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by GW150914 8y ago
Because the bison were between 3x to 4x less numerous than cattle, lived far longer lives than the average 2.5 years to slaughter of a cow (not counting veal calves which are killed far sooner and never graze). It’s not just the number of c
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by GW150914 8y ago
Back in “the day” 20 to 30 million bison roamed the US. Today there are more than 94 million cattle in the US, and that’s actually down from a peak of 130+ million in the mid seventies. A lot has changed! Those bison were also wild, lived m
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by GW150914 8y ago
Unfortunately the methanogens in a cow’s gut mean that they’re an environmental disaster. I’ve read about seaweed being used to curb their, um, “output” yet unless thst comes into widespread use the state of affairs is grim. Grazing isn’t b
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by GW150914 8y ago
You just used “maybe” eight times to make an argument without having to support it in the slightest. Maybe you’re right, or maybe you’re just bristling at an argument made well and strongly supported without a leg to stand on. Maybe if you
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The Pirate Creed(daily.jstor.org)
1 points by GW150914 8y ago|0 comments
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by GW150914 8y ago
Unless you’re volunteering to die on Mars in the name of progress that you may in no way enable with your death, your willingness to sacrifice others rings hollow. A bunch of corpses in holes on Mars won’t in any way accelerate progress, an
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by GW150914 8y ago
Amen to that. A launch loop or EM launch system on the Moon combined with ore processing and a robotic assembly/launch/retrieval system for asteroid mining could change the world in ways that firing some doomed saps at Mars never
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by GW150914 8y ago
We are so far from the goal of a “backup” for humanity thst there really is little point in considering it. We’re far enough thst it may turn out Mars isn’t an ideal choice either, and a deep ocean or series of orbital platforms makes more
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by GW150914 8y ago
This only works if your planetary colonies can survive without Earth, and even the most hysterically optimistic dreamer doesn’t see that on the horizon. We don’t even know how to make a biosphere work in a bubble on Earth never mind on Ma
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by GW150914 8y ago
Well you’re allowed to believe whatever you want of course, however divorced from observation, experiment and theory it happens to be. I would just caution you against drawing such strong conclusions about a field you seem to know very litt
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by GW150914 8y ago
“When you look” is the key phrase there. When you measure you’ve perturbed the system and a superposition of probabilities collapses to a single possibility. You can try to ignore the problem, but it keeps cropping up. Take for example th
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by GW150914 8y ago
Or those people understand that the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. That doesn’t change the inevitable result.
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by GW150914 8y ago
So I took your advice, and what a weird, yet incredibly funny comedian! I found him offputting at first, but his routine has real depth. Thanks for the tip.
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by GW150914 8y ago
My friend is a terrible snorer, but I noticed one day when he fell asleep on the couch, that he’d stop snoring, then do this big gasping snore. It was really scary actually! I told him about it, he did a sleep study, and he turned out to ha
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by GW150914 8y ago
People said the same things about their $4000 BB’s, until they were worthless. That’s sort of the point of an intrinsically worthless object of speculation and artificial scarcity, it seems like it can’t lose, until it loses.
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The World’s Largest Speedo Collection Almost Oozed Away(atlasobscura.com)
42 points by GW150914 8y ago|17 comments
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by GW150914 8y ago
So naturally programmed? Also, women "paint their face" not just for the male gaze but also to establish their place within the female hierarchy. Generally, the prettier and healthier females tend to have higher status within the
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by GW150914 8y ago
Same here! I’ll do the same thing with audiobooks, and put together a giant playlist just to see how many hours I could listen to non-stop. For physical books you get the benefit of the smell and feel of them too. Books are just the best, f
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by GW150914 8y ago
Books, audiobooks, games, music, good food, time with friends and family, time spent in nature. That’s what makes me happy 99% of the time I’d say. Sadly I didn’t think I could shoehorn fried chicken and a concert into my biblical homage, b
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by GW150914 8y ago
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of dullness, I shall fear no boredom, for my books are with me. My piles of books, they comfort me. I prepared a bookshelf in the presence of tedium. I anointed my PS4 with purchases on sa
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by GW150914 8y ago
I do this, but it’s at the cost of portability and double the money. Presumably between those two factors you lose quite a few people who would otherwise consider this.
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by GW150914 8y ago
You just said it... the electron is there. At any given moment, the electrons occupy that “empty” space, which means it isn’t really empty, but full of electrons. The wave function of the electrons is a “smeared” out geometry which occupies
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by GW150914 8y ago
Outlawing normal human behavior has never worked in the past, and it's unlikely to start working now. That’s what you actually said, and what I responded to. The normalcy of a behavior isn’t an argument in its favor, goalpost movemen
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by GW150914 8y ago
Beating someone you don’t like to death with a jawbone is normal human behavior, but fortunately we’ve gotten better at deterring and controlling it with laws. If your standard for the value of a law is total 100% then yes, they fail. Rape,
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by GW150914 8y ago
In many cases they buy it because it’s a walled garden and locked down. When the alternative is Android it’s not hard to see why. People here seem to miss that while some people want freedom to experiment and play, others want the freedom
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by GW150914 8y ago
At least the old problems imply old solutions. The user, as shown in the gif above, cannot know that (s)he is on a fake page because the address bar is missing. An easy solution is to include the address prominently displayed. I’m surpris
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by GW150914 8y ago
Because some of us can still see the Northern/Republic of Ireland divide and realize that wasn’t an existing divide, but created entirely by the British? Then there’s how they handled Israel, but that’s too much of a can of worms to op
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by GW150914 8y ago
When was the last time the US fought a defensive war? I think we can argue that WWII, was ultimately a matter of national survival at some remove, but it certainly wasn’t defensive. I think it would have to be 1916 when Pancho Villa attacke
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by GW150914 8y ago
Here’s the actual memo, which is frankly more reasoned and nuanced than this hit piece. http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/20180621ACL...
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What Drives American Disenchantment with the NSA(daily.jstor.org)
2 points by GW150914 8y ago|0 comments

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