sverige

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by sverige 7y ago
I predict the vast majority of people will never again understand that new decades, centuries, and millenia begin on January 1st of years ending in '1' and not '0' because there never was a Year 0. Everyone knew that 50
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by sverige 7y ago
Can't wait to see what happens when systemd-homed becomes entrenched across all distros. What's left after that? Systemd-gccd?
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by sverige 7y ago
The yield increases have mainly come from two sources: increased use of chemicals for pest control and fertilizer, and genetic engineering. Both of those are problematic, with consequences only now slowly dawning on most people, and heavy r
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by sverige 7y ago
So all the available land suitable for wind turbines has been used? There's no more capacity?
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by sverige 7y ago
Have you invited the wind farmers to put a turbine on your acreage?
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by sverige 7y ago
When you do the research, you discover that wind is not the panacea it has been portrayed to be. Building and placing turbines is not carbon neutral, the cleanup costs of decommissioned turbines are completely ignored because they are 40 ye
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by sverige 7y ago
Why can't we build them nearer to the population centers with high energy demands, then? Why not build them on vacant land near big cities? There is a lot of prime wind farms land on the hills east and southwest and northwest of the Ba
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by sverige 7y ago
I grew up in Iowa. I inherited 160 acres of prime farmland from my grandparents and parents. I actively participated in the successful lobbying of the county commissioners in the county where my property is located to change the offset rule
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by sverige 7y ago
Do you think that the accountants at Google, Apple, et al. have failed to foresee this sort of pushback? I personally don't doubt they've been planning alternative tax-avoidance scenarios for years. That would include lobbying oth
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by sverige 7y ago
Each turbine consumes a minimum of one acre of farmland, and should be offset by at least a half mile from any homes. The problem there is that there are often homes every mile in rural Iowa.
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by sverige 7y ago
Iowa is a terrible place to build wind farms since it still has some of the most valuable soil on the planet. Better to build these things on land with steady wind, less agricultural value and nearer big population centers, such as Wyoming
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by sverige 7y ago
That initial 'if' is extremely unlikely. There are hundreds of jurisdictions that would love to be persuaded to pass favorable laws.
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by sverige 7y ago
I just gave up on discord last night. Third or fourth time I came across a link to what sounded like an interesting server, then couldn't log in with existing credentials. I want to like it and use it, but frankly it's very tireso
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by sverige 7y ago
This is a welcome development. ProtonMail has worked well for me. Now if I could only find a way to make a Pixel phone accept that email address instead of one of my several one-off fake name gmail addresses that I use for such things.
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by sverige 7y ago
Now, now, don't get too frisky there or these same people might get the idea to uninstall the spyware put on their phones by the manufacturer, the carrier, the OS provider, and the app devs. Then where would we end up? [/s]
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by sverige 7y ago
OK, yes, but it's still the rhythm of the flashes that are being interpreted, not _ .... .. ... Plus, I am willing to bet that far more messages using Morse are sent over radio than with lights.
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by sverige 7y ago
The best is G4FON's Morse Trainer, requires Windows, works on Wine. http://www.g4fon.net/ Edit: You'll have to navigate to the Morse Trainer link from the main page. Also, it's the best because it has knobs f
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by sverige 7y ago
Whose security? If Google can track everything I do online, that's not 'secure' in my book, so Chrome is out.
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by sverige 7y ago
The six sides of the three record album 'Sandinista!' had a quote from the movie Alien written in the runout, "IN SPACE ... NO ONE ... CAN ... HEAR ... YOU ... CLASH!" Not a program, but I remember being oddly satisfied
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by sverige 7y ago
Having spent a year homeless on the streets and sometimes on friends' couches, I would say 'Fuck you.' But that would be rude.
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by sverige 7y ago
With his Amazon warehouses, for most of his employees he's created the terrible future of poverty and misery that he allegedly dreams of saving humanity from with his space colonies. And his success isn't built on any innovation
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by sverige 7y ago
Interesting article. I thought Bezos was just another greedy, power-mad megalomaniac. That he's also a dewy-eyed Trekkie who rationalizes his greed with dreams of space colonization makes it even sillier. Who knew Gene Roddenberry was
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by sverige 7y ago
This is the lunch I grew up eating in the U.S. Personally, I much prefer it over all the crap most people eat for lunch. But then again, my family is Swedish, so no surprise I guess.
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by sverige 7y ago
I don't think the plaintiff's bar is going to allow standardized payouts on deaths or injuries. That would ruin their business model, and they have a lot of influence. The question will be whether the inevitable losses due to jury
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by sverige 7y ago
Re: 1. above, who do we sue when the autopilot kills someone? The owner of the vehicle? The manufacturer? The driver behind the wheel (if there is one and it's not the same as the owner)?
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by sverige 7y ago
"Things break at random for reasons you can't understand and the only way to fix it is to find terminal commands from discussion forums, type them in and hope for the best."
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The Fairfax Stone and West Virginia vs. Maryland(traveling219.com)
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by sverige 7y ago
> The goal (at first) is dealing slightly better with the average predictable situation than the average human driver. The average human driver is terrible at driving. The goal should be higher; i.e., to be slightly better than the top 1
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by sverige 7y ago
It's highly unlikely that a wealthy NYC bookstore owner who is married to Ron Wyden is also conservative.
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by sverige 7y ago
Fifteen years hasn't been enough of a chance?

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