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by skosch 8y ago
To add, just a few years ago we had Ubuntu One, also a cloud storage service.
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Any proof of that 4 billion dollar figure?
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Yes, import taxes would be the temporary solution. This is my go-to resource: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/carbon-fee-and-dividend/
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Here you go: https://croadsworldclimate.climateinteractive.org/ Honestly dude, rise above the cynicism (if that's how you meant to come across). You're a goddamn adult, and a well-educated engineer at that. Your c
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Sorry, typo – I meant to say less than . Fixed.
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The economics of veggie proselytism actually look pretty good. Animal Charity Evaluators found that for every $11 spent in online ads, you could make one person go to a website, sign up with their email, and pledge to go vegetarian for a ye
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Decades – we don't have decades to fix this. Also, it decays into CO2, so to claim that its effects are temporary is misleading. On top of that, as long as the carbon is in a CH4 bond, it traps at least 20× as much radiation. Please do
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Thank you for glom, and don't let those comments get you down. Personally speaking – my heuristic is that maintainers who put effort into marketing copy (even if it's awkwardly exaggerated) are the kind of people who really want t
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> or 'article' 'read' ... well, "this article is a good read" is already a timeworn collocation – according to Google, "good read" first peaked around 1920. It's interesting. The brutalization
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Well, there is a solution to that: border tax adjustments. Carbon taxes — and I mean at the well, not those bureaucratic, corruption-prone cap-and-trade schemes – are the simplest, cheapest, fastest way to get a carbon-free economy off the
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by skosch 9y ago
Thank you for calling the CCS crowd out on their magical thinking. The amount of CO2 we can pump underground to form carbonates with basalt rock is a drop in the bucket. Unless we find a catalyst that allows us to economically turn tons of
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Over many years, laws shape culture though. With all problematic behaviours, citizens fall into three groups: 1) those who refrain out of a healthy sense of personal responsibility; 3) those who persist out of a pathological understanding o
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> Eventually you are going towards direction where you don't want to go ... this is the end of the road for many people. It sounds like you're saying that moderate meditation is overrated, and more intense meditation is outrigh
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Learning characters has enabled me to watch movies, because subtitles are often easier to follow (and look up) than mumbled, fast, dialect-tinged dialogue. And the ability to watch movies is a game changer for language learning. Note that
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OP simply mis-parsed the last "it" of the sentence to refer to the starter motor, when the author intended for it to refer to the car.
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It's also really wasteful.
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And it's really well designed!
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Pretty much 100%. It's a regular instance of neovim, just with an Electron UI around it. I've had no issues with my .vimrc at all.
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Pesticides, rather.
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If you have Google Maps running on your phone with data and GPS on, the app will explicitly ask you about your experience in whatever place you're visiting at that moment. I have friends who enthusiastically respond to those notificati
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by skosch 9y ago
I agree with all of your posts above, and personally relate to both your sadness of being unable to believe and your sadness of seeing time wasted on fairy-tale nonsense. That being said, the concept of panpsychism has merit insofar as it g
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Why sadly?
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Agreed – a very welcome trend, and still not widely known outside of the Emacs bubble. I've spent a long time going back and forth between Atom/VSCode (too slow on my machine) and [neo]vim (where language integration/autocomp
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by skosch 9y ago
Related: a 9-year, n=25871 study looking at long-term health outcomes of blind Vitamin D/Omega 3/placebo supplementation just ended and will have results out this summer. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show&#x
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Thank you, that's interesting, glad I asked! I'll have to take another look then.
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When I looked into Esperanto a few years ago, I lost interest relatively quickly as I figured that this Euro-mashup of a language probably won't ever make it very far into areas where it would be most useful to me (i.e. outside of the
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I've really come to enjoy using it, especially with Apollo and Absinthe. I now make client-side changes all the time without having to touch the server at all. It did take me some time to wrap my head around the details, but the abilit
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Thank you, that was helpful. Follow-up question: is there any practical significance of rational solutions? I can understand why one might be looking for integer solutions to an equation. Can you provide an example where rational solutions
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by skosch 9y ago
Unrelated to the article, but related to crematoria, and a very fun 15-minute read: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/my-first-mistake
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It's a nice symbol, but not nearly enough emphasis is being put on these values (and how to defend them, in work day practice) as part of the curriculum. Undergrad engineering culture elevates the ring into a mythical embodiment of the

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