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Access to high purity quartz is the real bottle neck. You can have your own fabs and designs.. but if America and Russia refuse to sell you some Quartz.. you are out of luck! https://www.persistencemarketresearch.com/market-
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If people have never seen you, they make a mental image of you based solely of your voice. If you are working the phones there are certain things you can do to make their mental image of you very positive and in this familiar and authoritat
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4y ago
>> 95% carbon-free generation I am still not clearly getting the picture here - what exactly this means. US has about 30% electricity generated by Coal and I do not see that go away in next 20 years let alone 8. What am I missing he
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I cannot argue here. What would go wrong, if Russian Oil and Gas are foundational to your Energy Security. Let me call Angela Merkel.
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The most important amenity is Employment. Only a small portion of people would move to tier-2 seconds and that too because of familial ties not some over whelming amenities. By and large NRIs moving back from US end up in the usual metros a
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People are making an error based on the past 20 years of debt binge and capital flooding that took over the world. When the FDI dries up, India is a very weird place. The energy costs will put a number in Asia and Europe in the next decade
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4y ago
From the front page of CircleCI. __________________________________________________ Industry-leading speed As soon as you think it, you can deliver it. Your developers’ time is too important to waste. No other CI/CD platform takes perf
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4y ago
and make the endowments of the Universities eat the loses.
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I heartily recommend this book, on this subject. https://www.amazon.com/Programmers-Brain-every-programmer-co...
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This is a flawed analysis. 1. Permian basin itself will provide fuel for at least 300 years and right now if you have skills, you can get well paid job in Texas. 2. Texas has so much Wind and Solar footprint already it will make most Europe
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4y ago
If I am running Hetzner, I will be looking at an aggressive North American expansion. The energy cost gap between US and Europe are going to get bigger.
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4y ago
The CHIPS act is one of the many, US will do more to re-vamp the supply chains. Slowly but surely the Trans-Pacific trade will be replaced with North American Industrial powerhouse - but before that we have to endure a deep recession and a
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All the while the grocery store essential items are being procured, packed and supplied to your town in the middle of a global pandemic. Getting freshly grown produce, dairy and meat in the middle of apocalypse level panic? I envy world vie
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my main man, Brazil feeds a lot of people outside its borders. I am not fan of Brazilian agriculture and its intense practices. If you live in USA, Brazil is a competitor albeit a dinged one, but if you go on sanctioning countries that prov
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Germany wanted to have and eat it cake too. It worked to an extent during Merkel. They made European South pay the hefty price while humming on their exports using Cheap Russian gas/oil and supplying manufacturing components to china a
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Why is this flagged? It is a fact that Sri Lankan government used the talking points of Green/Organic movement of the west to justify its insane agricultural policy. This needs to be discussed and Greens should be exposed for their pos
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Will check it out. The title reminds me of Ian Bremmer's quote "what makes America great? Two oceans, Canada and Mexico!".
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I am reading Vaclav Smil's 'How the world really works', and cay say in the west 3 generations are removed from the farmland and has this rainbows and unicorn view of food production and thanks to American cultural broadcasti
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SQLite is anti-fragile.
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Exactly, the feeling of paying off one debt completely have a momentum building/forward progress to it.
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Good Idea, for those who live in places that are not optimal for Solar on the roof , they can fund one of these and feel good about it. The biggest problem is the green-washers have unlimited marketing budgets.
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between spelling nazis and reflexive downvoters .. who are entitled their respective actions.. what I am looking for is, how is the whole Quartz to Wafers process has become green and what kind of reduction and/or elimination of toxic
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>> green tech has come a long way in identifying effective alternatives to toxic chemicals Enlighten us, how manufacturing 'silicone' has become less chemical intensive.
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For continued growth we need to embrace Space both civilian and military. Funding NASA to really get to Mars and a colony on Moon in the long run give the best bang for the buck. Longevity would help but will also ossify the institutions. T
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that would be easy if there was an AWS for Food! Here is the reality, not only the grains but the inputs like fertilizers etc are sky-rocketing. Every body wants to piss of Fossil Fuels with out even understanding how foundational they are
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When it comes to EVs, I think the Pilots and TAs are right candidates for most metros in US along with Grocery stores and Malls. There is little or no hope for 7-11 style EV charging stations. Of course, people in apartment complexes may ge
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I think Taleb gets it right about IQ, lack of it is a dis-qualifier and beyond a point after certain IQ score it becomes noise.
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Coffeezilla will hate this, but he is Tai Lopez of Scam-busting ;)
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I will gloat and dance on graves of assholes who mocked me “ngmi”. I would be graceful and compassionate to those crypto supporters who did not call others names. At the end of the day, the people you meet on your way up are the same people
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Intel has to do next 4 years what it failed to do for the past 8 years and the complexity of execution in the space is getting harder and hander. Also, they are fighting on multiple fronts, upstarts in GPU, write-offs on AI hardware, Losing
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