lukas099

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by lukas099 4y ago
Farmers are feeding the world efficiently. And residential yards really do make a difference.
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by lukas099 4y ago
I think tall grasses would filter a lot more than turfgrass.
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by lukas099 4y ago
Food is already so efficient compared to the past. But we may have 1 or 2 revolutions in us yet.
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by lukas099 4y ago
God, as a small-house renter I would love to run little linux servers on old smartphones.
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by lukas099 4y ago
If the market is there they will make tiny server racks with integrated power.
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by lukas099 4y ago
Haha, I just bought some cassettes because the cases they came in were cool and they were cheap. The new vinyl??
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by lukas099 4y ago
The human struggle with authority or tradition is a part of the Hebrew Bible and Jewish scholarship itself. Off the top of my head, 'Israel' was the name given to Jacob after he wrestled with God. The Book of Job was a reaction to
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by lukas099 4y ago
I think the accepted view is that persecution and diaspora pushed Jews into industries like finance that lead to wealth accumulation. However, I personally don't think that the persecution would be as severe if Jews did not have such a
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by lukas099 4y ago
So many questions. What is a mini slit system? What is a c-container? What is a Mr. Slim?
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by lukas099 4y ago
https://www.tpr.org/environment/2023-04-27/photos-spacex-is-...
881.
by lukas099 4y ago
Today's luxury housing is tomorrow's affordable housing.
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by lukas099 4y ago
Man, I loved those rear-facing seats as a kid.
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by lukas099 4y ago
And of course all risks should be weighed against the known risks and downsides of the alternatives.
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by lukas099 4y ago
Your comment reminded me of something. I forgot the underlying reason, but in anatomy we learned that for mammals it's evolutionarily 'hard' to change numbers of vertebrae, which is why the giraffe has the same as its sibling
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by lukas099 4y ago
If you don't have a home heat pump, isn't incandescent actually more efficient than LED in winter? Assuming you turn lights off when you leave rooms, all generated heat will be concentrated in the room you are actually in.
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by lukas099 4y ago
Absolutely. Not to mention the needless inaccessibility.
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by lukas099 4y ago
> the music fades Disgusting.
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by lukas099 4y ago
Apple purchased NeXT in 1997 for $400 million, but I wouldn't go so far to say that Apple is NeXT.
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by lukas099 4y ago
It probably costs less to have drive through ATMs with braille, because they can reuse the braille signage from the non-drive through ATMs.
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by lukas099 4y ago
I have trouble imagining anyone convincing a city to 'burn revenue', even if it's a good idea in principle. Maybe the next best thing is applying it to a negative income tax so that it goes to the lowest-income residents.
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by lukas099 4y ago
I mean yeah, surely women play a role in the world too. Unless by "men" we mean "people", in which case why not just say that?
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by lukas099 4y ago
I'm really tired of hearing that meme without any substantiation. It seems like you could just as easily say that bad times make bad men (make bad times...). Look at places in the world (or your own hometown) that are "bad" (
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by lukas099 4y ago
> Why even run for the highest office if you won’t do whatever you believe should be done? A president must choose their battles and use their political capital wisely, lest they burn it all and are unable to accomplish anything else for
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by lukas099 4y ago
Oh I see what you mean. No I don't think it's been shown that he was hypocritical there.
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by lukas099 4y ago
Yes, and I want my surgeon who takes good risks and doesn't take bad ones.
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by lukas099 4y ago
> The bank makes a business claim that they can redeem ALL of the green paper back to everyone at the same time. They never claimed this. Everyone has known about bank runs, fractional reserve banking, etc. for a long time.
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by lukas099 4y ago
My point is that the value is no more 'imaginary' as a balance in a bank account as it is as green pieces of paper. I'm not sure 'imaginary' is the right word. Value is real whether or not it's a social constru
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by lukas099 4y ago
I do not want my surgeon to 'have a god complex'. I want them to reasonably weigh the relative risks and payoffs of every job.
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by lukas099 4y ago
> wealth inequality exists even in corrupt organizations. I'd argue that it's worse in corrupt organizations. Sometimes much worse.
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by lukas099 4y ago
I am glad to see that smaller models are an option, but I'm talking about an overall trend, not a rule that can be disproved by counterexamples. I hope you're right that I'm wrong though.

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