ocschwar

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by ocschwar 10y ago
Actually, even that's not true. Mountaintop removal mining is mechanized and automated.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
CO2 harm to human health involves a more complex chain of causality than merely breathing it in and being poisoned by it. But it is real nonetheless.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
I take it you don't have a daughter.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Maybe you should offer more than a tantalizing hint for why we should discount 150 years of scientific work establishing that it is, in fact, caused by our cars.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
State level actions.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
The big northern European takeaway is the principle of "protect the worker, not the job." Ironically, at this point, the Scandinavians are better free marketers than Americans, because they're willing to let entire companies
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by ocschwar 10y ago
That fork was long enough ago that those issues are moot.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Read the ZeroMQ manual. That's the most important part of ZMQ, as it's the clearest and best guide to your options for partitioning a task and arranging communication between software processes. After that, you can implement your
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Only if you're still living in a bubble of comfort. (Which I am as well. The bad news has had very little impact ON ME. Because I live in a part of the US with the best infrastructure. )
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Well, every person you spared from that experience owes you a beer...
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by ocschwar 10y ago
JSON with comments? How about { "object":{ "foo":1,"bar":"New Jersey"} , "_comment": "blah blah blah" } A bit hackish, but always worked for me.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Well, we have all sorts of schemes proposed to partly burn biomass and bury or spread the resulting charcoal. Surely raw green bamboo would hold more carbon.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Grow bamboo. Harvest it. Bury it. That's the sort of thing we have to start thinking about.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
China halts work on partly built coal plants. http://dailytimes.com.pk/business/23-Oct-16/china-axes-part-...
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by ocschwar 10y ago
One side, as a consistent modus operandi, seeks and destroys bread queues and hospitals. Don't try to paper that over.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
"You are very impressionable I see. The only lens you have to view this war through is the one you're allowed to see, and you believe it! " There is more than enough evidence to show that Assad has, in fact, been methodically
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Take a step back and you might notice the following: One side in the war is methodically bombing bread queues and hospitals. Our media is reporting that one side in the war is methodically bombing bread queues and hospitals. I'd say th
798.
by ocschwar 10y ago
Here in Boston, we're paying the dreadful cost of letting Haiti go to hell. SOmetimes, I'm in a cab and the driver's confused about directions, and I HAVE TO SWITCH TO FRENCH! THE HORROR! Seriously, we could let them all in a
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Dude, the 80's called. They want their cliches back. I personally have had the experience of being physically assaulted for being a white nerd who dared 'diss a clique of blacks in my high school. It was 1993. First of all, things
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by ocschwar 10y ago
And it was not really a big institution. Transportation in the early US relied on MULE teams more than horses. And east of the Mississippi, we rowed.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Red states have a habit of having the police "suggest" to homeless people that they should get on the Greyhound bus to places like SF and Seattle. And add to that the factor of both cities have weather that doesn't kill the h
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by ocschwar 10y ago
So far so good. The problem is they do it before convicting you of anything.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
A gold coin would be melted down and re-struck again and again as it traveled or as kings died or were usurped. A copper coin, however, would not be worth the bother. This coin had plenty of time to travel
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by ocschwar 10y ago
If they can figure out how to make the stuff out of bamboo, then we have ourselves a carbon sequestration method. No more global warming.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Given that white LEDs rely on blue LED components, and blue LEDs are the most expensive and most delicate parts in these lights, one would think lowering the blue content should be a no brainer. More comfortable and cheaper all around.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
The reason is there: bacteria have to be stingy in how much DNA they devote to anything.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
If you can get the entire human race to match in lockstep with rotating antibiotics in and out, AND the array of antibiotics is large enough, then yes, that's exactly what would happen. The second part is in the works, constantly. The
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by ocschwar 10y ago
As per prior stories, let's all take a knee in thanks to our political system for trying literally to criminalize research into emerging superbugs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12444664
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by ocschwar 10y ago
The high temperature stuff is still very sensitive to strong changing magnetic fields, so I'm not holding my breath for MRI.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
That is a lot of acreage devoted to that intersection. Something you should know about land: they ain't making more of it.

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