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by ppf 8y ago
In the 80's, OPEC tied the amount of oil a country can produce to their stated reserves. This led to the OPEC countries steadily increasing their stated reserves. This, combined with heavy and unconventional reserves being found in Sou
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by ppf 8y ago
You are right that the politics of this is very interesting, though.
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by ppf 8y ago
I think you're overstating the position of clean energy. The US currently gets 11% of its power from "renewables". 45% of that is from burning biofuels, wood, and a very small amount of bio waste.
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by ppf 8y ago
Not really - they are relying on keeping output high to depress prices. Otherwise, other sources of oil (eg, US shale, South American oil sands) that are more expensive to extract become worthwhile, sending oil revenues to those other count
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by ppf 8y ago
"Renewable" doesn't mean "free energy". Constructing renewable energy sources (wind, solar, etc) takes more energy than constructing an equivalent non-renewable energy source - this is the EROEI (energy returned o
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by ppf 8y ago
1. If you haven't seen the demonization of white, "cisgendered" men in the tech scene and culture in general, I don't know what to tell you. Maybe you're not in the US (and specifically, West-Coast) tech scene. Edit
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by ppf 8y ago
Which part of his comment is a straw man? It doesn't help if you dismiss valid observations and experiences as "divisive rhetoric".
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by ppf 8y ago
1. Encourage more women into coding, helped by HTML/CSS bootcamps and the like 2. Claim that the new prevalence of women in front-end coding is sexist 3. ?? 4. Profit!
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That's what you get when meddling in things you don't understand for profit.
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by ppf 8y ago
I think there is an interesting parallel between the actions of Facebook and the other tech giants in developing countries, and the actions of European companies / governments in the Colonial Era. It's certainly interesting to wat