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by pkphilip 5y ago
The list is long: * Ffmpeg, Videolan etc * Emacs + many other editors * Eclipse * Many languages - Python, PHP, Rust, C, C++, Haskell......
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by pkphilip 5y ago
That covers only the energy spent on mining etc but not the environmental impact of digging up entire country sides. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-batteries-environmen...
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Battery technology isn't very "green" either. Lithium and its alternatives require extensive, polluting mining operations while Hydrogen can be generated from water, water vapor, methane etc.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
All valid points. A lot of the misconceptions about Hydrogen comes from the following ideas: 1. That it requires something energy consuming like cold-temperature electrolysis. This is no longer true. We have ways of generating Hydrogen much
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Sharechat app which is very popular in India (160+ million active monthly users) was first launched only on Android in 2015 and the IOS app was launched as late as May 2019. So yes, there was a period of around 3+ years where a major messag
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Again, not true. Sharechat app which is quite popular in India (160+ million active monthly users) launched their Android app in Oct 2015 and I believe their IOS app was only launched in May 2019.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
That is not true. There are parts of the world where Iphone use is quite low. For instance in India which is expected to have more than 820 million smart phone users by 2022, the percentage of IOS users is around 3%. https://www.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Also, may I add that over 230 million people have been pushed into abject poverty in India because of Modi's inept handling of the Covid crisis. People around the world have seen the visuals of bodies floating down rivers, people dying
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by pkphilip 5y ago
The "ground level" ratings that you quote - can you please state your sources? I have given my sources clearly. FYI, over 230 million people have been pushed into abject poverty in India because of Modi's inept handling of th
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Short selling is perhaps ok but definitely not naked short selling
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Is it that difficult for Youtube to differentiate between someone doxing someone vs someone volunteering identifying information about themselves or their family members with absolutely no malice? Surely for a company which prides itself in
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by pkphilip 5y ago
>Wonder why? Well, clearly you haven't been paying attention to the absolute assault on free speech happening in India and the sheer number of journalists who have been killed in India, the number of people being illegally detained
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by pkphilip 5y ago
I was replying broadly on the issue of regime change
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by pkphilip 5y ago
The government of India is turning fully fascist and wants to have tight control over every narrative. Signal shouldn't yield
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by pkphilip 5y ago
US has done "regime change" in many countries replacing elected officials with warlords/monarchs/dictators etc. Consider Mossadegh in Iran - an elected, secular politician who was replaced to put Shah - a monarch, in pow
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by pkphilip 5y ago
The demolisher of bugs, killer of memory leaks, the vice regent of UI design, the maker of apps
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by pkphilip 5y ago
It would have been good to have a way of defining a method that can return the values instead of pointing to a static list. Also, perhaps a way of having a method for handling the display via a method and/or div. example: <input lis
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by pkphilip 5y ago
There is a large contingent of people who support the ruling party (BJP) who vote down any article which doesn't give a flattering opinion of BJP and its handling of the situation in India.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
The government supports what is known as a Publc Distribution System (PDS) for low cost food grains etc. These are available to people who can show that they have a "ration card" which is given to low income families. The problem
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by pkphilip 5y ago
I am not using shared hosting. It was hosted on a Digital Ocean box using the recommended security updates, settings, file permissions etc and with as few plugins as I could get away with. I also had the "pro" version of Wordfence
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by pkphilip 5y ago
My complaint about Wordpress is always about how frequently it gets attacked. I have had multiple wordpress websites hacked even after keeping them regularly updated and even after having special "security" plugins such as Wordfen
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by pkphilip 5y ago
You make a good point about mono culture forestry and also forestry of the same age. That is bound to cause a lot of problems. However, agro forestry where multiple types of fruit trees etc are grown and which can be accessed by the communi
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Apart from that, livestock grazing has been used effectively to fight desertification by Allan Savory and others. https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/reversing-desertification-with-l...
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Well said. There is too much being made about how difficult and expensive it is to bring up kids... and sometimes by people who spend thousands on their pets!
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Cattle/livestock is also used for improving the quality/fertility of the soil for growing crops. It drastically reduces the need for harmful fertlizers, the need to till the land as much (reducing diesel usage) etc.. Also, the mil
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Then there is SlickEdit which has been around for decades as well. I wonder how they are able to continue to be in business with all of the editors such as Visual Studio Code being available for free. https://www.slickedit.com&#x
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Hinduism most certainly does not believe in a common set of rights for everyone. Each person is assigned a clear position in the social hierarchy based on the caste of the parents and then the person is obligated to carry out the "dhar
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by pkphilip 5y ago
It is actually a pretty smart way to ensure that there is some occupancy in all building blocks (which could reduce crime) and also it brings down the overall rental costs.
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by pkphilip 6y ago
I wish Java had something similar to Properties in Delphi. http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Sydney/en/Propertie... You can have Get and Set methods for properties or even allow direct access to the va
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by pkphilip 6y ago
This is so heartbreaking. Many people never found the bodies of their loved ones.. and occasionally just some parts would wash up but no one was certain whose body it was. Tragic.

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