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by primroot 12y ago
Easy. Just privatize all drinkable water so that people have to buy it. That way drinking water will provide the same economic benefits of drinking soda.
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by primroot 12y ago
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140804-harmf...
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Keep fossil fuels in the ground to stop climate change(theguardian.com)
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Freedom of the Press: Orwell's Proposed Preface to Animal Farm (1945)(home.iprimus.com.au)
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Melting Permafrost (2011)(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
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The Logic of Real and Complex Numbers (2014)(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
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by primroot 12y ago
I know it's just utterly besides the point to cite the opinion of the locals regarding a foreign country bombing them in the name of their own country's well-being. Hence I'll choose to cite a Nobel Peace Laureate. "A dr
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by primroot 12y ago
Isn't this a sort of generalization of the military-industrial complex?
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Snowden in talks on returning home: lawyer(reuters.com)
105 points by primroot 12y ago|139 comments
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by primroot 12y ago
In practice importing diminishes options, both for the locations that find their market flooded with the standard supermarket-optimized foods, and the for the poor countries that are compelled to make their land produce the "best"
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by primroot 12y ago
I'm not familiar enough with all the arguments and the studies the author cites as to come up with a careful rebuttal of "isn't necessarily better for the environment." I acknowledge the fact that local food consumption
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by primroot 12y ago
Regarding your first paragraph, that is as likely to be a justification, as people's concern for nutrition and the environment in food exporting countries. Poor countries' net food consumption has been losing its locality since th
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by primroot 12y ago
This may sound somewhat intolerant, but I knew I would not be able to withstand reading an article that starts with a quote of Zizek. He is IMO a very prolific source of BS, and this I say as someone who has a decent amount of respect for t
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Small farmers hold the key to seed diversity: researchers(reuters.com)
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Obama and Modi agree to limit US liability in case of nuclear disaster(theguardian.com)
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E-Money (That's What I Want) (1994)(archive.wired.com)
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by primroot 12y ago
That description seems very accurate to me. My grandmother (in Panama) raises her own chickens, and I even find the taste of the eggs they produce to be somewhat more intense. The eggs are also slightly smaller so they take less time to coo
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Passive WiFi Tracking(edwardkeeble.com)
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'Immoral, but not illegal': metal warehousing games in the spotlight(reuters.com)
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The Myth of the Free Press(truthdig.com)
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GopherJS – A compiler from Go to JavaScript(github.com)
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BadUSB Code Has Been Published(schneier.com)
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The Fundamental Insecurity of USB(schneier.com)
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It's Official: California Just Entered 4th Year of Severe Drought(huffingtonpost.com)
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Design Principles: Visual Perception and the Principles of Gestalt(smashingmagazine.com)
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This Tool Boosts Your Privacy by Opening Your Wi-Fi to Strangers(wired.com)
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A note on blind signature schemes(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
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A Pause, Not an End, to Warming(nytimes.com)
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Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project(berkeleyearth.org)
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How the global banana industry is killing the world’s favorite fruit(qz.com)
176 points by primroot 12y ago|104 comments

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