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by jly 9y ago
I thought the Detroit bid was compelling because it had all of the things you listed, including the Canada connection. They were proposing a campus that stretched across the river into Windsor, with full cooperation and subsidies from the
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> Modern agriculture is a highly skilled job done with millions of dollars of capital equipment. Unskilled laborers are more hindrance than help, and will be sent off to the "back 40" to indulge in mindless busywork. I think th
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It's not just what they grow, but how they grow it and sell it. The soil on many mid-country farms is bad because of years of growing with chemical pesticides and fertilizers and bad practices, something that is potentially reversible
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Keep in mind there are thousands of low income earners throughout the country that only afford their housing because of low-income subsidized housing programs. These programs are income-based to set monthly cost at an affordable level - so
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This is a compromise made to appease antitrust regulators in some situations, already. In a deal of this size, approval would likely require some patent portfolio compromises to get done. Case in point the current Qualcomm acquisition of N
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I get your point about disappearing art being reproducible, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the role art has played for humans throughout our existence. Not only does art greatly enhances the enjoyment of life, it's been a c
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> But can ESPN exist as a network without NFL games? Yes. It broadcasts < 20 NFL games per year. This is not a lot of airtime for a 24h sports network. It does spend a considerable amount of time talking about NFL, but that can c
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Invertebrates often get overlooked for conservation efforts and money spent, in favor of larger animals. Pollinators are critically important for their direct food supply services, but we really just don't know the full ecological imp
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The obvious emphasis of the maps is on the vastness of oceans and how much remains unknown, but I would stress also surprising is how little we know about the biodiversity of land. The 'remoteness from cities' map highlights plac
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Commercial container homes are just another type of prefab, and they share many of the advantages of that style, including typically being cheaper in both materials and construction costs and having easy assembly (days instead of months).
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There has been interesting research over the last couple years on this topic. It is in fact not royal jelly that pushes female bees down the queen development path, but rather the addition of honey and pollen that stops them from becoming
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GMO seeds are designed to allow application of pesticides, but after years of this the targets - weeds and insects - become progressively more resistant. This has begun happening with glyphosate (Roundup) and insecticide-resistant crops li
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> Airburst nuclear weapons produce basically 0 fallout. The bomb has to burst on the surface to pick up particles of earth and debris to create fallout. Air bursts produce minimal localized fallout, but they have long-term global consequ
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Besides water, California almonds are one of, if not the largest problem facing managed honeybees in the United States, due to the the agricultural practices of this industry and need to migrate in almost 2 million hives annually (first ans
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I agree there is value added by curation. But today, academic publishing is an industry worth over $10b, and they don't actually pay for the original access or license of the content or the editing and peer-review. Publishers do a
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by jly 9y ago
Sci-hub has been a total game changer. Plug in a DOI, get a paper. No accounts/tracking, no payment, no looking up the journal and their access model. Just research. The simplicity of use and ease of access is unparalleled. I'
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by jly 9y ago
Skydiving is actually a very safe and low-risk 'adrenaline' activity, from what I've heard. There are multiple redundancies and you are almost never at the mercy of randomness like with winsuits, climbing, or whitewater rapi
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You shouldn't, but this example is not the way the existing capitalist economies of the world work. In your example, a shared resource has labor applied to meet a clear human need, and those that physically do more of it reap more rewa
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Jame Dimon did say this recently, but the context of his frustration with government regulation of the banking industry. He is lobbying hard to get oversight removed that was put in place after that industry tanked the global economy only
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by jly 9y ago
Super markets certainly have their problems, for reasons you've said. However, you can choose not to put your groceries in any plastic from the supermarket, if you wish. I have done exactly that for a while now and it's easily d
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by jly 9y ago
I read the entire recipe through once to get a feel for what I must do before cooking and what I can delay. This hasn't proven to be an issue for me. Even if you just make it as-written, you're killing what, an extra 5-10 minute
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by jly 9y ago
I agree with many of your points. I didn't have an issue with the time or complexity - I cook most nights and spend a lot of time doing it so this wasn't an issue. My biggest problems were that #1 it's expensive relative to
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by jly 9y ago
Another Beethoven biography for the beginner that I can recommend is 'Beethoven: The Music and the Life' by Lewis Lockwood. This one does a good treatment on his life while also weaving in relevant analysis of his music for the l
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This shift is happening, but I see it far too slowly, still. At least in my area, the dominate beekeepers who do it for commercial enterprise (and have the majority of all hives) still treat because they are protecting their income. Hobby
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Yes, per-capita rates are tricky with honeybees since they adjust their hive numbers significantly during the year and slim down for winter and potential summer nectar dearth. Measuring colony survival is what is really important.
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All workers are also females, and they start out the same egg as a queen (fertilized). The workers choose to create a queen which has mature reproductive organs by what it feeds the larva. Specifically, NOT feeding it honey and pollen, ty
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There are very many backyard beekeepers, even in urban areas. I have a pair of hives on my small city lot and most neighbors don't even know. This isn't uncommon these days. Having said that, there are wild bees, and bees '
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by jly 9y ago
This is absolutely not true. A common and unfortunately widespread misconception by many in the beekeeping world and it's unfortunate these ideas persist. This is a landmark census of a known population of feral bees before and after
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There is public transportation and hopefully it's on the way to getting better. I personally take the bus to work everyday. Cap Metro is adding bus routes on the mopac express lanes from RR to downtown Austin. The problem is there is
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South Austinite so I'm a bit biased, but here's my take. Cedar Park and RR are quite a ways out of the city and traffic in Austin heading north/south is atrocious and getting worse, fast. You can live up there cheaply but i

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