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by ptah 7y ago
I would like to know what an actual Tibetan monk or Zen master thinks about this. Westerners have a tainted "Gentle Jesus meek and mild" conception of spiritual practice that seriously impairs our judgement on these matters
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by ptah 7y ago
not as authoritative as the nature journal article that OP is based on: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0 it is clearly based on a consensus
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by ptah 7y ago
the UK has outsourced its CO2 emissions
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by ptah 7y ago
that is still a blog post containing his personal opinion
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by ptah 7y ago
>Authoritarianism then, can emerge as a more efficient competitor that can beat democracy at its home game (some fear this; some welcome it). false assumption that democracies cannot be authoritarian
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by ptah 7y ago
nitpicking like this is a waste of time
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by ptah 7y ago
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21110318 tldr; republicans tend to win by slimmer margins compared to democrats
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by ptah 7y ago
why were they able to subscribe to those calendars in the first place? google's privacy even in company sucks it seems
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by ptah 7y ago
these are not companies. it is one company comprising of individuals
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by ptah 7y ago
I'm not sure how you can have any kind of human society without some form of coercion a.k.a. violence
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by ptah 7y ago
explain to me how that is bad? Also it is not multiple sellers. Up & go is one entity just like Uber
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by ptah 7y ago
what if it makes it impossible for the "privately owned" apps to compete and wipes them out completely?
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by ptah 7y ago
how are they stopping individuals from setting pricing. if anything it gives them more power than traditional gig economy apps
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by ptah 7y ago
if you can't design for that, then your business is failing a fundamental requirement
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by ptah 7y ago
good point, the tax on a truck should be proportional to the wear and tear of that truck on the road
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by ptah 7y ago
I think it is fair that the increased usage of public infrastructure warrants a substantial increase in taxes
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by ptah 7y ago
is that a geodesic dome
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by ptah 7y ago
it's all 1s and 0s. there is no post
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by ptah 7y ago
is this safe? modern cars are designed to absorb impact and not transfer it to passengers. this sounds like it is a rigid metal car like a vw beetle
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by ptah 7y ago
all the evidence should be inadmissible
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by ptah 7y ago
it looks like economics is moving from the alchemy to the chemistry stage in its evolution
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by ptah 7y ago
> not all economic questions can be suitably framed maybe don't thumb suck answers for those questions then as is currently the norm
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by ptah 7y ago
they will come to an abrupt rest to be sure. hence why individuals need to prep for the collapse
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by ptah 7y ago
protests do not "combat it". actual action to cut co2 emissions "combat it"
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by ptah 7y ago
it's a bit late, these protests should have taken place 20 years ago. all we can do now is prep
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by ptah 7y ago
being able to edit files on a remote server is not an employable skill? most unix servers will have vi or vim as lowest common denominator editor
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by ptah 7y ago
i agree, using "lost" is deeply misleading
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by ptah 7y ago
it wasn't "wild" by the time european colonists arrived. native americans actively managed vast areas with e.g. controlled burning for thousands of years. EDIT: "For 13,000 years, many Indigenous tribes, including the Hu
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by ptah 7y ago
none of the cases in this article is like that. the adult would obviously be trained in how to deal with it without holding their arms down at all.
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by ptah 7y ago
you will need one adult fulltime sitting next to the child supervising them

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