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by manholio 5y ago
A NFT is not a collectible, it's a pure vehicle for financial speculation. The object being collected no longer exists in any meaningful sense.
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by manholio 5y ago
Not to mention turning your mouse pointer into some sort of fuzzy ball. Because that's exactly what you need in a pointer, fuzziness and imprecision.
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The propaganda is that the world has something against Russia and wants to destroy it. The anti-Russian bias these days is very real, but is caused by the fact that Russian people overwhelmingly support a brutal war of aggression. It's
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by manholio 5y ago
I would much rather setup an unskippable video of some horrible war brutality. Ok, harder to do, but your current setup is probably making things worse, not better, you confirm to every neutral Russian the propaganda line that the world is
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by manholio 5y ago
They are essentially the same approach, emissions taxes require a governmental mandate while offsets work voluntarily, where for various reasons political action is inefficient, for example in the US.
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by manholio 5y ago
> the airline is still emitting CO2, so global emissions never go to zero. Sure, but global emissions decrease, and the market will allocate effort to the industries where it's cheapest to reduce emissions. So you achieve the maximu
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by manholio 5y ago
Offsets make sense if those selling them can prove the emissions are physically avoided. For example, if I place a CCS system on my cement plant, for each year I use it I have avoided those emissions, so I can sell an offset certificate to
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by manholio 5y ago
> Spam is a non-issue in 2022.... only real issue for email today is deliverability. Well, that train of thought went downhill pretty fast. Could it be perhaps that mail is becoming undeliverable precisely because effective anti-spam is
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The Evolution of Indoor Climate(constructionphysics.substack.com)
63 points by manholio 5y ago|23 comments
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A LNG import pier is essentially a pipe where ships dock, connected to storage tanks and from which, in response to demand, liquid gas is reheated by simply letting it exchange heat with air or the sea water. It's a straightforward pie
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by manholio 5y ago
They say they scan irises so that each person is unique and "nobody gets more than their fair share". Why then not use the clasic identifiers: name, date of birth, proven with a state issued document, and a facial picture holding
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by manholio 5y ago
The author seems oblivious to the fact that Netflix's main competition are not other streaming or entertainment companies, but filesharing and unauthorized streaming. Netflix won that competition by providing a simple, quality product,
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by manholio 5y ago
"Affordable housing" always means "affordable high value housing for well adjusted middle class families" in politico. Sure, the poor elderly, the homeless, and those with mental health and addiction challenges need a p
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by manholio 5y ago
> Bizarre Follow the lobby money.
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This seems to be the same age-old problem of construction automation. A system that can really deliver for solar farms could be adapted for many other construction types, at least in principle. Since the world has largely failed to automate
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by manholio 5y ago
That's a nonsense claim. If Russians would see human and civil destruction as a military goal, we wouldn't have thousands of victims, but hundreds of thousands. We would have bombing campaigns like the second world war, a single b
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by manholio 5y ago
That's rich. Here is an idea: if you are looking for a face to hate, for example that of a dumb Russian who is fed only propaganda, has no ability to separate truth from manipulation, no ability to see nuances and that would make excel
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by manholio 5y ago
We have found our deep thicker and geopolitical strategist. Amazingly, they conjure their deep insights without any factual information, using only their extraordinary prowess for bellybutton scratching.
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It's a marketing parlor trick. They take legal responsibility for something that cannot happen and immediately drop to human control when things turn south, like all so called "Level 3" systems. I'm also sure they will n
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by manholio 5y ago
It's a pure political text designed to aggrandize the author without actually committing to a solution or another. He rejects affirmative action but then talks about multidimensionality as a tool to justify it in practice, as you point
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by manholio 5y ago
Well, Russia is bad, there is no denying that. I might go as far as to say "US good", in a black and white picture of the world suitable for 6 year olds. But the world is not black and white, it's all shades of browns.
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by manholio 5y ago
It's absurd to claim that the Russians are "focusing" on killing civilians. They seem strongly aware of the propaganda potential of civilian deaths, and they are frustrated to be drawn into urban warfare instead of the easy v
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by manholio 5y ago
I would like to see a similar comparison between the Russian state media and the treatment of the Iraq war by US media in the first years. Almost all Russian propaganda staples have direct correspondents: - Denazification and demilitarizati
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by manholio 5y ago
> No strong applicant wants to waste time applying for a job that they don't want This is circular reasoning. You don't know the applicant is strong until they pass the interview, but you have to pay them to find out. It's
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by manholio 5y ago
But that subsidiary would need to build and operate a satellite constellation, not simply distribute internet services or act as a purchasing agent of a foreign competitor.
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SpaceX is an american company that is subject to the Sherman act, which deals with domestic and interstate commerce. OneWeb is an international competitor based in UK that has no standing to make a complaint under the Sherman act. No simila
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That sounds good in theory until the company that does this is swamped by very strong applicants that have no intention in taking the job. The right balance is equality: I spend an hour, you spend an hour. Rapid CV filtering and coding quiz
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Regardless, the asymmetry is offensively wide: it takes at least an order of magnitude more time to write a text than to read it. The candidate is also under pressure to create a well crafted and professional response, essentially a sample
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by manholio 5y ago
Why would 0.6 m of water make a city unlivable? Will 0.6 m make a place where are no "freak" storms into a place "under water full time"? That is an entirely savage fantasy. 0.6 m is nothing compared to the natural rate
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by manholio 5y ago
A significant concern the author is not considering is soil salinity. Most of the coastal land is not easily defendable cities, but productive agricultural land. When sea level rise then the salty water infiltrates into the ground water and

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