ago
Also worthy of note is Cambridge Analytica's trolling of Nigeria's 2015 presidential election: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/04/cambridge-an... Amoral doesn't begin to descr
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by g8oz 8y ago
The offerings from Mitsubishi and similar ones from other Asian manufacturers like LG and Fujitsu are air source heat pumps. I see no reason why the tech can't be scaled down to fit a car. It's certainly a reasonable goal for au
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by g8oz 8y ago
A modern heat pump with a variable speed compressor can be more efficient than resistive heat down to about -25 degrees Celsius (-13F). See Mitsubishi's Mr. Slim series. http://cdn.agilitycms.com/mesca/productdownl
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by g8oz 8y ago
Congratulations to the Sendgrid team. We've been very happy with the service. Sending emails is not our core competency and with Sendgrid we don't have to worry about deliver ability. If I ever get around to hosting my personal em
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by g8oz 8y ago
Apart from U.S pressure, another point to consider is that Huawei is widely believed to have conducted large scale theft of Nortel IP in the 2000s. It's crazy that Canada would think of rewarding such conduct with important telecom con
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by g8oz 8y ago
>>We have to presume Kavanaugh's innocence because no witness has come forward to corroborate any claims. By the standards of criminal proceedings, yes. But this is a job interview, the standards for disqualifying someone are low
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by g8oz 8y ago
>>If people are uncomfortable with their CEO eating meat then they should be free to ask about it and voice their opinions. But really, who would be that obnoxious?
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by g8oz 8y ago
Groundwater use by cities is more economically productive than it's use by agriculture. The former should be privileged in the inevitable allocation conflicts.
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by g8oz 8y ago
You get that cool stuff because you are signed into your Google Account on your laptop and on your phone. The controversy is over the new behavior of being signed into your Chrome browser by default. Do you really want by default to have yo

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