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I do the same living just down the highway in Richmond.

It's easy because I live in an old 1920s apartment with thick brick walls, covered porches, and ceiling fans. The walls insulate most of the heat, the shade over the front and rear windows makes light less extreme, and the fans keep air moving which helps with humidity.

Buildings should be designed to fit their environment. My electricity bill would be much higher if I lived in a modern prefabricated cube with thin plywood walls and nothing hanging over the windows.

This is why we need a train system with funding parity to the highway and airport systems. There should be trains leaving constantly, at most every 10 minutes, from Chicago to the east, and frequent, semihourly, trains between neighboring cities along the way.

Even if the author could rent a car, having to drive 300 miles is astounding waste of time and mental energy.

I'm still in awe for his two part documentary on athletes named "Bob". https://youtu.be/lvh6NLqKRfs

That's awful.

My suggestion: next year plant rows of sunflowers or corn just behind the fence line. They'll grow as tall as an elephant's eye.

> The areas that are more pleasant might be hard to replicate in a small space. You can't create a forest microclimate in a 1/4 acre yard

Yes you can! https://youtu.be/ng-VskDFPpM

It takes some work upfront to convert a lawn to a miniforest but it can be done.

Just imagine how wonderful suburbia could be if this was the norm and not the exception.

Edit: here's that same yard in early spring, where the fact that it's a normal suburban yard is more visible: https://youtu.be/CdthuPbn2uo . It's incredible how lush it is in the summer, you'd think it was miles away from civilization.

Maybe they mean they don't add ads before/during/between the videos, but leave in sponsored ads the creators put in the videos themselves.

Is there a better word for that? Is there a broadcasting term for the type of ads you'd see more in the '50s, ie. "This program brought to you by Lucky Strike! Hmmm, it's toasted!", where the ad is embedded into the show and not a separate block of 15, 30 second segments?

Ashes Ashes did a podcast on this: https://ashesashes.org/blog/episode-07-last-gasp

And a related episode on air pollution in general: https://ashesashes.org/blog/episode-38-dead-air

Let's say we pick spots in the desert to store all our trash. How we do we move all the trash from the population centers to the landfill? Fleets of trucks and railcars which emit tons of CO2 and would be better used elsewhere in the economy.

If we place landfills closer to population centers, then there is a much high opportunity cost for more productive uses for that land and greater care required for preparing the landfill so that contaminants don't leak into the water supply.

Either way, it would be better to reduce landfill space as much as possible.

More philosophically, we can't just keep living this "throw away lifestyle". There is a finite amount of land and resources. My generation is growing up facing a total climate collapse, and this way of thinking is the major reason why.

The U.S. is imposing sanctions on Venezuela, to the effect of millions of dollars a day lost. As part of the sanctions, the U.S. has also seized hundreds of millions of dollars of Venezuelan assets in foreign bank accounts. There is a direct cause and affect between U.S. policy and life in Venezuela.

At the very least, declare it all public domain, and provide BitTorrent links. Maybe something like Popcorn Time for PBS and other public domain works

The new design shows images from links on the page. It's faster for redditors to upvote an image on the page they find vaguely aggreeable than to click a link, wait for it load, decides if they like it, go back and upvote it. This eventually leads to all the top voted threads to be vaguely agreeable images, crowding out everything else.

Don't forget Sulla, who basically was king for a time, before abdicating to retire on his estate. He reigned while Julius Caesar was a youth, and spared his life while many of his family was sentenced to death.

Advertising. People buy large SUVs because of advertising, and American car companies advertise SUVs because they turn more of a profit with larger vehicles than smaller vehicles.

For those interested, the excellent History of Byzantium podcast[0] is covering the entire history of the empire, from the fall of the western empire, up to the sack of Constantinople. It gets pretty in-depth, with each episode covering a distinct event or topic, and stops every century to give a survey of what's going beyond the empire's borders and broad changes in the lives of its people and their culture.

0: https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/

Small shops are still a thing, but rising rents are as much to blame as Amazon for them closing their doors.

I'm not a writer, so I can't give advice for how, but for a great example, you should check out the novel The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. The protagonist is a young girl who finds a "magic" book that is part fairy tale, part computer science textbook. It seamlessly weaves in allegories for binary arithmetic, Turing machines, and programming.

I wish I could give a more detailed description, but it's been too many years since I read it and online summaries focus on other parts of the novel (there's a lot going on!).

Easy. Stop subsidizing fossil fuel exploration, extraction, and movement (ie. pipelines). Make carbon emissions expensive, and you'll see them go down.

Levy a revenue neutral carbon tax which anually redistributes to consumers the "average" tax per person.

Stop subsidizing suburban sprawl. Build more high density housing near mass transit. Walkable neighborhoods and such.

These are all obvious things we should have started decades ago.

Don't forget Red Hat! http://overpassfont.org/

What are some other corporate fonts?

>I do think parking lots are good candidates for construction, as doing so doesn't displace anyone

I have strong anecdotal evidence against that. In Richmond, VA, nearly the entire neighborhood of Monroe Ward was leveled to provide parking for skyscrapers downtown.

Or maybe find a better article source? Maybe a good local Dehli paper?

I'm a big fan of the guy, but did any of his ideas actually catch on in a big way? They seem to mostly be techno-historical curiosities.

Very cool! But it consistently crashes for me at the end of the third wave. I'm on Firefox.

Sometimes they do. And then they get replaced by another E-3 straight from tech school.

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201311/drone-uav-...

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The article is pretty explicit about it being as cheap to produce and more effective.

"iron sulfate, a readily available compound that steel foundries throw away by the tons."

"Fleming said iron sulfate in fertilizer adds iron and acidifies soil. “It does good things for soil health. It takes alkaline soil and makes it more neutral, closer to an ideal pH level,” he said. “The closer you get a neutral pH, the more crops grow. Crop yield would improve significantly.

“And iron-containing fertilizer added to the soil would be taken up in crops and help fight anemia and other iron deficiencies in people who eat them.”

The soil in Afghanistan is alkaline with a high pH, and could benefit from an ammonium nitrate/iron sulfate fertilizer, Fleming said. “What they use now, ammonium nitrate with calcium carbonate — which makes soil more alkaline — doesn’t make sense,” he said."

"But he said there are some ideas about how to get the non-detonable formula, which would not cost more to produce, into the marketplace. “We could give the formula to a neutral party and let them work with the Afghans, Pakistanis and others,” he said. “They could set up side-by-side demonstrations to see which fertilizer works better. Prove it to them gradually."