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by laverya 3y ago
This is the idea behind Terraform Industries: https://terraformindustries.com/ They're capturing carbon to turn into a useful product (fossil fuels) though.
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by laverya 3y ago
$3/user/mo is also the average cost across all of his (active?) users - you can bet that if the users start having to pay the people who use Reddit constantly will be more likely to subscribe than the ones who use it once a mo
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by laverya 3y ago
Are you sure that your "fully adjustable" bulb is giving you the spectrum you think it is? Syonyk's posted a few RGB bulb reviews recently, and they tend to have a lot more blue light than you'd think. And if you use the
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by laverya 3y ago
Something I've found depressingly common with QR code menus is the inability to translate them. Either they're a downloadable PDF, or they're some javascript abomination that Chrome won't translate. At least with a paper
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by laverya 3y ago
> The warfare was absolutely horrifying by modern standards, and I imagine that even the best warriors of Rome would have had severe PTSD. I'm not actually sure this was the case. We don't actually really hear of things like PT
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by laverya 3y ago
The evidence for every other theory is even weaker by any objective standard, though. EDIT: the evidence in favor of wet market zoonosis is what, exactly? "It's always been zoonosis in the past" plus "we (claim to have)
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by laverya 3y ago
No worries, we've all done it! And for that matter the most advanced artificial brains screw up math on a regular basis too
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by laverya 3y ago
The federal Assault Weapons ban started in 1994 and ran for 10 years. Assault Rifles have universal background checks complete with fingerprints, a multi-month waiting period, and a $200 transfer tax - and have since the 1930s . No n
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by laverya 3y ago
The article was significantly worse (less accurate and less detail) than those summaries.
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by laverya 3y ago
I was wondering why the summit dates were from the 90s. That makes sense
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by laverya 3y ago
Africa's population has nearly doubled since the year 2000. (819 million to 1.4 billion) Africa also imports a lot of rice.
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by laverya 3y ago
This isn't a funding problem - SF's schools spend ~$17,500/student/year, while the California average is ~$14,000/student/year. LA Unified is currently ~16,000/student/year. It looks to me like SF act
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by laverya 4y ago
Social welfare could do BOTH things - dramatically increase IQ for the next generation (that grows up with proper nutrition etc) while also remove the selective pressure that increased IQ over the course of centuries.
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by laverya 4y ago
> I would be concerned if I see a kid walking alone without any clear purpose/destination, but even then, an isolated incident is not going to be a call to CPS. You're damning yourself with faint praise, here. Giving kids indep
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by laverya 4y ago
"If you do this and someone objects, you will have your kids taken away. But don't worry, people very rarely object! You don't have anyone in your neighborhood that really doesn't like you, right?" This is not nearl
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by laverya 4y ago
The line of Per Capita Economic Output is unironically one of the most important lines in existence. One could argue that every single line that's better than it is also harder to measure.
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by laverya 4y ago
Pretty sure that the CIA's A-12s came before the YF-12 interceptor prototype.
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by laverya 4y ago
I really hope this slips a day and releases April 1st instead.
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by laverya 4y ago
Agreed that it's very much only a plus for some people, and may be more of a plus in theory (when people are picking professions) than in practice (when you're actually dealing with children). That's why I put quotes around &
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by laverya 4y ago
> When benefits such as healthcare were taken into account, the total compensation penalty was 14%, the widest gap since 1979. So teachers are compensated 14% below what you'd expect for their education. In return, they get a perman
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by laverya 4y ago
> Education expenditures compares the public expenditure on education as a percent of GDP. https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/education-expen... I think this only counts federal spending - state and l
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by laverya 4y ago
There's about 1500 billion billion billion billion billion billion billion (1.5x10^48) tons of Carbon, Oxygen and Nitrogen in the universe. It might only be ~15 parts per thousand (and most of that is Oxygen), but there's a LOT of
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by laverya 4y ago
> It's like 2 grains of sand on a beach getting next to each other. Unless the grains of sand are "Grabby". An aggressively expansionist species (as in, one new colony per colony every 10,000 years) fills up a galaxy reall
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by laverya 4y ago
To be fair, we wouldn't have gotten the space telescopes at all without the Earth telescopes and their predecessors.
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by laverya 4y ago
Well, there's been a LOT of KH-11 satellites over the years, so unlike with Hubble the NRO has had the opportunity to just put up an updated satellite instead of trying to fix an existing one. Seriously, Wikipedia lists 5 generations
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by laverya 4y ago
Uh... How? You'd need an entirely new fuel system at a minimum, even if you could reuse the rest of the powertrain. And hydrogen tanks are a lot larger than a gas tank, so finding a place for it might be difficult!
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by laverya 4y ago
Honestly, it's a great thing that our financial system enables and rewards investigations like this. (It's a less great thing that fraud of this sort is possible, and that falsely accusing others of fraud can happen too)
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by laverya 4y ago
My apologies.
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by laverya 4y ago
The lines are either far too broad or far too fuzzy, indeed. Why is Netflix tech and not Disney? Tesla but not Ford? Amazon but not Walmart, Apple but not Dell, or Robinhood but not UBS? Hell if I know, but I know there's a line there
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by laverya 4y ago
I'm not sure I would count defense contractors as "tech companies". They're a different category, even if it involves technology. (If tech includes Defense, then why not also Automotive? Or financial, medical... What is

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