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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Pipes: bad. Trains: worse. Clean(er) energy generation and chemical manufacturing: mucho mucho better.
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
It seems you're not familiar with the history of US pipelines. It doesn't matter what theoretical technologies or regulations exist, because oil extraction industries get away with leaking hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil w
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Incentives (carrots) and enforcement (sticks) are the only things most big polluters will respect. And that will require strong political will, leadership and outreach relationships to accomplish, one region at a time.
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Actually, power lines aren't necessarily clean because they have significant losses, and would cause more emissions if they carried FF-generated electricity thousands of miles (losses as high as 60%). A better strategy is generating as
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Sorry but tablets will never replace laptops because laptop OSes are infinitely more flexible than tablet OSes. You just can't (at this point) squeeze out the same productivity doing any type of real engineering, development, 3D-modeli
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Given the advances in AI/ML, there oughta be a Harlequin romance novel generator.
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
I know some sane, elderly homeless people. They generally prefer ready-to-eat, non-refrigerated foods, not canned foods. 1. Canned foods are heavy. 2. Canned foods usually aren't very appetizing, especially the pantry and seasonal reje
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
What does race have to do with anything? Is this some sort of racist dog-whistle?
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
They didn't flip the cars, they stole them.
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
:/ Thinkpad T480 (T490 doesn't) has the ports, is light, durable, is user-serviceable and 10 hours of battery life with the bigger extended battery (which isn't very big). Great as a hackintosh. When other manufacturers blind
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
My grandmother received an antibiotic that made her virtually deaf (ototoxicity of an aminoglycoside).
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
IIRC c. auris is sometimes a culprit. And now that there's mycotic-resistant strains and very few antimycotic drug classes, it's not a good trend. We need more antimycotic drug classes.
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
There's problems and solutions that need policy and political will to implement: - consumer-sorted recycling is a BandAid virtue-signal and ineffective because it gets mixed up, under-sorted and contaminated - post-consumer waste-strea
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Dirt-based farms are antiquated and inefficiently use resources compared to fogbox and airponics. Healthy soil is great, if it's for grassland vegetation browsed by managed mega-herds.. otherwise, the trend (climate change and lack of
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After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles were stolen in one day(bloomberg.com)
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