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> These are also expensive to buy & run. Long-term, it’s the cheapest option if you want to farm in an arid region.
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> pumping during the day into a storage tank, and irrigating at night Or, irrigate during the day but use sub-surface drip irrigation. [1] 1. https://www.ksre.k-state.edu/irrigate/oow/p05/Evett.pdf
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> You won't remember Parquet in 15 years, but you will have CSV files in 50 years. You're probably right about CSV but probably not parquet. Parquet is already 11 years old, there are vast data warehouses that store parquet, it
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Find a good Obesity specialist near you who does medical weight loss without resorting to gastric bypass surgery, that also provide nutritionist support, and do the program. These days you’ll probably be prescribed medication like Ozempic
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> trick people into thinking they are helping "the community" by contributing to their databases The only way that would be a trick is if they were helping the app owner while not making the app more valuable to the community w
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> I’ve stopped being an unpaid worker for the mega corps… I try to use OpenStreetMap consistently and provide as much data as I can That’s a good thing and I like your framing. By contrast, the article frames this as you being tricked in
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> Not trying to be an alarmist Every form of medication has associated risk and there are horrific anecdotes for everything. The key is to get more probable benefit than probable detriment. If the risk for a particular medication is unus
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> We use it in phases like "a nuclear holocaust" while at the same time it refers to a specific horrible incident. The historical and still sometimes contemporary meaning of "holocaust" is a burnt offering at an alt
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> The phrase doesn't mean what the author intends Perhaps dramatically ironic, but this is precisely the kind of thing that a LLM would help with. The opening paragraph uses "from scratch" which is a more appropriate choic
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> heliocentrism predicted a parallax Also, they didn’t have a theory of gravity so the lack of a sensation of moving with the earth and the fact that objects fall straight down were not expected unless the earth was stationary. There wer
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> Is it any wonder the birth rate is dropping? If you’re referring to the USA, and if all these things are as severe and hopeless as you say then how do you explain that the birth rate has been rising slightly for the last few years?
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> ADHD individuals tend to be better in crises than non ADHD Two potential factors come to mind. Firstly, those with ADHD are always having to think on their feet and drag their attention back to the issue at hand so when there is a hig
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> Can we trade iPhones and TVs for retiring at 40, with healthcare, housing, and food for life? No, because we don’t have enough people younger than 40 to support half the population being retired, let alone the productivity loss from t
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> Prior to unions, work looked completely different Average working hours were dropping for decades before Labor Unions became popular in the 1930s driven by the productivity gains referenced elsewhere in the thread. The trend continued
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> Energy production accounts for around 40 percent of all water withdrawals in the United States But “withdrawals” is misleading, in the case of fracking over 93% of the water withdrawn is pumped back in according to your second referenc
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> how is that different to Grumman building the Apollo moon lander? NASA wholly owned and operated the lunar lander after it was built. Intuitive Machines owns and is operating the machines it built for NASA and can use the technology fo
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> nobody can stay off their phones for more than 5 minutes Host something more interactive like board games, or have a faraday cage ready at the entrance for the phones and everyone has agreed to put them in there, or both! We’re all add
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> Trump loves to take responsibility for anything well in motion before he was involved That is a cliché about politicians in general since long before Trump existed.
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> Greenhouse gas emissions rose each other year of his presidency. Except they didn’t. The graph shows a rise and then a drop before COVID in a long term falling trend[1] that admittedly has little to do with Trump but wasn’t stopped by
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> there's no way an US or European farmer can compete with Russian, Ukrainian, South American or African labor and land costs For certain agricultural goods perhaps, but the Midwest is the most productive region for agriculture on
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> But Xi doesn't rule China alone, the CCP does Xi has consolidated power in himself to an extent not seen since Mao, maybe Stalin. Xi controls the CCP and has no rivals alive (anymore.)
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> his best anti-fascist works Fascism has no false pretense of equality across races and peoples, which is clearly what Animal Farm was referring to, but Communism does. Orwell deliberately doesn’t name the ideology but clearly Fascism i
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> that's a great reason to have children. It’s a normal and perfectly healthy reason to have children if you also love and cherish them. I would bet the number of parents having children for the sole and totally disinterested bene
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> I will discount your opinions to zero on anything else of consequence I’d settle for a much higher tax rate for the voluntarily childless to very inadequately offset the lack of contributing to the next generation. Probably the best wa
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> they will need to invest a lot into shielding all their bombs There’s no way to shield your missiles from a beam that can penetrate right through the planet.
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> unfair to those who think they have “low IQ” and take this as a reason to give up. The problem isn’t having low cognitive ability, the problem is giving up. Ideally, everyone should know and accept their true limitations, intelligence
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> anyone who can't save money must just not be able to make good decisions Unless you’re lending them money it’s always better to assume the best about people and spend the energy on helping the less fortunate. However, if you’re t
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> it's painfully ironic It was successful in drawing in my attention initially , but by focusing on that so much it leaves me thinking about how the article arguably isn’t describing a cargo cult. It ultimately comes across as slig
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> I live in an area with lots of power outages, so having a backup system is worth the lack of efficiency Unless you go completely off-grid then rooftop solar isn’t going to help with outages as they are turned off during outages to prot
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> I don’t understand why everyone doesn’t just live in the hills since it’s better for the environment. Because billions of people can’t just live in the hills.

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