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by chicob 9y ago
Maybe popcorn was a bad example, but biofuels do drive food prices. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN28615016
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Evidence of Self-Recognition in Magpies (2008)(journals.plos.org)
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Thanks!
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Nice!
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Yes. A parrot could tell him: "You won't believe what a Japanese great tit just told me..."
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I wish there were links for sound files in the article...
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There's a good side to that, since thymidine isn't a dietary sugar. Should we use dietary sugars for any other end than human consumption, we will risk coupling the surge in that commodity 's price to food prices. Like biofue
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by chicob 9y ago
I just updated Firefox to 54.0. It seems to work now!
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This is what I get: https://postimg.org/image/lhy1cdkad/
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Same here. <head> is truncated.
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That looks cool. What part of that project are you responsible for?
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The State owning them is a proxy for shared responsibility. Because in democracies, the people controls the State by means of parliaments/senates/etc. Besides, the State doesn't have to own everything. There's a middle g
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A buffer system within small scale perturbations. Take anthropogenic CO2 emissions: they are changing the entire planet's climate. Take permafrost, for instance. A small increase in the temperature might lead to an even bigger one. Thi
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I was not referring to myself or you, but to the hypothetical farmer taking actions only in his self interest. >I know this, because I do it. I didn't want to imply that there was no solution for this problem. I only stated, from my
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>The problem with everyone finding problems is that they use these problems as excuses not to make any changes. This is true. But in the case of many problems around Ecology, most solutions orbit around collective action. Individual acti
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> Build your own ecosystem and let the rest of society go to hell. Eventually, if you do it properly, you'll be the only one left with farmable land, you'll be bought out for a handsome price and you take your newfound riches a
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Another thing. >Now look at it from a politician's point of view. If you really get the signal that it's not a real problem, then it certainly doesn't make sense to spend resources on it. That is true, but even if there is
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Ok. In agriculture, people tend to ignore the problem because it leads to lesser profits in the short term. The food industry, one of the major clients of agrobusiness is very competitive. The phyto pharmaceutical industry keeps pushing th
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You are right, but that is just the case of rivers, phreatic water and the deep subsoil. It must be the State reclaiming ownership of those commons, making people that benefit from them pay for their maintenance.
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Yes they can, and I benefit from that kind of subsidies (Integrated Farming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_farming ). Also, a completely free market doesn't just lead to the tragedy of the commons, but t
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This is happening not only in the US but around the globe. I struggle with it myself. I find there are 4 main problems associated with erosion where I work (Portugal): 1) Herbicides overkill leads to the death of useful grasses that help ho
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As a Mediterranean man, my perception (possibly biased, of course), is that 6 to 8 glasses of wine a week seem excessive as a standard for moderate consumption. I think I drink moderately, and in the last 3 weeks I had two, maybe three glas
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If I didn't know what the findings were, and if I looked merely at the graph in Fig. 6 of the BMJ article, I'd say that higher lexical scores in younger years correlate with higher declines in that same score. Does abstinence corr
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It's like conventional currency vs cryptocurrency. If you couple the two, given enough market size for each, volatility couples as well. No need to go through the meanders of algorithms or blockchains. (Coincidently, cryptocurrencies a
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Hackers have nothing to do with politics. Just as much as whistleblowing and exposing fraud, espionage, or illegal activities has nothing to do with journalism and transparency. Let alone politics. In general, software has nothing to do wit
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Yes, it's not actually a law, but a (perhaps cynical) heuristic. Possible interpretations: * People do not want to sound too optimistic but they hope to see some improvements before they die; * People hope they are dead before someone
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Experts are known to be bad predictors of the future outcome of their fields. Many times these predictions obey the Gaes-Marreau law. In the case of AI, according to one particular study, something similar happens: expert predictions are co
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Why Identity and Authentication Must Remain Distinct (2006)(technet.microsoft.com)
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Thank you for the links, and yes it is. In particular, Zuboff's third law: "Every digital application that can be used for surveillance and control will be used for surveillance and control."
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A simple Linux distribution though out for kids, yes.

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