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kuhewa
4y ago
What exactly is the difference you are claiming there is between the US and France/Japan?
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kuhewa
4y ago
You share this little nugget of enticing unconventional wisdom without doing the briefest google search to find out you, too, are repeating bullshit. Most countries, especially the developed countries the US is otherwise most comparable to,
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kuhewa
4y ago
The < 24 weeks old definition of infant in the US is absolute bullshit. An infant is 1 year or younger across the board. Perhaps you have you wires crossed and are misremembering that some countries don't count live births if signi
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kuhewa
4y ago
I am sure I am to some degree as is everyone, but whether I am insofar as it would be pertinent to the conversation I am not so sure, as I have had a decent bit of training in evolutionary biology and have written a PhD thesis and manuscrip
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kuhewa
4y ago
Its semantics, but generally the best would be taken to refer to a superlative, gold medal at the Olympics. I'd say you just need to be good enough to attend the Olympics to attend the Olympics as a competitor. Its actually an apt anal
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kuhewa
4y ago
I also believe ideas are cheap and they probably do too, somehow that isn't paradoxical in my mind with my previous statement but I'm not sure if I could cogently explain why :)
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kuhewa
4y ago
You just have to be good enough to reproduce. If you follow the logic, 'the best' collapses into a tautology, where it is defined by reproducing (i.e., fitness). If there was really a singular " the best" and you had to
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kuhewa
4y ago
Don't sell yourself of biochem short though, you were an undergrad thinking outside the box. Sometimes we happen upon drugs by accident, but often someone went through the same type of train of thought as you and found an ingress into
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kuhewa
4y ago
> how do you and the article present such different figures? My friend, let me introduce you to the wonderful world of "not reading the article".
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4y ago
Too bad the capital requirements upfront are so expensive for nuclear and literally no one wants to fund a project that will cost at least $8 billion, won't be online for a decade, and the power it be will produce is already more expen
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kuhewa
4y ago
So you imagine these tags are set by looking account names up on state voter registration lists?
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kuhewa
4y ago
I like a magnesium chelate, have one with some kava in it for nighty night time
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kuhewa
4y ago
A lot of minerals are physiologically controlled and might be influenced by, but won't simply reflect environmental concentrations. Ions like potassium will affect osmolarity so probably are controlled to maintain homeostasis.
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kuhewa
4y ago
Precautionary approach is a good idea but as far as risk across the range of proposed ocean industries, this one is kinda meh. the extent of most tail risk in the realm of possibility has already happened and we've learned from the cau
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kuhewa
4y ago
Ghoti papers is a type of article in the journal Fish and Fisheries which say it was a George Bernard Shaw joke
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kuhewa
4y ago
Its just wild to be shilling for Bitcoin this blatantly in 2023
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kuhewa
4y ago
> The majority of Bitcoin mining is done exclusively using clean renewable energy sources. Do you have evidence that over half of miners are on exclusively clean energy? That is a slightly different claim than this industry group recentl
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4y ago
ADHD types can tune things out to pathological levels when hyperfocusing on whatever dopaminergic activity they want to do, the problem is it's about the opposite when when it is something without the interest or reward present. In b
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4y ago
>Change the incentives (remove animal subsidies), and the problem will solve itself. That's still not easy . That is like saying ending entitlements is an easy way to save a lot of money in the federal budget. That's the entir
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>Change the incentives (remove animal subsidies), and the problem will solve itself. That's still not easy . That is like saying ending entitlements is an easy way to save a lot of money in the federal budget. That's the entir
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kuhewa
4y ago
> increase of co2 have a huge effect on plant grow especially in hash deserted conditions. Which might sound good for crops but of itself can destabilise ecosystems, African savannahs are already becoming scrubbier with brush and shrubs
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kuhewa
4y ago
90% absorbed by the ocean thanks to a high specific heat it's an even more modest number in degrees
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kuhewa
4y ago
We don't even yet have the data to describe temporal trends in insect diversity and abundance rigorously and at scale, let alone attribute drivers. There is definitely scope for ML to assist in producing/validating/collating
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I'm not arguing status quo is wise, but it's folly to pretend that upending the economic mainstay of that whole region would be done "easily". Similarly, replacing corn with a crop that is profitable (without subsidies),
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kuhewa
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Its a red queen situation though because the agricultural industry is constantly coming up with ways to get around resistance when it does appear
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Not so easy considering it requires decimatàtion of corn belt state GDP
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Container ships steam at ~20 kts. If they need to get somewhere and are picking these pit-stops at random as if they are stationary, about half the time it would be a rather maladaptive choice.
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kuhewa
4y ago
Personally, what I want from a summary is to know that the story follows the standard heros journey arc and maybe a couple details to know the setting etc, but then I want to know what sets it apart.
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kuhewa
4y ago
There are a lot of jobs that are necessary in society that have an emotional toll that can't be obviated. All of us, including you and I benefit from the fruits of their labor. Emotional and psychological support in the form of therapy
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kuhewa
4y ago
If the value was real to you there is no arguing, likewise i spend more on inputs to grow tomatoes every year than the market value of what I get out, for similar reason. but I'm sure you are aware someone that repeated the line about
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