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by ars 1y ago
From what I remember after the correction there was no longer a correlation with color. Obviously no one want flame retardant, but staying away from specifically black plastic doesn't do anything. I can't find a link right now, bu
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by ars 1y ago
That's even better than you describe, it means that 70% is burned which is even better than recycled, and more than I expected.
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by ars 1y ago
That research was partly debunked. The authors made several errors. Some of the work is still true, but the final conclusion about black plastic is not.
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by ars 1y ago
> then assess the lossless distribution of that liability amongst the members It's very possible that no person did anything wrong at all, but combined there was illegal behavior. For example: Action A+B is illegal, and A by itself
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by ars 1y ago
> The community would be healthier economically if this person wasn’t in it. Not everything is about money. A healthy rural society has a variety of people in it, some bring in more money that others, but the mix is necessary. Otherwise
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by ars 1y ago
> you discover is a consistent pattern of underspending No, what you discover is a pattern of wasted spending. Then they ask for more money to actually get the job done despite all the waste. People try to solve this by privatizing cer
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> The centigrade number is how far you are from water freezing The Fahrenheit scale is how far your are from your own body temperature. It was designed that 100 is the temperature of a human. (Adjusted later to 98.6 due to inaccuracies.)
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by ars 1y ago
> But it is extremely important to point out that the American "rat race" cities 100% subsidize areas like this. It's even more important to point out that places like this grow the food and do the manufacturing that those
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by ars 1y ago
Voice interfaces are an example of this. Movies use them because the audience can easily hear what is being requested and then done. In the real world voice interfaces work terribly unless you have something sentient on the other end. But p
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by ars 1y ago
There's also how people are shielded from criticism so much, that they grow up without any ability to process feedback or criticism. It feeds into how conservatives call such people "weak", and liberals respond that the rever
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by ars 1y ago
Maybe the actual study is different, but the summary does not establish which is the cause and which is the effect. Amongst the boys I know, the more violent ones prefer to watch more violent TV content.
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by ars 1y ago
No they would not. If you imagine running a computer chess engine on 143,000 humans, it's not even remotely close to the amount of compute you need to win. Humans don't win by calculation the way computers do. When you have multip
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by ars 1y ago
> or that he has known about it longer than he has admitted. Which is probably true. And it's fine, he has no obligation to disclose this until he wants to. In contrast his dementia though ....... that's something he should hav
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by ars 1y ago
No humidity issues, the leaves have lots of space between them - they arrange themselves to catch every bit of sun as seen in 2D from a distance, but up close some stick out farther, some are closer, and there's plenty of air flow.
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by ars 1y ago
The kind with piercing tendrils does, but the species I listed have glue pads that cause no harm. You do need to manage windows and gutters. What you do is pull the vine of off the border of the window and leave it dangling in the air (a li
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by ars 1y ago
I have that. They have a magnet that keep the middle, where they connect light-tight. Installation is key - they need to be oversized, covering the entire window AND the trim, and they need to be carefully installed so that they touch the t
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by ars 1y ago
I have that, but for my entire house - in the Summer the walls get covered with sun blocking plates, and in the winter the walls are exposed to the rays of the sun. If you want your own, you can buy it, it's called: Parthenocissus tric
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by ars 1y ago
I saw a tip once to do a Google News search on it, add a saved search and let Google email you if anything new comes up. Make sure to use good keywords so you don't get false positive hits on the subject.
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by ars 1y ago
The article says it lost power, but the photo shows a wind powered vessel with sails. Some kind of hybrid ship?
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by ars 1y ago
Cars are only harmful in dense cities. They work just fine everywhere else. For example in small cities kids can play in the road without fear of cars. It's only in dense cities where they can not. Dense cities are also the only places
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by ars 1y ago
> If only they passed the inverse law requiring gas and coal plants to buy renewable power to reduce their pollution impact. Why? The goal of this law is a stable grid, it's not an environmental law. And your law makes no sense, the
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by ars 1y ago
Like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
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by ars 1y ago
You are responding to a click bait, and false, headline. The article itself isn't much better.
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by ars 1y ago
This title is click bait, and the article is poorly written. A better title: "Texas Senate passes bill requiring renewables to designate backup power to reduce their volatility" I also clicked on the references given in the articl
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by ars 1y ago
It's because of dilution of responsibility, each individual didn't do anything wrong, but take all together it adds up to wrongdoing. It's not usually nefarious, it's usually a result of imperfect information - each indi
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I don't feel like going through each one specifically, and I'm sure some of them actually reined in some practices, but the vast majority are just disclosures, i.e. some paper for the consumer to sign without reading.
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For the most part all that those things accomplished was lots of paper.
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by ars 1y ago
I wasn't really talking specifically about this program, just kind of in general. Although I'm not really sold on even the approach you describe - it seems like it's just a way to funnel taxes from local people -> federal
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To qualify for federal funding it should occur in ALL states, or be federal property (like interstates). If it's not worth funding locally, it's not worth funding federally.
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This title doesn't seem true. It would not have drastically reduced food waste, from the description in the article this program would have done nothing at all except add local jobs. This is an example of a program that should be def

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