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by abalone 8y ago
I am no Fukushima apologist but that is a click-baity headline. > The newly detected Fukushima radiation was minute... too low to pose a health concern... Cesium-137 levels some 3,000-times higher than those found in the Bering Sea are
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by abalone 8y ago
Oh yes there is. From the study just cited: “While a large percentage of these declines are attributable to direct anthropogenic effects, such as habitat loss, a substantial amount (48%) are classed as ‘enigmatic‘ declines with no identifia
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by abalone 8y ago
This is a sciency-sounding position that actually misrepresents science. Since scientists are not gods, just as with macroeconomics and astrophysics and paleontology, climate science cannot readily “test to falsify a hypothesis.” We are res
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by abalone 8y ago
This is a false dichotomy and betrays a lack of understanding of the actual work of the scientific community here. The mortality of the fungus and amphibian behavior are both affected by climactic conditions. It is far from “easy” to attrib
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by abalone 8y ago
Some solid research pointing to climate change being the primary factor driving this.[1] See other comments for details. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1685858/
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by abalone 8y ago
This study explores exactly this question. In short, climate change moderated the temp of one climate which would normally kill off the fungus, while amphibians seek cool shelter during the hottest days thus keeping the fungus alive and als
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by abalone 8y ago
User devoply just posted this paper linking climate change to the spread of this fungus. It’s not just trade and travel. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1685858/
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by abalone 8y ago
You don’t have to buy a new iPhone to replace the battery, so presumably you’re imagining upgrading the processors, camera, sensors or some other aspect of the iPhone. Those components are so tightly integrated and custom fitted in each ite
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by abalone 8y ago
Or it could be, you know, all the construction happening in the city. But who knows! It’s probably NIMBYs somehow! Definitely not a massive influx of techies in a boom economy, nope, definitely not anything to do with tech.
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by abalone 8y ago
> But San Francisco is a “not in my backyard” locale where the amount of new construction just isn’t that high, for legal and regulatory reasons. I’m so tired of hearing this. It’s not accurate. It’s a simplistic political slogan that
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by abalone 8y ago
> [Rent control policy] will tend throw currently homeless people under the bus. Precisely the opposite is true. Uncontroversially the immediate effect of abolishing rent control will be to create more homeless. Rent control does not a
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by abalone 8y ago
“Update 12:41 PM ET: Copy changed to clarify that the proposal will only apply to farm equipment.”
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by abalone 8y ago
Ok thanks, and to follow up I forgot that liability for swipes shifted to merchants a couple years ago regardless of signatures. That is, if a customer has a chip card and the merchant runs it as a swipe then they’re liable regardless of wh
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by abalone 8y ago
> I don't thing it is healthy to have big entities like this control fundamental services like payment processing... How long before activists start making this a new vector for deplatforming? You're misunderstanding how card
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by abalone 8y ago
For those of you concerned about the "antitrust" aspect here, the specter of Apple controlling everything... Keep in mind that Apple has had a partnership-based branded credit card for years : the Barclaycard Visa with Apple Rewa
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by abalone 8y ago
True but there is still value investing in no cap deals: access. It gives smaller investors access to deals they normally would not have. Angels would not typically have the opportunity to join later. It also bypasses the sometimes arcane a
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by abalone 8y ago
Is it really true that no-cap is the new norm? Are these institutional seed funds doing no cap convertible note deals? Anyone? I thought it was the other way around, that 5-10 years ago you could get no cap but now everyone wants it priced.
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by abalone 8y ago
> Taking the bus instead of the car to work will "pay for" like 4 cross-continental trips a year. Only if you want to maintain the same levels of unsustainable CO2 output. That's totally unacceptable. We need to get to a
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by abalone 8y ago
> All of the planes you ride on are going to fly anyway, get out there and get it! This is just plain bad reasoning, for obvious reasons. It is not “hypersensitive” to care about the CO2 impact of air travel. In fact it is a large blin
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by abalone 8y ago
Other governments do it just fine.
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by abalone 8y ago
It’s not just about wireless charging though. They upgraded the AirPods too. You can still buy a wired case and get the new AirPods.
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by abalone 8y ago
Well, not exactly C#. At 39:00 they show significant latency problems with C#’s garbage collector. Go and Rust did well though. Will be interesting to see if ARC gets optimized for use cases like this (drivers). I wouldn’t say it’s super re
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by abalone 8y ago
How is memory efficiency? Usually faster and/or consistent GC performance comes at the cost of extra memory usage. (This is why I'm excited for ARC / Swift on the server...)
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by abalone 8y ago
Okay, "not silly" person who's good at reasoning. Tell us how we move 221 million[1] people into mass transit serviceable urban areas in 12 years. I'll wait. [1] http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/0
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by abalone 8y ago
Sure, it’s a system failure not strictly a software failure, but I don’t think the Boeing software engineers are off the hook here. Software is where the whole system comes together. Software is what can mitigate sensor failures. Software i
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by abalone 8y ago
I don’t think it’s productive to prosecute the electric cars vs mass transit issue like this. We need to get to carbon neutral within 12 years. If your plan requires radically changing society, including moving everyone who lives in vast sw
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by abalone 8y ago
It dominates the profits (87%)[1] which probably correlates with the premium subscriber market. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/03/02/apple-con...
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by abalone 8y ago
> When you see ESPN and Comcast argue... Important detail you left out: Comcast is a regulated utility. Things are different at scale. There is absolutely ample precedent for regulating pricing for large scale utilities.
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by abalone 8y ago
> I wouldn't say it's worth a 30% (or even 15%) cut, but it's not worthless. Sure. By that logic Apple also “helps the growth” of Uber by offering the same convenient payment method in the form of Apple Pay. Their fee fo
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by abalone 8y ago
> But users can pay how they wish, if Spotify didn't mind the 30%/15% cut. Spotify simply can't direct users to use their website to use an alternative payment system. I think that is a very reasonable policy for an app s

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