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by dporter 1y ago
Renewable power is cheap because it also receives massive government handouts in the form of tax credits.
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by dporter 1y ago
I would, and I have.
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by dporter 2y ago
Going 100,000 miles is not the same thing as lasting "forever," which is around 250,000 miles in my opinion.
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by dporter 3y ago
Is the author's implication that the developer took the project in a different direction because of the war? I don't understand what the connection is between "major geopolitical events" and the library. It's just a
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by dporter 3y ago
Just because someone prefers it over being homeless or commuting 90 minutes each way doesn't mean they like it
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by dporter 3y ago
The article states that 50% of hay grown in Southern California is exported to China, and another 10% is exported to Saudi Arabia. If American meat consumption decreases, the portion of hay that gets exported will likely just increase. I th
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by dporter 3y ago
They mostly grow hay. A large portion of the hay is exported to other countries.
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by dporter 3y ago
Just one of the twenty families using more water than the entirety of Southern Nevada, including Las Vegas, to grow mainly hay is absurd. At some point the fact that the irrigation district has one of the oldest water contracts has to come
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by dporter 3y ago
Your comment made me nostalgic so I went to John Siracusa's last macOS review from 2014 (10.10 Yosemite)[1]. Copied and pasted into Microsoft Word, it is 84 pages long, almost 27,000 words, and averages about one image per page. Qualit
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by dporter 3y ago
Spending habits are mitigated by inflation though. For example, I buy significantly less beef than I did five years ago because it is now too expensive. Putting less weight on beef prices because of the reduction in consumption would indica
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by dporter 3y ago
Can you change the password to something unrelated, but are unable to change it to the same? Seems like they might not be salting their passwords?
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by dporter 3y ago
It stands for “The Former Guy.” Some people won’t say Trump’s name.
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by dporter 3y ago
It stands for “The Former Guy.” Some people won’t say Trump’s name.
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by dporter 3y ago
At least a few years ago, most of Instagram’s server side code was in Python. Python may be slower than C++, but it’s not about raw speed it’s about being “fast enough.”
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by dporter 3y ago
The fact that it is more popular to have children over the age of 35 doesn't change the medical realities of it. Anecdotal, but I know more couples with fertility issues than couples who have successfully had a healthy child.
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by dporter 3y ago
Community seasons 1-3 were effectively “trope driven development.”
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by dporter 3y ago
Imagine paying to upvote content as a consumer. I can see this being popular with brands that are already paying for engagement, but that’s just going to result in the same media landscape we’re already in.
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by dporter 3y ago
The last paragraph of this article sums up a trend I keep seeing in this industry I don't like: > But while decarbonizing heavy industry is a good thing, the folks behind this project are not my favorites. Lightsource BP is a joint
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by dporter 3y ago
The only coin mentioned by name is XRP.
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by dporter 3y ago
The way I read it, the only reason Reddit didn't hand over the information on the other users was that the comments didn't specifically mention RCN. If all the users had mentioned RCN, it seems like Reddit would have handed them e
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by dporter 3y ago
Probably. I bet maintaining it is someone's personal hell.
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by dporter 4y ago
> How common is it for a plane to fall 4,000 feet in seconds? It wasn't 4,000 feet, but last month a United Airlines flight leaving Hawaii dropped 1,425 feet shortly after takeoff: https://www.popularmechanics.com/fl
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by dporter 4y ago
I wasn't aware this was part of a larger pattern of assaults on politicians in the US. Link?
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by dporter 4y ago
Breaking into someone's house and assaulting them with a hammer is already illegal. This is also an isolated incident and not a pattern of behavior.
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by dporter 4y ago
I do not think it is a bad example though. Breaking into someone's house and assaulting them with a hammer is already illegal.
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by dporter 4y ago
> On a third hand, the loved one of a politician was severely injured because of someone who believes the incorrect speech of influential figures and I desperately do not want further injury or violence to occur spurned by incorrect spee
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by dporter 4y ago
Unlikely. Blackrock has $10 trillion in assets under management [1], while the entire crypto market is worth $1.78 trillion. [1] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/1/14/blackrock-hits-a... [2] https
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by dporter 4y ago
You can literally just not watch it.
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by dporter 5y ago
Always was.
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by dporter 5y ago
> Who's going to clean up shit off the sidewalk and who will they work for? The janitorial DAO? Simple! The janitor will be a willing market participant who wears a visible QR code with their wallet address, and passers by can volun

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