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by nearbuy 7y ago
I meant overall in the long term, in response to EB66 saying BurningFrog is wrong. The plants can't be net collecting carbon each year unless the Amazon contains more and more plant matter each year.
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by nearbuy 7y ago
> We're talking about oxygen production. Not carbon sequestration. BurningFrog said the carbon from CO2 goes into plants. Since plant matter isn't accumulating, carbon can't be accumulating, and therefore oxygen can't
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by nearbuy 7y ago
Then where is the carbon going?
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by nearbuy 7y ago
I don't think the government is really intentionally trying to keep meat prices down. I think it's a side effect of subsidizing crops. I've heard two reasons for subsidizing crops. 1. The government wants the country to be so
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by nearbuy 7y ago
The regulated taxi medallion system wasn't good for drivers either. It was good for medallion owners. Before Uber, taxi medallions in New York were selling for around $1 million. These pricey medallions tended to get bought up by large
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by nearbuy 7y ago
Steam has a page that lets developers query whether a key has been redeemed, but it only lets you query one key at a time. This makes it a pain to discover unredeemed keys. You also have no way of knowing if an unredeemed key is held by a l
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by nearbuy 7y ago
> The taxes paid by workers cannot be counted as the corporation's contribution to society, because this tax would've been paid regardless of the employer This only makes sense if you're assuming the total number jobs, sal
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by nearbuy 7y ago
> back in 2010 no one except Stack Overflow was writing anything other than enterprise software in C#. So you literally had to write 95% of your software from the ground up. C# was well established by 2010. The TIOBE Index lists it as th
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by nearbuy 7y ago
I think there's a reason Uber chose cutoffs around 4.6 (depending on the city) and I don't think it's because they consider someone with a 4.5 to be a terrible driver. Uber faces a similar issue to taxis: the supply of potent
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by nearbuy 7y ago
Coincidentally, the inflated subjective scores from game reviews tends to match the percentage of players that rate a game as "recommended" on Steam. The median rating on Steam is about 80% positive (meaning 80% of players who rat
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by nearbuy 7y ago
I tend to agree, but in this case it's a meeting of 10 countries representing 450 million people.
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by nearbuy 7y ago
It could mean more US jobs, but it could also mean fewer if you look more broadly. Say US companies are having PCBs manufactured in China because that's currently the cheapest option. You cut off that option and US companies are forced
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by nearbuy 7y ago
I agree with you there. The problem was you seemed to be implying that because Monsanto is a rich corporation, they control all the science on glyphosate, and we therefore can't rely on science at all. Court rulings have to rely on sci
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by nearbuy 7y ago
I can certainly see how government agencies might be slow to update their position when new research comes out. > I'd look at the World Health Organization's IARC report in a different way. A researcher leaked to Monsanto confi
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by nearbuy 7y ago
> they came to a different conclusion based on weighting multiple studies available against each other than the one Monsanto would have preferred They also came to a different conclusion than every single other national and international
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by nearbuy 7y ago
Is that not a good thing? It's a different matter entirely if Monsanto fed false information to the reporter. But it seems like they're pointing out that the IARC ignored scientific data and published an opinion on glyphosate cont
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by nearbuy 7y ago
I find this "science can't be trusted" attitude incredibly worrying. Without science, all you have is a witch-hunt.
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by nearbuy 7y ago
How do you square this with all the major regulatory organization's experts concluding that there is no evidence glyphosate poses a cancer risk to humans? Organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agric
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by nearbuy 7y ago
A date doesn't really change anything. Someone could say, "We open on October 1st, 8 am local time worldwide".
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by nearbuy 8y ago
The pdf author thinks a light year is a speed and the universe expands at f(x) = e^x. Someone was copying stuff they didn't understand off the internet.
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by nearbuy 8y ago
Currently at about 200,000 lines of code, I'd say Nethack is much closer in size to the AAA games. Doom 3 was only about 360,000 including the engine.
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by nearbuy 8y ago
The current definition in Merriam-Webster is pretty much the opposite. Harm: physical or mental damage. Violence: the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy.
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by nearbuy 8y ago
That actually sounds pretty good if you don't have much money. Free food in exchange for agreeing to receive free scrap paper.
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by nearbuy 8y ago
This doesn't make sense. That parent commenter said they avoid killing animals, and your reply is they shouldn't bother because animals still die. It's like if I said, "I don't hunt people for sport" and someon
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by nearbuy 8y ago
It's absurd you think puppies raised with cats would try to eat them without human intervention. That's far from the norm.
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by nearbuy 8y ago
You're going against the scientific consensus if you're suggesting animals don't have any emotions. Do you have any reason to believe that they don't? Whether tigers hunting for survival is immoral seems entirely tangent
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by nearbuy 8y ago
I'm not sure what your basis is for either claim. How would a duck that was aware it could die behave any differently than what we observe? What makes you think that fear is a conscious emotion in humans and an unconscious reaction in
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by nearbuy 8y ago
Dogs raised alongside cats never even try to eat them to begin with. You don't need to teach them it's not allowed. There must be another explanation.
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by nearbuy 8y ago
I rarely use Facebook these days, and the reason has nothing to do with privacy. There's simply nothing interesting on Facebook to pull me back.
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by nearbuy 8y ago
You can actually do some of that by pinning objects in unsafe blocks along with using the FieldOffset attribute. This is where the term "low level" is a bit ambiguous and relative. If you're trying to bit bang some serial pro

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