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by mapt 1y ago
Full on certified passive house looks very silly with solar this cheap, and frankly the math used to figure out a lot of the requirements is basically faulty. 2025 Code minimum is pretty decent if it's actually complied with, and &#x27
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There are several separate problems here. One is "People don't like bags stuck in the branches of trees and clogging waterways in their parks". Lightweight plastic shopping bags are so thin that a light breeze can pick them
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You are regurgitating almost pure grievance against people who just want to study the universe. Every researcher in every field all the time wants more data, better studies, more evidence. That is basically what science is. This attitude a
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But we almost never do. Have you seen the legal code? Every large corporation commits criminal acts many times a day. Even crimes so serious or offensive that they become politically relevant are almost always dealt with in a totally ha
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This is just totally untrue about how China deals with foreign nationals. They're tracked, they have significant disadvantages in civil courts, there are a bunch of other restrictions on their presence... but just disappearing America
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by mapt 1y ago
If you give a no-strings attached cash payment for childcare to a parent struggling with addiction or a gambling problem, they will probably not send the kid to childcare, and instead take the cash. If you give a no-strings attached cash pa
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by mapt 1y ago
Big box retail here. One of my line managers described the corporate management style as "Asking for an unreasonably excessive goal in order to motivate people to work towards a reasonable outcome". That, and the CYA safety stuff,
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Those prepaid visa cards don't actually exist, I think they were killed by AML/KYC. Instead, they appear to be "prepaid visa gift cards" accepted at less than a hundred large chains.
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Continuing to carve out economies of scale in battery + photovoltaic for another ten doublings has plenty of positive externalities. The problem is that in the meantime, they're going to nuke our existing powergrid, created in the 1920
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In places with guns they're not busting doors down, they're black bagging people on their way out of routine courtroom proceedings. A big part of the problem here is foundational - that Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and even Joe B
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That begs the question of why not just fix it. It's broken because of intersection of demand for labor with three other things: American society has always had a somewhat racist, xenophobia character Right-wing oligarchical power sees
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That would require a sensible immigration regulation. What we have instead is a regulation that almost prohibits immigration, but which has a whole bunch of grey areas, exceptions to the rule that qualify you for some special status, and co
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In the US, public defenders may try 1000 cases a year, may not meet you until five minutes before the initial plea, may have essentially zero investigative capability. Court cases may take years to arise, bail may be effectively denied by
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by mapt 1y ago
Do not decry the value of a hammer. There are more specialized tools, and they have their place. A shared property we value is that you can put the hammer down, and it stays a hammer. It doesn't Develop Ideas about spying on you, it
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It's harmful to a tiny watershed of marine habitat immediately downstream of the discharge pipe, and dilutes rapidly. With that said - if you can harvest a meaningful amount of energy from desal anything helps. I don't know that
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Biodiesel is an oil plus an alcohol (usually 80% vegetable oil + 20% methanol) reacted using an alkaline catalyst like lye. Methanol is also known as "wood alcohol", and can be made at ~40% yield by cooking down wood ("destru
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by mapt 1y ago
By far the most credible case for asteroid mining is water & carbon compounds. A little H, O, and C, and you have conventional hydrocarbon propellant + LOX. I don't know what the actual claim that is being made here is; This seems
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These fish grew large enough for humans to eye as food, because parasites were effectively limited by the immune system from devouring the entire fish. It's not perfectly effective, but it doesn't need to be.
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In other countries, they do. In the US, the invisible hand of the market will surely push a food producer to regulate itself effectively.
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Never done it, never gonna. Thank _Neoshade_'s legendary story in a Reddit comment for that - https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/dv99nf/til_t... With a side helping of Neal Stephenson&#
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by mapt 1y ago
Multicellular life naturally exists in a well-ordered matrix according to a rough plan, not a blob in a petri dish, and when it deviates too much from that plan we have various pejorative words for it and feel various health consequences as
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Oxygen weathering is a primary constraint on life on Earth, and every carbon-hydrogen based organism in the past 2.5 billion years has had to develop biochemical coping mechanisms for this toxic gas that wants to react with carbon and with
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Perhaps if there was, we wouldn't need to have this conversation. The closest we've got is the zombie husk of liberal George Soros, who is a center-left finance bro from a Holocaust survivor family who isn't fond of authorita
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A light comedy piece or a plucky human interest story do not erase the statements of fact made or the repeated insistence on being taken seriously which pervade the rest of this institution. It isn't even reliant on their audience tak
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Imagine a world where you have to take whatever "heart" a pioneering lab can produce for under $100. Are you gonna be in the first group of recipients to risk it, knowing that these labs are largely unregulated startups? I can ch
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Antibiotics only work on live bacteria, and only sometimes. "Any disease" is a much broader category.
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Could we call it "Fermented salmon tumor"?
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Surimi is not mostly fish, it is mostly soy, wheat, various starches. Fish (blended Alaskan pollock usually) is a minority of material in most packagings. This came as a shock to me. The macronutrients don't lie, though. Fish is pro
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There are very likely degrees of infection which are not obviously spoiled, but which have health consequences if consumed. The locus at which the antibiotic/etc protocols are mostly but not entirely effective. If they're activel
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When biologists talk about parasites, they're talking about numerous organisms from multiple kingdoms in one of the widest ecological niches. When the FDA talks about freezing killing parasites in fish, they're talking specificall

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