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10y ago
Well if this Nietzschean quest for superman immortality doesn't work out, I recommend reading some Sufi poetry to help come to terms with the passing of time. Future generations will just have to find other exemplars of libertarian smu
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10y ago
Germany is so far ahead in their understanding of the common good. Recall too that they single-handedly jump started the modern solar industry with their feed-in tariff scheme.
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10y ago
Ostentatious appreciation of poetry is also great for social signaling.
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10y ago
For those who don't know Walid Phares was a high ranking political official in a Christian religious militia responsible for civilian massacres during Lebanon's civil war. Now he's a favorite Islam "scholar" for ri
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10y ago
Remember Google’s Polymer? Angular 1? Express? Perhaps the organizations and individuals which cause these abrupt termination events should carry a stigma. A fantastic idea. There should be some social consequences for these sort of faith
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10y ago
If there are hundreds of people working on WhatsApp I wonder why it's so difficult for them to continue supporting Blackberry 10. So what if it's not popular, they should aim for complete coverage of modern mobile OSes. Then again
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10y ago
Plus they have option prices.
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10y ago
Blackberry 10 browser refuses to recognize Lets Encrypt certs :(
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10y ago
Do you live in an urban area? I don't believe there is a city over 500,000 in North America where you could go more than 5 minutes without someone recognizing a Tesla.
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10y ago
Also relevant "Why suburbia sucks" https://likewise.am/2016/05/08/why-suburbia-sucks/
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10y ago
They are not more efficient in terms of how many acres are required to produce a given amount of calories.
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10y ago
Strange they would censor that when the Salon piece that Harris is butt-hurt about is quite well argued. They could've just run his comments and allowed the writer to respond. On another note reading that interview TIL that Harris is o
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10y ago
Alibaba has a feature where they list the response rate of sellers to queries sent via the site. This could be an angle for AirBnB. Log rejections and acceptances and ignores. Run reports on the data for a scorecard. Egregious violators can
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10y ago
Could you explain the meaning of the phrase "deliberately obtuse"?
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10y ago
Another article: http://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/201405/the.water.below....
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11y ago
Fossil fuels have unpriced externalities even in places like Germany. And what you call market distortion re renewables in Germany is more appropriately called investment. The proof is the global solar industry that that country singlehande
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11y ago
It goes both ways. Widespread grid-tied distributed generation can save on distribution equipment maintenance wear and tear further upstream. Neither side has honestly acknowledged or studied the trade offs.
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11y ago
"Lets not move forward until every conceivable issue is solved" - said every entrenched interest ever.
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11y ago
HVDC lines work very well even if they are quite expensive.
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11y ago
At a certain point the policy question will inevitably be: why should any regular person be even allowed to drive given the superior abilities of the machines? There are certain ideological assumptions that will then have to be debated. Mak
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11y ago
Mastery, Autonomy and Purpose is what we all want. Bad leaders are getting in the way of his Autonomy so he feels like he lost his Purpose. Hence the longing for an objective metric like money. It's a poor substitute.
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11y ago
>>"..that gravitational potential energy just doesn't give you that much" To that point I'll respond with a quote from Hendl's site: A storage with a radius of 250 meters could store 124 GWh, which would corr
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11y ago
I'm interested in raised weight hydraulic accumulators and their potential for smoothing out peaks and troughs in the production of renewable energy. German Prof.Dr. Eduard Heindl of Heidl Energy is developing the concept of a "r
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11y ago
It's very naive to bet your future on the hypothetical benevolence of other people.
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11y ago
I always thought the "Planet" sites did a decent job of aggregating posts by topic. planet.gnome.org, planet.kernel.org, planetkde.org etc.
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11y ago
It's not so much Washington fronting the bill as making an investment. And the cumulative effect of those investments globally is working. LCOE of wind is now $83/megawatt hour compared to $82 for natural gas(1). 1 - http:/&
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11y ago
>> But I cannot imagine what I can say that would be unique. It doesn't have to be unique - when evangelizing anything redundant repetition in a myriad of different ways is most important. You never know what will produce the lig
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11y ago
Maybe people like you should do some evangelizing of these techniques.
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11y ago
I think it's more accurate to say that the BBC is disliked by the newer Hindu nationalist types for not pandering to their world view.
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11y ago
Support is showing up in set top boxes too. On Amazon look up the "GooBang Doo M8S".
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