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by geogra4 7y ago
> Point me to a battery deployment that can store enough energy to power a modern reasonably-sized city for even hours at a time, much less days or weeks. https://electrek.co/2017/12/21/worlds-largest-batte
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by geogra4 7y ago
China still hasn’t apologized to the world for lying about WMDs in Iraq, dropping nuclear bombs on Japan or mounting right-wing coups around the globe. When will it start behaving more like the US?
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by geogra4 7y ago
I wonder at some point if film cameras will outsell digital ones
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by geogra4 7y ago
Whether we like it or not, it's already happening. https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/06/2019-Revision-%E2... But this doesn't really solve the city/urban problem as the vast majority of e
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by geogra4 7y ago
Other options with more 'kid friendly' UIs like UKnow4Kids, Educado, DoudouLinux, or Leeenux Kids just seem to have stopped development many years ago. Something like Edubuntu isn't really appropriate for small children - it&
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by geogra4 7y ago
I was just playing around with Sugar in a VM and it reminded me so much of how the earliest GUIs on a Mac as a kid felt. In general I've been kind of struggling to how to introduce my kids to computing. They're at the age now wher
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Sugar: Open-source software learning platform for children(sugarlabs.org)
185 points by geogra4 7y ago|105 comments
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by geogra4 7y ago
yeah but how many nm are left? There's a phsyical limit to transistor size!
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Ethiopia attempts to break record by planting 200M trees in a day(africa.cgtn.com)
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by geogra4 7y ago
Wait until you hear about what they do with US intelligence agencies
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by geogra4 7y ago
I would be immensely happy even if it was just on interstates/major highways in clear weather. That's at least 80% of the worst and most mind-numbing driving right there. The rest I don't have a problem doing myself.
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by geogra4 7y ago
Floating Cloud cities on Venus makes more sense. 1g, 1atm, habitable temperature, endless CO2. We'd need Oxygen and Water but that's true on Mars too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus
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by geogra4 7y ago
I wonder who the first president to ride a Chinese bullet train will be and say we need one of those in the US?
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by geogra4 7y ago
Each human being on this planet just needs to plant about 140 trees - to give a sense of the scale of this number
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by geogra4 7y ago
would be possible with a global cap/trade system with real enforcement mechanisms
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by geogra4 7y ago
I think your last paragraph is very much missed by trump and his team.
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by geogra4 7y ago
I remember frantically needing to parse a few hundred megs of log files and join them up to the db rows that fired the individual errors. Initially I was trying to use SQLite for it but I kept running out of memory and crashing the system.
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by geogra4 7y ago
Isn't this an allegory for global climate change?
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by geogra4 7y ago
by kidnapping the daughter of a corporate executive?
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by geogra4 7y ago
Not just CA, TX has similar issues with a PRIVATE HSR that the land owners simply won't let be built. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/04/texas-central...
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by geogra4 7y ago
It's strange to me how people imbue simple no-nonsense infrastructure projects with so much mental baggage.
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by geogra4 7y ago
It's unbelievable how awful we are at building high speed rail, or any rail at all in this country.
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by geogra4 7y ago
Yeah, sure. And Guaido is the president of Venezuela
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by geogra4 8y ago
What kind of comparison are you referring to? Are there studies of some kind that you're referencing? Most of the scientific research[0] points towards plant based diets being the best thing for us. [0]: https://www.pcrm.org
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by geogra4 8y ago
I was hoping this was a programming language written in Basque
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by geogra4 8y ago
I agree. My experience with asciidoc is that it's much more comprehensive and straightforward than trying to manage all the competing markdown implementations while still maintaining legible syntax and a full feature set
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by geogra4 8y ago
Or maybe some MC-21s from Irkut?
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by geogra4 8y ago
Who would trust Boeing after this? Airbus must be feeling pretty good right now.
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by geogra4 8y ago
'The Toyota Way' is the suggestion I give to anyone that asks me.
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by geogra4 8y ago
shutdown all coal plants and replace with Nuclear

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