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by hnbad 3y ago
I'm not saying using wood instead of concrete is bad. I'm just saying "build more houses and use wood" doesn't reduce emissions, it produces them. "Build more houses and don't use wood" of course prod
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by hnbad 3y ago
The appraisal at the end of the video says "$2,375" according to the transcript (was watching without audio) and the sample appraisal (which I guess as your sibling pointed out was just meant as a sample of what an appraisal would
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by hnbad 3y ago
Anakin only killed the Jedi younglings and it's not clear whether when he killed the sand people he killed their young in any particular order relative to their parents so he's not a perfect choice for a tool that specifically onl
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by hnbad 3y ago
It was appraised at $2150 USD. I'm not sure how that translates to the listing price but a 40x markup seems a bit extreme.
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by hnbad 3y ago
We also sell wood to the US.
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by hnbad 3y ago
The new growth also needs to account for the emissions of cutting down and processing the old trees (even with solar, machines don't run on sunshine alone) and planting/nurturing the new growth itself. The prof was likely just try
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by hnbad 3y ago
You're not talking about forests, you're talking about tree farms. Man-made "forests" are monocultures that are extremely susceptible to environmental hazards and the trees are usually intentionally short-lived. In Europ
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by hnbad 3y ago
The stereotypes around Russian and Chinese tourists have a lot to do with relative wealth, I think. If you're from Russia or China and you decide to go to Europe (or in the case of Russia more specifically Western Europe) for a vacatio
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by hnbad 3y ago
That's a very naive understanding of how charities work. You don't donate to a charity, you donate to your charity. Now, obviously your charity still needs to act as a charity so that money can't go back in your pocket bu
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by hnbad 3y ago
Given how the US legal system works in practice, a plea deal is also the most likely outcome for any other felony. Playing for time isn't really a good idea when that translates to extremely long jail times while waiting for a trial yo
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by hnbad 3y ago
Correct. Buffalo and wisent are both bison.
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by hnbad 3y ago
It sounds like Amazon (in Poland at least) has been playing it fast and loose with "eventual consistency" but violated the law by basing legally binding claims on the unreliable data. Selling goods that are already out of stock on
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by hnbad 3y ago
> "A reasonable officer would have promptly known that it was an innocent family's home and not the sort of place inhabited by drug-crazed criminals." This sentiment is why this happens. We're talking about stolen Air
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by hnbad 3y ago
What accusation ? I literally said it's a fan project. You're agreeing with me. I said it's not "grassroots" because it's a solo project. Grassroots refers to movements/organizations. This distinction is
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by hnbad 3y ago
It's important to keep in mind that this is not just about the US. Countries not aligned with the US may have an interest in exposing the US but most countries do not have an interest of being exposed in a similar manner and setting an
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by hnbad 3y ago
FWIW there was a special investigation into the US spying in Germany but it didn't lead anywhere because there was no political desire to create any consequences. It seems to boil down to everyone in government who was affected already
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by hnbad 3y ago
Given that the US is not a signatory to several international treaties and regularly employs solitary confinement, which is internationally considered as a form of torture, there is a humanitarian argument against the extradition. The desir
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by hnbad 3y ago
Given the site guidelines discourage voting based on agreement, I wonder what part of what I say is so fundamentally wrong and counter-productive it's not even worth responding to and actively detrimental to the conversation. Is it tha
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by hnbad 3y ago
Okay? I literally said it's not astroturfing. Words mean things. I'd argue the lack of reading comprehension presented in the replies to my comment bords on violating the site's guidelines too. Astroturfing is when a moneyed
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by hnbad 3y ago
I don't think it's meaningful to talk about "a large proportion" with this few data points. They're serious privacy violations because of the nature of the data that was exposed. We're also only talking about t
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by hnbad 3y ago
That's a very muddled explanation of the concepts you're referencing. Direct democracy (i.e. "elections everywhere for everything") is democratic. The "tyranny of the majority" is a problem of top-down (i.e.
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by hnbad 3y ago
The implication here is that this stands out because others haven't been fined. I'm not up to date enough on UK privacy violations to be able to tell whether that is the case. Charities have to obey privacy law the same as anybody
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by hnbad 3y ago
To be clear: I'm arguing monopolies can increase efficiency so they can cause costs to go down but they also eliminate the motive to pass those cost savings on to customers so they usually cause prices to go up. This is well-known enou
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by hnbad 3y ago
From the same article: > However, even a catastrophic Kessler scenario at LEO would pose minimal risk for launches continuing past LEO, or satellites travelling at medium Earth orbit (MEO) or geosynchronous orbit (GEO). The catastrophic
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by hnbad 3y ago
I don't know which case you're thinking of but generally the trend seems to be police officers leaking data about (perceived) left-wing activists to far-right groups. There is a known far-right extremism problem in the German poli
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by hnbad 3y ago
To be fair, in the US regulations seem to be thought of as something enforced against smaller companies while larger companies can afford expensive lawyers to sidestep them. The difference is that EU privacy law can't easily be sideste
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by hnbad 3y ago
It's easy to forget given the direction Elon has been heading ever since the "pedo guy" comment but there are a lot of techno-optimists who are obsessively in love with all things SpaceX (and - tho now to a lesser extent - Te
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by hnbad 3y ago
Not miniscule enough to not interfere with astronomy due to the exposure times and light sensitivity involved. But yes, they're not big enough to cause a "space junk preventing space travel" kind of scenario.
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by hnbad 3y ago
Ask Russia how that's been going ;)
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by hnbad 3y ago
They're not mutually exclusive as far as cost goes - quite the opposite (hence all the talk about "synergy" and "vertical integration" in enterprise spaces) - but you're right about consumer prices. I think wha

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