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by lopmotr 7y ago
Turns out it's not so simple: Young trees sequester carbon faster: https://psmag.com/environment/young-trees-suck-up-more-carbo... Old trees sequester carbon faster: https://theconversation.com/big
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Cutting for wood doesn't hurt since the carbon is still trapped in the wood. In fact it helps since they regrow new trees that sequester carbon faster in their early years than mature trees.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It's usually a fair bet that if a writer on the general internet uses ambiguous units, date formatting, or seasons, it's the American ones.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Are you sure you're not experiencing it right now? There aren't many countries that weren't founded on violent suppression of individual freedom - either through war, (probably with compulsory conscription), occupation, or a
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by lopmotr 7y ago
That's a common misconception but all the things that it relates to SI units are themselves redundant. There's an entire parallel system of constants and units built around it which only exists for legacy reasons, as well as peopl
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I think the way it'll happen is by America's loss of manufacturing. That's a big user of units and it's declining. Imported stuff is going to be more and more often metric unless it was also designed in America. So peopl
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by lopmotr 7y ago
None of them are really fundamental. Some people feel that force is more fundamental than mass since force seems to be a "real" thing that happens while mass is just an abstract quantity that helps us predict forces. It's all
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by lopmotr 7y ago
They've definitely improved atomic mass and Avogadro's constant. Chemists and students have been fooled into believing they have some special importance but in fact they're nothing more than ugly accidents of history that som
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Seems analogous to buying a product from a retail shop then reselling it in your own shop with a markup. If your SEO is better, then you can do that successfully, and why not? The original seller was leaving money on the table or failing to
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I think it's that you're unlikely to be alive at a time when only 100 humans had been born so you probably wouldn't be doing the calculation. Or, put another way, if you did do it then, you'd be in the minority of people
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by lopmotr 7y ago
That's only slightly worse than how I feel when people say that something's happening in the summer when it's actually winter where I live.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It's surely competitive with physical books, including the cost of storing and handling them, otherwise libraries wouldn't buy them. A random on the internet says about library books: "Very popular hardcover books have a life
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Just because it's good for some people or used to be worthwhile doesn't mean it's good overall that it exists. If you could buy a cheap license for time limited access to DRMd copy of any book, to me, that would be better tha
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Everything is extremism to somebody. Just because you class what you saw as extremism doesn't mean it's wrong for casual visitors to see it. YouTube already has its own (however capricious) standard for what to hide from recommend
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Anything that wastes bandwidth, I see as a positive thing because it's pressure on networks to increase bandwidth. Once it's in place, using it is harmless since it would otherwise have been wasted serving nobody. Netflix forced I
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I'd always assumed you could block specific ads or advertisers since there's a button on each ad with a menu for that (on the circled i button). But when I just tried it, it refused because it said personalized ads were turned off
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Are you proposing that they don't autoplay anything that you haven't explicitly opted in to? Discovering new creators is pretty important to both Youtube and its users. Or do you want it to autoplay something that's not based
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I've noticed that videogames, where killing is normally the main point of them, often justify it by dehumanizing the enemies, but does that make any difference to anybody except worried parents? For example, Wolfenstein 3D has you kill
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by lopmotr 7y ago
OK, bottled water of any sort is a different issue. I don't use it much myself but could it just be a generational thing? Old people carried their own water bottle so they don't see the point. Young people may be accustomed to the
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by lopmotr 7y ago
The tool to port to .Net wasn't as bad as the article claims. I ported a pretty big messy WinForms application which was somebody else's years of work and today it's even more successful than ever. It took maybe a week or two
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Visual Studio doesn't support edit and continue for 64 bit applications. I guess you can do your debugging in 32 bit but if that means compiling 32 bit versions of all your native libraries too, it's a giant pain.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
What happens if that causes glass to become more economical? Glass is worse for climate change, partly because of the higher fuel use in transporting it's heavier weight. This is the trouble with plastic - it's not simple! You can
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by lopmotr 7y ago
People might be talking about it a lot but it's a pretty low quality conversation. The extent of the knowledge among them seems to be mostly "plastic = bad, recycling = good". I've asked people for deeper reasoning behin
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Western countries already do so much to protect the environment from plastic that there's not much room to improve. It almost all gets buried in landfills or burnt, not spilt into the ocean. Since we've pretty much solved the prob
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by lopmotr 7y ago
If they don't like it, why are they doing it? For every rational labeller, it must be better than every other option available to them. Perhaps you're saying the workers are irrational and need some outside for to stop them doing
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Oh, I've got no hope for the majority of people. They're a lost cause - they still believe in religions! They don't need videos to convince them because even rumors will do. I'm thinking of at least casually critical peo
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Multiple adversarial journalists recording it, like we currently have, would protect against that.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
You can go to the official website of whoever is supposed to have said it, or a trusted news organization who recorded it and see if they publish the same video. Internet commenters will be quick to point out problems like that. In case it
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by lopmotr 7y ago
We'll still have provenance and trusted organizations which is what we mainly use to verify important and easily faked things like written words, photos, and videos that might be taken from a different context to what their description
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It might be fair to say that it is moving but also staying in the same position, as mentioned at the end of the article. To say it's not moving is like saying an animated sprite in a video game isn't moving either - sprite movem

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