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by biorach 3y ago
I believe that this is actually the norm in many countries now.
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by biorach 3y ago
nope well.... not for a surprisingly long time
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by biorach 3y ago
Maybe 1 a year. And this is only emitted in dangerous quantities when the manure is being stirred prior to being removed from storage. So somewhat tangential to original point.
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by biorach 3y ago
I have no idea why you are taking about coffee. You said > Only a small percentage of manure is reused as fertiliser because transporting it is expensive, and messy That's straight up false, for Northern Europe anyway.
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by biorach 3y ago
Refreshing to see a well researched comment, with appropriate citations that expresses well the complexity of the situation and the tradeoffs involved. This subject matter attracts a lot of cranks and simplistic non- solutions, so thanks.
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by biorach 3y ago
> Most farmers now won't grow rapeseed, In the EU? I think you just made that up
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by biorach 3y ago
> You can't use manure of industrial farms in the fields, too much chemical compounds that can destroy your soil, killing fungi and bacterial life Source? Preferably reputable
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by biorach 3y ago
> manure from most aninals, especially pig farms, is a hazardous easte to dispose of. Only a small percentage of manure is reused as fertiliser because transporting it is expensive, and messy You'd need to cite some sources for that
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by biorach 3y ago
The guy way overused "deprecated" in that article. Perl 5 is alive and well, and while not the most actively developed of languages still has a steady trickle of small improvements. It's installable in all major linux distros
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by biorach 3y ago
Insulting the king is not illegal in the UK. The protesters were arrested under various public-order pretexts.
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by biorach 3y ago
> For instance, in English, the incorrect use of the apostrophe to indicate an acronym plural, DVD's instead of DVDs. This misusage is so entrenched that even as I type this my Android phone's speller is trying to make me use t
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by biorach 3y ago
> Insulting the king is also apparently, not allowed in today's UK for instance what?
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by biorach 3y ago
"very likely..." "they think" Until this thing is operating profitably at scale it is unproven
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by biorach 3y ago
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/02/20/meat-pa... https://www.bu.edu/writingprogram/journal/past-issues/issue-...
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by biorach 3y ago
This is speculative technology, still in early prototype phase
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by biorach 3y ago
> the soil has been sterilized and turned into dirt in most places by ammonia based fertilizers. That's a massive, massive exaggeration.
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by biorach 3y ago
Yep. For decades. Plus frequently _before_ planting, Glyphosate is used to clear weeds and volunteer cereals from the fields. Then, e.g. during the cereal growing phase there are regular applications of fungicide, insecticide, growth regul
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by biorach 3y ago
> The economic value from operating it will generally not match the opportunity cost of not doing other things. Not everyone evaluates their life choices like an arid economist. In particular, not everyone would regard leaving an outdoo
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by biorach 3y ago
> Clearly the locals have known about this already Clearly they knew there was a small patch of deep water. Maybe not much more than that. I think you're being way too quick to jump to self righteousness
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by biorach 3y ago
If museums are not interested then they (the metal detectorists) keep it and can do whatever they want with it.
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by biorach 3y ago
> It was known that there were people in the British Isles before the arrival of the Indo-Europeans. It was not known that these were the Picts I don't think that the article supports the theory that the Picts were descended from th
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by biorach 3y ago
you could have said all of that in a much clearer way with no loss of content
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by biorach 3y ago
> Is this suggesting writing any language we want in the browser? Nope, server
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by biorach 3y ago
> I'd love to do this in Python, but unfortunately we can't. > assert is supposed to be cheap in production because you remove them there. well... Python is so slow that are you going to notice the overhead of assert calls?
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by biorach 3y ago
Yep, but they still had bugs, and often the minimum turn-around time was 24 hours. So it does not sound like a net positive
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by biorach 3y ago
... well this is embarrassing
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by biorach 3y ago
Again, "dumb" is not a great word to use here. Up until recently there were not realistic alternatives that would provide any kind of decent yield for many crops. Yes, with modern tilling machinery there are now alternatives avail
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by biorach 3y ago
> Why out-perform? Wouldn't it be reasonable to have similarly or slightly worse performing system in exchange for using drastically less energy and degrading natural resources less? Sorry, you mentioned regenerative systems as out-
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by biorach 3y ago
> the dominant form of agriculture (industrialized monoculture) is more or less tailor made to be attractive to pests and an enormous amount of energy and labour has to be employed to keep them out, much more than in the regenerative sys
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by biorach 3y ago
It's still a highly intensive monoculture in an enclosed space - it's still going to be very prone to devastating disease outbreaks.

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