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by beloch 5y ago
It's long form (although somewhat short for that). Consider yourself lucky that this article even has a descriptive title and gets around to addressing it at some point in the body. A lot of long form journalism is just a click-bait
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by beloch 5y ago
Would having more whales boost CO2 sequestration, or just increase the ammount tied up in the oceans at any given time? If the former, gradual seeding could leave a persistent effect behind in the form of increased whale populations. Seedin
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by beloch 5y ago
They don't have a family tree... They have a family ladder . Wow.
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by beloch 5y ago
I'd wager that the participants average funding will increase. If you read journal articles, etc. you'll find a truly surprising number go out of their way to mention climate change, green initiatives, etc. when they lack good rea
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by beloch 5y ago
Even so, it's not hard to see why India remains alluring for tech companies. Wages are low and there's a massive number of young workers with more on the way. In these respects, India is, now, what China was a few decades ago.
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by beloch 5y ago
The swap of Meng Whenzhou for the two Canadian Michaels demonstrates why it doesn't matter if Huawei's equipment is trustworthy or not. Canada was obeying international treaties when it detained Meng. The Chinese state took Canad
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by beloch 5y ago
Mapping out current or traditional native territories is an almost hopeless task. e.g. The Eastern Shoshone were, at the time of early European contact, in Alberta. Their territory on this map doesn't even touch Canada. Why? They we
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by beloch 5y ago
>Previously, China had limited the length of time under-18s could play video games to 1.5 hours on any day and three hours on holidays under 2019 rules. How effective/strict has enforcement of the previously existing time limits bee
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by beloch 5y ago
"The transition to endemic COVID-19 is also a psychological one. When everyone has some immunity, a COVID-19 diagnosis becomes as routine as diagnosis of strep or flu—not good news, but not a reason for particular fear or worry or emba
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by beloch 5y ago
It's important to realize that the world's dependence on China is actually interdependence . People fear what might happen if China suddenly blocked all exports to their country, and rightly so. China is a country where the gove
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by beloch 5y ago
"The Afghan army fighting alongside American troops was molded to match the way the Americans operate. The U.S. military, the world’s most advanced, relies heavily on combining ground operations with air power, using aircraft to resupp
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by beloch 5y ago
More context: "The GR-1 is capable of accepting 3 different standard projectile lengths (32 mm, 42 mm, and 52 mm) with a unique variable magazine system" "Muzzle Velocity: 75 m/s." 75 m/s is slower than a lot
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by beloch 5y ago
This highlights one of the problems with pop culture and science. Pop culture has a tendency to fixate on a small number of big problems or sexy technologies to the exclusion of all others. e.g. If you bring up forestry management's r
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by beloch 5y ago
That's an apt analogy. It makes one wonder how many of these ransomware organizations are connected to their respective local governments, ready to be put to work should an open conflict arise. It also makes one laugh at what we have
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by beloch 5y ago
"The number was 1729.03. I happened to know that a cubic foot contains 1728 cubic inches, so the answer is a tiny bit more than 12." There are people lauding and panning Feynman in this thread, but this story illustrates a very im
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by beloch 5y ago
Two questions regarding Musk that people should ask more often: 1. If the public money being thrown at SpaceX were redirected, what could NASA (or other private companies) do with it? 2. If the administrators of NASA collected $80B (combine
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by beloch 5y ago
Walkthroughs. Today, we're used to games that throw massive resources away on scenery that we breeze through in mere seconds. Triple A games have budgets the size of hollywood blockbusters and it shows. If you spend enough money toda
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by beloch 5y ago
These children should be exhumed, autopsied, identified, and returned to their communities wherever it is possible to obtain the permission of local native communities to do so. There are too many questions about what went on in residential
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by beloch 5y ago
Since so many were hit by the very same ransomware group, it's likely that the attacker spotted a second exploit during the first attack. It's easier to spot things when you've already busted your way in and have the run o
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by beloch 5y ago
The elephant in the room is the cost of putting a payload in orbit. Even a large difference in materials price will be dwarfed by the cost of fuel and rockets if there's even a small weight increase. While wood is a material that will
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by beloch 5y ago
"Within five minutes of this decision I became distracted by my phone and started scrolling through twitter. One of the trending topics was "Lauren Hough, Goodreads" and since I was determined to procrastinate on my literary
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by beloch 5y ago
Ordinary people use shipping and the internet every day. They do not use bitcoin. This article points out that, the last time a similar wave of crime occurred, the way it was defeated was by targeting the banks where the money changes hand
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by beloch 5y ago
What is it supposed to do? Does it actually do that? What else does it do, intentionally or unintentionally? Who benefits from it, and who pays the costs? Is this exchange worth it for those paying? These are basic questions we should ask,
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by beloch 5y ago
Hunter-gatherer societies across the world have, historically, fared poorly when agricultural or pastoral societies have moved into their territory. Complete extermination (i.e. genocide) or complete assimilation is the rule , not the exc
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by beloch 5y ago
A century ago, if Library's hadn't existed, someone trying to create one might have had a chance. Today they'd have no chance at all. If you think to today's U.S. government would willingly choose to fight the U.S. vs Pa
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by beloch 5y ago
The paper compares two battles in the same area, one (480 BCE) in which historical accounts say a Greek colony was defended by a coalition of Greek allies, and another, later battle (408 BCE), in which it stood alone and was defeated. They
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by beloch 5y ago
Actual physicist here. Don't get me started on Interstellar. There is so much needlessly dumb crap in this movie that I don't even know where to start, and the fact that people think it's realistic is just a kick in the pan
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by beloch 5y ago
Imagine for a moment that, despite all the precautions you yourself take, a clever crook manages to lock you out of some important files and demands a ransom. What do you do? It's easy to say cost is no object, but what if no amount
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by beloch 5y ago
The crux of his justification for what he does is that, he argues, people wouldn't want to pay a monthly fee for services like youtube bundled with complete respect for their privacy. First, users do not currently have that choice. Su
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by beloch 6y ago
A more accurate title: Experiment shows that cats are less aware of helpful behaviour between humans than dogs.

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