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by Alpha3031 3y ago
According to 2019 EIA figures ( https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=48296 ), Natural gas plants in the US release about 43% the CO2 per unit energy of US coal plants. This is both because of higher energy per
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by Alpha3031 3y ago
Additionally, increased photosynthetic yield on some staple crops may not necessarily be the win that some people suggest it might be. While this is an area not yet very well studied, a number of papers have raised concerns regarding the nu
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by Alpha3031 3y ago
On longer time scales, in another century or two we could potentially deploy fusion at scale, depending on how that works out relative to space-based solar. In this one though, I'd agree the most effective way forward would be the one
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by Alpha3031 3y ago
One thing to note is that there has been a systematic divergence between the implicit GDP deflator and the CPI (this is noted, e.g., by a 2012 article in Slate by Yglesias[1]). More generally, inflation is always measured using a basket o
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Like CUPS or something?
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I'm not sure that there's consensus among neuroscientists and electrical engineers and what-have-yous (who are presumably the people doing the project) that the influence of quantum effects would be any more significant than they
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by Alpha3031 3y ago
> Do they? Have the resources to develop zero days? Of course they do. Like, even Iran, North Korea, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, etc have the resources required to either make their own zero days, pay someone unscrupulous for it or acquire them
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by Alpha3031 3y ago
> No, the US wrestles with these problems because we prefer to wrestle with them instead of sweeping them under the rug and hoping that "government" will somehow solve them without we the people having to get involved. There&#x
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by Alpha3031 3y ago
Do you consider The Intercept pro-war? Also, while most editors naturally reach for anglophone sources first, it's not as if sources in other languages are automatically rejected, even if every US media source is bloodthirsty. Unfort
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The Conversation (the news outlet) also shows that scientists are interested in informing the public of their work. Communication is something of a different area of expertise to actually doing science though.
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The closest thing I can think of would be pending changes protection ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy#Pe... ) which is not very frequently applied, but plausible for lightly edited articles. Cr
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> The book is way broader than Wiki, basically it wants "epistemological anarchy". Let scientists do their thing regardless of what the current view on it is. Only by pushing do we discover new things. People here may be famili
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by Alpha3031 3y ago
As a matter of (English) Wikipedia policy the inclusion of personal details ("such as date of birth, home value, traffic citations, vehicle registrations, and home or business addresses") should not be supported by only public rec
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by Alpha3031 3y ago
Fox News isn't banned, unlike the Daily Mail. When it is on the record that everyone from the hosts up to network executives were aware and continued to report falsehoods, one might think the lady doth protest too much.
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by Alpha3031 3y ago
Have you considered donating an hour or so of your time every month instead? This could be instead of or in addition to a monetary donation.