geogra4

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   Billionaires Secretly Funded Vast Climate Denial Network(motherjones.com)

   3 points by geogra4 14y ago|0 comments
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   Expect IBM to leave Vermont within three years (2012)(greenmountaindaily.com)

   41 points by geogra4 14y ago|23 comments
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   by geogra4 14y ago

   Detroit is extremely poor. It's not in the same class as cities like SF, Chicago or NYC in the sense that these cities have money and can spread it around to functional services. For what it has, Detroit isn't run THAT poorly. Trash still g
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   by geogra4 14y ago

   Because they live at home and are subsidized by their parents.
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   by geogra4 14y ago

   I find Udacity sort of gimmicky and too gamified. I really wish I could say I really enjoyed the intro to CS course. I hope they get better. I'd jump at the opportunity to get the equivalent of a BS in CS for free. Or even for a modest per-
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   by geogra4 14y ago

   Endlessly frustrating that there is such vindictive zeal on the right for pushing the faces of the poor into the dirt.
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   by geogra4 14y ago

   And a depressing one, at that!
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   by geogra4 14y ago

   Mind posting a link to a place with an 'Internet Sales' department?
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   by geogra4 14y ago

   I used the Potsmodernism Generator ( http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ ) And got scores of 0.35-0.45
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    by geogra4 14y ago

    Ferndale and Royal Oak don't really have white collar office jobs. At any rate. The state of Detroit is extremely Depressing. It's the region's major city!
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    by geogra4 14y ago

    Ha, I guess this depends where in America.
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    by geogra4 14y ago

    Me too. I only use my car when I absolutely have to. My bike, however, I use every day for commuting.
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    This man is a member of US House Committee on Science(washingtonpost.com)

    2 points by geogra4 14y ago|0 comments
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    by geogra4 14y ago

    I don't understand why high pay has to come with a toxic workplace.
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    by geogra4 14y ago

    >“In a poor organization, on the other hand, people spend much of their time fighting organizational boundaries, infighting and broken processes. They are not even clear on what their jobs are, so there is no way to know if they are get
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    by geogra4 14y ago

    Now this is a great idea.
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    by geogra4 14y ago

    Now how about Vim?
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    by geogra4 14y ago

    How about we mine mars to make solar panels from Iron Oxide? Or bring machines to mars that will build solar panels? Then we could have an entire electrical power source for human habitation or machine experiments.
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    by geogra4 14y ago

    >Despite the harsh conditions on the surface, the atmospheric pressure and temperature at about 50 km to 65 km above the surface of the planet is nearly the same as that of the Earth, making its upper atmosphere the most Earth-like area
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    by geogra4 14y ago

    Probably things like this[0] are designed to help. [0] http://www.siemens.com/press/en/pressrelease/?press=/en/pres...
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    Renewables now account for 25% of German energy production(reuters.com)

    124 points by geogra4 14y ago|126 comments
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    by geogra4 14y ago

    Exactly. Vegetarian diets are the most efficient use of natural resources.
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    by geogra4 14y ago

    I love searching code bases for curse words. Lots of humor shows up.
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    by geogra4 14y ago

    As someone who is vaguely familiar with programming and got about 1/2 way through the Udacity Python course I was disappointed with the education I received. Udacity courses seem to gamify to the extreme, giving hyper-specific tasks and imm
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    Google Hotel Finder(google.com)

    1 points by geogra4 14y ago|0 comments
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    by geogra4 14y ago

    What year was this?
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    by geogra4 14y ago

    I'm moving to Detroit next spring. I'm excited to see what kind of opportunities are around the city. Lots of neat stuff going on and Dan Gilbert is doing a great job.
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    by geogra4 14y ago

    >As others have noted, it was wealth Americans never really possessed This is one thing that definitely rings true to me. I grew up in a wealthy community that abutted many, many poorer ones. I would often ride my bike through all of th
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    by geogra4 14y ago

    I always liked the Velomobile concept. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velomobile
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    by geogra4 14y ago

    Right. What happens to the rest of America? Not everyone can be a Theil fellow.