safgasCVS

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by safgasCVS 8y ago
That's not what's being tabled up for discussion - land forcefully taken during apartheid already has an existing process and that land is mostly urban. What's being discussed is forcible taking of white owned land 'just
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Yup
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
I'll add to this - As someone who's country is actively looking at expropriation of white-owned land a bank account that NO ONE can access without your permission is hugely appealing. If you're living in a country with funct
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
I don't understand this spray and pray approach to business - I'm not businessman so I may be talking out my ass - but I would have thought business is like a long term relationship. May as well have a spreadsheet of 50 failed mar
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Alternatively don't offload the responsibility of what is acceptable content to a powerful 3rd party and use your common sense. Free speech isn't there to protect stuff what you agree with
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
There have numerous times in history where free speech has been stifled and it turned out to be a bad idea. But I'm sure this time is going to be different
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Scene 1: Trump meeting Putin in 1997. There they plot Putin's rise to power in 1999 when they scheme to have Yeltsin poisoned over time to look like alcholism. Trump meanwhile starts learning how to be blackhat with the cover of being
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
"The election was stolen from Hilary by Russian election hacking" the gripping new fantasy novel by 'ppl who watch TED talks'. I for one think this could be a cracker of a fantasy novel but if you struggled to connect wi
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
I dont understand the point of this - why is this any better than apt? Based off the top comment here this is meant to be much more user-friendly, but already installing on Ubuntu didnt work properly despite following Flatpak's own gui
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
So... massive IT failure and everything carried on working because staff was really competent? Damn the Brits are hung up on complaining
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
I'm aware of this research - it's a culture shift but it's not an immutable law of gravity. You need customers to start demanding this - it won't happen top down with restaurants.
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Shifting the burden of paying employees to the customer via guilt and coercion is what's wrong here. Customers should not be made to feel like an asshole for not appreciating seeing their quoted price go up 20%. Lobbying Congress? Star
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
"The main culprits for the change are software and the internet" Stopped reading after that. This guy has a very loose understanding of what real people's lives are like. Throw Occam's razor out the window - the reason p
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Shun the non-believer! But you're not wrong. These articles give false hope. Average capacity of an offshore farm sits at 40% annually in best case scenarios while a typical LNG plant would be what around 80-90% capacity. So you need t
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
This just makes me want to watch Gattaca again
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
I loved Smil's talk so much I ended up buying his last 5 books right after and I'm busy with Energy and Civilisation right now (Lesson being I should not be allowed access to the Kindle Store after I've had 3 glasses of wine)
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
I was watching a lecture by vaclav smil talking about the the importance of the Haber process. Without that invention 40% of the world could not exist - there just isn't enough nitrogen in the soil to support our consumption. And it&#x
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
How do you store it for when night comes? If you live near a mountain you could pump it up during the day but not everyone is that lucky. Now what about winter when its overcast half the time and solar panels barely work? Just think how mu
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
I think you need to be clearer what you mean by innovation. If by innovation you mean new technology coming to save the day then I'm very skeptical it will work out. Teslas are nice but not a match for 1 billion Chinese entering the mi
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
The article fees cheaply alarmist to me. Its incredibly difficult to make good predictions even 2-3 years into the future let alone whats going to happen globally decades from now. We have only started to see the effects of global warming b
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Go figure. Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Whats your issue with the package system? Genuinely curious
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
At our company adoption of open source tools happened bottom-up despite us having licenses for SAS, SPSS, Emblem etc etc. you name it we have it. But even having easy access to these tools people here still found downloading R/Python w
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
I won't speak for all users but I've used it to accept payment for selling used stuff on gumtree (very handy for this). It's also very useful for sending money overseas which I've also done. I don't think I'm a
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
In science if a theory doesn't work in practice then the theory is wrong. In economics if reality does not conform to theory then it's reality thats at fault No I'm not saying bitcoin is the future but millions of users are
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Catfished. I thought this was going to be about cars.
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
The thing is solvency ratios should move like icebergs. Demographics, life expectancy and salaries don't change that quickly. Ok so stock markets move but reviews should be annual to allow for course corrections. So seeing it get so ba
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
That's a fair response - I don't have a sub so can't say how much they covered it
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
If I paid for WSJ and this is the low quality journalism I got I'd be peeved. This article barely touches on how it got to be so bad. Excuse me but no - a single paragraph stating the obvious 'benefits promised were too rich'
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
I like the interative approach - especially if its the local community that has decided to adopt it. But this arrangement undercuts the power of a central authority (especially if its effective)

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