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I think hammer-erasing is pretty effective. If you hit the case hard enough then the platters will break. If you hit a solid-state drive with a hammer it will break too. Nobody is going to read a physically broken drive, imho - whether or not it is …

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/britains-spy-agency-delivers-a-scathing-assessment-of-the-security-risks-posed-by-huawei-to-the-countrys-telecom-networks/2019/03/27/ab16d7d2-50fd-11e9-8d28-f5149e5a2fda_story.html TLDR = …

soybeans DO fix nitrogen, converting atmospheric nitrogen to a form the plant can use for growth. They don't generally fix enough nitrogen to meet all the plant's needs, so soybeans use some soil nitrogen as well, but commercial soybean crops are …

When my wife and I were traveling on a sailboat a decade ago, we spent some time in Cartagena, Colombia. We were in a supermarket there stocking up the boat for the next few months over in Panama, and my wife asked a young lady working at the store …

That "refrigerant management" item is pretty interesting. It is number one because very many halogenated refrigerants have greenhouse warming potentials on the order of TEN THOUSAND times greater than carbon dioxide. Release the content of a …

having lived on a tropical farm and spent much of each day in a wet-dry forest ecosystem for the last decade - I am struck by the beauty of the thousand different miraculously adapted species that cohabit the farm. I see their numbers wax and wane …

The chemistry of carbon dioxide and ocean water is, without writing a bunch of chemical formulas, something like this: carbon dioxide and water combine to form carbonic acid (H2CO3). It is a weak acid so it doesn't make the ocean super corrosive or …

I live off grid, that is to say I do not use grid-supplied electricity or water. I collect rainwater (so the utility doesn't have to pump it to me way up on a mountain), and I have solar panels and batteries for my electrical needs. I grow some of …

Yeah, I don't understand why the OP limits the choice to Chrome, Win and Apple. A few years ago I had a local school in the Caribbean to set up with some donated computers. They all needed to look alike to the students and I wanted some free …

The only time I look at my car is when I am finding it in a parking lot. I think the interior experience is a lot more important than the exterior - seat comfort, controls ergonomics, quietness, ease-of-cleaning, and ride smoothness. I have not …

. . . well, it all came back as soon as I starting bitching about it! That is SERVICE!!

I see emojis and user names on the various topics in my feed but there is no text and no space where text would be (I mean, it is way too light and I can hardly read it, but it used to be there). All I see is people laughing or pondering other …

I joined a great community - Off grid Living, and eventually became a moderator there. That led to a moderation job with Artificial Intelligence community. Both communities were venues for some fascinating conversations that have shifted my …

When you say that we should "fund clean energy", who will be the arbiter of which technologies to fund? If we make the decision governmental, we know from experience that this tends to lock us into a conservative approach. For example, consider the …

What is the logic of providing credits at all? Why not just tax emissions and let the market sort out which economic activities are most favored? I think credits would create a kind of shelter for some unfavorable economic activities. Consider: I …

sounds great; I will try to change it

A recent fork from "Where did the G+ Influencers go?" led to discussion of carbon tax. If one understands that greenhouse effect gases like carbon dioxide are increasing due to human activity, and that many economists believe capitalism is the most …

taxes are two-faceted: they act as a deterrent when imposed and an incentive when the money is spent. There is no law that the thing deterred must bear any relationship to the thing incentivized. So a carbon tax could be used to pay for an …

Lol - well taxes are not a joy, but they are necessary sometimes. Yes, I want everyone to be taxed for their carbon footprint. The taxing itself is necessary to shift demand into lower carbon ways of living. You bet if the price of fuel suddenly …

You are often correct about social media being inane, but I find it very useful to kick around new ideas in off-grid living, dealing with climate change, and puzzling out the disturbing conclusions of modern physics. These are each, in their way …

It could be that some of us have, with great effort and deep reflection over many years, expelled our darker demons and purged much of what was ugly in our younger selves. It is of course an ongoing process throughout a lifetime, but don't eschew …

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https://medium.com/@cade.johnson.iii/carbon-ddf646ca7921 This essay I posted on Medium explores the idea of carbon-dioxide-equivalence which seems to be confusing to many. I noticed in the process of researching that "carbon dioxide" is a …

My wife and I each have a Kindle Fire (HD 8) and they get steady use. We both use them as ebook readers and I play some (stupid) games on them. Most days I also read the Washington Post via their app. For anything that requires typing or otherwise …