mikro2nd

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901.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
Plastics and overfishing are the least of our worries (though not to be dismissed) -- we know how to stop those (though we might find the means to do so unpalatable). The elephant in the room (whale in the fish pond?) is ocean acidification
902.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
I'll bet Swiss Money that Bayer knew exactly what they were getting into before buying and (upper management) decided to go ahead anyway. Presumably they've done the math and think it's worth it, having priced the risk in. Sc
903.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
Ah, no! I'd be happy to find a worm in my apple -- read it as a guarantee that the apple has not been sprayed with pesticides. Finding half a worm, now,...
904.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
I'd rather see a Mel Brooks anything than a reboot of any other thing . Where has all the creativity gone? In fairness, though, iirc Mr Brooks is in his nineties now, and is probably a bit tired of biz.
905.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
On the other hand, every time I have been back since the changeover, they reset my feed to 'algorithmically chosen tweets' (or whatever they call it) instead of the "by time posted" option I invariably want and choose. I
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Never Trust a Corporation to Do a Library's Job (2015)(medium.com)
26 points by mikro2nd 7y ago|0 comments
907.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
Yep. It's a thing, now. https://www.endscarbonoffsets.com/directory/ for a starting point.
908.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
In fairness I think it's a fairly new thing for individuals (as opposed to large companies) to even be able to buy offsets, but I'm betting it will become a much larger trend quite quickly, perhaps even required in some jurisdicti
909.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
Genuine question here: Do you, or would you, buy CO2 offsets to do something about the horrendous carbon footprint of your 250k miles/year?
910.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
Needs a '1984' tag in the title.
911.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
Fascinating -- thank you. I was not aware of this collection. I'd surmise that careful attention also has to be paid to cross-pollination requirements. Many fruit trees require a compatible pollinator, frequently of a different variety
912.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
There's a ton of good material about grafting on Youtube. See also the Growing Fruit forum at growingfruit.org
913.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
As the linked page stated, though, the point is neither productivity nor commercial agronomics, the point is preservation of heirloom varieties that are precisely not interesting to commercial growers. I think this is a very important eff
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by mikro2nd 7y ago
Pretty weird that the dupe-detector didn't catch it. Thanks.
915.
Speea engineer breaks silence on Boeing's MAX 737(kuow.org)
2 points by mikro2nd 7y ago|2 comments
916.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
Well,... for some people that seems to be the easiest way to distribute it to the whole (widely dispersed, extended) family. What would you suggest as an alternative?
917.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
I think both problems will be solved with <less oil>. Population (of any species) is a function of available energy. Every since we humans learned to supplement our food supply using fossilised energy stores our numbers have skyrocket
918.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
And almost infinitely easier to stop. All we need to do is ban a relatively small number of insecticides and insect populations will rebound in a very small number of years.
919.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
It would be sad if they removed the videos with 3 click in the last 6 years, because those are the ones of your granddaughter, living thousands of km away, taking her first steps, or reading her first reading primer by herself. These are th
920.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
I'd urge you to open it up sooner rather than later, since you state that it is your intent to open-source the code. There's no harm in declaring that it's alpha/beta quality, and also no harm (indeed I'd regard it
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by mikro2nd 7y ago
No, some of us block ads because we don't want to ever see any ads. Ever. At all.
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Hubble solves the mystery bulge at the center of the Milky Way(astronomy.com)
2 points by mikro2nd 7y ago|0 comments
923.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
Not being a UX/ergonomics buff, I wonder how something like this might be employed in software UIs, particularly those controlling/monitoring safety-critical systems. Any UX experts in the house?
924.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
Can't speak for OP, but personally I simply stopped using Discord.
925.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
Even more annoying are those sites that insist on using it, even though they know I'm human -- for reasons like I've paid them some money or jumped through their KYC hoops. At that point it's just being rude and exploitive,
926.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
There's a third problem: quite a bit of the stuff they present is (almost) uniquely American and presents a recognition challenge in other cultural contexts. That yellow vehicle? Looks nothing like a bus in most other parts of the wo
927.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
If it's that important or urgent, why not use the phone ?
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US to label nuclear waste as less dangerous to quicken cleanup(theguardian.com)
6 points by mikro2nd 7y ago|0 comments
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by mikro2nd 7y ago
Perhaps there's a middle ground. Give users a range of options (say 3 to 5) that aggregate the settings, ranging from " I don't really care about privacy " to " I wear a tinfoil hat to bed ", along with pointer
930.
by mikro2nd 7y ago
I recall one occasion when I thanked all the gods for having been taught this pattern... firewall changes made from 2000km away that went pear-shaped...

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