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by chicob 4y ago
Of course eating only potatoes will make you lose weight. It's malnutrition.
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by chicob 4y ago
I didn't know that. It certainly is safer. Ammonia production, as I already mentioned in another reply, currently requires natural gas as as source of hydrogen. Regardless of its use as a way of storing energy, it is already a very imp
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by chicob 4y ago
Of course there is green hydrogen. First of all, the green aspect of it is that the source is renewable. That's what makes it green. It's not correct to call it a net loss, because no one wants to produce power from hydrogen in or
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by chicob 4y ago
This comment might come a little bit too late, but I wouldn't want to give the impression that these numbers suggest using urine as fertilizer is self-sustainable. It is not self-sustainable, and it might not be sustainable in the long
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by chicob 4y ago
All fertilizers and pest control products are locked up. And each year I have to give the government proof of fertilizer usage, with up to date inventories, invoices and fertilization tables for all crops that used solid fertilizers. I also
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by chicob 4y ago
The average yield for corn in the US for 2021 was 176.5 bu/ac. This is around 11,9 ton/ha. For 10 ha, a total of 119 ton.[1][2] How many people this would feed is hard to tell, because it depends on the kind of corn. Some corn is
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by chicob 4y ago
Fertilizers can be more than urea, like ammonium nitrate. Urea is also used, although many times it is treated for controlled release. Apart from that, some math is in order. Let's say I need 200 kg/ha of a 12-6-6 NPK fertilizer f
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by chicob 4y ago
Around 3,5 g of sodium per liter.
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by chicob 4y ago
There is nothing more annoying than a Customer Support Chinese Room of Kafka, where tickets are transferred around only to take us back to square one each time. And if plausible deniability from senior management would just add insult to in
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by chicob 4y ago
“We have longstanding employee and supplier policies in place to prevent discrimination and conflicts of interest, and we take those seriously.” Isn't adding a superfluous "and we take those seriously" the rhetorical equivale
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by chicob 4y ago
[...] school systems are making the decision to contract or eliminate their gifted education and advanced academic offerings. On the surface, this seems logical. If I’m leading a system in which the population of eighth graders taking Alge
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by chicob 4y ago
Soil compaction can happen for many reasons. The first step is to know your soil, and not jump right into solutions for a problem we don't fully understand. As a farmer, my advice would be: #1 Analyze you soil for profile, pH, organic
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by chicob 4y ago
Address bar commands that substitute a given argument in a URL when a given search key is used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_bookmark For searching in Hacker news, I saved the URL ' https://hn.alg
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by chicob 4y ago
I use smart bookmarks most of the time, if not Duckduckgo (which has !bangs). I almost always go to Wikipedia first. If I don't find what I want right away, I usually assume I am not trying hard enough.
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by chicob 4y ago
Well, dinosaurs, being a clade, are pretty common if you think of birds.
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by chicob 4y ago
Reading this was a thank you moment like I haven't had for a while. I completely agree with this critique of modern, consumerist nonsense. The only exception is I can still easily buy a single piece of fruit.
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by chicob 4y ago
The next step would be to hide an animation within another, in the APNG format. But I ignore if there is any compression that would make this impossible.
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by chicob 5y ago
Well, yes. My point was simply that the title misrepresents the article, because it is ambiguous. "The illusion of evidence based medicine" can be interpreted as a statement of how the aim of evidence based medicine is illusory. T
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by chicob 5y ago
Why not? Greed is not just some intangible human feeling. It can take the form of corruption and regulatory capture whose motivation, in the case of large pharmaceutical companies, is profit.
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by chicob 5y ago
After reading this article I find only one problem with it, and that is the title. The problem the authors have so perfectly characterized has nothing to do with the emphasis on evidence that medicine requires, but on the distortion imposed
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by chicob 5y ago
Great initiative! I love it. I'm trying to get people interested in developing a model for an open, digital, printable, free textbook, that anyone could access online, download, in full or in part, share, or print if necessary. The gen
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by chicob 5y ago
Farmer here. I've been saying for years to my fellow farmers that equipment security shouldn't be dismissed. I did not focus much on tractors, though, but automatized irrigation systems that allow remote access and configuration.
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by chicob 5y ago
I can't go past the general tone of this article. The article acknowledges that Facebook made mistakes, and that its internal reports prove the company knows the harm it can do to vulnerable teenagers. Then these issues are discarded.
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German activists pretended to deliver a far-right party’s election fliers(washingtonpost.com)
10 points by chicob 5y ago|4 comments
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by chicob 5y ago
Here's a more recent meta-analysis. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00144...
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by chicob 6y ago
Also worth checking: https://guide.lugnet.com/set/
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by chicob 6y ago
There's also Brickset: www.brickset.com/
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Raumschiff der Exploriens im Bau(flickr.com)
2 points by chicob 6y ago|0 comments
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Peeron: Lego Set Inventories(peeron.com)
14 points by chicob 6y ago|4 comments
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by chicob 6y ago
Yet another power gobble, this time over tweets.

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