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by huffmsa 7y ago
A cellphone, a cheap data plan + prime will run you ~$500 at the most. Or ~$1.50 a day. And you get the rest of the internets knowledge included. No hours of operation, no librarians giving you dirty looks
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by huffmsa 7y ago
But that means the private sector only has to focus on what makes them money,and they must do it well, or else they go away.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
They are going to, of course. But they're also looking forward to make sure they don't have to go bankrupt.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Unless you pay a private firm to drill a well and put a septic tank in the ground. Cost a few thousand dollars, and a few hundred every few years to have them come and pump the tank. I pay Amazon ~$10 a month for access to more reading, lis
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by huffmsa 7y ago
But they were slapped with the "* denier" label of the time heretic and either executed, exiled, or put on house arrest for life by the "good" government scientists.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
They probably have read it but discount it's inaccuracies the same way failed implementations of Marxism are discounted. > "Well we know how to do it right this time" Which is what was said last time too, but who's
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by huffmsa 7y ago
No, the real question is why do you think that "the government" is entitled to a percentage of your money, and why you think they can spend it better than the private sector.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Might not be the best citation https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/4/23/1850729...
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Exxon is one of the top 5 investors in renewables research. They're not idiots, they know they're going to run out of oil, and they're legally obligated to make sure their shareholders don't lose all of their money. So t
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Yes but the people who are Climate Change Believers are big fans of slapping -ist labels on those who aren't in 100% lockstep with them.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Yes, and you're going to get down voted below the fold. But it's historical dangerous to say "well ALL the good scientists and government scientists think X is true. Anyone who disagrees is on the take." That means you
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Been of the same thought myself. I see tons of pro-nuke Republicans waiting for the other side to show up. Meanwhile the Dems are off cancelling all of the waste repository projects (yucca mountain) and then turning around and complaining a
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Of course I didn't read the article. I hear it's paywall, and I and the economist's paywall really don't get along. But, it being a short term study doesn't change much. A temporary increase in pollutants will serve
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by huffmsa 7y ago
A lot of it is air pollution which settled into the soil decades ago. Hard to clean up
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by huffmsa 7y ago
You can't do it with humans, for ethical reasons, but why not take some other social animal, say mice, put one population in a box with zero pollution, and one hooked up to an old car exhaust with leaded gasoline? I'd wager the on
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Except it's not a case of ice cream and summer time. Lead fucks people up. Always has, always will. Pretty easy to trace a relationship between lead concentrations and societal disfunction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Yes. Lead moreso that other pollutants. Areas with higher concentrations of ground lead (older, poorer parts of cities) are pretty strongly linked with violent crime. Pretty well documented, don't have the citations handy though. It&#x
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by huffmsa 7y ago
There's a certain irony in that 1984 commercial now, isn't there?
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Literally kowtowing.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
It'd be worse than taking down a plane. Us millennials are desensitized to that. But if you took out a security checkpoint, or all of them, airports would be forced to move screening to before you even got inside. There would be car ch
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by huffmsa 7y ago
A bit of a rub with the examples. Baldness isn't a binary condition, it's a continuous set of outcomes, ie levels of baldness. Same with the heap of sand. There's no definite number of grains, but it's reasonable to say
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Watch a slow motion punch or other collision. At high speeds, the colliding surfaces will often deform faster than they're colliding and / or there is a slight rebound which separates them for a tiny, imperceptible amount of time,
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Ah, classic bureaucratic thinking at work. Let's boot the semtex filled laptops right in the middle of the most crowded, heaviest choke point at the airport. Right next to the 30 gallon trash cans filled with liquid explosives and othe
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Of course it should be. But the precedent was set in the early days of aviation when test pilots were flying experimental aircraft from alpha to v1. You don't want to kill rookies who freak out in a flat spin, so you put your coldest m
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Those blog style articles are the "original reporting" they're trying to promote.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
I set mine up while lying in bed one morning from my phone using Termius (W19, but been using it for years). It's great.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
I've thrown many a phone because of the page jumping around as ads load. No more. Blocks something like 25-30% of my web traffic.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Pi-hole my dude. Makes local news sites actually readable.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
To turn the engine. Lighting the fuel is easy enough. But overcoming the pressure inside the engine and getting ~50lbs of metal reciprocating and spinning from 0 to 1500rpm in a few seconds takes a bit of a kick.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
A welded in / bolted in roll cage isn't something you find in a production vehicle, I'm not even sure if they're allowed. The sleeping Bobby test is the ability to go over a speed bump (so names because it's like a

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