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by Nbox9 6y ago
Ecosia, the company backing TreeCard, has a search engine that plants trees. Ecosia has claimed to have planted 116M trees. Several environmentalists have come out in support of the product — and specifically in support of the way Ecosia
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What would you do if you got a phone call while it was in the kitchen safe?
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> This virus is just one and it is likely to get worse. We need to invest now into large scale computer simulation of vaccines or things will become much worse. This seems like a logical leap to me. Yes we need to do something to make u
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My favorite logical inconsistency in the food pyramid is that dairy is given it’s own category of required daily intake for a healthy diet, but 65% of the global population has some level of lactose intolerance. The government was claiming
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Right. If you look at the distribution of savings [0] you realize very few people are in a strong finical position. [0 https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/research/average-savings-acc...
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Government dietary guidelines effects health education, and my public school health education had an impact on the decisions I made during some of my more formative years.
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It’s not shady that an industry is doing the best thing for their own interest. It’s shady that the alcohol industry’s best interest is against many strong public health concerns.
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I don’t know where the revenue is, but it’s worth noting a significant amount of alcohol advertising is spent on cheap beer.
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I’ve played over 1000 games of 1v1 Dominion. I think the author is overstating the strategy space of the game. For example, a common strategy is to build an “engine” using +draw +action cards. There are _many_ possible engines to build, b
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Along the same vain, Siri was launched in 2011.
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Software companies do not have moral high ground to attack hardware companies for labor practices because software companies benefit from cheap and plentiful hardware. If Facebook was only able to be accessed by hardware produced by fair l
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This is hyperbolic. There are plenty of people with underprivileged backgrounds and student loans that have achieved financial prosperity.
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Have you looked at Western Digital’s My Cloud? It’s more or less what you described.
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You’re missing the point. Some people still buy CDs and Records. Some people fill up disks with .flac or .acc files. The industry still serves those customers, but the real business is happening on the streaming services. What _you_ wan
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If you have a good wait, and you have a closed hand, there’s very little incentive not to riichi.
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I’m not sure I’d describe the multiplayer mahjong games as “relaxing”. Riichi specifically gets into really intense situations.
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I wonder if it is something that is borne out but because of the illegal nature of psilocybin it is shared as just an idea.
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Where are you getting the 11 billion years from, when Earth is 4.5 billion years old?
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50+ is a rather large bin. Netflix recommends 25+ for streaming 4K, so we could assume 50+ is ~2 4K streams, which seems like a normal amount for a family. There’s a big difference between a house getting 50down and 5up and a house with a
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You can get pretty far along metallurgy with burning wood and charcoal.
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It seems to me to be too large of a correction against ‘highly-optimized supply chains’ to assume that at any time we’ll suddenly need a 100x supply of any medicine in the WHO List of Essential Medicines and that we’ll need this emergency s
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People sometimes do bad things, and aren’t held accountable. Sometimes, these unaccountable things are secret. Some secrets will remain secrets. The secretes that will become public knowledge are my worrisome. It’s common to do bad things
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Is it viable for every country to produce all of it’s own basic necessities — food, medicine, energy, fresh water, building materials? Is it desirable? I believe that the US being a net exporter of food, and a net importer of medicine is a
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> But if you make some prosaic observation about this overall pattern If you outlined a pattern in your comment I failed to deduce it. Something about negative externalities of increased drug consumption? I’m sure there is a point there
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I don’t think Android was well understood by the Linux and Open Source community in it’s first three years. A lot of people happy that it was consumer Linux and hacking away on root kits, bootloaders, and alternative marketplaces. We didn
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There are certain problems that, if you solve, you earn a PhD as a byproduct.
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It was common knowledge that Moderna’s vaccine was releasing efficiency results this week, and that the technology used to provide protection was very similar to Pfizer’s.
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I eat beans a lot, like 10+ times a week. I’ve stopped telling people I cook beans for dinner because they assume I have money problems when I do.
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>rice & beans Cooking rice and beans at home is cheaper, better for the environment and more healthy than most of the food on door dash.
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In the US ordering (free) water is common for casual restaurants. There is a lot of profit to be made from selling alcoholic drinks, but that’s not in everyone’s business plan.

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