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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
And the Fed says, "Hold my beer!"
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
I've heard about some efforts to regreen the desert by careful planting and geoforming. Anyone know anything about this? It would be cool if it could work, even partially.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
This is a solid point. I was at Mesa Verde, the national park with the cliff dwellings. Apparently the people who lived there just up and left, well before Columbus showed up on the other side of the continent. One theory is that the curren
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
My personal favorite is the short story "Night Rescue" from Bertrand Brinley's Mad Scientist Club books. http://madscientistsclub.com/books.html
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
There are many other sad stories like this. And this poor kid has started working for the Stanford Internet Observatory, one of the biggest censors of the Internet. It's sad that this is going on at an institution of higher learning.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Personally I'm a bit skeptical of this. Just right off the bat, it's easy to find research that shows how the Native Americans in California used wild fire to open up farming land. And there are the Native Americans who would driv
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Yes.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
IT just differently mortgaged. It's not a direct mortgage, but the company that's buying these had to raise the capital one way or another. And if the company didn't buy a house, they have the choice in investing it in someth
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Any many data centers won't have a price increase at all.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
We actually can't. Russia and in particular Stalin was also there. Russia absorbed more Polish acreage than the Germans. I'm happy to agree with the phrase, "Germany and Russia, acting together, started WWII."
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
It's not so much the chromebooks that won over education. It's the Google Docs workspace which is relatively simple for schools to use.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Hah. I came here to post the same thing. He's definitely a permabear. I like some of his insights, but in the past he and his circle of friends have rarely been right. (Of course when they were, they were really right.)
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Absolutely. Everyone in my office is pretty considerate, but all it takes is one pair of people in the bullpen and the quiet is gone. We all get to listen to the discussion. When I first joined, I learned a ton by eavesdropping. Now it just
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
I believe that Henry the Eighth was talking with some of the Muslim calliphates in Northern Africa around the time he broke from Rome. He could have gone Islamic but decided to set up his own church instead. Who knows how it would have work
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
The headline says this is about Silicon Valley, but most of the text seems devoted to bragging about India. Is this all because of one offhand remark made by one tech executive? To the original question: I would much rather have Silicon Val
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
One compromise is to hold the cash in US TIPs, i.e. inflation indexed bonds. There's a limit of how much you can buy each year and the interface is quite clunky, but these bonds should protect against inflation. (Note: inflation as mea
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
While it is true that many people have simple taxes, the philosophical shift is huge. It's just much better for the US citizen to be able to tell the government what he or she owes and then put the onus on the government to seek redres
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
A friend tells me that performance enhancing drug use is pretty common on the high amateur, almost pro level of bicycling. These are folks who are very good and obsessed with the sport, but not at the pro level. But there's also no tes
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Yes. Seriously. How many extra carbs do you burn to walk a mile? Those end up in the atmosphere as CO2. There's no free lunch, so to speak. Given that animals aren't super efficient already, I wouldn't be surprised to learn t
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Yes, I've seen some good articles about how just some basic terraforming can make a huge difference of how much ends up in the aquifer. A bit more could really help.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Are you so sure? How much CO2 does a human put out to walk a mile? As it is, I only compared them to other vehicles. It's not really fair to compare them to walking which is much slower and often impossible for the less than fit.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
I believe this was a plot point in one of the original stories about Paddington bear. Something about his fat finger.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
It's worth noting that the eScooters are one of the most efficient (and thus greenest) form of transportation around. The mass overhead is very low, especially compared to other devices like cars, mopeds and even bikes. This is definit
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Does this apply to my AWS machine with a misconfigured Docker container?
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
It's so depressing to watch things like this happen. We've voted on this topic twice in California, but all of the statistics suggest that the State University system is largely doing whatever it wants. The SAT tests have their pr
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
I quit it long ago. It has the worst aspects of social media crossed with the worst aspects of gossipy wine clubs.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
My impression is that USENET is particularly censorship resistant. I suppose that's an advantage-- until someone starts to spam it.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
One big difference is that DNA can identify siblings, uncles, aunts, grandparents etc. So even if I willfully allow the FBI to store my DNA, it could identify one of my relatives. It makes the decision much more complicated for society and
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
I've got a dishwasher, a clothes washer, a Roomba, etc. I would say we're already here.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
A smart woman would realize that every dollar spent on a diamond is a dollar that can't be spent on home improvements, cars, clothing etc.

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