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by webXL 11y ago
I'll take this comment and my comment score (which I admit is probably due to lack of eloquence) as evidence to support my claim. People really like their freedoms. Others', not so much.
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by webXL 11y ago
Too bad the electorate (whose opinions are primarily shaped by the government-friendly/hysteria-driven mass media) will dismiss him as an anti-american fringe kook, even though that label couldn't be further from the truth. Freedo
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by webXL 11y ago
> Despite all this scholarly work, each generation—from W.E.B. Du Bois to Robin Blackburn, from Eric Williams to Walter Johnson—seems condemned to have to prove the obvious anew: Slavery created the modern world, and the modern world’s d
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by webXL 11y ago
A soothing voice is just a great compliment for eye candy! Re: Bob Ross, I just have to share this: https://imgur.com/eIT3AnT
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by webXL 11y ago
Google found this: http://hirnsohle.de/test/fractalLab/ Edit: Looks like an older version, but still pretty fun to play with
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by webXL 11y ago
15% and 2.3% didn't really mean much to me without seeing the total composition (chart on page 3). Turns out operation is dominant source of electric vehicles' environmental impact. I guess the operational impact is primarily from
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by webXL 12y ago
Because it is government controlled mainly, and at each level (state, district, municipal) there are way too many squabbling parties that would need to agree. I recently listened to a great EconTalk ( http://www.econtalk.org/
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by webXL 12y ago
While I believe both are real risks, I also believe catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) is only certain for those who have something to gain from the immediate actions to combat it. Ice is melting, seas are rising, storms are g
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by webXL 12y ago
> And the country's economy relies on tourism and agriculture, not energy-sucking industries like manufacturing. As it relates to the topic, it should say "not electricity-sucking industries". This is an important point ho
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by webXL 12y ago
You end up with a really expensive solar panel. We already know the transparent panel is less efficient than traditional, so I doubt it would capture any energy that wasn't already being captured.
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by webXL 12y ago
I was just looking into a fake lawn for my next house, but you don't recoup the cost for 7 years. The builder has been putting in smaller lawns in the front, so we'll likely put a small one back and be smart about watering it (no
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by webXL 12y ago
I don't think we'll be able to desalinate all that water, but figuring out an affordable pumping solution to combat sea level rise would be worthwhile, nonetheless. It's a "pipe dream" (sorry) at this point, but who
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by webXL 12y ago
This is a non issue, provided that economic growth continues. That 10% of energy costs which desalination would add, we just choose to spend it on things not as vital. With economic growth, we just spend more and more of the new wealth on b
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by webXL 12y ago
> A publication one can consume in thirty seconds with the most important stuff If you don't allow the user to define "important", it's the same thing. You're just replacing the editors with random fact-checkers
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by webXL 12y ago
Market forces didn't handle those problems because either 1) there was no established market or 2) the problem was institutionalized by government (last 2). Cars and highways were novel. People wanted them more than they wanted to be s
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by webXL 12y ago
Again, they could only do that if they had monopolistic control of the market. That would be a symptom of problem 2.
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by webXL 12y ago
Your discrimination example is a straw man. Not applicable. I'm talking about the menu a restaurant puts together based on the deals and choice they get from suppliers. One supplier may undercut the other. The restaurant may sign a lon
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by webXL 12y ago
> ISPs trying to charge to (de)prioritize packets I'm still not getting it. Isn't this like saying restaurants are charging to provide more flavorful, healthier food? The cost burden may appear to fall on the suppliers in the I
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by webXL 12y ago
That commenter at PH could tell the original design took 20 minutes, and if you only have resources to allocate 20 minutes to a product page design, how good can the product be? I think there are more in this community would agree about the
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by webXL 12y ago
Bummer, but remote work should DOE and responsibilities, and everything else being equal, most hiring managers prefer the "pop-in" face to face updates.
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by webXL 12y ago
Cool idea, but I think this is just a fallback plan or hedge for the new gigafactory. If oil prices stay low, it hurts the demand for electric cars. If we get driverless cars and more efficient ride sharing, people will be less inclined to
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by webXL 12y ago
Just rename it Patriot ID and I'm sure people will come around :/ Seriously, if California is giving driver's licenses to whoever wants them (and who's 16 and can learn to drive), I don't see the harm sending out ce
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by webXL 12y ago
That shocked me as well. Doesn't exactly give you a warm fuzzy feeling about a major credit reporting agency's security measures. Do some of these companies just view these breaches/vulnerabilities as a joke?
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by webXL 12y ago
Both. By raising the cost (punishment * chance of getting caught), you prevent it. Sure, many of those who flaunt the law have to learn the hard way, but there's no question raising either or both of those inputs will reduce the overal
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by webXL 12y ago
Not sure what point you're trying to a make. If the market were controlled, wages would have increased? Or there's a problem with that $19B price tag?
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by webXL 12y ago
There's no magic bullet. As soon as your template references user specific (private) data, the caching advantage almost disappears, because each user requires their own cached rendering. You might as well cache it on the client and sav
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by webXL 12y ago
Devil's advocate: one man's cure is another's demise. The vast majority of people know how to regulate their consumption of those not-so-bad things, but regulating their consumption of healing technology without understanding
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by webXL 12y ago
I find "stupid extremes" in the realm of culture much easier to tolerate than those trying to control our behavior through violence. What you label "deliberate dick", most freedom loving people would label defiance.
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by webXL 12y ago
The analysis doesn't claim that they're comparing integers, just the fact that it appears that you can only activate once you're very close to 31km/h or higher. It seems to contradict the manual, and therefore might be a
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by webXL 12y ago
There is only one justification, and it does happen to be the ticking time bomb scenario, only when you've exhausted all other (effective) investigation methods . But that's so rare that if it ever did happen in human history, th

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