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by rs999gti 3y ago
There are no water pipes from the coast to the central valley? I wonder if NIMBYism blocked that? And if an agency wanted to transport water like the USA national oil pipeline system, would they be blocked similarly?
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> https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61483491 Nuclear desalination like on naval ships is the answer. US and Russian ships already have the technology, it just needs to be scaled for use on land.
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by rs999gti 3y ago
Can't the salt just be dumped in the desert?
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by rs999gti 3y ago
It's still not forced to work, unless going back to your home country is worse than working at Twitter?
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by rs999gti 3y ago
Sounds more like bad QA that forgot to test an use case
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> In beehives, the drones are sterile. This maximizes returns on capital at quarter and even decade timescales. This doesn't make sense. Governments want children and immigrants because they need a tax base to stay in power. As for
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by rs999gti 3y ago
> In 2022, 22% of never-married adults ages 40 to 44 were cohabiting Are there number on how many of the cohabitants are raising children and/or have a mortgage together? If they have one or both, but are not married, then the tradi
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by rs999gti 3y ago
> More legislating from the bench. This is why the USA needs term limits for the house and senate. Those politicians are too lazy to make any laws or not willing to hurt their re-election potential that they are passing legislation to th
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by rs999gti 3y ago
Yahoo archived the article - https://news.yahoo.com/opinion-unconscionable-move-many-hosp...
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by rs999gti 3y ago
> Q: How are governments going to replace this? Add a supplemental registration tax to EVs and hybrids to make up the cost of consuming less fuel. Of course, taxes never go away, so enjoy this new tax as we enter an electric future.
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Yes, printing money during Covid led to inflation(ibj.com)
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I see lots of posts on HN saying corporations are rent seeking in the midst of global inflation. But HN is basically an incubator for new companies and the pick sheets for start up investors. Shouldn't some of the blame be directed tow
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by rs999gti 3y ago
> Profit is nice, even vital Of course, no business will run at a loss, unless it is the WBNA, which is kept alive by the NBA https://medium.com/@yannickondoa/behind-the-figures-1-why-wn... .
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by rs999gti 3y ago
The structure of this summary feels like it was generated by chatgpt, was it?
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https://www.healthline.com/health/bone-health/surgery-to-get...
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by rs999gti 3y ago
> When bad decisions are made, the best people leave first. We don't know if it is a bad decision yet. It has not played out long enough to affect other parts of the economy or other businesses. So far all we know is some people ben
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by rs999gti 3y ago
Assembly Square - reminds me the South Park episode - city part of town - https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/The_City_Part_of_Town
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by rs999gti 3y ago
To end remote work, just grandfather the existing people and roles with remote work and no longer offer remote work in future roles. Then as the Bob's say it just works itself out. The employers hold the cards because they pay the mone
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by rs999gti 3y ago
300k salary + 600k stock
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> And then they continue paying American/Japanese/Chinese companies for access to AI tools I think the EU companies will just do what they always do and carbon copy American/Japanese/Chinese AI websites and tools. For
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by rs999gti 3y ago
I can see HN in 2-5 years from now, "Why are there no EU AI startups?" > Europeans Take a Major Step Toward Regulating A.I
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by rs999gti 3y ago
Amazon Cloudfront with WAF Azure CDN with Front Door etc. etc.
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by rs999gti 3y ago
> STOP. OVERENGINEERING. Please tell this to every junior/cloud developer/architect when it comes to microservices.
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by rs999gti 3y ago
> having a population that isn't exponentially growing is a bad thing. I want social programs, but you got to have a tax base to pay for it
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by rs999gti 3y ago
> spare bedroom tax This idea is ridiculous
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by rs999gti 3y ago
Build up not out. London could use more multistory apartments.
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by rs999gti 3y ago
Couldn't you just move to a city that isn't London or one of the more popular cities? Yes there is a housing problem, but one of the reasons is because people want to live in the cities or popular places. If you are willing to own
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by rs999gti 3y ago
Eating the seaweed would not be sequestered CO2. Your body, like a furnace, would break the seaweed down and re-release the CO2. Better sequestration, would be to grow the seaweed and then bury it. Then in a million years future Earth inhab
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by rs999gti 3y ago
That would be an 8B USD savings for the USA https://www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/german-expat-news/germany... .
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> There are billions/trillions of these creatures who are eaten alive every year in the wild Don't forget the thousands/millions of bugs, small mammals, birds, and reptiles that are killed as part of vegetable and fruit a

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