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I agree that distinctions are important. > The Chinese government demanded that all businesses censor content, but... To distinguish this further: > The Chinese government demanded…

> leachate control is nothing but a cost center to the people running a landfill A lot of these fixes are more expensive to fake to code than to just implement, and isolating sourc…

Important points to consider, I'm open to updating my views here. > You seem to doubt that governments made decisions based on facts, It's actually the reverse, I've become more sk…

Efficient leachate control is an interesting area, but there are various families of techniques to do it and methods for monitoring effectiveness that have emerged from the last se…

The first link is a "meta-analysis" where they only found three studies on point with wildly different methods that disagreed in their conclusions. One of the studies said the cost…

Landfills are tiny relative to usable land and are eventually just capped and turned into parks. Most of the popular fear about running out of landfill space can be traced back to …

Arguably China should have targeted purple states rather than red states. Most states that thrive on soybeans are unlikely to flip regardless of pressure. Edit: The EU might have h…

I think there are different counters that will resonate for different people: You can oppose banning/weakening encryption because you believe encryption is an irreplaceable tool fo…

> The bottom of the ocean would be far more habitable if we faced any type of extinction event. Yeah, space has a coolness factor, and there are things about the origin of the univ…

I think you're right, this is the best argument against. Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy[0] deals with this a great deal, the early scientists pretty quickly devolve into two c…

Did anyone actually read why these magazines were "highly ranked"? > the CIA actually thought that Levitas’s anti-Communism was too ferocious, unrelenting, and “conservative.” ... …

Funny, I was just reading an article about WIRED's startup of the week, Velocity, an app pushing for transactionless restaurants, kind of the same way Uber takes the payment step o…

Music lockers sort of terrify me. I know there've been lots of complaints about them before,[0] and I think most of the early complaints are actually resolved now. But I still have…

> This article therefore advocates for setting "intellectual property" controls too far towards the owner/firm's favor. I don't think that's an accurate read of the article. If you…

> there is no 'day job' that musicians can work "Fronting a band that gets airplay" is a narrow version of working musicians do. Those just happen to be the most prominent and famo…

| I wonder if new insurance files will have any influence on the actions of their enemies. Even without that, no effect. Blackmailing a bureaucracy... it's not like dealing with a …