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Indeed, there have been experiments that demonstrate fertilizing some parts of the ocean can increase carbon uptake in plankton blooms [0]. [0] https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/fertilizing-the-ocean-w...
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There is plenty of agricultural land in the midwest to grow vegetables, it's just that for the most part they are growing commodity crops (corn and soy) and not vegetables because California is cheaper and can provide fresh produce yea
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That may be true for more casual users of office suites, but any organization that uses spreadsheets as a computational tool that does analysis on which the business depends uses Excel instead of Google Sheets. Certainly this is the case i
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And the marginal cost of adding articles to a device if you are already using it to read books is very low.
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Sometimes a superpower comes in and enlists you in their war in your country, and then leaves and hangs you out to dry. This happened to the Hmong in Laos during the Vietnam war as the CIA used them in their secret war across the border. Ev
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Presumably that is one reason that the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) idea is so popular in the industry. People don't expect to be able to work to age 65, so it's best to plan not to.
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So, around 0.1% of the cost of putting on the games? https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-tokyo-olympics-staggering-p...
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I really do not get the appeal of moving your own cabinets from apartment to apartment. But I guess it does allow you to customize your rented place more than is possible in the US.
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Most of the time that there is someone speaking on the House or Senate floor, there are only a handful of other representatives around, milling about, waiting for their turn to speak, or doing something else. The only times the chambers are
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> This would be trivially solved by simple and flat taxes, but the main problem with fair and flat taxes is they lack the flexibility to be used as a political social engineering tool. How do simple flat taxes solve the underreporting pr
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Cataloging and indexing and searchability are also not cheap if you are doing all of that on your own time.
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Great advice if you have to read local weather reports regularly. The root comment was asking that writers include Celsius units in an article for a broad audience, which is also fair criticism.
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There are some browser extensions that do similar things, I'd be interested if there is one that is particularly effective and security focused.
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> it doesn't matter what state the representative is associated with, and baring rounding errors the number of representatives would stay roughly the same? The [Republican] Idaho legislature would get to gerrymand the districts inst
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Oh yes it does, according to the IRS: > Q16. Will I recognize a gain or loss if I exchange my virtual currency for other property? > A16. Yes. If you exchange virtual currency held as a capital asset for other property, including f
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> We used to make homes out of bricks, and we could do that again Not in areas with earthquake building codes.
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Satellite imagery startup Albedo closes $10M seed round(techcrunch.com)
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The more specific the summary, the more likely it is to be incorrect in some strict sense. Then if all of it becomes law, the courts have to interpret which part is right.
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Open Source Goes to Mars(github.blog)
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"In the car, for instance, you won't have a TV screen, ... that's too much of a distraction."
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It's a named seminar sponsored by the Nixon Foundation: https://nixonseminar.com/about/
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> I feel this is under-appreciated in today's world, where scrolling is being forced on us everywhere. Scrolling sucks for reading text. Every time you scroll, you have to pay attention to how much you scrolled, and then find your p
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I wonder if there is a forum of marine engineers somewhere speculating on how Google (or whoever) should fix a service outage...
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"bizz" as an [nonstandard] abbreviation of "business" is nowhere in the original article. Why is it in the HN summary?
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This thread for me exemplifies the glory and frustration of the Linux application ecosystem: numerous recommendations for obscure apps that fulfill a basic function. No obvious answer. I use a different solution from all of them, and it&#x2
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There is picking your battles, and then there is avoiding all forms of conflict completely. The latter can just lead to battles down the road that could have been mildly uncomfortable situations at an earlier stage.
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Indeed, it includes things like the Drizzle algorithm that has been used by Hubble space telescope astronomers for a while: https://www.stsci.edu/ftp/science/hdf/combination/drizzle.ht...
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You will almost certainly want to know the butterfly knot and a number of hitches and bends: https://www.animatedknots.com/climbing-knots
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26334163
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There is also a previous popular book about William Smith's geological maps: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25014.The_Map_That_Chang...

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