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by jakear 3y ago
That is a self-deluded argument, but it isn’t the one I made. It’s the one you saw in the one I made, which reflects more on you than me. Whether it’s valuable for you to comment on anything or participate in any discussion at all is someth
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by jakear 3y ago
> Invasive plants are still invasive. Name a plant that wasn’t at some point “invasive”. You can’t. We call plants invasive when we see their spread, and native otherwise. But whether a human observed a particular organism spreading matt
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by jakear 3y ago
Evolution is just a fancy way of saying stochastic gradient descent of dna in the biosphere. A SGD routine can clearly move “faster” or “slower”, as can be measured by values like “preserved mutations per century”. Whether the “direction” i
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by jakear 3y ago
How rewarding it must be to “win” online. Especially when all you have to do is post a single comment then tell yourself “I won!”.
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by jakear 3y ago
I’m not upset at anyone, though people seem upset at me for pointing out the futility. I suppose the resources could be better spent doing something else, though I couldn’t tell you what that’d be.
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by jakear 3y ago
> Yes, there are (mathematical!) measures of genetic diversity; they are trending down Mathematical models of natural behaviors are, without exception, time-local. The net benefit on any timescales that actually matter have yet to be see
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by jakear 3y ago
Environmental pressure leads to adaptation and speciation. I don’t know what more evidence you want of my claim that a new pressure isn’t necessarily bad for general “quantity” of speciation.
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by jakear 3y ago
Which claim do you consider unsubstantiated?
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by jakear 3y ago
Yes, my house matters not at all, on any timescale. Even less because I’m homeless.
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by jakear 3y ago
What is it you think I don’t understand, taking into account I have volunteered months of my time on USFWS refuges engaged in the active burning of the Western Juniper, and have conversed at length with biologists involved in the management
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by jakear 3y ago
One species in one small study does not biodiversity across geo-biological timescales make.
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by jakear 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species
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by jakear 3y ago
Please provide a reference to the research discovering that wildfires are a necessarily “bad thing” in deserts across bio-geologic timescales.
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by jakear 3y ago
I already mentioned the Western Juniper, a “native” plant which the USFWS actively finances burning. A moral framework where some native species need heaven and earth moved for them to not be burned while other native species need taxpayer
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by jakear 3y ago
Please provide a reference for the claim that the introduction of this plant to the area will result in less biodiversity across geo-biological timescales. Without that you’re just spitballing.
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by jakear 3y ago
So fire is the issue? That’s the thing that we can be 100% certain is definite bad news? The redwoods would have to severely contest that idea.
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by jakear 3y ago
What makes you say it’s damaging? Some arbitrary moral framework whereby “native” species are better than “invasive” ones, most likely. I’m of the opinion that human-accelerated SGD (aka “Evolution”) is a natural phenomenon just like any ot
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by jakear 3y ago
All true, but who is to say that the impacts of human-accelerated stochastic gradient descent are necessarily evil?
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by jakear 3y ago
Worth noting a “weed” is just any plant-based life form the man doesn’t like, for whatever reason. Commoners are told a distinction between native and invasive life, but this is a facade. It is not uncommon for native species, such as
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by jakear 3y ago
What's odd is even when downloading the full res image, the central colors are decidedly not all #000. There is a faint yet distinct radial gradient. It does not appear to be a compression artifact (format is png anyways).
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by jakear 3y ago
Does the precise line dividing "bright but just barely not saturated" from "bright and saturated" actually matter?
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by jakear 3y ago
Anyone know what the black blob in the center is? It's conspicuously left out of the labeled diagram, and doesn't seem mentioned in the article either. I imagine it's the central sun in question, but isn't it odd to neve
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by jakear 3y ago
What do you think would be easier: tracking a sub when you have tons of data linking your clandestine sensors' information to their location as broadcast by sonar, or when you don't?
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by jakear 3y ago
> There's so much missing stuff. No symlinks, no hard links, no xattr. I worry about what the user experience is going to be Personally, I've never met a "normal" user who cares about any of those. You can try vscode.
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by jakear 3y ago
> running on the web the target so going to be primarily in-memory for a long time What do you mean by this? FS implementations I've seen (including lightning-fs) use IndexedDB for the backing store, which is not "in-memory&quo
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by jakear 3y ago
The common phrasing christians use is actually "The Holy Bible", with "Holy" being a common word in the bible meaning "set apart for God". So "The Holy Bible" is that particular "Bible" (boo
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by jakear 3y ago
The word "Bible" comes from the greek word "τὰ βιβλία", which quite literally just means "the books". I don't see any issue.
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by jakear 3y ago
Unfortunately while US's NOAA provides all the data needed free of charge (with an API to boot), the UK government's equivalent charges an MSRP of £38.30 and requires finding and contacting an authorized distributor, though the da
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by jakear 3y ago
The economics of scare tactics in mass advertising campaigns cant compete with those of writing actually good software.
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by jakear 3y ago
Cool! Would love to have some extra datapoints. This is what the raw data I use looks like https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/harcon.html?id=9410580#

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