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by lurk2 2y ago
This is a map of Japan, they are nowhere near New Zealand, and they lost all of this within three years.
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Most of South East Asia has developmental indicators comparable to most of Sub Saharan Africa. Africa GDP Per Capita (2023) Kenya: 1,952.30 USD Nigeria: 1,596.64 USD Uganda: 1,002.31 USD Tanzania: 1,224.49 USD Senegal: 1,706.44 USD Sou
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by lurk2 2y ago
Most colonization in Asia occurred in the South and Southeastern regions.
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by lurk2 2y ago
> US grid transmission losses are estimated to be 5% That’s interesting, I had always assumed it would be far higher. Could I trouble you for a source?
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by lurk2 2y ago
> The beauty about the future is that it is unknown There are factors at play in historical development which make the development predictable. The Chinese would have to go through half a dozen hostile countries to reach New Zealand. The
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by lurk2 2y ago
The ones who can afford it have been building bunkers in New Zealand and Argentina, but if you sincerely believe a civil war is on the horizon, almost anywhere would be a better option. The Russian invasion of Ukraine had a negative impact
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by lurk2 2y ago
Do you mean like Chuck E. Cheese and Dave and Buster’s?
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by lurk2 2y ago
> I used to be somewhat mean to telemarketers, until I learned that some of them are prison laborers - getting paid pennies per hour to work in a prison call center. Are you talking about people who have been convicted of a crime and are
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by lurk2 2y ago
I would have thought the chief limitation in an operation like this would be that your profits are (presumably) Pareto distributed, so 80% of profits come from 20% of victims. This would make the operation more like mining Bitcoin than serv
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by lurk2 2y ago
I saw this happen a few times where I used to work. The one instance that I remember was an older pensioner and a Filipina woman in her 30s. She met him in our city and eventually convinced him to move back to the Philippines with her. He u
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by lurk2 2y ago
> I imagine you are capable of appreciating the difference. I imagine you appreciate the difference between what you are saying now and what you originally wrote, which was: > It seems incredibly unlikely on what basis? Your complete
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by lurk2 2y ago
Your ratios are correct but your numbers are off. Mozilla peaked at around 35% of market share and is now around 3%.
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by lurk2 2y ago
My comment did not express any opinion as to whether this was or was not a surveillance van, and this has no bearing on the proposed alternatives being a false dichotomy.
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Frankly, I don't find your correspondence courteous at all. Point out the specific comments you took issue with. This comment, for example: > It seems incredibly unlikely on what basis? Your complete lack of legal expertise and
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by lurk2 2y ago
> the bad guys can't simultaneously be omniscient and so dumb they're trivially outed like this This is a false dichotomy. Federal agencies prove themselves to be fallible (even incompetent) all the time, they just have far mor
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by lurk2 2y ago
> It seems incredibly unlikely on what basis? Your complete lack of legal expertise and any insight into legal practice? I worked in the industry for several years, though not in litigation. I've been nothing but courteous to you de
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by lurk2 2y ago
That was my thinking, but I think what he is saying is that power plants won't generate enough electricity to make building an in-situ ammonia plant economical. You need to network power plants together to operate a centralized ammonia
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by lurk2 2y ago
The issue doesn't appear to be storage, but transmission. Hydrogen can leak through metal and lead to it becoming brittle, so you can't use conventional natural gas pipelines to transport it.
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by lurk2 2y ago
> I'm all for community but I also believe in supporting diversity within communities as well as between communities. A community is shared. You can't have a community if you can't communicate with your neighbor.
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Above certain power requirements, you essentially need the power generation to be onsite. Is this due to transmission losses or just because you couldn't feasibly build enough capacity cables to transmit large amounts of power ove
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by lurk2 2y ago
No ordinary person would interpret your original comment this way. _aavaa_ was correct: "A leak implies an unintended or unwanted behaviour." If producers are intentionally venting off the methane, it isn't leaking, it's
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by lurk2 2y ago
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by lurk2 2y ago
> You could in principle centralize ammonia production with sufficient reactant reserves to ensure continuous production from variable low-density energy sources like solar or wind. I'm probably missing something here but why would
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Aren't individual freedoms and not having having to bend to communal norms core tenants of being American? I suppose you harbor similarly negative feelings towards affirmative action and the civil rights act?
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by lurk2 2y ago
Chicago doesn't even have the highest murder rate in America, that's the really wild thing.
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by lurk2 2y ago
> And more to the point, no activist on earth would state that it's Imperialist to say "your workers need PPE." I have spoken with a Bangladeshi woman who made this exact argument. Granted, her father owned (what she swore
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by lurk2 2y ago
> You can do better than searching reddit - eg. drilling back through references used by Volker in https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2189571/ and other papers. The word "Europe" does not appear
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by lurk2 2y ago
> What would be the benefit or reason for this? If people are not forced to speak the official language they never learn and eventually self-isolate within their own communities. This leads to the Balkanization of the country. Canada is
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by lurk2 2y ago
700 murders and 10,000 armed robberies per year.
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by lurk2 2y ago
> I've lived on one of the streets mentioned in the article and its hard to overstate how shockingly dangerous the area is. The army used to train their trauma surgeons in Chicago because of the number of knife and gunshot wounds se

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