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by jnmandal 5y ago
The main draw for me is the smaller size of this car. I'm not sure why car companies have slowly inflated the size of all vehicles to be extremely large.
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Global potential for harvesting drinking water from air using solar energy(nature.com)
2 points by jnmandal 5y ago|1 comments
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by jnmandal 5y ago
> no one wants to lobby for collecting people's shit, while everything else goes full Star Trek. Ironically in Star Trek, the food from the replicator is made from human waste or that's what they say in recent seasons anyways.
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by jnmandal 5y ago
Not sure what is TFA. > The question raised is valid: do we suffer more with a colder climate, or a warmer one, and where are the boundaries, and how far does our understanding reach That was definitely not the question being addressed h
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by jnmandal 5y ago
I think this whole question is naive and simplistic. Its unlikely we'll see straightforward trends like "less deaths from cold" (ignoring that such a concept is ill-defined and inconsistent in the literature the author review
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by jnmandal 5y ago
This is pretty clear to me too. We survive on stored energy borrowed from the past. Energy and growth are basically finite. We do need to cut down. We also need to develop tech (weather technique or technology) to reconstitute waste and ref
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by jnmandal 5y ago
Yes, this is exactly what I was talking about. In the US for example, almost all of our historical savanna has been replaced by forests. The upper midwest used to be mostly oak savana biome but since the advent of afforestation those areas,
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by jnmandal 5y ago
Not related. The suspected importance of savanna is more based on biodiversity than soil science. In these biomes, you have comparatively large amounts of animal and insect biomass. You have animals constantly eating the plants. This causes
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by jnmandal 5y ago
This is somewhat of a misleading headline. Yes, the rate of deforestation may have peaked in 1980s. There is also not very good data on this before 1990s. The estimate of forested areas in the context of our land use distribution are stil
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by jnmandal 5y ago
This sounds super interesting. Could you share some resources to read up on this?
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by jnmandal 5y ago
> the necessity of changing national borders Is there any reason to maintain nations with changed borders? I feel it's more likely we would abolish or abandon most existing states and form refugee societies in the habitable regions
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by jnmandal 5y ago
Yeah I see your point, and I dont think its semantics actually. You would be right to delineate between a legal notion which could imply some kind of tort or liability versus just a generic issue which is merely cautionary. In this case the
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by jnmandal 5y ago
I'm going to assume you are asking in good faith. From wikipedia: "A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial or otherwise, and serving one interest c
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by jnmandal 5y ago
The firm doing this research also sell insurance that covers solar panel under performance. So while there might be truth in what they are saying, just keep in mind there is conflict of interest here.
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by jnmandal 6y ago
In resort/vaction areas, there were (and still are) cartel like systems in place. There are also restrictions on true "BnB" or "Inns" in that they were regulated like hotels are. You are definitely on to something i
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by jnmandal 6y ago
Yeah I mean, there is practically a cookie cutter framework for building successful startups based on industries with regulations that are protective or restrictive (depending on you look at it) enough to skew markets.
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by jnmandal 6y ago
The sad truth of this is that this is just three letter agencies doing as three letter agencies does. I don't think anyone at the SEC was looking after consumers here. If they were, they would similarly investigate other brokerages wit
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by jnmandal 6y ago
You are externalizing the factor of soil health. When we start a field with fertile, normal soil, and add extra inputs, yields absolutely go up in the near term. But after decades of that, then your yield is back to where it was when you di
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by jnmandal 6y ago
Theres a great book about this called The Peoples Republic of Walmart
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by jnmandal 6y ago
I've been watching DHH grandstand about this on twitter for the last 8 months or so. His commentary coupled with the overall marketing message for this service has made it appear slightly elitist and self-congratulatory but I dont real
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JHU CSSE Covid-19 Data Repo Removes Information on Palestine(github.com)
2 points by jnmandal 7y ago|0 comments
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by jnmandal 7y ago
We'll see, the governor has ordered insurers to waive all costs ( https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/485622-new-york-insure... ), and actually California just did the same. Maybe tax payers will end up payin
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by jnmandal 7y ago
Those hoping to draw lessons from this should be aware that folks who contract smallpox had a relatively large chance of dying, ranging from 30% to as high of 75% for certain strains. It is assumed weaponized form of smallpox would be high
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by jnmandal 7y ago
Sure the test itself doesnt cost $3000, but you will be out around that much money if you go to the ER to get tested. The article about the guy in miami didnt even include a COVID-19 test and he was still billed $3270
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by jnmandal 7y ago
Its really far too late for that. They are trying in NY (they made it free) but you can't undo decades of societal conditioning so fast. Not to mention we probably needed to get ahead of this three weeks ago since the incubation period
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by jnmandal 7y ago
Like your positive characterization of millions of peoples' economic misfortune wasnt cheap and childish? Reading your insensitive comment probably ruined a few Greeks' day. I think you can handle a little Hellenic criticism.
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by jnmandal 7y ago
So now we are implying the the population of a country are less than human, because of economics. Cool!
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by jnmandal 7y ago
People deserve to hear this. Varoufakis has tried to go through the proper channels to make this public. Now DiEM 2025 (his party) has every right to self-publish these recordings. I for one welcome the transparency.
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by jnmandal 7y ago
Na malaka
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by jnmandal 7y ago
First I am hearing about this. Cool.

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