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by beerandt 5y ago
There's similar issues with possums in New Zealand, who also have no natural predators there and have flourished. New Zealand wants to eradicate them to save their native birds. But what's interesting is: the same possum is extrem
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by beerandt 5y ago
That's not really a fair comparison/ justification. I don't know how much "warning" was given for the endangered species act, or if that even matters, since land that's about to be worthless is already worthles
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by beerandt 5y ago
It's funny, because the number of people who regularly claim to have seen an IBW is really high. And 9 out of 10 times you can show them a picture of a pileated, and they instantly realize their mistake. Idk why people who can't I
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by beerandt 5y ago
There's also the perverse incentives of developers and farmers not wanting endangered species to be "discovered" on their property because of the restrictions that will incur. But what gets really interesting is re-introduc
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by beerandt 5y ago
Hawaii had iirc 14 species of birds on the list that were all native to either one island or a portion of one, with some preferring certain altitudes or only living on certain plateaus, etc. The funny thing about Hawaii though, is that ther
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by beerandt 5y ago
The Ivory Billed Woodpecker hasn't had a confirmed sighting since 1944. Lots of these species have been long gone. But the landowner of that 1944 sighting probably couldn't turn over a rock on his property without fines and lawsui
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by beerandt 5y ago
Blockbuster v Netflix is odd though, in that Blockbuster actually did pivot to the DVD by mail subscriptions really well. Well at least operationally it was a good product, and imo better than Netflix's, but I have no idea if helped or
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by beerandt 5y ago
Not having a conflicting political agenda that coincides with your experimental results goes a long way with establishing ethos, as well.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Also, Fauci's "great" career in public health started out by him getting just about everything wrong that he possibly could have with HIV/AIDS. Including wanting to implement many of the same draconian policies we see to
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by beerandt 5y ago
>As long as the output of a scientist will be interpreted through other people's political lenses its fair game for them to frame it politically too. Not if they want to be credible.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Regardless of transportation cost attribution, the electric vehicle fees are meant to offset transportation funding , which ICE vehicles pay largely via federal and state fuel taxes. And which we as a society have decided is a political
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by beerandt 5y ago
Carbon credits and related offset "products" are going to cost a whole lot more once they become mandated by legislation. Same goes for supply chain costs and retail products downstream of companies subject to those mandates.
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by beerandt 5y ago
While never "safe", lead pipes were relatively safer before the epa started pushing chlorine alternatives. High concentration chlorine (and flouride, where used) were reactive to contaminants such that they were often chemically
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by beerandt 5y ago
Linear scaling of any project large enough to disrupt an industry (as is being suggested here) is a pipe dream. When you are trying to scale up something that big, you eventually get beyond economies of scale for the required infrastructu
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by beerandt 5y ago
>far past the most stringent fuel economy minimums. Only because the efficiency of generating and transmitting electricity isn't included. Electricity generation is generally only ~30% efficient. Transmission and grid for on-demand
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by beerandt 5y ago
It says something about the goals of app and especially browser design when buggy but not feature crippled consistently beats "not buggy" but constantly removing user features to add tracking and other things we never asked for, l
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by beerandt 5y ago
This might sound too obvious to say, but set an alarm for your bedtime and 30 mins before (to start your wind down). It will either get you in the habit of going to sleep at a "planned" time, or will at least make you aware of you
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by beerandt 5y ago
But a database with historical changes over time would resolve that. Isn't that part of the argument? "Location x in Timezone P was y definition until z date, when it merged to a definition that coincides with Timezone Q"
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by beerandt 5y ago
Shouldn't each time zone, or definition within, have a time domain given for when the definition is valid? Even within a single timezone, dst dates have changed, sometimes differently for different places within the same timezone. DST
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by beerandt 5y ago
Why do so many instantly go to the false dichotomy of "accept new job" vs "be unemployed". The vast number of people changing jobs don't leave one before securing another. And even if you're unemployed, it does
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by beerandt 5y ago
If everyone does a great job, it implies the company did a great job, and the raise pool is likely to be larger. Obviously it depends on company policy, but they're not going to give raises from money they don't have.
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by beerandt 5y ago
It's not the probability of any specific configuration, but the probability of a specific configuration over any other particular configuration. All configurations could have an infinitesimal chance of occurring, but one configuration
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by beerandt 5y ago
It's not that there are different contexts, it's that with particular identity groups, the "rules" for that context vary so much over time (and context) as well. For most of the 90's saying black was "wrong&quo
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by beerandt 5y ago
>being given quantity discounts It's way more than that. Imagine trying to open a gas station without being required to provide restrooms, handicapped spaces, environmental permitting, and all the other headaches that come with open
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by beerandt 5y ago
The fact that open in new tab only gives the option for "in group" did it for me. Kiwi at least gives options for opening new tabs as in-group or standalone.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Kiwi has become my goto Android browser, and it's not even close. Primary reason being chrome add-on support. But it does have a high number of quirks make it through to release versions. Like tab ordering in the current version is bro
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by beerandt 5y ago
I mean, it's always been a bit mind blowing to me that companies relied on client-side processing for their business models to work. It seems like server-side, dynamically generated static content would have at least been explored more
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by beerandt 5y ago
I'm sure this includes minimums for miles/kwh for electrics, right?
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by beerandt 5y ago
There's something to that, in that even among successful Mexican immigrants, there seems to be a (relative) lack of leveraging that success into establishing businesses, or other investments that require long-term commitment. Whether i
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by beerandt 5y ago
If Chinese are looking for alternatives to collapsing domestic investment, I don't see how they do that at the scale they need to without leaning further into US bonds, whether directly or via Chinese government using it to back up dom

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