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541.
by nyokodo 4y ago
You mean I just imagined all those years post 2016 of democrats asserting “Russians stole the election” while wearing “not my president” tshirts? It seems like both parties are just as bad on that front.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> 60% of people are actively rooting for their country to do worse whenever their guy is not in charge. What are you basing this statement on? No way is it 60%, more like 6% of the population, but perhaps 0.6%! Whatever it is the voices
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> I guess I’ll take it over “her emails” and “his latest tweet” It’s not as cringe inducing but considerably worse in other respects. Wikipedia didn’t take sides in the definition of email or tweeting to benefit one party in those previo
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> Someone wake me up when y'all specify exactly what these adjustments are > I don't come here for vapid rhetoric games. One of the principle problems that markets solve is the calculation problem. Billions of people with th
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> "Pure" capitalism would be a dystopian hellhole, and no serious capitalism thinker ever proposed it. Capitalism is impossible without property rights so assuming you don’t call at least a voluntary system of property rights e
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> It is not as if the queen is making these elected governments act in this way. Not to mention the same class making these gross oversteps of government authority would be the ones to write any republican constitution.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> I also doubt she was targeting black kids consciously . Even if many people (including herself) tended to think of gang members as young and Black. If she thought gang members were predominantly young and black and she talked about com
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> how difficult they are to both run and make profitable. If they are profitable, they tend to operate on razor thin margins. What are the barriers to operating a maker space as a non-profit?
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> maintain the relationship and preserve future goodwill If the relationship involves lies and cover ups that caused this pandemic to get out of control leading to millions of deaths and massive global disruption, what is the value of th
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> it was cancelled 8 days in. That is a different kind of cancellation as now it could be for cause which isn't the case for a cancellation before the stay.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> optimize the ease of decision making while still getting an acceptable course of action This might explain some behavior, but how does this model explain why many people choose to hurt others out of spite even if it means hurting thems
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> Why is this happening now all of a sudden? While the irrational exuberance is in full swing no one cares about fraud, they just want to keep the cash flowing. Once the crash starts that's when suddenly all that bad behavior gets p
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> it is the greenest method of moving freight. Water transport, where available, is far greener than trains for moving freight.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> it feels a lot more like excess skin That’s exactly what it is. When one loses a lot of wait after holding it for a while the skin may not be able to shrink back down. There are various remedies for that from supplements to surgery but
555.
by nyokodo 4y ago
> when we don't have enough renewable generating capacity We won’t solve the climate crisis through the waterfall development method.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> but it's very hard to see the change in a mirror unless other people tell me Losing 110 lbs is going to be very obvious even on someone with a very large frame, but, your perspective may be highly warped preventing you from seeing
557.
by nyokodo 4y ago
> up to 5 or 6 degrees of separation So basically everyone on earth?
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> why education is so poorly funded and constantly under various attacks in the US It’s not poorly funded. The US spends the second most in the world per kid, we just get so little out of each dollar.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> so even if it takes 10x that's still only 10% “Only 10%?” That is a massive shift in labor allocation that would be enormously disruptive if it were feasible which it likely isn’t at least in the medium term.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> for years, republicans have championed corporate-friendly agendas The Republicans used to be the party of big business but that stopped being true around 2016. They’re now squarely populist which is why you’ve noticed a change in behav
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> You seem to be saying you think keeping liquid fuel in tanks does not qualify as storage. I just misread what you wrote. I didn't see "fuel" and thought you were referring to other means of renewable storage. Fuel as an
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> There is plenty of sunshine most places if you can bank fuel during off-season Energy storage is woefully insufficient yet to cover days let alone seasons so that is a very big "if."
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> Efficiency is secondary. Cost is primary. While the question I was responding to was explicitly about efficiency, you might be right about cost. However, ICE tractors that are already owned along with the capital required for their us
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> The energy efficiency of converting wind -> electricity -> fuel -> mechanical power has to be less efficient than wind -> electricity -> mechanical power It depends on how efficient it is to use existing ICE tractors vs
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by nyokodo 4y ago
They're at least slowed down or diverted by walls, not flying objects though.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> India and China are not losing any Russian imports Russia cannot keep up production without the involvement of the likes of BP etc, so while China and India haven't boycotted Russia it won't matter before very long.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> There are two challenges to tackle Both of which are covered in the article.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> Capture that entire market with v1 of the process even if it's $10/gallon. Take everything learned to make v2 at $7/gallon and v3 at $5/gallon etc... Due to Russian oil drying up volatile high prices globally will b
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> Build a Wall The wicked burn of this Trump reference is tempered by the fact that flying drones aren’t stopped by walls.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> Computers as a whole seem so boring nowadays. For most of us everything becomes less exciting as we get older compared to our youth. Our minds are less responsive to novelty and there’s less novelty to be had. Kids still get enthralled

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