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by TSiege 3y ago
Have you tried Risk Factor? https://riskfactor.com/
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by TSiege 3y ago
A concern that's been in the back of mind for a while is, what if plastic isn't as long lasting as we think? To put another way, what is the carbon footprint of microorganisms evolving to eat it? Are we looking at another carbon b
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by TSiege 3y ago
Humans literally made mammoths extinct with stone tools on multiple continents
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by TSiege 3y ago
The rescue of Silicon Valley Bank implies to me that the $250k is more a suggestion than a rule
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by TSiege 3y ago
I've experienced a bank more or less forcing me into accepting it
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by TSiege 4y ago
This is also true in nature. Weeds (or think invasives in an ecological) tend to be plants that do best in disturbed contexts like fires, landslides, after logging, or in the agricultural sense, tilled soil. Invasives tend to struggle to ga
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by TSiege 4y ago
If anyone came here looking for actual analysis of how Roman history can inform us about the situation in the US I would recommend this review of Mortal Republic by Edward J Watts (The book itself is also very good) https://www.n
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by TSiege 4y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/books/review/edward-j-wat...
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by TSiege 4y ago
For the feds maybe, but not in NYC or NYS
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I don't think it's been proved, but I tink the concern is that it's viewed as a matter of when not if. > The discovery of two cases of bird flu within the same family in Cambodia has highlighted the concern over potential
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by TSiege 4y ago
A scoby is just basically a matrix of cellulose. Assuming the circuits are printed into that substrate it could be quite stable
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by TSiege 4y ago
This is true if you make naive assumptions like making circuit boards are a clean technology with no CO2 emissions or other harmful side effects. That of course is entirely incorrect. Printing circuit boards are very energy intensive along
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by TSiege 4y ago
Street lights aren't just important for cars? Imagine being a woman walking around a city at night in the dark by yourself
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Maybe in rural environments, but they're quite important in urban environments
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This euphemism is doing a lot of heavy lifting, "cultural divergence caused by different economic systems"
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by TSiege 4y ago
Except that reality is you vote for government, not for the health insurance industry
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I believe it's the latest round plus the previous from a few months ago?
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The blue whale is the largest known animal to have ever existed on this planet not just today. We had plenty of very large (larger than extant) land animals until the holocene extinctions began. The Paraceratherium (a extinct animal like a
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by TSiege 4y ago
Got any good examples?
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That's the point the author is trying to make. That it is unjust to have to spend so much for end of life care and that as a society we should feel ashamed
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by TSiege 4y ago
I've been looking to learn some trades in my spare time. Do you take any courses or just youtube? I've been interested in finding some hands on courses, but most I see are online prep for some sort of exam
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by TSiege 4y ago
It's probably that mercury is incredibly toxic. Heating up the amalgam was done to create traditional gold gilding, but it also left the tradesman with mercury poisoning and bit insane to boot
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by TSiege 4y ago
Haha that's amazing! Hopefully the pilots weren't too phased. Thanks for sharing Did some further digging and it looks like it does have a tendency to gum. From wikipedia, "The viscosity of castor oil at 10 °C is 2,420 centip
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by TSiege 4y ago
Most cattle you eat is probably are not grazing, and ironically grazed cattle are environmentally speaking the worst for the environment. https://grist.org/climate-energy/cattle-grazing-is-a-climate...
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by TSiege 4y ago
Fascinating and makes sense. I've recently gone down a rabbit hole on the uses of linseed oil pre fossil fuels, but it's too gummy to ever be used as a lubricant. Do you know off hand which seed oils were used for lubricants?
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by TSiege 4y ago
This was a very thoughtful piece. I appreciate the honest discussion of the struggle between giving up great apps for the sake of being distraction free. I've looked into the light phone but there's no support for Spotify, which i
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by TSiege 4y ago
who would you sell to and do you know how much work (and stink) chickens are?
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Reddit would be my bet as well
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No judgement here, but I'm curious how they're using it and what your feelings are. It seems like you've embraced it
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> On December 13, Nansen, a separate crypto data firm broke the news that Binance had lost $3 billion of assets over the previous week, representing 4% of the firm’s total at the time. A Forbes investigation revealed that, in fact, Binan

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