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by dubfan 12y ago
"Author: V. Shiva" The link to the full paper isn't working but if that is who I think it is (Vandana Shiva) I'd take that paper with a massive grain of gluten-free sea salt. She's the one responsible for the Indian
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by dubfan 12y ago
This is why when you buy Bt or herbicide-resistant GMO seeds, you have to either get conventional seeds mixed in, or you must plant conventional seeds yourself in the same field. This is called "refuge" and is a regulatory require
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by dubfan 12y ago
Never underestimate the tenacity of pseudoenvironmentalists to stick to their anti-GMO beliefs, regardless of the implications. Witness the reaction against Golden Rice as an example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden
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by dubfan 12y ago
I live in a similar large west coast city and I've gone 11 years.
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by dubfan 12y ago
A whole month without sex? How awful!
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by dubfan 12y ago
You're right that the drug war is a farce, but your reasoning is wrong. Altering consciousness is never going away, even with steep penalties. All that accomplishes is making the externalities of drug law enforcement even more severe.
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by dubfan 12y ago
Monsanto already owns Climate Corp which offers similar service, with monetization. I could see John Deere picking them up though.
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by dubfan 12y ago
You're probably referring to Jacobson v. United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._United_States
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by dubfan 12y ago
I can't start it by myself, and if I knew like-minded people, one of them would probably have a connection to this group already.
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by dubfan 12y ago
I tend to avoid pub trivia nights since they tend to focus too much on pop culture, which is one of my weak areas of trivia knowledge. This, on the other hand, sounds right up my alley. Too bad it's invite-only.
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by dubfan 12y ago
My totally unsubstantiated conspiracy theory is that the police intentionally contain crimes to Cal Anderson and Pike/Pine to prevent crime from spreading outwards to the more gentrified areas of northern and eastern Capitol Hill, as w
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by dubfan 12y ago
Here's a recent one: http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2014/08/11/man-arrested-after-... More information: http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2014/08/man-arrested-for-u...
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by dubfan 12y ago
Did you read the article? The author uses "autistic" to refer to people with autism (and additionally rejects the term "people with autism")
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by dubfan 12y ago
> If we were smart, we'd drop the delta tunnel idea and start investing in desalinization plants, at the very least investing in some test sites using some of the newer desal technologies which are showing promise. The surfer lobby
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by dubfan 12y ago
> the other guy always lets you go first at a 4-way stop You say this like it's a good thing...
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by dubfan 12y ago
And fracking-induced earthquakes.
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by dubfan 12y ago
I have domains registered with Namecheap, Dynadot and Gandi. I'd recommend any of them, although with Gandi be aware they have an "ethics" clause in their ToS which strikes me as being rather subjective and fuzzy. I wouldn&#x
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by dubfan 12y ago
> And unless you're using GMOs that are resistant to invasive insect species, you'll still need pesticides (or lots of human hours....which severely decreases efficiency and increases cost). And good luck convincing pseudo-envi
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by dubfan 12y ago
Zipper merging inside an intersection will almost certainly lead to gridlock due to incomplete mergers before the light changes.
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by dubfan 12y ago
Road capacity and driver efficiency are related. Roads have a theoretical capacity that is rarely reached due to inefficiencies in driver's habits.
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by dubfan 12y ago
> Thankfully my city is replacing as many stop signs as possible with traffic circles, where you'd have to be a complete idiot to yield to someone who got there after you. In Seattle, we have traffic circles in many of our residenti
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by dubfan 12y ago
More importantly, the decision by American transportation authorities to promote it is newsworthy. It seems like Northern Europe takes a more systematic and serious attitude towards driving, while the American attitude is more "eat my
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by dubfan 12y ago
Even including it in driver's education isn't likely to help. Driver's education teaches people to use blinkers, but from informal observation I'd estimate 1/3 of drivers in my area don't use their blinkers at
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by dubfan 12y ago
I see the negative effects of early merging regularly. The freeway onramp closest to my home leads to a frequently congested portion of the freeway. People merging ASAP often end up having to stop on the onramp, blocking traffic behind them
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by dubfan 12y ago
I have found that the MacBook Pro's speed at connecting is dependent on the AP. My MBP connects to my work APs quickly, but it has issues with my home AP. Sometimes the connection to my home AP gets dropped for no reason, and when I tr
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by dubfan 12y ago
FTA: > We live in a society that’s sexist in ways it doesn’t understand. One of the consequences is that men are extremely sensitive to being criticized by women. I think it threatens them in a very primal way, and male privilege makes t
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by dubfan 12y ago
> I really have no preference as far as kids go, it's just that when I read articles like this, the idea of having a daughter seems terrifying. This is like the tech equivalent of suburbanites who never go to the city because of all
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by dubfan 12y ago
> That fact is a very controversial _opinion_ that is on the way out of mainstream thought. Certainly, it isn't a fact in the "tested and proven" sense of the word. Did you read the article he linked? These differences hav
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by dubfan 12y ago
I used to work in consumer service at Nintendo. On the very first day of training, the instructor made us listen to this call as a example of worst practices.
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by dubfan 12y ago
Power = Current * Voltage so just giving the voltage doesn't help either. I believe the voltage is unchanged so stating a decrease in amperage would suffice.

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