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by crygin 6y ago
This is a simple untruth. Vegetarianism is possible in specific ecological conditions (e.g. the Ganges Delta) and in those conditions it wins, economically, because as you note it is notionally ideal. In a non-tropic or desert environment
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by crygin 6y ago
Not all whale carcasses float -- some sink like a stone (and some sink, only to later rise again).
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by crygin 7y ago
Generally speaking, a criticism of a study that focuses only on something like this is uninteresting -- while it _may_ be a valid criticism, it is not always (many valid studies have very small samples!), and so stating it unsupported is ac
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by crygin 7y ago
As an alternative viewpoint, it's bizarre that we can't support these things. Mathematics textbooks from 400 years ago are relatively intelligible, and those from 100 years ago are easily readable. But with computer science, a
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by crygin 7y ago
To use your analogy no surgeon is allowed to cut until he or she does have a solid grounding in biology. I take it you're unfamiliar with the content of the MCAT exam, which is a prerequisite to admission to American medical schools.
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by crygin 7y ago
Simply purchase your single-generation seed from Monsanto at exploitative prices, and you can continue to subsist without major nutritional deficiencies.
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by crygin 7y ago
I've always been curious about this -- mine is also counter-clockwise, but with January 1 down around the 7 o'clock position. I've always assumed I imported that from a calendar with aligned seasons (like with the peak of su
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by crygin 7y ago
Three years of residency will make you a GP, on the very low end of the MD salary range. Specialists typically have a 4-5 year residency with 1-2 years of fellowship following.
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by crygin 7y ago
Perhaps more critically, we've burned most of the easily-accessible fossil fuels, which means that if we drop below a critical threshold we won't be able to reboot from scratch because there will be insufficient high-energy-densit
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by crygin 7y ago
Drivers getting angry for a few minutes kills more people than all the named acts of protest combined.
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by crygin 7y ago
They're not going to be so nice when they're at the other end of a four-billion-person refugee crisis in a few decades.
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by crygin 7y ago
In addition to the sibling comment's point that externalities of energy production are unevenly distributed, the difference between an old machine and a new machine is that in the manufacture of the old machine the energy/pollutio
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by crygin 7y ago
I would assume that they're being downvoted not for their claim (which I would not agree with, though I would love to see that graph), but for missing the point of the comment they responded to which points out that even if older hardw
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by crygin 7y ago
I recently learned about beech masting in NZ, which has a similar (but much more frequent) blooming cycle based on the difference between successive summer temperatures: https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/publications/n
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by crygin 8y ago
Sarah Taber explained the complexity of this aspect of dietary environmentalism better than I ever could in this thread on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/100636377572388864... tl;dr: the effect
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by crygin 8y ago
I worked on this with Minze Stuiver -- the goal was to eliminate reliance on man-made artifacts of potentially ambiguous date. About the project: http://depts.washington.edu/qil/aboutqil.html Datasets: http:/&#x
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by crygin 8y ago
The C14 timeline is calibrated from radiocarbon years to calendar years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibration_of_radiocarbon_dat...
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Teddy Gray's Sweet Factory(youtube.com)
1 points by crygin 8y ago|0 comments
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by crygin 8y ago
Reducing overall turnout is very specific-party-favoring in the US.
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by crygin 8y ago
This is not really the best way to cognate about mutation at the bacterial scale. A better way of putting it is that every possible simple mutation is happening right now. If a mutation were truly neutral, it would already be fairly prese
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by crygin 9y ago
It's a relatively common phenomenon in hydrodynamics (specifically, the formation of large separated cyclones in unstable flow), and the best explanation is delightful -- Onsager's "The Little Vortices Who Wanted To Play&quot
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by crygin 9y ago
Burton salts (as used for homebrewing, to match the mineral content of the water of Burton-on-Trent: https://www.morebeer.com/products/burton-salts-brewing-1-lb.... ) are a pretty close match to San Pellegrino at 1.2g&
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by crygin 9y ago
I saw it done with a stacked pair of dishwasher drawers (e.g.: https://www.remodelista.com/posts/appliances-dishwasher-draw... ) in a small apartment in Switzerland recently, with "clean" and "dirty&quot
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Introducing Climate Leave at Fog Creek(medium.com)
6 points by crygin 9y ago|0 comments
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by crygin 9y ago
The scariest thought to me is a corollary to that idea of looking at the scary incompetence of journalism regarding a subject you understand, and realizing that most topic-specific writing is in the same boat -- right now, we are all lookin
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by crygin 9y ago
Imagine our understanding of evolutionary biology if we had access to the entire corpus of failed mutations, the whole nondeterministic tree instead of the single surviving branch. This is that for the marketplace of ideas.
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The Salton Sea Is Dying(desertsun.com)
1 points by crygin 9y ago|0 comments
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by crygin 9y ago
Yes, they evolved later (generally under non-mammalian island biogeographies which produced evolutionary pressures which meant that being large and foraging nocturnally had benefit over retaining flight). This happens all the time -- imagin
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by crygin 9y ago
then you have to explain why the females' lack of the tusk is not selectively disadvantageous. No -- sexually dimorphic characteristics cannot be in competition.
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by crygin 9y ago
Huh, I wonder if this was just with certain juice bags, or if they generally pulverize the materials in the bags to make it easier to squeeze. I can easily see this for berries, citrus, etc, but it seems less likely for beets, kale, and ot

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