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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
Whoever told you that is mistaken. Even in “incineration-friendly” countries, less than a quarter of all trash is incinerated. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
Paper bags do not have a worse environmental impact than plastic bags. Paper bags have a worse impact in a very few, small, narrow metrics such as "ocean de-nutrification". Everyone blurts this out because of a study done in Europ
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
There's a lot of misinformation about this out there. The article does a bad job at explaining it, but companies that take aid cannot pay dividends or buy back stock until they return the aid. This is so that aid is not redirected into
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
If I should disable hyperthreading because of a hypothetical risk from an experimental proof of concept, shouldn't I also throw my PC into a dumpster because I don't know if the microcontroller controlling my LCD isn't also a
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
Despite the protestations of l33t Cyberhaxxing Z3r0 Cools everywhere, you only have to turn off hyper-threading if you are sharing a machine with someone you don't trust. If someone is on your machine and you don't know it, they d
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
>would you have opted in? Yes. >For what feature or benefit? By the time I pull into my driveway my garage door has opened and the lights in my hallway have turned on. If I'm working from home, my thermostat stays at its "co
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
>We have already had one employee quit to take an unemployment raise. If your employer pays less than unemployment, or schedules employees for fewer hours than unemployment-- it is the problem, not the unemployment benefit.
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
Not censorship. Not revisionism. People can still buy the book. Independent researchers can get their copy from a library, or any other bookseller. Amazon is not determining what information is available to the public.
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
I imagine this technique would be most useful on the leading edge of wings and the engine nose cowlings. On many aircraft those parts are left unpainted anyways.
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
I suppose it depends on what you picture in your mind when you say the word "tractor". If you picture a simple vehicle with teeny-tiny wheels on the front and big wheels on the back, and Old MacDonald in overalls and a straw hat o
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
My favorite thing about the "publisher" vs. "platform" rabbit hole people of a certain political persuasion seem to be burrowing through as a not-so-veiled threat towards service providers that "censor" posts c
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
>Those leveling the charges of censorship, according to the sources, included a participant from the Media Research Center’s TechWatch initiative, which asserts on its web page that “a handful of tech companies can censor both the people
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
>Ralph Northam endorsing infanticide This is exactly why the policy is needed. If a baby is born with its spinal column outside of its body, a quivering mass of braindead flesh, unsustainable, destined for a slow and lingering death-- it
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
Reason: "Free Minds and Free Markets" Berkeley: "Ok, we've freed our minds and want to focus on diversity. No Gods or Kings, Only Man amirite?" Reason: "No, not like that."
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
>Is there a difference? Yes. Basic human ability can only change over evolutionary timescales so that a human will always be fooled by a projected image until such time that they start ignoring suspected projected images and plowing into
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
As far as I can tell, from a outsider layman's perspective, the Media Lab exists only to marry "artists who aren't good at technology (but think they are)" and "technologists who aren't good at art (but think t
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
>Enormous USMCA trade deal finally passed by US Congress after the House sat on it for a year. The House didn't sit on it. It has been undergoing the normal process. USMCA is replacing NAFTA. NAFTA took six years to negotiate and ra
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
I have never seen so much petty pointless drama about a bunch of people being told "don't be jerks" and then responding like children who have had their toys (diamonds) taken away when they acted like jerks in my entire life.
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
>This is exactly what the OP article is proposing to build, and what these comments are discussing. If you read the white paper, which apparently nobody else did, they say (paraphrased) "Look, this thing is online but we recognize t
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
No payment system will ever succeed unless someone can use it to purchase something from an unknown person, receive their good or service, be dissatisfied with the good or service, return the good or service, and then be assured of a refund
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
>Then WHY would you agree to an unlimited PTO? Because not only does my employer have unlimited PTO policy, it has a mandatory minimum PTO policy. It also has a mandatory minimum duration PTO policy. As an employee, I MUST take at least
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
My hunch is that the ARM transition is coming sooner rather than later and instead of spending time and effort into rewriting a bunch of OS functions (like AirPlay Mirroring) to support AMD processors that lack Intel-only features like Quic
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
Read beyond the headline. FTA: >Given that Intel doesn’t have any processors (aside from the Stratix 10 FPGAs) that support the PCIe 4.0 interface, the developers obviously don't have access to an Intel-driven test platform with the
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
Let's say you start a power company in the same area as I, a public power utility. The board of utilities says that as a regulated monopoly I have to provide power to every parcel within the regulated area. I charge more than the avera
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
>Racism? It's Japan. Perhaps racism isn't the right descriptor. Japan has a caste system that puts India's to shame. It's smaller in the number of people living in the lower tiers, but the effects are amplified to a h
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
The largest corporation (not government-owned) in existence today is a microscopically small fragment of the size of the corporate behemoths of 100 years ago, and the corporations of one hundred years ago were microscopically minuscule comp
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
We are on the verge of a future where automated systems trawl through exabytes of genetic data, lazily analyzing it and spitting out promising results for further, focused, research. The first steps are being taken today with similar system
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
>Humans don't run out of non-renewable resources, the price just goes up. How much for a live passenger pigeon?
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
Fedex has gotten to the point that if I see a merchant that has an exclusive arrangement with them (mainly suppliers for material I need to buy for work) I try somewhere else. Whenever I don't have a choice, they disappoint me. Just la
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by kilo_bravo_3 7y ago
Those aren't scare quotes. They're quote quotes. The BBC follows a journalistic style guide that requires the use of quotes when directly quoting someone else when the attribution is not clear. That makes it easier to determine, w

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