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by khrbrt 7y ago
I do the same living just down the highway in Richmond. It's easy because I live in an old 1920s apartment with thick brick walls, covered porches, and ceiling fans. The walls insulate most of the heat, the shade over the front and rea
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by khrbrt 7y ago
This is why we need a train system with funding parity to the highway and airport systems. There should be trains leaving constantly, at most every 10 minutes, from Chicago to the east, and frequent, semihourly, trains between neighboring c
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by khrbrt 7y ago
I'm still in awe for his two part documentary on athletes named "Bob". https://youtu.be/lvh6NLqKRfs
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by khrbrt 7y ago
That's awful. My suggestion: next year plant rows of sunflowers or corn just behind the fence line. They'll grow as tall as an elephant's eye.
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by khrbrt 7y ago
> The areas that are more pleasant might be hard to replicate in a small space. You can't create a forest microclimate in a 1/4 acre yard Yes you can! https://youtu.be/ng-VskDFPpM It takes some work upfront to
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by khrbrt 7y ago
Maybe they mean they don't add ads before/during/between the videos, but leave in sponsored ads the creators put in the videos themselves. Is there a better word for that? Is there a broadcasting term for the type of ads you&
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by khrbrt 7y ago
Ashes Ashes did a podcast on this: https://ashesashes.org/blog/episode-07-last-gasp And a related episode on air pollution in general: https://ashesashes.org/blog/episode-38-dead-air
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by khrbrt 7y ago
Let's say we pick spots in the desert to store all our trash. How we do we move all the trash from the population centers to the landfill? Fleets of trucks and railcars which emit tons of CO2 and would be better used elsewhere in the e
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by khrbrt 7y ago
The U.S. is imposing sanctions on Venezuela, to the effect of millions of dollars a day lost. As part of the sanctions, the U.S. has also seized hundreds of millions of dollars of Venezuelan assets in foreign bank accounts. There is a dire
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by khrbrt 8y ago
At the very least, declare it all public domain, and provide BitTorrent links. Maybe something like Popcorn Time for PBS and other public domain works
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by khrbrt 8y ago
The new design shows images from links on the page. It's faster for redditors to upvote an image on the page they find vaguely aggreeable than to click a link, wait for it load, decides if they like it, go back and upvote it. This even
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by khrbrt 8y ago
Don't forget Sulla, who basically was king for a time, before abdicating to retire on his estate. He reigned while Julius Caesar was a youth, and spared his life while many of his family was sentenced to death.
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by khrbrt 8y ago
Advertising. People buy large SUVs because of advertising, and American car companies advertise SUVs because they turn more of a profit with larger vehicles than smaller vehicles.
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by khrbrt 8y ago
For those interested, the excellent History of Byzantium podcast[0] is covering the entire history of the empire, from the fall of the western empire, up to the sack of Constantinople. It gets pretty in-depth, with each episode covering a d
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by khrbrt 8y ago
Small shops are still a thing, but rising rents are as much to blame as Amazon for them closing their doors.
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by khrbrt 8y ago
I'm not a writer, so I can't give advice for how , but for a great example, you should check out the novel The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. The protagonist is a young girl who finds a "magic" book that is part fair
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by khrbrt 8y ago
Easy. Stop subsidizing fossil fuel exploration, extraction, and movement (ie. pipelines). Make carbon emissions expensive, and you'll see them go down. Levy a revenue neutral carbon tax which anually redistributes to consumers the &quo
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by khrbrt 9y ago
Don't forget Red Hat! http://overpassfont.org/ What are some other corporate fonts?
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by khrbrt 10y ago
>I do think parking lots are good candidates for construction, as doing so doesn't displace anyone I have strong anecdotal evidence against that. In Richmond, VA, nearly the entire neighborhood of Monroe Ward was leveled to provide
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by khrbrt 10y ago
Or maybe find a better article source? Maybe a good local Dehli paper?
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by khrbrt 10y ago
I'm a big fan of the guy, but did any of his ideas actually catch on in a big way? They seem to mostly be techno-historical curiosities.
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by khrbrt 11y ago
Very cool! But it consistently crashes for me at the end of the third wave. I'm on Firefox.
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by khrbrt 13y ago
Sometimes they do. And then they get replaced by another E-3 straight from tech school. http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201311/drone-uav-...
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by khrbrt 13y ago
temporary google cache version of the site: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by khrbrt 13y ago
The article is pretty explicit about it being as cheap to produce and more effective. "iron sulfate, a readily available compound that steel foundries throw away by the tons." "Fleming said iron sulfate in fertilizer adds iron and acidifie