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Your whataboutism still proves that not all plastics degrade to microplastics, doesn't it? There is also a difference between the bulk of some material becoming something else and traces of some side product being emitted, not to menti
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By what kind of logic does one get from "some of the contamination may have come from ships grinding against the ice. [...] some may have come off wind turbines." to "do we need so much plastic packaging?"
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Not true. Plastic that is collected and incinerated degrades to carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen. You can't collect used cosmetics.
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This perspective is invalid in large parts of the world. The most important macro nutrients are sugar and fat, the very thing americans (and only americans) call "empty calories". In most places, more calories is good . Meetin
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Or the plants grow faster and contain exactly the same "nutrients" "diluted" in more starch. (The scare quotes are there because large parts of the world need those so-called empty calories even more than the vitamins.)
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This is such a great idea, it got standardized as a CBOR extension: http://cbor.schmorp.de/stringref
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How much of the data transmitted or stored on any given system is actually text, as opposed to images, audio, video, machine code, application specific random stuff? Of the little bit of text, how much is HTML, CSS, JSON, any programming l
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The USSR manufactured a number of RTGs using Sr-90. Sr-90 is roughly as energetic as Pu-238, but requires more shielding. It has the advantage that it doesn't need to be manufactured, because it is one of the more abundant fission pr
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> Do you know how old Perl is? Same age as Haskell.
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No. Judge should be jailed. It's assault, plain and simple.
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Why do they keep calling the pain belt a stun belt?
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Landfill it, it's harmless. And since it's only ash that messes up the salt, the mass is tiny compared to the input. Plastics produce virtually no ash. Salt disposal could be a problem if it contains heavy metals, or if it conta
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> subtracting nutrients Could you name at least one?
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You're wrong. Calories are a measure of physiologically usable energy and already take extraction efficiency into account. Even if you had a point, which you don't, the first law of thermodynamics would still apply, and leptin w
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Which nutrient is missing?
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How is the cheeseburger unhealthy?
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The article doesn't attribute anything to anything, even its recommendations make no sense, like planting legumes instead of soybeans... That's terrible reporting, possibly worse than useless. That said, the first law of thermody
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> GM crop is by definition commercial crop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice
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The Melanesians didn't pass anything on, that's chronologically impossible. They are the descendants of a migration wave out of Africa, through Asia, to Australia. If some interbreeding with the Denisovan (there is only one!) ha
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> We have evidence that 2-4% of the entire modern genome of non-Africans came in from Neanderthals The actual evidence is pretty weak (Pattersons D-statistic is a rather crude method), and crucially doesn't infer a direction. It&#x
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I think, Dr. Teixera simply misspoke. Neanderthals have never been considered a distinct species from humans, nor should they, because humans and Neanderthals probably had fertile offspring. The moment you talk about extinct species, the t
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You don't need distinct races or even a precise definition of the term to find traces of migrations in the genome. If you start with a population[ ], partially isolate it into two subgroups, then mix them again after a while, you can
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You misunderstand. The purpose of taxation is to take away the ill-gotten gains of the rich and redistribute them to the oppressed poor. Because, you see, all humans are equal, so if one is richer than another, he must have become rich by
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This is strangely specific. Is it still okay to dehumanize people afflicted with other kinds of mental illnesses?
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How do you spill a ceramic?! It's a heavy solid, not a liquid!
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> An isotope that lives 100k years is incredibly radioactive! - these isotopes can produce children that are very short lived Oh really? Which isotope among the fission products would that be?
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Because the licensing cost is the same per reactor, regardless of its power.
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> Why not get that at the source? Because building a power plant next to a power plant so the power plant can turn the waste of the power plant back into fuel for the power plant is lunacy. It's easier and cleaner to simply turn th
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When you said "it would take decades", it sounded like you were making a technical argument. Now that you clarified that the only real obstacle is "lack of political will", we can sort of agree. > Absolutely nobody h
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Why would it take decades? Not stopping the still operating PWRs takes no time. Restarting the stopped BWRs that haven't been dismantled takes weeks. Building a reactor takes four years, provided you buy it from the Russians, Korean

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