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People have been talking about conservation and re-foresting, and preserving the Amazon for at least 80 years. Governments all over the world establish national parks and I know some are actively working on wildlife corridors to improve eco
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Not to derail the conversation but I really am genuinely confused about the high level of concern about cobalt and lithium mining I often see in comments on HN. I understand that it is a dirty and difficult process but the entire petroleu
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I would dispute the idea that nuanced /messaging/ can't happen at scale (discussions are a different thing altogether). While I understand that everyone is up in arms about COVID-19 communications these days there are lots of
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Lead mitigation is pretty popular!
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I think ESG scores and activists are concerned about greenhouse gases because they are inadequately regulated by the government and private initiatives are necessary to take action on them. It is unfortunate that the previous US administrat
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Sorry, what?
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This is a misleading title here, there are as much as 70% fewer pollinators in circumstances where specific pollutants are present: "Scientists studying air pollutants from both urban and rural environments found that there are up to 7
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The question you have to ask yourself about building an investment strategy around rising rates is: How much will they rise, how fast, and where does that quantity of increase on that schedule actually have an impact on my decision? If you
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These interfaces are good because they are asynchronous, all the good things about old-timey terminal stuff but without the session overhead badness. If I message back and forth with a bot in a way that accomplishes a goal over a longer per
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I worked with some folks that did IVR systems and they were mostly doing their best with the resources and constraints they had to make the thing useful. They were measured by dropped calls, they did not like them. The weaknesses were mostl
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And in so doing you advocate that people read a book written by a British Hereditary Lord climate change denier and a Molecular biologist? I don't think there is a misunderstanding.
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IDK, seemed like it was pretty important to clarify that a quote was used very deceptively! Seems important to point out that Chan's co-author is a climate-change sceptic that is a hereditary peer in the British House of Lords after ch
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I feel like if it was many years ago lead pollution would be a nearly insurmountable confounder in such a study, but if you could find it I am sure it would be an interesting read.
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> "the quality of the discussion would probably be significantly improved without you saying, "You obviously have no idea what you are talking about."" Amen.
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"How does this “harm users”?" I don't know how sound this argument is but for me, as a non-Apple user I think I am harmed by people using iMessage, I can't text them without accidentally ending up in that technology ecos
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Agreed, but then the response to its infectiousness would have been different as well! And even Omicron wouldn't rise to anything close to an extinction event, it is like the opposite of MERS, way better at transmission, relatively bad
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There are a lot of confounding variables in the question but if you look at the labour required to operate the average farm size in Iowa (360 acres) it is not a full time job, not close to a full time job. Grain farming doesn't become
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It is nonsensical but not because of the way the viruses evolved - if SARS1 or MERS had been capable of causing a genuine pandemic with their fatality rate then the response would have been different, so it wouldn't have been a mass ex
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Your grandpa is rich, yes. The fact that many farmers choose to operate their business in a way that is under-leveraged and often over-work themselves instead of hiring outside help that they can certainly afford is an artifact of culture,
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I don't think this is an accurate characterization of the issue, if you are referencing the Schmeiser case then that wasn't the basis for Monsanto's complaint (although it was the basis of his failed defence).
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Grain farmers are doing just fine, they are not being ground to dust by the system. But it is certainly true that production subsidies serve to make landlords and suppliers rich just as they serve to make farmers rich - your tax dollars at
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If the claim that "Suicide is not a quantitative measure of mental health" means that such large fluctuations in the suicide numbers across many jurisdictions with differing underlying rates can't be used to inform any opin
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Disentangling pandemic effects from "normal" life is complex but overall in the US suicide rates are actually down for 2020, though slightly increased for younger Americans. The trend in the US was upwards into 2019 so these are p
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You can think without language, for sure, but the idea of a race - can you construct that without it? You almost certainly possess the idea from it being communicated to you via language and it is a social construct.
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"Individual expectations needn’t be stored in linguistic form: you can have a feeling about which horse will win the race, without thinking up a sentence about it." Are we sure about this? This sounds made up, I don't know. D
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All of which is unrelated to the idea of some sort of /global/ USD short squeeze, which is just a nonsense idea. Holding debt in another nation's currency involves risks but it is also the case that bond issuers can mitigate
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Absolutely crazy that the top comment on this story is a "USD short squeeze" idea after 5 hours. These amounts, 200 million, 150 million USD.. this is peanuts, a fart in the wind. PROTIP: Anyone like Lyn Alden that is offering pre
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"If they're allowed to practice however, I suppose it gatekeeps for commitment / "how badly do you want this"" Yeah, this is absolutely the most generous interpretation I can come up with, and even then I find
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Heavily lopsided upside risk means they are never in danger of personal financial calamity. Nicholas M. Maounis looks like he is doing just fine even though he seems to have lost enough money for a hundred lifetimes. All the incentives are
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"I rather listen to the hedge fund guys, at least they have skin in the game, don't they?" Not really, right? They make a lot of money even after they get it wrong? "Right now, it feels like the supply issue cannot be re

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