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by wumpus 5y ago
This is not quite up there with "won't someone think about the children!!!!", but still, it's sad. Fortunately, almost all of the websites I visit with my anonymized browser aren't places that I wish to attempt to p
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by wumpus 5y ago
Electric power from the grid comes in only a couple of ways, but there are a ton of different kinds of satellite communications: broadband in several bands, narrowband in a billion bands, satellites that talk to low power devices, satellite
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by wumpus 5y ago
You can use satellites in many ways without realizing it. Examples: * Rural cell towers that use satellite backhaul * Airplane wifi over the ocean * Newscasts which use video uploaded via satellite, from places like Afganistan
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by wumpus 5y ago
> In fact, if you replaced tax-funded model with, say, a markup on each receiver, GPS isn't technically designed to do that, the open signal is open. And if you did it, the cost of a receiver would go up because it would have to be
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by wumpus 5y ago
> (ask a cow to burp less!?) Are you aware of research about reducing methane by feeding cows a small amount of seaweed? I'm guessing no.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Using words like "ignorant" and "hypocritical" shows an attitude problem.
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Moldova has a "frozen conflict" where Russia is holding a fair fraction of their territory hostage. It's less bad than Ukraine, but still a problem.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Funny thing, I waited a little and then added some new, great emacs implementations of everything people were saying was so great about VSCode.
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by wumpus 5y ago
> But Linux is hard to manage for corporations especially when people use different distros. Last time I set up a startup, our developers all worked in the same environment as our servers.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Why don't you use an editor which has nothing to do with Microsoft? "generally fine" is not a good reason to be involved with a predatory company.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Boeing has huge civilian aircraft sales to China, that's also leverage. The focus on SpaceX and only SpaceX gives you a clue as to where this "issue" came from.
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by wumpus 5y ago
How much money do you want them to spend to do it your way, instead of doing what's needed to maximize science?
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by wumpus 5y ago
Actually I work in academia, too. You can find a lot of people who work in academia who find Stage of Fear (in particular) to be a thinly-veiled attempt to smear the entire climate science community. Because everyone is in lust with grant m
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by wumpus 5y ago
1/2 of calories in US beef comes from corn at feedlots.
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by wumpus 5y ago
You're talking about alfalfa, but, 1/2 of the meat in a cow comes from corn at the feedlot.
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I wouldn't assume that -- one of my roommates in grad school was a nurse from China who was older because her education had been interrupted by the Cultural Revolution, and she was the biggest beef fan I've ever met.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Weird, does this apply to EV's, too?
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by wumpus 5y ago
How many good discussions have you had after calling the other person's position irrational?
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by wumpus 5y ago
It wasn't an insult? Funny, I thought it was the same as calling someone a hypocrite. Indeed, it's fair game to insult other people. Sadly, it's prohibited by the rules of this forum. Disagree with them? Great. Accuse them of
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by wumpus 5y ago
Cool. I wonder how you think calling people names advances a civil discussion? Good that you're open-minded on the topic.
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by wumpus 5y ago
> virtue-signaling greens Fun how insulting people is OK these days.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Alternately, you could consider all of the people who don't think nuclear is the solution to climate change. Are they irrational?
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by wumpus 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that feedlot studies say that the usual situation in the US is that 1/2 of beef calories come from a 10:1 ratio of human edible calories. So sure, go for 100%-grass-and-not-human-edible-food-fed beef, but that&#x27
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by wumpus 5y ago
I suppose you could grasp at that straw, but the reality is that grain farms always use diesel and electricity, not just "heavy, oil burning equipment", no matter how much you might think they don't, and that's multiplie
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by wumpus 5y ago
Michael Crichton, the author who has researchers overwhelmed with lust for research grants as the evil people in his novels.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Global cooling was a specific reference to cooling caused by particles emitted in areas with no air pollution laws. Oddly enough, it faded away when standards were raised.
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by wumpus 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that a carbon tax was never considered in the Middle Ages.
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by wumpus 5y ago
> When you grow plants, you take carbon out of the atmosphere. When you eat it, you release it back into the atmosphere. So the electricity and diesel that are involved in growing plants come from the atmosphere? That's new to me.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Most places that grow feed corn could also grow human-edible corn. Remember that I'm talking about feedlots for beef.
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Yes, I've visited several dozen countries, and I assure you that the practice of using feedlots has spread to most developed countries, and is being spread to the less developed world as a way to increase incomes. Nice insult, btw. I h

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