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by chicob 8y ago
Thanks! One way to minimize the risk is to quarantine the batches in stub nurseries, and to be as zealous as one can regarding the sanitary passports. In the past, Alentejo had many orchards that, thanks to the State policy of the dictatori
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by chicob 8y ago
I'm an olive and almond producer in Portugal. In preparation for this very serious issue, since that the only thing I can do is to minimize the risk of infection, I tell all personnel to spray bleach on trimming scissors for each tree,
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by chicob 8y ago
This reads like what has become the standard Facebook PR response: they claim to be committed to improvement, but will ultimately do nothing actually effective. On the one hand, because it is excruciatingly difficult in what is relevant, an
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Mass tourism is the prostitution of places.
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by chicob 8y ago
And what about safety to farmers? I've used phosmet, an organophosphate insecticide, and I don't like to use it. You can know it's around in the warehouse, still in the original sealed packages, just by smelling it. A feeling
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by chicob 8y ago
Without trying to be picky, I would say that copying is not consuming. So DRM is not anti-consumer, but anti-freedom. The way words are thrown around theses days is kind of orwellian, and this has gotten into everyday's vocabulary. Par
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Large-scale geoengineering has the potential for unexpected consequences that could seriously damage the environment. This applies to olivine mining and desert flooding. Personally, I think a good compromise lies in resorting to algal bloom
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When I read articles such as this one I still see a lot of hype. I'm not a Luddite or anything, bu I think the future of sustainable, productive agriculture lies in agronomic science, not laser-robot overlords or the next OGM fad. If d
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by chicob 8y ago
But shouldn't the rotation take place connection-wise instead of on a daily basis? If a user browses with a given address and gets identified by one specific agent that shares that information with 3rd parties (e.g. a social network th
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by chicob 8y ago
Exactly. And here is the point: what exactly does 'tree' mean here? Palm trees, bamboo, corn, reeds and such are all of them quite different from the schema presented in the article. This schema seems to be some specific subset of
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Also pertinent to wind resistance is whether or not the tree is deciduous, the shape of the leaves' margin, the texture of bark and how they interact as a group in forests. Another aspect that explains why the vascular explanation is n
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by chicob 8y ago
Reading further: The motion of the mechanism has been described as an "harmonious coordination of trochoid trajectories".
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«If a psychological effect is this big, we don’t need to discover it and publish it in a scientific journal—you would already know it exists.» On the one hand, shoudn't we? There are a lot of supposed facts that need to be checked. A
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I usually can find several consumer-grade insecticides that make no mention of the active substances they contain, the health risks, and security or no-entry intervals. If informed professionals need this information, won't lay people
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Actually, it's the other way around. My bad. I misread the paper: it says 5 mg/L and 10 mg/L, which is a thousand times less concentrated than the prepared spray. At any rate, this is the environmental dosage the bees come in
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by chicob 8y ago
Just as a reference, the last time I used glyphosate the concentration was 15 L of concentrate (glyphosate 360 g/L) to 1000 L water. This is equivalent to 5,4 g/L. The study mentions two concentrations, 10 g/L and 5 g/L,
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by chicob 8y ago
Also, sometimes I don't understand the downvotes. This baffles me. Your comment is perfectly reasonable, and so is the comment you were replying to, even if one doesn't agree with it.
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I was about to say that. From a personal experience (I'm a farmer) the concentrations used in a residential context are exaggeratedly above the recommendation. They are mismeasured and generally high. Plus, glyphosate preparations need
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by chicob 8y ago
Insurance companies are already salivating to the prospect of ever accessing their customers' health monitor data. Cross that data with customer loyalty card data regarding groceries purchases for the next decades, and one can practica
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This whole interview sounds a lot like someone finally getting the courage to get even with an elderly man by exposing some petty aspects of his homely habits while only superficially mentioning his work. It seems the most detailed and thor
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If one buries them afterwards. If not, they will eventually die, rot and release the carbon back to the atmosphere. But eutrophication has other issues: it is harmful for animal life and it unbalances the ecosystem, degrading biodiversity a
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Even before checking what the data says, if this is a symbiosis instead of a simple infection, I would say the corn will benefit by large, and the energy balance will be in favor of corn. Plants get energy from the sun, but can only use it
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A company that owns theme parks doing research in materials science and robotics? Doesn't look like anything to me.
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Farmer here, currently engaged in Integrated Production. In my opinion, there are many misconceptions about the practices, advantages and disadvantages of both conventional and organic farming. First of all there are currently three modes o
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by chicob 8y ago
I do not think that this is a good idea, for various reasons. 1) Letting peer pressure and self censorship to police our habits is the end of individuality and freedom. This is exactly what China is trying to achieve with that horrible soci
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by chicob 8y ago
I agree. If we're speaking about an understanding of the deep connection between all species in this planet, and how it all relates to extinct species and old ecosystems, the human being is the only species in all of Earth's histo
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And plastic intensive as well. A single plantation of 1 ha of olive trees in super high-density mode uses around 1700 PE cups, 1700 PVC shoot protectors and 2,5 km of PVC drip irrigation tubes, not to mention the tying. Melon production als
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According to that letter[1][2] opposing Article 13, "In particular, far from only affecting large American Internet platforms (who can well afford the costs of compliance), the burden of Article 13 will fall most heavily on their comp
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Ask HN: What will HN do if DCDSM's Article 11 passes?
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by chicob 8y ago
I see this pattern more often, whenever new tracking systems are deployed with little to no discussion, be it 911 or eCall: it is for our own good.

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