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by goda90 2y ago
There are no spray, no till farms. Cover crops are a great way to suppress weeds, and then you harvest, cut down, and/or graze animals on the cover crops to help create a mulch layer on the soil.
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by goda90 2y ago
> Many people complain about a lack of community specifically because their own preferred idea of how it should be isn't what's popular. If someone has little positive face to face interaction with people outside their immediat
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by goda90 2y ago
A reason I like to use for biodiversity is pests. Pests thrive off of human activity. They don't really need biodiversity to continue being around, because they have us. Getting rid of pests is hard, and totally annihilating them is ve
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by goda90 2y ago
> According to scientists, 4 million tons of CO2 is roughly equivalent to the total annual emissions of 140 commercial planes. Stopping fossil fuel use remains far and above the most important thing we need to do.
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by goda90 2y ago
I hope someday we could develop computers that can do a molecularly accurate simulation of the human body. Then we could try all the inputs we can imagine, with a bunch of different sets of genes, and figure out exactly what's good or
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by goda90 2y ago
I'd like to see big programs to increase the amount of cheap, clean energy we have. AI compute would be one of many beneficiaries of super cheap energy, especially since you wouldn't need to chase newer, more efficient hardware ju
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by goda90 2y ago
Regenerative agriculture. No till, no spray, cover crops. Managed grazing of ruminants and poultry on the same land that crops are grown on to build top soil and serve as pest control.
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by goda90 2y ago
It seems the fracking wastewater disposal is considered the bigger source to be specific: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/does-fracking-cause-earthquakes
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by goda90 2y ago
> An individual organism surviving for the longest amount of time is not necessarily optimal at the species level. Though it can be argued that among social, intelligent creatures, living grandparents holds value for the species. Humans
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by goda90 2y ago
Do any vegetarians/vegans on HN want to chime in with their opinions about meat substitutes like Impossible and Beyond? Personally, I eat meat, but I don't take issue with people who don't, and I'm glad they have more an
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by goda90 2y ago
I don't think bait cars would constitute entrapment unless the police were directly telling the thief to go steal a car.
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by goda90 2y ago
Police use bait cars in several jurisdictions already. It seems to reduce theft but not eliminate it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait_car
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by goda90 2y ago
Many websites will also prevent highlighting text as well. Reader mode is helpful for that.
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by goda90 2y ago
What pricing fiasco?
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by goda90 2y ago
Changing the temperature of a fridge based on electricity rates just feels like a bad idea. A lot of food can have its texture ruined by slow freezing (a common occurrence at the back of many fridges already) and waiting to get food down to
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by goda90 2y ago
I know Chilean accents get harder to understand the further south you go. More idioms and slang and more dropped letters in speech.
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by goda90 2y ago
I'm a native English speaker. I learned Spanish pretty fluently in Chile, interacting with native Spanish speakers from several countries, and my personal experience doesn't entirely match the map. Chilean and Argentine are defini
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by goda90 2y ago
If only Congress were a proxy for the citizenry, but gerrymandering has ruined that.
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by goda90 2y ago
Maybe it was just how tough on grading my professor was but I had a hard time with a class called "Concepts of Programming Languages". It covered stuff like syntax, typing, garbage collection, etc. My professor was on the Racket d
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by goda90 2y ago
Better than logging would be to pull trees down and leave them in place on the ground: https://youtu.be/BiDBAU2d7oE
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by goda90 2y ago
LLMs aren't intelligent. They won't replace an EMR. They'll hallucinate information, associate the wrong details and just generally be not deterministic in the way you want an EMR to be. But they can be a powerful interface t
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by goda90 2y ago
I've been daydreaming about a new Android launcher to make doom scrolling less immediate and attractive. It'll give quick and immediate access to "tool" apps. Maps, calculator, bank, etc, and access to direct messaging(f
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by goda90 2y ago
Societies with lots of corruption, adulteration, theft, forgery, counterfeit, etc that goes under-punished. If you are frequently burned by your transactions and interactions with business, government, etc you're going to have low trus
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by goda90 2y ago
3D printed houses are cool, but I wonder if the future would actually be in robots doing the heavy labor of regular balloon framing instead. Given a standard set of pre-fab frames and parameterized layouts that only use standard sizes, a sm
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by goda90 2y ago
> which itself yields no greenhouse gasses Does anyone know how much of the atmosphere's heat comes from geothermal energy as opposed to solar radiation? By extracting geothermal energy we'd be increasing that effect in the sho
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by goda90 2y ago
I did tech support for my college's library. Someone donated some collection to the library and their catalog of it was in a spreadsheet on an Amiga 2000. I was tasked with recovering it. The Amiga turned on, but its normal monitor con
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by goda90 2y ago
> and my wheelchair. I experienced this this week. Started having lateral foot pain while walking and standing over the weekend. But no pain while pedaling. I walk considerably less when biking to work than driving to work because I keep
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by goda90 2y ago
I prefer Craigslist because it works with email. No need to go to Facebook or have Facebook apps on my phone to talk to potential buyers.
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by goda90 2y ago
The article talks about allowing more light into greenhouses, but the material also cools a room. One of the biggest reasons for greenhouses is to trap warmth for plants during cold periods. This might be fine for actively heated greenhouse
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by goda90 2y ago
Why bury useful fuel?

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