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by imgabe 4y ago
It's not that hard. And you get the benefit that they actually book the hotel room . I'm kind of mystified how Booking.com was able to say they booked a room at this hotel, when they apparently never even contacted the hotel to r
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by imgabe 4y ago
I've completely sworn off third-party booking services. They never know what's going on and when anything goes wrong they just tell you they can't help you. Then the place tells you that they can't help you because you
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by imgabe 4y ago
Not all methods of using energy require releasing heat to space. Solar energy uses heat and light that comes in from space and converts some portion of it to useful work, reducing the amount of heat that needs to be released to space. Tha
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by imgabe 4y ago
> there's no way of our GDP keeps growing indefinitely while reducing our ecological footprint. Yes there is. We are vastly ineffecient with our use of energy. Fusion power, better use of solar, wind, geothermal power, better energ
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by imgabe 4y ago
Where in my comment do you think I’ve confused a want and a need?
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by imgabe 4y ago
What are you talking about?
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by imgabe 4y ago
This is just childish. Written by a probably 20-something journalist who has never in their life been responsible for fulfilling a real human need. Without fossil fuels, civilization would grind to a halt. Billions would die. Yes, we need t
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by imgabe 4y ago
Impossible to say without knowing about things that are probably still classified. The failures become public, the successes would just kind of quietly dissolve into the background and maybe nobody would even know the CIA was involved. Succ
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by imgabe 4y ago
I was thinking specifically of Brasilia and the criticisms of it in the book Seeing Like a State , how the planning ignored the reality of how people actually lived their lives. It's also interesting that all the examples you gave as
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by imgabe 4y ago
The section of Seeing Like a State about Brasilia left me with the impression that it did not, in fact, work very well. I lived in DC for many years. There were people living there beforehand. It's at an intersection of 2 rivers. The
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by imgabe 4y ago
I don't think what I want matters very much. I don't live there and don't ever plan to. I'm saying I don't see the appeal. Was this something the people of Saudia Arabia wanted? Was the population clamoring to live
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by imgabe 4y ago
Oh, they'll build something I'm sure. Why anyone would want to live in a giant shopping mall in the middle of a desert in a country with an oppressive, theocratic regime I have no idea.
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by imgabe 4y ago
woohoo, 4 day weekend!
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by imgabe 4y ago
If you're using github or gitlab, you probably don't have any control over whether or not voting is implemented in the issue tracking system.
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by imgabe 4y ago
You will know exactly how competent and how robust as well as exactly what their limitations and weaknesses are. You'll also know all their internal procedures, what decisions they'll make in a given situation before they make
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by imgabe 4y ago
If they're an ally, it's to our benefit that their military is strong. If they become an enemy, it doesn't hurt that we built their military and know everything about it inside out. If the US could make every other country&#x
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by imgabe 4y ago
Fair use is a defense. After you get sued, you can argue fair use in court. It does not stop you from getting sued.
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by imgabe 4y ago
As someone who's wasted too much time arguing with people online, I find it very unlikely you'll change anyone's mind that way. If your values are so great, live them. Show by example why your values are the best way to live,
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by imgabe 4y ago
Now that a Nordic country is doing it, maybe liberals in the US will think it’s a good idea.
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by imgabe 4y ago
It’s deceptive. People give money thinking they are supporting one thing, and it gets used for something else.
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by imgabe 4y ago
I haven't had a drink in 27 days, which is the longest I've gone in a while. Left to my own devices, I tend to settle into a pattern of 2-4 drinks per night, 5-6 nights a week (I actually tracked this for a while with a spreadshee
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by imgabe 4y ago
Maybe, maybe not. That doesn't change the fact that "we spend more on public safety so the amount we spend on roads is enough" is straight nonsense. They are two different things with different requirements. How much is spent
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by imgabe 4y ago
This is just bad reasoning. How much they spend on other items is irrelevant to whether the amount they spend on roads is sufficient. The effects of deferred maintenance take years or decades to show up. Then a bridge collapses or a road ne
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by imgabe 4y ago
Do people really ignore their doctor's advice because they saw a headline? I'm sure there are some examples, but that can't be the norm. Obviously a colonscopy can still be indicated for an individual even if it doesn't
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by imgabe 4y ago
Low density areas do not produce enough property taxes to fund the infrastructure required to maintain them. They're not sustainable.
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by imgabe 4y ago
Everything inside the concrete shell can still burn: wood flooring, carpeting, furniture. People will probably furr out the walls with wood and drywall anyway so they can hide wiring and pipes and so they don’t feel like they’re living in a
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by imgabe 4y ago
Yeah, replacing wood, which is a carbon sink, with concrete, which is a huge emitter of CO2, seems like a bad trade.
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by imgabe 4y ago
I'm all for public transport, but lying to people and saying it's going to be zero cost because it will completely supplant what they spend on cars is not the way to get support for it. A train or bus line that goes to 20 specific
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by imgabe 4y ago
It's not replacing the money that gets spent on cars. People buying a new car are buying it because they need it now , they need to get around today, not in 10 years when the new train gets built. They're still going to buy the c
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by imgabe 4y ago
I actually live in Hong Kong and don't have a car and that has nothing to do with buses. Everything is within walking distance. Within 5 blocks of my apartment off the top of my head I can think of 4-5 grocery stores, 3-4 butcher shops

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