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> Because they lobby against advancement of renewable energy? Almost the opposite, look up the "solar not nuclear" campaign by oil heat institute. > More likely because others lobb…

> Nowadays computers are almost never shared. I find it ironic that Google TV still does not have this feature, it is the one "computer" that people probably still share regularly.…

Same here, I have them set as my charity through Amazon smile and humble bundle

It's the exact same issue with nuclear power vs fossil fuels.

But if you want to live like someone from 30 years ago, you would need to work 100 hours/week. I don't think I'll ever be able to afford a home even half as good as the one I grew …

Yep, relevant discussion if you haven't seen it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37446790 Here's hoping I get to be one of those people who can relocate from Toronto next.

Yep, for me Plex is the solution that "just works". I eventually got annoyed that my 4 subscriptions costing $80/month only having 2-4 of the shows I wanted to watch every month, w…

I agree with not trying to over penalize low income people in the absence of damage, but I think the other purpose is to act as a sort of insurance for the ones that were unlucky w…

Exactly, landlords will be working 0.5 days and renters will be working 5-6 days. So I guess they were actually right if they meant 3.5 days on average. I rent a very basic one bed…

> 2.3 cents The exaggeration isn't even necessary, this is like a $1 fine for someone who makes $100k/yr and $30k on hand. I've had parking tickets which cost more for things which…

> Comparatively, immigrants don’t have the purchasing power to compete What makes you say that? As someone who's currently dating a Chinese immigrant I have been made aware of an e…

I've been on Google phones since the first nexus, with the exception of a single Samsung before swearing them off due to bloatware and awful performance degradation, despite being …

don't forget about household debt exceeding GDP, with the housing market just being a ponzi scheme held up by a combination of foreign investors, immigrants, and a lack of new cons…

This is also how I interpreted it, which I take it is probably incorrect and would like to know why.

I find it perplexing that some people can accept the 2-million-year recovery time for coral reefs, yet outraged due to Chernobyl's 24,110-year recovery [1]. If we had switched to n…

I couldn't find anything for Greenpeace, but I did find Friends of the Earth (which like Greenpeace, also split from Sierra Club), was split off "because of the [Sierra Club's] pos…

It's a distraction from the real problem by playing on people's fears in a way they can better understand. I see some parallels with how the fear of nuclear power was used as a dis…

> Either branch name is a fine choice. It just completely doesn't matter and pretending that it has any positive impact or meaningful change on the racism and discrimination faced …

Having supportive parents is a privilege I wish I had.

Exactly, and the reason why they're cheaper now is because it's easier to dump their externalities on developing countries with lax environmental policy, whereas nuclear has unreas…

I agree, and personally found it upsetting once when someone who was from a relatively well off family tried shaming me for using the term slave in my code. I'm of Ukrainian descen…

> It's xkcd's, all the way down. Forgot your link [1] [1] https://xkcd.com/1416/

Not sure if you'll see this, but I stand corrected, just received a test alert on my new pixel 7 despite having those turned off. I used to not receive those (or they were at least…

They're also very distracting while driving, especially if you're relying on maps since they cover the entire screen.

I wonder then if it's an error on the providers side? Because I had Extreme and Severe on, AMBER and Test off, and Vibration On (under alert preferences for wireless emergency aler…