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by jly 10y ago
A global economy built on minimally controlled capitalism will be the downfall of our natural environment and ultimately the species. There is continued proof all around us that this is the direction we're heading. We have the foresi
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What's amazing is that honeybees will almost always choose the best option for a new home within an area where options are explored. They do this because scouts individually analyze an option before signaling their approval through
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Native bees in North America are affected by habitat loss and pesticides. The are many species in serious jeopardy because of that, even without the negative consequences of our direct management for honey or pollination. The industrial m
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I am an avid bee-centric beekeeper where we utilize treatment free methods so bees adapt to threats naturally. I can tell you that the problems with bees (introduced honeybees in North America as well as the thousands of local native speci
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I enjoy my Apple TVs and use them nearly daily (3rd and 4th gens). It's a nice product and what it does it does well. There has always been this expectation that it will one day replace my cable TV, without which keeps it limited to
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> We live in a 680 sq ft one-bedroom apartment I am barely willing to live by myself in a space of this size, let alone with spouse and children. For those that are, the bay area presents an opportunity to save some of the large salarie
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That's true. You just don't have to go as far out in Austin or adjacent cities. Certainly housing is affordable to buy in Austin city and surrounding, on even one modest tech salary. I don't think the same is true in SF&#x
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Austin also has no income tax. I'm sure a large bay salary incurs a large CA income tax payment. I'd factor that in right on the top, too. Certainly a consideration I have as a Texas resident.
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Austin city is increasingly expensive to live in. Fortunately, the city is in the middle of land that is open on all sides for a considerable range, and there are very affordable options just outside the city. If planned properly, this ca
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You may be right about medical innovation being partly driven by the profit and cost-heavy US healthcare system. We need to get comfortable with the idea that economic, profit-driven interest is less important than using our considerable r
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Well, not all healthcare procedures are emergency. If I need something done, especially that which requires many separately-billable groups, the final cost can be extensive. Right now, it's very difficult to even estimate this cost i
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Striving to be in the top 1% is not an acceptable answer to the concentration of wealth issue. Not everyone is in a position to do that and not everyone wants to measure success by wealth. This ignores the damage that wealth concentration
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Urban farming is in early days so ideas are still be attempted that may not make sense for the long term. That may change. There are many things we do in our worldwide agriculture system precisely because they make economic sense. That do
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Cleary with a lot of money on the line from one side or the other, either side can likely find a 'expert witness' who is credentialed and willing to say what they want. At least that's true in a lot of cases. Regardless of
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Locke lived and wrote in a time when populations were smaller and land and resources were generally far more available than the world we live in today. He stated the right to own property did not include the right to "spoil or destroy
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Half of all adults own < USD $2,200. The bottom 20% (something like 1 billion adults today) own < USD $248. Inequality is increasing - the top 1% own almost 51% of global assets. These statistics show that most humans have very little
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It's even more complicated than this with some species. Those numbers are true if a female mates once. Honeybee (Apis spp.) queens that lead successful colonies, for example, typically mate with a dozen or more male partners. This ha
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The hive can be thought of as one superorganism, but I think it's more than a superficial difference. Eusocial species behavior evolved from fully-functioning individual insects (solitary bees and wasps that still exist, for example) a
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The eusocial altruistic behavior of bees and other Hymenoptera requires relatedness (kin selection), but it also requires other ecological benefits like a nest that could be kept safe across multiple generations. This work is detailed exha
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> everyman has a property in his person; this nobody has a right to but himself. The labor of his body and the work of his hand, we may say, are properly his - John Locke Locke wrote this envisioning people producing a measured but fair
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> the world cannot support 7 billion people in a hunter and gatherer lifestyle. Not to nitpick, but if all of our species reverted to hunter-gather, it would quickly reduce the population to a level that could be sustained. Agriculture
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It's not extreme at all. All of civilization has only existed for 10k years. Most of the time our species has spent on earth, there was no wealth, there was no hoarding of basic goods, and there was no infrastructure. Hunter-gathere
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Hardly. The man he has installed as the transitional leader of the EPA is a firm climate change denier, but is also strongly opposed to the Endangered Species Act as a violation of property rights. The nominee to head the EPA is not much
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Zuckerberg seems like a good guy, he clearly has some very strong philanthropic ideas about how he will spend his vast fortune, and he seems to be trying to navigate the strange property laws of Hawaii in the right way. Having said that, i
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Just to look from another viewpoint, the 'modern era' has not been so great to everyone. The individuals who were occupied, for one, may not view it this way. People of the world that are exploited by the modern era (of which th
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Eusocial insects like honeybees, some wasps, and ants take this even one step further by combining the extraordinary but limited powers of one individual insect to make highly-complex decisions with the coordinated input from thousands or m
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> The fears vary, but many worry that, as artificial intelligence takes away a growing share of jobs, there will be a backlash against Silicon Valley, America’s second-highest concentration of wealth. (Southwestern Connecticut is first.)
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We have an even-increasing supply of dangerous nuclear weapons on this planet, and no short supply of individuals who may want to use them. I can envision a lot of scenarios from that which could lead to societal breakdown.
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I agree with this, too. Most of the super rich have wealth and resources that matter in a stable global capitalistic economy/society, but these will have no value with the breakdown of that system. The truly important skills, post-di
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They did this by suppressing four genes to minimize polyphenol oxidase production. What negative effect does this have on the apple? They do address this on the website, but I wonder what pesticide requirement these have. They state them

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