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by plankers 1y ago
modeling the heat transfer modes in Enceladus' icy shell that rests above its liquid water ocean. previous modeling has assumed that all heat transfer is conductive, but using dynamical simulations i've shown that under certain co
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by plankers 1y ago
Trotting this out again because somehow it hasn't completely saturated the internet yet: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" --Upton Sinclair
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by plankers 2y ago
The U.S. before antitrust laws existed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Steel_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_
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by plankers 4y ago
i procrastinated on my bachelor's thesis for ~5 years. the school ended up changing the graduation requirements before i finished it. never underestimate the power of stubbornness.
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by plankers 4y ago
maybe, just maybe, having friction in logging into web services is a good thing. i, for one, am not a fan of the tendency for every web service to require an account in the first place. making it easier for people to log in to these unneces
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by plankers 4y ago
On public roads with other people who haven't consented to testing anything, no less.
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by plankers 4y ago
So I guess this means Volvos will be... crashing... less?
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Swift Financial-Messaging System Pilots Blockchain Project(bloomberg.com)
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by plankers 4y ago
sounds like the devs over at SAP need to unionize if they want to stop pushing user-unfriendly software
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by plankers 4y ago
enforcement would probably happen at the level of the power utility. large mining operations have agreements with utilities to buy power at wholesale prices, the utilities know what the power is being used for the real beneficiaries of this
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by plankers 4y ago
coincidentally, i'm sure the rent freeze has had a positive effect on your ability to pay your bills without stress
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by plankers 4y ago
a proper marxist critique of Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" hypothesis: Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177&#x
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by plankers 4y ago
pretty sure it's just HN being HN
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by plankers 4y ago
right, it's the fault of regulators that every major industry has come do be dominated by a small handful of conglomerates that survive by mimicking each other and consuming every smaller challenger that might one day, through the powe
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by plankers 4y ago
it would be run by a publicly-funded consortium of doctors, social scientists, and public health experts with no mandate to earn a profit, for one.
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by plankers 4y ago
Good. The only way we're going to get these selfish Americans to sacrifice anything is if we force them.
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by plankers 4y ago
agriculture provides me with food to eat. lawns do not. i would rather have food to eat than useless patches of grass.
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by plankers 4y ago
twitter is interested in making money. there's far more money to be made pandering to governments than in pandering to dissidents. the content moderation policies are just extra steps in justifying that stance.
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by plankers 4y ago
Interesting that I haven't seen any discussion of the housing monopolies that were castigated in that study, given how vigorous discussion was on that topic when that study was posted here. The study largely blames HUD and builders uni
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by plankers 4y ago
Pay teachers more and more people will teach. On a website so dedicated to discussion of free market principles, the amount of rationalization people put themselves through to avoid this simple conclusion is both funny and tragic.
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by plankers 4y ago
i can only sleep on my side. you get used to tucking your chin in as is described in the article pretty quickly
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by plankers 4y ago
been sleeping without a pillow since college. my neck problems disappeared immediately when i made the switch. there are so many unexamined habits in our culture. a lot of defaulting to short-term comfort without considering what the long-t
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by plankers 4y ago
i don't know what to call uncontrollable positive feedback loops in the global temperature if not a "collapse"
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by plankers 4y ago
excuse me, what? they got their housing under control just as soon as they were able to modernize their agriculture-based economy into a modern industrial workforce in less than 50 years https://www.statista.com/statistics&#
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by plankers 4y ago
you didn't even hit the core dependency: a capitalist operating system which inherently directs capital to a small pool of people
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by plankers 4y ago
Seems humanity is headed towards Asimov's Caves of Steel anyway due to climate collapse, so you'll get your wish.
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by plankers 4y ago
tell that to the legacy of margaret thatcher and "there is no alternative"
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by plankers 4y ago
Lemmy is looking up on us and smiling in eager anticipation
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by plankers 4y ago
maybe the millenia old concept that's been culturally relevant enough to stay in our lexicon all that time is a better explanation than pop psychology, yeah. for all the miracles of modern social science and statistics, the ancients&#x
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by plankers 4y ago
environmental stability

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