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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
Adding a lot of weigh in the form of buildings causes land to sink. Apparently 1-2 mm/year on average. How much of "New York has been underwater since 2010" is the land sinking and how much is water rising from climate chan
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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
The majority of early explorers and researchers sought philanthropist to support their desire to explore. They sold the dream to pay for their plan. The frontiers are more specialized now. Getting funding to "explore Africa" wo
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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
SciHub is an amazing resource. I have read so many papers from varied topics out of my personal interest. That would not be possible for me without SciHub. The hold on new papers has stopped me from keeping current. If I were able to al
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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
We are pretty lucky in that regard. It is by design. Open trade among the states was a primary point of argument in ratification of the US Constitution. States were concerned with a federal government having any power to restrict the eng
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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
It is a Class 1 laser. I can buy a Class 4 laser online that I can start fires with. Laser danger is not the reason.
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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
I really wish that companies would just sell their products instead of doing the business relationship 2-step. It is an unnecessary waste of time to sell product. It looks like these sensors have just enough range to be effective for lidar
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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
Drones over 250 grams or for any drone operated commercially under part 107 registration is required. But, its easy to just build your own or desolder the id chip if you dont want it.
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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
USGS MRDATA has a lot more mines. Their data is also freely available for download. I use their datasets and base maps for my personal GIS projects. https://mrdata.usgs.gov/
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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
The more you ask around the more you will find the real divide in the US is the same as it always has been. There are those that believe a more powerful government will solve all the problems and those that just want the government to leave
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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
Unless something changes the government will be forced to continue devaluing the USD. They have been doing it since 1913. This is late stage debasement, not the start. Unless there is a drastic change in spending or growth there is no st
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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
That is the problem. Reigning in debasement is what needs to happen or the dollar is dead. But, reigning in debasement means spending less. Spending less means people can't be reelected for "bringing federal money home".
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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
A drastic rise in interest rate or actual destruction of bills.
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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
The way to fix that is to stop debasing the currency. I stopped buying stocks a few years ago. The moment there is a contraction of credit or circulating currency we will see a 1929 style crash. Not worth the risk anymore.
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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
That is a bit of a lie. Getting a refund does not mean you didn't pay. Even getting more back than you actually paid does not mean you didn't pay. Money is taken from every paycheck. When you file your taxes the IRS decides wh
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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
Or, no amount of money is ever enough for government and taxing income is a dumb value to collect revenue. Southern states supported an income tax because they believed it would make it possible to collect revenue for indigent people. Exac
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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
Every tax ever implemented by government has been initially sold as a tax on the rich. The people voting for it assume they will never be taxed because they aren't currently rich. But, there is never enough of other peoples money to
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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
In that sense even hydrocarbons are closed loop. Earth made the oil deposits so we aren't adding anything that wasn't already here. The carbon we pump into the atmosphere will eventually become oil again.
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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
I make lots of compost for my own use. Composting is at best delaying carbon release. As soon as you stop recycling materials the carbon will be released to the atmosphere. In permaculture circles the goal is to close open loops of waste
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by tastyfreeze 8mo ago
Depends on what you are trying to recover. Recovering precious metals from electronics is no more difficult than processing precious metal ore.
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by tastyfreeze 9mo ago
Ethanol production was subsidized to consume excess corn that was only produced because it is susidized. I don't know if ethanol fuel requirements started before or after the ethanol subsidies but it all happened around the same time.
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by tastyfreeze 9mo ago
Your first point is wrong. Before 1913 gold and silver coins were the money in peoples pockets. Government produced the coins of known weight and purity. After 1913 paper bills were produced with partial reserve. The US has never had a
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by tastyfreeze 9mo ago
15% impacts everybody equally. You know as in equal under the law. Wealthy people spend more so they would pay more. Which would you prefer? Uncle Sam takes 15% of everything you earn, or 15% of everything you spend? A consumption tax w
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by tastyfreeze 9mo ago
I believe we have a fundamental difference of opinion on the purpose of government. To me the intended purpose of the government as defined in the Constitution is to foster an environment for people to thrive. It is up to the people to do
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by tastyfreeze 9mo ago
Oh no! You have found the fatal flaw of using paper currency backed by anything. Before 1913 money was gold and silver. Not paper bills backed by those metals. Many people doubt that returning to gold and silver coinage is possible. Goin
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by tastyfreeze 9mo ago
By not paying for a shit ton of other things.
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by tastyfreeze 9mo ago
I don't think an individual's tax burden should ever be more than 15%. I would prefer that people get to keep the fruits of their labor. The people created the government to serve and protect them not steal their wealth.
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by tastyfreeze 9mo ago
Nobody ever paid 90% taxes. There were tax rates that high but lots of ways to avoid it same as now. If you want a fair tax that treats everybody equally you want a flat consumption tax. No tax to make money. Just taxed when you spend mo
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by tastyfreeze 9mo ago
Maintenance also informs builders on what can be improved next time. For example, we now know that rebar reinforced concrete will eventually need to be replaced due to spalling. If we reinforced with glass or basalt rebar that problem is
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by tastyfreeze 9mo ago
To be fair, you can buy a flying car. But they are less efficient than a helicopter.
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by tastyfreeze 9mo ago
All reasons that a paper currency backed by gold has never lasted long. Going to paper currency is the first step to start cheating by fudging numbers. The only money that has ever lasted is actual coins/bars of metal, precious or ot

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