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by pyrocat 12y ago
Fishing and internet spaceships.
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by pyrocat 12y ago
The country certainly has a more conservative culture when it comes to gender. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_India#Family_structu...
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by pyrocat 12y ago
Water is a global resource. If your water isn't exported right now doesn't mean it won't be in the future. A huge amount of the US is dependent on groundwater reservoirs. When those reservoirs run out, they'll need to im
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by pyrocat 12y ago
Oh, yeah, you're probably right. I just thought they were bad at English.
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by pyrocat 12y ago
No, because California already imports water from all over the place. Water shortage isn't a problem unique to California. It's only a matter of time before the rest of the country starts to feel the same pressure that Californian
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by pyrocat 12y ago
But it would help the issue. The idea is to reduce non-essential water use, regardless of source.
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by pyrocat 12y ago
pretty sure water in water bottles only 'expire' because of the plastic leaching into the water over time. "Unpackaged" water has been sitting in the earth for thousands of years, as evidenced by this article, and is per
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by pyrocat 12y ago
All of this reminds me of a trip I took about 10 years ago to Palm Desert. Even then I was stunned by opulence of their water use and the utter disregard for sustainability. It's a city built in the desert that regularly reaches 100+ d
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by pyrocat 12y ago
The other difference is the ground water reservoirs are significantly more drained now than in the 1930s.
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by pyrocat 12y ago
Please not WA. We have enough Californians moving here and driving up prices already.
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by pyrocat 12y ago
the small trees are also a sign that that area was clear cut for lumber and replanted.
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by pyrocat 12y ago
have you used Lyft? You don't talk to anyone until your car picks you up, same as Uber. If you want you can sit in the back seat and not talk at all.
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by pyrocat 12y ago
It's making an advance for the eventual goal of sex. How is that not a sexual advance? How is an email chain between interviewee and interviewer, discussing your interview results, not a professional setting?
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by pyrocat 12y ago
So making sexual advances in a professional setting is A-OK, as long as you only do it once per person?
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by pyrocat 12y ago
Ignoring the problem is how we got into this situation in the first place.
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Comcast Blocks HBO Go on the PS4(theverge.com)
6 points by pyrocat 12y ago|1 comments
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by pyrocat 12y ago
That depends, do you like waterboarding?
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by pyrocat 12y ago
Relevant: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/05/nypd-memo-stop-and-...
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by pyrocat 12y ago
add a filter. From: *@amazon.com -> never mark as spam.
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by pyrocat 12y ago
> Whole web is a mess and people are trying to monkey-patch it. That has been true for the last 20+ years, but it gets less and less accurate as time goes on. The web today is way less messy than it was even 3 years ago. The way we write
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by pyrocat 12y ago
But that's readable. This isn't.
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by pyrocat 12y ago
False dichotomy.
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by pyrocat 12y ago
"Pro-NN astro-turfing" hahaha ok dude, sure. Which side of this issue is more likely to have hired giant PR firms to hire astroturfers? And which side is more likely to actually have grassroots support? I'll give you a hint,
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by pyrocat 12y ago
I think Community was more making a comment about how Lego has become less generic and more based on marketing. You could say this correlates to less creativity in favor of recreating existing properties. The bits about smaller pieces and b
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by pyrocat 12y ago
I disagree. Gig workers still need to pay for their own health care, before and after Obamacare.
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by pyrocat 12y ago
I think reaching "Fuck you" levels of wealth has a very slightly different (3% higher?) definition for people with kids, but otherwise the advise is the same. Once you (or, you and your family, if you have one) are financially saf
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by pyrocat 12y ago
But not resource efficient, and farmed fish have lots of problems.
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by pyrocat 12y ago
Relevant: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/11/19
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by pyrocat 12y ago
I'm not sure what user-provided data would even be beneficial? Stuff that's likely already collected encompasses where the user is picked up, dropped off, route taken, time of departure and arrival .etc
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by pyrocat 12y ago
Don't forget wear and tear from inside the cabin. I don't envy whoever is in charge with cleaning the inside of a self driving car.

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