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by mrpopo 5y ago
The thing is, national pride is kinda mandatory in authoritarian countries. So, if there is one thing that the French and American can be proud of, it's the ability to openly criticize their government. Whether it leads to something or
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Rather, I would bet that his stance is that if you are motivated by something else than money, you shouldn't go through VC-backed funds to build your business, because sooner or later someone will squeeze as much money as possible out
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Any wealthy person who has assets in Russia and outside of Russia could take advantage of this situation.
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And some of the typical developed world consumption is ridiculous and should be considered an affront to human decency rather than an ideal for the world to reach.
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Fusion would "solve" the climate change issue, but do nothing in regard to all other crises affecting our environment right now (biodiversity collapse, various sources of chemical and particulate pollution, fertilizer runoff...).
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Our "number of eggs" is not shrinking. It's actually expanded by a factor of 4 in the span of 100 years, and by a factor of 400 in the span of 2000 years. Only once for a decade during the 14th century has the population actu
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"If there aren’t enough people for Earth, then there definitely won’t be enough for Mars :(" Elon Musk. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1483486559336910850 How anyone can believe the future of humani
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Then, why aren't you applying the same logic to solar and wind? They are less than ideal for load following. Of course, there are technological solutions (energy storage), but I just pointed out that there are technological solutions f
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To give an idea of the order of magnitude of inefficiency : * Currently a grid => hydrogen => grid round trip is 40-45% efficient. * A grid => battery => grid round trip is 90-95% efficient. You can recover 2x more energy by NOT
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Hydrogen is an extremely inefficient energy storage medium. We don't have massive amounts of energy to just waste away in an inefficient system. If we did, green hydrogen would have been chewing away at current hydrogen production for
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> But nuclear power is also not really suited for load following. This is mostly a myth. The actual reason nuclear powerplants run at max power all the time is that nuclear fuel is very cheap compared to operating costs, therefore it is
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No.
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In which case you should have a check-up with your doctor and not self-medicate with aspirin. Maybe the doctor will prescribe you aspirin, who knows.
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Aspirin works as a painkiller, but it is not appropriate for regular ingestion as self-medication if you don't know what you're doing. It can be used sparsely for relieving pain+fever or pain+inflammation (IF the inflammation actu
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I'm sure these people had the guts to click on the wrong answer out of curiosity. The problem is that this site gives very inadequate lifestyle advice from the first question.
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A company is in business to make profit. A company isn't a human being and doesn't have a "behaviour". You can't trust a company to do the right thing. However, you can trust a company to follow the law, and therefo
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Are you intentionally missing the point? There are no passengers. They are planning to burn 100s of thousands of tons of CO2 because of a rule that is not taking into account unprecedented situations like the one we are living now. It is fi
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This would be the worst course of action. The Chinese population is propagandized enough and won't hesitate to go to war head-on against the West.
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Which is just a scapegoat problem, shifting the mind away from the original problem - disposable containers creating large amounts of waste that mostly end up in landfills, or worse, scattered in nature. The energy use of washing bottles wa
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They're mentioning that deforestation is slowing down, but not mentioning Bolsonaro and the current ramping up of Amazon deforestation in Brazil. Bolsonaro has been quickly destroying decades' worth of efforts in the Amazon. htt
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Well, I think this ties in pretty well with the quote from Oscar Wilde posted here last week, which was quickly retorted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29413173 "We are often told that the poor are grateful for
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Being grateful means implicitly accepting the status quo that poor people have to rely on rich people's charity. Oscar Wilde is saying that society should not accept that status quo, and that wealth redistribution should be uncondition
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> Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful
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Shooting the messenger. The linked page is not up to encyclopedic standards of neutrality, but there are bits worth discussing.
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If your goal is personal monetary profit, maybe. Is it the case of Jack? Why want more when you already have too much
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Because traditional media companies (I assume TV, radio stations) have a limited outgoing bandwidth in terms of outputting content, so they have to prune a lot more? The argument you are making is not in favour of content-ranking algorithms
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Not to mention 32GB storage, that's a 10? year lag on technology. Well, that could work if their ecosystem isn't bloated.
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All of this is doable in Windows too. The Firefox fix was to make it more convenient to change the default browser. App stores weren't even a thing before Google and Apple made it the norm, and I would say the Windows Store is barely
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Android and iOS are just as anti-competitive, if not more, and get a lot less bad press for it. Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1118/
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Exactly. Hiding the like + dislike count would actually have an interesting impact on the experience, where you can choose to like/dislike based on your own opinion only. The result will be more relevant for algorithms and more meaning

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