thirstywhimbrel

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by thirstywhimbrel 6y ago
I agree that distinctions are important. > The Chinese government demanded that all businesses censor content, but... To distinguish this further: > The Chinese government demanded that all foreign businesses engage in a significant v
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by thirstywhimbrel 7y ago
> leachate control is nothing but a cost center to the people running a landfill A lot of these fixes are more expensive to fake to code than to just implement, and isolating sources of groundwater pollution can take a few years, but not
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by thirstywhimbrel 7y ago
Important points to consider, I'm open to updating my views here. > You seem to doubt that governments made decisions based on facts, It's actually the reverse, I've become more skeptical because so many recycling programs
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by thirstywhimbrel 7y ago
Efficient leachate control is an interesting area, but there are various families of techniques to do it and methods for monitoring effectiveness that have emerged from the last several decades of focused study. Current facilities are way b
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by thirstywhimbrel 7y ago
The first link is a "meta-analysis" where they only found three studies on point with wildly different methods that disagreed in their conclusions. One of the studies said the costs of sorting made the benefits of plastic recyclin
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by thirstywhimbrel 7y ago
Landfills are tiny relative to usable land and are eventually just capped and turned into parks. Most of the popular fear about running out of landfill space can be traced back to a misused statistic about small rural landfills being decomm
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by thirstywhimbrel 7y ago
Arguably China should have targeted purple states rather than red states. Most states that thrive on soybeans are unlikely to flip regardless of pressure. Edit: The EU might have had a better strategy with the rust belt... Second edit: I me
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by thirstywhimbrel 7y ago
I think there are different counters that will resonate for different people: You can oppose banning/weakening encryption because you believe encryption is an irreplaceable tool for security. You can oppose banning encryption because y
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by thirstywhimbrel 7y ago
> The bottom of the ocean would be far more habitable if we faced any type of extinction event. Yeah, space has a coolness factor, and there are things about the origin of the universe we can't learn from the bottom of the ocean, bu
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by thirstywhimbrel 7y ago
I think you're right, this is the best argument against. Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy[0] deals with this a great deal, the early scientists pretty quickly devolve into two camps, terraformers and preservationists. There&#x2
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China and US agree to halt economic cyber espionage(usatoday.com)
2 points by thirstywhimbrel 11y ago|0 comments
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by thirstywhimbrel 11y ago
Did anyone actually read why these magazines were "highly ranked"? > the CIA actually thought that Levitas’s anti-Communism was too ferocious, unrelenting, and “conservative.” ... the CIA wanted a more moderate and “sophistica
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Startup of the Week: Velocity(wired.co.uk)
5 points by thirstywhimbrel 11y ago|2 comments
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by thirstywhimbrel 11y ago
Funny, I was just reading an article about WIRED's startup of the week, Velocity, an app pushing for transactionless restaurants, kind of the same way Uber takes the payment step out of cabs. (ie, you still pay, but it's not a big
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by thirstywhimbrel 11y ago
Music lockers sort of terrify me. I know there've been lots of complaints about them before,[0] and I think most of the early complaints are actually resolved now. But I still have a lingering bad feeling... After playing a series of M
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by thirstywhimbrel 12y ago
> This article therefore advocates for setting "intellectual property" controls too far towards the owner/firm's favor. I don't think that's an accurate read of the article. If you make it to the last paragr
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by thirstywhimbrel 13y ago
> there is no 'day job' that musicians can work "Fronting a band that gets airplay" is a narrow version of working musicians do. Those just happen to be the most prominent and famous musicians in the US right now, but
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by thirstywhimbrel 13y ago
| I wonder if new insurance files will have any influence on the actions of their enemies. Even without that, no effect. Blackmailing a bureaucracy... it's not like dealing with a single rational actor. That's the Hollywood versio