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by okcando 7y ago
Peak oil isn't nonsense. Predictions about when are often wrong but the idea is sound. And it never meant running out. It's exactly what it says on the tin: a peak and a probably very long tail of decline.
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by okcando 7y ago
I had an experience as a teenager as well and "must produce fire" wasn't a meaningful obstacle. Of course your mileage may vary but lighters (and if not that, then matches certainly) were and are commonly found in households,
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by okcando 7y ago
Lighters are inexpensive, common, and last a long time. Juul pods are age-restricted consumables, just like cigarettes. I think the lack of odor, more agreeable flavors, and less health or social stigma are more important. I doubt e-cigaret
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by okcando 7y ago
USD works as currency because it has a pretty stable and small rate of deflation, a property that the fed tries to maintain. It works to trade value and gives a subtle nudge to promote trading. Bitcoin had the mission statement of being a c
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by okcando 7y ago
Yes. It's just what the word means. It's fun as a philosophical exercise to consider humans as natural and so too their interventions but at the end of the day, "natural" is a word that in most cases means not caused or
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by okcando 7y ago
Any means of price discrimination is likely to have some user-hostile effects along the edges. It is, in essence, DRM and if an authorized user interacts with it at all, it won't be pleasant. Or, in other words, any strategy of region-
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by okcando 7y ago
> Keep in mind that “vapor” is used to disguise that, in all cases whether nicotine or pot or etc, people are heating up a substance to its smoke point and inhaling that smoke. They use “vapor” because it sounds like “water vapor” - whic
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by okcando 7y ago
Lossless unqualified would mean lossless: recoverable exactly bit-for-bit, like PNG, FLAC, or ZIP. The only reason to describe a system as visually or perceptually lossless is because the encoding is lossy, even if very good, like an MP3 or
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by okcando 7y ago
It is practical. The light could be designed to not be disruptive even to a baby, or you could build a physical switch into the device to turn the light off. It just shouldn't be remotely configurable because that undermines some of th
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by okcando 7y ago
It's alright, copyright doesn't govern pharmaceuticals anyway. That's what patents are for and they expire much more quickly than copyrights do though it's longer than four years. Functional ideas or features are explici
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by okcando 7y ago
Harsh.
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by okcando 7y ago
This is probably purposeful, to draw parallels. The author also can't quite make up his mind about whether drinking becoming less popular is good or bad. It's relatable content. When you have a bunch of nostalgia and identity (and
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by okcando 7y ago
A new use for those surgery robots that let surgeons work remotely. Now a haircut costs $165 and it's an automatic subscription. Colombian barber still gets $3 though. This is helping!
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by okcando 7y ago
> Meyer suspects one of the factors leading to this divide can be found in the numbers: according to her book, there are 500,000 words in the English language, but only 70,000 in French. This means that Anglophones are more likely to hav
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by okcando 7y ago
This is badly conflating things. Few care how any particular family divides up their responsibilities. It's only the gender part, the lack of agency, that is criticized. A woman shouldn't have to be a homemaker and a man shouldn&#
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by okcando 7y ago
There are other factors but just one is under discussion: cutting the bottom five percent in performance reviews. And if consecutively "meeting expectations" puts you near the bottom, then the expectation must actually be to excee
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by okcando 7y ago
Because clearly the borrowers are not the only ones capable of being untrustworthy and yet the trustworthiness of neither the lender nor the credit bureau is held to account in this system. And this is related to the reality that individual
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by okcando 7y ago
In general, I would say that this consent isn't informed and it's coerced, because you have to consent to do all those things and more which, in sum total, cannot realistically be avoided. Of course the courts are unlikely to fall
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by okcando 7y ago
Yes but macOS is a large part of the appeal of getting a Mac in the first place and Macs have really healthy margins for the industry, ergo it's making money and isn't free as such. It plus seven years or so of upgrades are built
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by okcando 7y ago
Blender Foundation puts a lot of their training materials (which are very good) behind a subscription paywall.
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by okcando 7y ago
I would consider it part of laptops and desktops, for which macOS is essential.
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by okcando 7y ago
The politically incorrect thing was already a part of a "social or political agenda". That a person can't or won't object because it would be too radical or controversial or, like, a total buzz kill, dude, raises questio
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by okcando 7y ago
Recyclable but probably only once into various second-generation foams and fillers. Then on to be land filler. Lowering emissions is just a side-effect that might apply to any individual shipment but could easily be undone by the increased
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by okcando 7y ago
This complaint is closely related to the idea that selling a product at below-cost is anticompetitive, and that does have basis in antitrust law. The idea that customer service can be a "product" run at a loss to gain an unfair ad
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by okcando 7y ago
Don't be a spoil-sport. Sex positivity is all about everyone having fun---you, the babe, and everyone else in your sex-heap of consenting adults with varied preferences, fetishes, and body types.
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by okcando 7y ago
Handicap or handicapped-accessible seems to be widely applied to facilities like parking or restroom facilities. I still sometimes see it used to describe people but disabled appears to be the preferred term in that context. Speaking as an
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by okcando 7y ago
Dove beauty bars contain soap. The ingredients list sodium tallowate or sodium palmitate, which are soaps from animal or vegetable fat, respectively.
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by okcando 7y ago
There's a wicked queen in the story to be sure but it isn't Snow White, who grows up to be the "fairest in the land" and isn't a jerk about it. It's just a name for the style that suggests it's very beauti
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by okcando 7y ago
There is such a thing in CSS. Display: table, table-cell, etc. It's supposed to make content render exactly as if it were cast in an Html table.
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by okcando 7y ago
The point is that we already deal with glass through the entire process of production, distribution, use, and disposal and it is not a problem. Plastic is of course cheaper (ignoring externalities) and of course has advantageous qualities.

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