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by ixtli 7y ago
It’s really bizarre. There’s so much to criticize about the transit system here but the majority of what’s done (or perhaps what bubbles up on popular websites) is weird breathless criticism of things that either don’t matter or are small e
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by ixtli 7y ago
Type a message into the second box. The one that says "secret text" in order to get the cover text which you can then put into the decrypt page.
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by ixtli 7y ago
Fair. But thank you for the information.
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by ixtli 7y ago
Apparently i forgot to link the first study i referenced: https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cobi...
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by ixtli 7y ago
Woah thanks. Dunno why someone downvoted this lol
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by ixtli 7y ago
Can you link me to some support of the claim about batteries? I'm always depressed with what i perceive as total stagnation on that front. Last i checked the way they store power grid-scale electricity is literally to pump water up hil
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by ixtli 7y ago
There are really innumerable problems with using solar or wind (or even hydro, for these reasons) to serve a society that requires stable power generation. And we haven't even gotten to the environment impact of producing, and then thr
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by ixtli 7y ago
I am a conservationist! I hang out in and around these communities and I am disheartened to see my comrades being anti-science and often straight up luddites. Are you really trying to say that it will be cheaper by kwh to use solar / w
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by ixtli 7y ago
I wish i could favorite a comment.
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by ixtli 7y ago
The really grim reality is that many environmentalists who correctly point the finger at unaccountable capitalists are themselves doing extreme harm by demonizing the only technology that can really help us in the next 10 years.
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by ixtli 7y ago
Conservationists need to really make peace with the fact that the only way out of climate change involves building a very, very strong nuclear energy portfolio. This is difficult for people because it requires engaging in politics because t
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by ixtli 7y ago
This is so cool! Man I really miss developing B&W film in a darkroom in high school. Probably super toxic but man was it fun.
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by ixtli 7y ago
This is actually an interesting idea. I'd say (only half tongue-in-cheek) that then maybe we can tax companies heavily for all IP lawsuits they engage in so compensate for the massive money cost to citizens that the system of circular
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by ixtli 7y ago
One thing i can say that i dont think was said here is that you're right that some large companies are very flexible in this way. It's a good thing we have their permission to participate in the justice system! In my experienc
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by ixtli 7y ago
Maybe we shouldn't construct a society where your obligations to your employer are at odds with you helping society find justice for a murder victim. This is a great example of how atomized our society has become.
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by ixtli 7y ago
Interesting that they're worried a prevailing attitude amongst the laborers in tech that we shouldn't be engaging in things Palantir profits off of (like migrant concentration camps) might cause them to attack the industry itself.
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by ixtli 7y ago
If you consider the ability to discuss your conditions a privilege for a worker then I'm extremely happy I don't work or live anywhere near you.
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by ixtli 7y ago
Extremely cool.
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by ixtli 7y ago
Meanwhile, google shuts down more than 200 youtube channels that criticize the hong kong protests. (N.B.: I do not oppose them, im just pointing out how hilariously hypocritical it is for an organization at the center of global politics to
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by ixtli 7y ago
Yes. Also, the most boring work. Also all work. Also work itself.
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by ixtli 7y ago
Excellent comment. I agree with the parent's notion that google is trying to force their employees not to point out the bad things about their conditions, but this notion that there was ever a time where politics were absent is 1) ahis
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by ixtli 7y ago
A good employee is a quiet employee.
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by ixtli 7y ago
An owners only real goal (sometimes enshrined in law!) is to increase private profits for himself. At a certain point you run out of ways to do with for a single product or service so you're left with reduction of labor to lower margin
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by ixtli 7y ago
I would rather modern games look a bit more "like crap" and have even a 10th of the gameplay depth and quality of Spiderweb games than his games getting any better. I guess I'm also one of those people who grew up on the SNES
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by ixtli 7y ago
What if people not being able to answer simple programming questions is a problem with the interviewers, and not the interviewees?
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by ixtli 7y ago
I’ve also seen this phenomena you describe: a strong desire for a thing you’ve committed to to be true, to the point where you’ll make continued poor and harmful decisions to avoid acknowledging you’ve been very wrong.
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by ixtli 7y ago
isn't this sorta like proving the absence of something? surely for all the people who got caught having two families, some never did! fwiw, i also don't think its a good measure of intelligence, i just think some people configure
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by ixtli 7y ago
Well ok, but I never implied (or meant to) that co-operatives aren't trying to generate profit for reasons that include less of that profit generation ending up in the hands of people who do less, at least in the co-ops im familiar wit
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by ixtli 7y ago
This is an interesting notion. Do you mean to imply that productivity increases when your standard of living does? I'd agree with that (for a definition of productive that isn't so narrowly defined as production of wealth for a pr
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by ixtli 7y ago
As an aside, I found this article the be spectacularly well written: > A central argument for fossil fuels’ continued dominance is that humanity will surpass 10 billion at some point, and all those people will want something like the Wes

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