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The climate science behind this year's wildfires and powerful storms(cbsnews.com)
2 points by gdubs 6y ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 6y ago
Since this is flagged for politics, but people are still here looking for a conversation — I think the interesting conversation is around chain of command, readiness, and protocol. That’s not really politics per se, but more about the “syst
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by gdubs 6y ago
I’m pretty sure that this late in the game it’s way passed the legal deadline to get new names on ballots in all of the states. Thousands and thousands are already voting. What would likely happen is the Vice President would become Presiden
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by gdubs 6y ago
I feel like what this list is missing is how so much of our industry is patching holes created by previous applications of industry. For instance, with agriculture: industrialization has provided food for billions. It’s also created the mon
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by gdubs 6y ago
A lot of my ideas are already listed, so I’ll add Drawing. A lot of things can be made so much clearer through a drawing, and learning to draw effectively is easier than you might imagine. That doesn’t mean anyone can easily become a master
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by gdubs 6y ago
NASA scientists published a study on this. It’s not as straightforward as one might think: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/are-we-e... Link to original paper within the article.
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by gdubs 6y ago
Interesting that only 76% of the non-conspiracy-believing group intend to take a vaccine. Curious how that compares to the same group’s intention to take, say, a flu vaccine. E.g., some may not be able to take one, others may not want t
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by gdubs 6y ago
It’s been a while but I read Edwin Land’s biography — he was the inventor of Polaroid and considered the Steve Jobs of the mid-twentieth century — and the War effort was given a lot of credit for establishing their dominance. It didn’t seem
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by gdubs 6y ago
Distribute masks to everyone’s door, not send mixed signals - being charitable here - about the seriousness of the virus when they had intelligence briefings about it in January, not turned mask-wearing into a political thing, not contradic
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The United States Has Becomes a Disaster Area(theatlantic.com)
2 points by gdubs 6y ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 6y ago
Imagine the world is a web server. Suddenly it sees explosive growth. The server starts to buckle under the pressure. We can kick people off, or we can address the core algorithms which are wasteful of resources. What the data shows is that
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by gdubs 6y ago
I think the best way to learn something is to have a project. What’s the teen interested in? Is there a simple project related to their interests that would capture their attention enough to ride the highs and lows of the learning process?
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by gdubs 6y ago
I find this “thems the laws” theme in this thread pretty outrageous. Congress used run on decorum, arcane rules, and norms. Those norms were thrown out the window when the Senate refused to even have a hearing on Merrick Garland. Arguably
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by gdubs 6y ago
The thinking on this is that the rules, arcane as they are, say the Senate must “advise” on the Supreme Court pick (or something to that effect). So the argument is that Obama could have said, well, they were given an opportunity to advise
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by gdubs 6y ago
Kennedy, Souter, and Thomas were all approved by a senate of an opposing party. Apparently you have to go back to the 1800s though to find a case where a Democratic president had a nominee appointed by a Republican Senate.
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Trump to block U.S. downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday(in.reuters.com)
3 points by gdubs 6y ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 6y ago
Accurate in that the original title feels authentically like it came as a quote from Trump, who consistently says “Democrat Party”, etc. Removing Trump and correcting the word to “Democratic” depersonalizes it a bit, and feels like editoria
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by gdubs 6y ago
Let’s say a vaccine is safe — you still have to know if it’s actually effective. That’s one of the things measured in these trials. We can’t just say, whoops, and mail a new dose to everyone. So, the risk isn’t just the safety. It’s about n
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by gdubs 6y ago
I thought airline pilots and marines trained specifically to avoid taking unnecessary risks in an emergency. They rely on playbooks, checklists, training. There are also other tools left in the Arsenal before throwing Hail Mary passes — lik
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by gdubs 6y ago
I’m not an expert on this, but my guess would be: it’s logistically very difficult to produce the required number of doses. They’ve been gearing up all over the world to get ready. So, I would think that you really don’t want to spend tho
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by gdubs 6y ago
There’s two different types of “management” being discussed. One being the modern approach of fire suppression. The other, the one taken by native Americans, involved annual burns which did not make the situation worse and in fact kept thin
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by gdubs 6y ago
Well, while it might make a nice children’s book, there were no firefighting animals prior to humans. So, sure, the forests managed to maintain themselves because no one was around to stop the fires, which kept things in check. Animals woul
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by gdubs 6y ago
I own roughly 40 acres of Douglas Fir forest in Northwest Oregon, and let me tell you — there’s no black and white answer to this. This is a long post, so buckle up. Start with invasive shrubs like blackberries. They spread wildly and requi
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by gdubs 6y ago
Merry and Pippin spend the entirety of Two Towers trying to convince the Ents that they are not, in fact, Orcs (while the Shire burns). We’ve spent decades just trying to get people to agree on facts, basic facts supported by the majority
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by gdubs 6y ago
The US defense department has been saying basically this for over a decade in fact.
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by gdubs 6y ago
I was walking the trash bins down our long drive to the road yesterday in a soup of wildfire smoke and fog when it occurred to me — we sure have a compartmentalized way of looking at the issues plaguing the world right now. Part of that is
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by gdubs 6y ago
This is literally a conversation about a non-human species: birds. There’s habitability for humans, but we’re not separate from the ecosystem, we’re a part of it. In some broad, abstract way of looking at things people can say, “well it’s
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by gdubs 6y ago
We’re in the Willamette valley and originally the smoke was supposed to let up last Thursday. That quickly passed and then it was Saturday night. Instead, we got dense, stagnant fog and continued off-the-charts air quality index numbers. Bu
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by gdubs 6y ago
Willamette Valley here, and I feel you. Was really investing a lot of my optimism in the rain that was talked about for today, for over a week now — which doesn’t look like it’s gonna happen. This has been a long, long week.
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by gdubs 6y ago
It’s definitely tricky to reason about carbon. One potential improvement is the incorporation of seaweed into a ruminant’s diet, which can reduce their emissions by a third. There’s also progress being made on breeding sheep and cows that e

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