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by belorn 3y ago
People don't generally see how much trash end up in the ocean since water surface naturally obscure visibility, and pollution obscure it even further. It far from just grocery bag. Littering is very common behavior, and cities located
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by belorn 3y ago
With the goal of less plastic in the ocean and landfills, the solution should not be to make a very narrow and specific form of plastic illegal while everything else is acceptable. Thick plastic and aluminum are both terrible at decomposing
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by belorn 3y ago
Ad blockers seems to imply that we can do curator without the centralized aspect. Ublock has a couple hundred of lists, each with thousands or more filters. A user choose to enable or disable what they want with no central control. Further
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by belorn 3y ago
The really interesting part for me is what this technology might lead towards in the end, which is decentralized community based curation. An index with white listed curation would be indistinguishable from a website, but it would not need
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by belorn 3y ago
Building nuclear in a desert feel a bit like building hydropower dams in a desert. It does not really make sense and whatever the capacity factor is, being in a desert should increase it. The only real drawback to building solar power in a
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by belorn 3y ago
In terms of health, the biggest focus should be on reducing calorie intake and increasing saturation levels. It is listed as the #1 priority of the World Health Organization, and there is an argument to be made that its even mentioned three
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by belorn 3y ago
People who care about plastic waste has better alternatives than paper. Reusable metal straws (the large ones) are superior to both paper and plastic straws, with the only draw side that you got to wash them as any other reusable eating ute
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by belorn 3y ago
It sounds good as long we apply it to all outsourcing where security relies on a third-party. End-to-end encryption was never designed with the concept of clouds and anycast providers, including the whole idea of virtual servers. They all d
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by belorn 3y ago
> isn't that similar to providers managing/having access to the tls keys Yes. Cloudflare-like solutions has access to all the TLS keys. In addition, any cloud solution with with anycast will have partners that has access to all
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by belorn 3y ago
People who who have cold symptoms should not participate in conferences at all. It just that everyone almost to no exception will ignore that and still go since they have already invested so much time and money going to Brussels. It the sam
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by belorn 3y ago
> Women have more to gain in divorce if laws are more favorable to wives. ... the reverse is also true when divorce laws are more favorable to husbands. This does not seem a very modern way to view laws. Divorce is not some tribal war, a
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by belorn 3y ago
From a European perspective, the purpose of voting is to give everyone a voice in how the country is run. The purpose of the voting system is to make encourage people to participate in the vote and honor the outcome. Popular vote in general
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by belorn 3y ago
If we are going to use flawed statistics of autonomous cars vs humans, we should first look at even better examples then waymo. Im pretty sure Mercedes Level 3 driving automation for the Autobahn is safer, as well as autonomous cars that pa
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by belorn 3y ago
I recall a simplification that said that if we used computers code as an analogy, genes would be similar to functions, epigenetics would be similar to conditions over which functions get called and when, and the environment is the argument
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by belorn 3y ago
As a regular diver in the Baltic ocean, my experience is aligned with the finding that the ban on plastic bags and utensils did have a real noticeable effect. Before the ban I saw trash every dive. Now it is much less common, closer to 1&#x
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by belorn 3y ago
I share to a large degree this viewpoint that I'd rather see laws and better technology as a solution to the ever connected and tracked future that we live in. I try to use cash in Sweden since we don't have those laws yet, but re
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by belorn 3y ago
I would point to the government report that the Swedish government did, or the study from Turell (2000) or Messinger (2001), or Kelley et al. (2012). I also recall hearing it from a professor. There are many theories but one of the more rea
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by belorn 3y ago
There is an interesting aspect when looking at gender in intra-relationship violence. The rate of violence is fairly independent on the gender of the couple, meaning that same-sex relationships has the same rate of violence as any other rel
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by belorn 3y ago
The number of deaths has increased in the last 10 years by 20%, so say around 20% can be attributed to gang violence? There is no official definition of gang on gang violence in the statistics, so we can only really guess here. One thing of
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by belorn 3y ago
> In Germany more than half of all murder victims are women. I presume it's not much different in other countries, although gang on gang violence may distort the picture a bit. No? For 2022 in Sweden the numbers were 93 men, 23 wome
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by belorn 3y ago
Naturally it will have an effect, some which will be negative. Now that schools has started to utilize AI for teaching, how will children be effected? The school period and teacher-student relationship is a critical part of growing up and d
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by belorn 3y ago
There are ways to live that can tick all the boxes except for one: It does not scale. If we accept non-scaleable methods then household chickens are great. They keep pets away from gardens, it reduce the need to cut grass, and they are much
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by belorn 3y ago
Through the last decades there been multiple studies and books arguing for one side or the other. Usually the hunter-side will look at existing native populations in the world and rituals, while the gatherers-side looks at archaeological ev
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by belorn 3y ago
Which platforms do meta allow children to create accounts? To my understanding, they stopped allowing children on their platforms since social networks can cause major harm to children from things like bullying, and that children can't
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by belorn 3y ago
Are the bird species that cat kills the same ones that "wind turbines + oil-and-gas plants" kill?
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by belorn 3y ago
Distribution is not required for copyright infringement. The creation of a derivative work is a separate right in copyright. Copyright law has however implemented exceptions in the form of interoperability. The distinction between creating
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by belorn 3y ago
Fish ladders are expensive and have a fairly large negative impact on yearly electric output. Forcing upgrades makes most dams too expensive, which would mean they get replaced by fossil fueled power plants which can more cheaply operate as
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by belorn 3y ago
Is the fossil fuel industry different in the US than EU? When Germany wanted to defined natural gas as "green investment", to act as a backup solution for wind power, it was the fossil fuel industry that was in favor and nuclear i
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by belorn 3y ago
How much of that swamp, marsh, and wetlands was drained in order to enable/improve farming and forestry? To me this has less to do with living patterns and more to do with commercial exploitation of land. I am unsure how much of a redu
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by belorn 3y ago
Let say a natural gas power plant has a life time expectancy of 20 years. If we say that in 20 years we can abandon natural gas with nuclear, then lets put that as a deadline for when the last natural gas power plant will be demolished. We

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