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by zahma 5y ago
With respects to climate, these wind passages are a terrific example of vernacular architecture [1]. We have a lot to learn from desert communities for contemporary building purposes ( -- not talking about Arcosanti and that idiocy). Anothe
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by zahma 5y ago
Bear in mind, everyone, that the Summary for Policymakers is very much a political document because it must be agreed on by the political representatives of each country.
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by zahma 5y ago
I wonder how much of that nitrate is in Hezbollah’s hands and therefore accessible to Iran? Might very well have had some of our own troops or allies killed by bombs made with the missing nitrate. Foreign aid payments have been shown to be
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by zahma 5y ago
I live in a dense city center where there is a severe shortage of space for dedicated infrastructure. As more people ride their bikes, the logical next step is to remove cars from the roads to ensure cyclists have ample space and cars can’t
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by zahma 5y ago
I’m really happy to see this here. I fully endorse this project. I came across it a couple years ago as a workshop at 3c. The goal is better transparency on pollution data . My city does collect some data but it’s not very detailed or l
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by zahma 5y ago
There is a package offer, but I believe it’s EU-based. Also, in the guide, the shopping list links are all directed to AliExpress. When I built my sensor a couple years ago, it didn’t take more than a couple weeks to get everything I needed
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by zahma 5y ago
It does make sense that a soldier didn’t know. On the other hand, the American military knew of Auschwitz and Birkenau, had the opportunity to bomb and incapacitate it, and didn’t apparently at the request of FDR to direct all munitions tow
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by zahma 5y ago
It’s tedious, but all conversations can be reviewed by size and manually deleted. Far from ideal, but not quite limited to automatic Apple tools.
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by zahma 6y ago
And the internet is a byproduct of the military industrial complex, so I guess we should all log off now. This op-ed speculates that the CIA has somehow compromised Signal by merely funding it. There's no there there, at least not with
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by zahma 6y ago
In my EU city, it is quite clear that these exploited workers are the major delivery service of food to the masses. The curfew means that even while I want to, I am not allowed to pick up pizza from the spot down the block from me because t
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by zahma 6y ago
Maybe this particular system doesn’t do it, but Bluetooth beacons can identify you in conjunction with other device identifiers. And those things are accurate to the cm. If I bring my phone out at all, I tend to turn my wifi and Bluetooth o
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China’s Army of Paid Internet Trolls Helped Censor the Coronavirus(propublica.org)
5 points by zahma 6y ago|1 comments
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by zahma 6y ago
True. I am definitely breaking out of my echo chamber (Cannery Row / For Whom the Bell Tolls) if I read a bunch of romantic fiction and Calvin and Hobbes comics. Those genres were the bulk of my suggestions, But I don't want to st
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by zahma 6y ago
You’re ignoring the knock-on effects of life during a pandemic. Vaccination is the only way to regain normalcy.
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by zahma 6y ago
Interview with a nation state hacker for TAO at NSA. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/darknet-diaries/id1296... I believe they described their toolbox as metasploit on steroids. Some other episodes of da
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by zahma 6y ago
Some other good comments already on changing and introducing new DNA to the world, trying to outsmart nature, and the agribusiness effort to lock farmers in to seeds. Two other things come to mind. First, biodiversity among crops is essenti
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by zahma 6y ago
Well this is ironic. I was just watching The Hunt for Red October in honor of Sean Connery.
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by zahma 6y ago
This is typical in Egypt. There are or have been dozens of “plans” —- most of them half-baked, to develop parts of the desert to reduce densification and centralization in Cairo. When I lived there, the joke was always about how these devel
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by zahma 6y ago
You're probably right. There must have been some activity that drew the attention of law enforcement. It is a de facto obligation for cafés to offer free internet, so it's surprising to see such a law enforced in Grenoble of all p
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by zahma 6y ago
Credit goes to this woman and the companies who give felons a second chance. This kind of news makes me a little less cynical.
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by zahma 6y ago
Liberal arts degrees aren’t for everyone, but I sure wish more people understood the teachings of history, sociology, philosophy, and the arts. It’s also telling that in this economy the jobs available to young people are increasingly conde
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by zahma 6y ago
The cost of 1GB doesn't seem to take into account the entrance to having a line in the first place. I might not pay more than 1€ a GB but I still have to pay 10€ to be on the network and I can't only buy 1GB, I have to buy 2, 10 o
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by zahma 6y ago
> I meant about wired Internet access. Running 10 wires to your house to have access to 10 ISPs is expensive and it's also a nightmare for the city. It is extremely wasteful because most people will only use one of them at the time.
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by zahma 6y ago
Plug for open-source air quality monitoring: https://sensor.community/en/ Build your own sensor for about 50-60 dollars. The community has a DIY guide. There used to be a guide that didn't require soldering, but t
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by zahma 6y ago
I'd greatly appreciate if any of you can explain how such a trade happened in layman's terms. Every time I try to look various vocab, I end up getting deeper into the glossary of hyperlinked words on investopedia and totally lose
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by zahma 6y ago
What are you on about? While I don't really disagree with what you wrote, this article and interview has nothing to do conspiracy theories and their propagation through social media.
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by zahma 6y ago
First, you should definitely listen to the full interview because they go into depth on the internet's effect on how we read and then conceptualize the information to make associations. These are the underpinnings of our analytic capab
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by zahma 6y ago
There’s also intergenerational change. Many older folks don’t care about the benefits of high speed internet and fiber. Add in resistance to change and that can create some startling traction against progress.
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by zahma 6y ago
Reddit has turned into a cesspool. I’m sure the majority of users are great, honest and open minded, but you can’t keep the internet outside the walled garden forever. And it only takes a handful of bad actors to ruin it for everyone. As fr
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by zahma 6y ago
That is outmoded. Free services begot personal data (i.e. behavioral surplus) that could be put into algorithms that allows marketing and advertisement firms to bet on our futures. This is truly valuable. Even if the marketing is only 1% mo

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