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Renewable power is cheap because it also receives massive government handouts in the form of tax credits.

I would, and I have.

Going 100,000 miles is not the same thing as lasting "forever," which is around 250,000 miles in my opinion.

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 graph that shows that a year after the war started, the developer removed a feature the author liked.

Just because someone prefers it over being homeless or commuting 90 minutes each way doesn't mean they like it

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 think water intensity should be taken into account when determining export policies. Every time I read an article about water usage in an industry, the biggest or one of the biggest users ends up being the export market. We're shipping one of our most precious resources away.

They mostly grow hay. A large portion of the hay is exported to other countries.

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 to terms with the fact that the desert isn't the best place to farm. People in America should have priority over exporting hay to other countries.

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. Quality and length are obviously not the same thing, but I can't imagine any online news outlet publishing something like that now.

1: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/10/os-x-10-10/

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 indicate that inflation is less than it actually is.

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?

It stands for “The Former Guy.” Some people won’t say Trump’s name.

It stands for “The Former Guy.” Some people won’t say Trump’s name.

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.”

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.

Community seasons 1-3 were effectively “trope driven development.”

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.

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 venture between the steel company EVRAZ and the energy giant BP, as well as the utility giant Xcel Energy, which will provide the steel mill with fixed electricity rates through 2041. BP and Xcel wouldn’t exactly be my top choices to control the energy of the future, what with both companies’ histories of spewing out carbon emissions, greenwashing their polluting business plans, and screwing over workers. I personally don’t think these kinds of companies should get to make big profits on solar power or use it to paper over their destructive legacies. But hey, maybe that’s just me!

The alternative to this is what? Complete newcomers to the industry attempting to execute multi-million or -billion dollar projects? Anyone in an existing carbon-intensive industry is going to have a "climate unfriendly" reputation because they operate in a "climate unfriendly" industry. Attempting to block existing players in the industry from decarbonizing seems counterproductive.

The only coin mentioned by name is XRP.

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 everything they wanted.

Probably. I bet maintaining it is someone's personal hell.

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/flight/airlines/a42887614/u...

I wasn't aware this was part of a larger pattern of assaults on politicians in the US. Link?

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.

I do not think it is a bad example though. Breaking into someone's house and assaulting them with a hammer is already illegal.

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 speech on the facts of reality.

If the loved one of a politician was severely injured because of a drunk driver should alcohol be banned? What if the person injured isn't related to a politician?

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://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-cryptocurrency-market-...

You can literally just not watch it.

Always was.

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 voluntarily tip them if they do a good job. 90% of the tip goes to network processing fees, but that's actually a feature!

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