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by beloch 8y ago
Hopefully they have the honesty to stick with ABS if they can't find an alternative that is actually better for the environment. One fears that, if they do find an alternative, they'll switch for the sake of public perception eve
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by beloch 8y ago
I tend to be more convinced by the frugivore argument[1]. i.e. Why do primates that eat fruit tend to have bigger brains than those that eat leaves? Leaves grow everywhere and one leaf is generally as good as another. Fruit tends to grow
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by beloch 8y ago
This is good news. You wouldn't know it from reading this article. The orthodoxy on environmental research and reporting is that everything must be bad news. Humans are destroying the planet and we're all doomed. The rotten t
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by beloch 8y ago
As a Canadian, original pronunciation made me think of a Newfoundland accent. Strongly . I wonder if British theaters will start recruiting more newfies?
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by beloch 8y ago
When we go to a museum and see skeletons or life-size models of Pleistocene megafauna, we tend to assume these animals behaved just like the wild animals of today: wary, elusive, and ferocious if cornered. Then we consider the size-differe
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by beloch 9y ago
Context is king in archaeology. The precise location of an artifact in relation to other artifacts and features around it tells us far more than just examining the artifacts on their own. ISIL is not conducting rigorous digs, recording co
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by beloch 9y ago
Firing employees dumb enough to snoop and brag isn't enough to restore user confidence. Facebook needs to take concrete steps to prevent employees from snooping, and it needs to be publicly seen doing so. I stopped using Facebook year
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by beloch 9y ago
Ask them: "Why are you wearing pants? Are you hiding some kind of grotesque deformation under there?" Then tell them they can be a data-nudist if they really want to, but that's not how you like doing things.
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by beloch 9y ago
We should have a sub-thread of these comments devoted just to the silly things people use NirSoft stuff to do. I'll start. ----- I have a HTPC hooked up to a projector that I use to play movies, and the projector has native support fo
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by beloch 9y ago
Movies and games are sufficiently different that the the key to making a good "video game" movie may be to pick a property that gives more options than it takes away. For example, Tomb Raider has to be based on Lara Croft raid
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by beloch 9y ago
That's great. Next, focus on making products that can be repaired and upgraded by end-users for an extended period of time. Electronics manufacturing is resource intensive (beyond just energy) and a significant source of pollution (be
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by beloch 9y ago
There's a bit of a feedback loop in play here too (i.e. Brightness wars). If you have dim headlights and are the only driver on the road, your eyes will adjust and you'll see pretty well. If you pass a driver traveling in the opp
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by beloch 9y ago
"In an interview with the U.S. television network CBS aired in mid-March, Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince who effectively runs the country for his father King Salman, said, “Saudi Arabia doesn’t want to own a nuclear bomb.
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by beloch 9y ago
Colleges have admission and performance standards. Why not prison colleges? Select inmates motivated to learn and send them to a separate facility. If they don't take advantage of the opportunity or become a problem, send them back.
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by beloch 9y ago
"Most organic compounds in soaps and detergents dissolve in water and end up in sewer systems (20), with negligible amounts emitted from wastewater treatment plants (21)" I didn't read the full paper, but this is the only men
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by beloch 9y ago
If you're a user reading this kind of article or paper, you should not feel guilty for using an ad-blocker. You are simply protecting yourself. The people who should stand up and take notice are website admins and ad providers. The w
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by beloch 9y ago
Look up the Battle of Cannae, wherein Hannibal successfully encircled a force of approximately 80k Romans and killed approximately 70k of them. This wasn't bowmen vs infantry but, primarily, infantry vs infantry. The battle was effect
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by beloch 9y ago
Honestly, I wish they'd just issue a special exception for Disney instead of screwing up the entire system because they don't want to appear nakedly corrupt.
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by beloch 9y ago
When people try to convince me my cellphone is giving me cancer, I ask them to prove to me that using a cellphone for fifteen minutes is worse than going outside in the sun for fifteen minutes (sunlight is objectively more likely to give yo
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by beloch 9y ago
I'm sure there are many reading this who have absolutely no sympathy for pirates. They're stealing and that's that. Well, how do you feel about your government blackmailing, extorting, or otherwise "strong-arming"
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by beloch 9y ago
A major problem with ranking Mongol generals (and a lot of others) in this list is that there simply aren't historical accounts of most of their battles. Yes, the Mongols did send a large scouting force into Europe which wreaked havoc
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by beloch 9y ago
I really respect this kind of activism. Fair taxation certainly isn't the sexiest topic to hold a protest about, but it is actually a huge fundamental issue for us today. Individuals, and Corporations we treat as legal individuals, pr
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by beloch 9y ago
Ubisoft has a long history of using questionable DRM. I remember having problems uninstalling their Starforce crap after playing Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones. If it's an Ubisoft game, it's worth paying attention when people
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by beloch 9y ago
1. You produce novel research. 2. You submit novel research to the best journal you think will publish it. 3. The editor (the only person involved actually paid by the journal) invites other researchers to volunteer their time to peer re
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by beloch 9y ago
~7.6 billion humans weigh 420 billion tons? That would mean the average human weighs 55 tons! Talk about an epidemic of extreme morbid obesity!
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by beloch 9y ago
Humans likely hunted several species to death after reaching North America, including: - North American horses (several species) - North American camels - Giant Bison - Tapirs (several North American species) - Llama's (several North A
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by beloch 9y ago
In ancient Rome, the gap between the rich and the poor was even more obscene that it is now. Despite having such a low GDP, Rome's wealthiest private citizens were as rich, or richer, than the richest of today. For example, Marcus Li
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by beloch 9y ago
"...if humans do have a big capacity for peace shouldn’t we expect to find more accomplished people on this list?" Go look at the list of Nobel Peace prize winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_
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by beloch 9y ago
What interests me about this movement is that it's mechanically simpler than a conventional movement and should eventually be cheaper to produce. We might actually see these in relatively affordable watches rather than sold-out unobta
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by beloch 9y ago
Canada produces a lot of Pandalus Borealis too, which is fairly common in Canadian supermarkets.

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