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Why do you want to buy the land? Raise the money for seedling, get volunteers/robots to plant them. Pay people to maintain trees on land (which should require 0 effort). You can come up with some…

Source? That sound very unlikely, unless we are talking about CO2 only. But then keep in mind the total CO2 emissions. Coal needs more workers, more machines and more transportation.

> Nothing lasts forever South park is still funny. Last season was great (not sure about the current one)

I guess China wasn't an option?

Unless you want to send a message, not just kill someone. Similar to Skripal.

As other commenter pointed out, we don't have enough information to judge the situation beyond reasonable doubt. MBS was selling himself as a reformer and everybody deserves a benefit of a doubt.…

It seems it exists p much everywhere in Europe, but I always understand it differently than the article implies. It's better to stay silent sometimes than to say something, because it can cause a…

> Europe is heavily subsidizing its agriculture USA as well, but there is a good reason for it. It's a strategic. You are 9 meals away from a revolution. Other subsidies are for strategic purp…

And this is a bad article as well > The company is massively outselling its competitors in North America How can you compare Tesla models to BMW 7? It should be compared to BMW5. What is more, SUVs…

yes but in EU add 20% of VAT and a dozen of different taxes.

You could try getting a degree in one of the central European universities. Total cost for 3 years should be a fraction of what you need to pay in northern America. Getting a work permit is also ten t…

> Cars are also an area of concern to me. Or maybe Fiat should build a better quality cars? Lancia was a go to car for many governments, but BMW, Audi and Mercedes outcompeted them.

10$ for Saudis, 25$ for shell, 50$ from the Artic sea.

It is a political problem, but technology can change it dramatically. A cheap and safe energy source like Thorium-based nuclear power and self driving electric cars would tilt the table.

> Cloud/Data Centres emit around 2% of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Is it just from electricity or the total operation? What about manufacturing and hardware replacements/maintenance? Is sign…

- cycle to work, work from home, car pool in a plugin hybrid/electric car - improve the energy efficiency of your house (aircon, heating) - eat less beef - invest in solar panel/sun thermal …

Allow people to invest 50% of the amount they paid in taxes in a given year. It can only be done via online platform that does basic due diligence. They can only raise half of the money from a regular…

state-backed jobs with negative income tax/UBI/wealthfare. This is what gonna happen in Japan. USA? no idea, some kind of revolution. The biggest problem will be in countries like Bangladesh…

10x easier to just drive through the border or get a work visa than to apply for the asylum.

I doubt it's a problem for Austria, but it's trivial to solve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEmwJzQjwyw …

Everybody prefers to be a contractor p much everywhere in Europe. Lower taxes and insurance. I can claim back VAT and expanse my car, fuel, laptop etc.

Rain also helps with reducing the air pollution

you don't want to remove 100% since you want to charge the batteries somewhere. Also it maybe more economical to keep 1km of power lines after the station when the train is accelerating - main po…

The biggest problems with drones that are insolvable: - noise - air flow - airborne transport is not energy efficient - malfunctioning drone can cause a lot of damage I see drones as cheaper helicopte…

You have to normalise by purchasing power and take the quality of life into account. My 60k salary in Poland gives me similar quality of life like 100k in Denmark and 140k in SF.

- hard to use linters - hard to use formatters like yapf - can't use the shortcuts from my editor - easy to screw up the order of execution - harder to review, generate nice diff, fix merge confl…

Are you proposing we shouldn't be kind to people with mental issues?

When I was in school - 15 years ago - I remember reading that we will run of oil in 2030. Seems like a similar wrong estimate.

None, but it's political. Gov could step in and break Google, because it's a monopoly.