notabothonest

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by notabothonest 4y ago
> I mean that is obviously overly dramatic posturing nonsense. No it is not, not in the least. I wouldn't be so dismissive of someone when you clearly don't know the subject area (geopolitics). There are geopolitical reasons fo
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by notabothonest 4y ago
> They were denied jobs and housing, the latter basically denying them a vote (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_man,_one_vote ). They were not "denied the vote". Read your own link. "However, un
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by notabothonest 4y ago
I agree we should invest in both. The issue comes when people think that renewables are a panacea, and we should start building renewables capacity where it doesn't even make sense. For example; wind power is great in and around the No
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by notabothonest 4y ago
> Except in some specific cases (Finland, other Arctic regions with long periods of low sunlight) I'm pretty sure this cost comparison comes down firmly on the side of wind/solar/storage. On what basis do you make this ass
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by notabothonest 5y ago
Agreed. According to the article, if I didn't write a factory class with the knowledge that it was described in the GoF book, then I'm cargo culting, regardless of whether I understand its value as a creational pattern or not. If
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by notabothonest 5y ago
Good luck! Now is the time to do it, and get it put into your contract. You have additional leverage as employers are panicked by stories of workers resigning en masse if not granted additional working from home time. Don't fall for th
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by notabothonest 5y ago
Well, this is an ultra-cynical take on the article. It's also a little myopic in the sense that it assumes increased work flexibility must somehow have a high associated cost, such as loss of insurance, or lack of job stability. That
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by notabothonest 5y ago
It depends. It was not something that happened at a fixed rate. There were periods steady rise between 1 and 2.5m per century... but then you had events like the sudden flooding of the Black Sea area from the Med, or the Tsunami which finis
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by notabothonest 5y ago
It's not necessarily a binary thing. You can have gradual sea level rise punctuated with rapid inundation events. This is exactly what happened in the British Isles when low lying Doggerland (between modern England and Denmark) was wip