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by ozborn 6y ago
There's a number of reasons I think, including: 1. The fossil itself is beautiful and outstanding 2. There is less pressure to produce right now given oversupply and shipping constraints in Alberta 3.Suncor cares more about its reputat
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by ozborn 6y ago
In Finland, they apparently are willing to plan ahead and can handle questions about unused equipment... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/world/europe/coronavirus-... Normally I don't link NY
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by ozborn 7y ago
I'm not sure about number of pollinator insects in terms of population, but in the southeast for example, the southeastern blueberry bee ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habropoda_laboriosa ) pollinates blueberries t
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by ozborn 7y ago
This is reflected in the Canadian dollar which has been behaving like a petrodollar. Alberta is in for some hard times, I think its GDP will be about eventually become equivalent to that of the slightly more populous Alabama, provided the e
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by ozborn 7y ago
Does the current coronavirus pandemic assist you in promoting a teleop model? I'm not sure how much human to human contact there is in the business.
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by ozborn 7y ago
Excellent article, I had a bias to in person voting and had not heard of in person voting with "Floating Receipts" before. I thought this was a receipt indicating only that the voter had voted, I did not realize this apparently in
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by ozborn 7y ago
A disaster. I'm opposed to the construction of new nuclear plants (still open to possibility of new fusion plants at some in the future) but from an environmental standpoint it makes far more sense to maintain the existing nuclear plan
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by ozborn 7y ago
Thanks for your comment, I'm not familiar with presto at all - but I did do a bit of reading of an older article: https://www.slideshare.net/frsyuki/prestogres-internals Would you view presto in its current state
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by ozborn 7y ago
I absolutely despise these hero worship type headlines, even if the individual made an important contribution. I realize headlines are written by editors (not by the author) so I don't blame the writer (the article is well written) but
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by ozborn 7y ago
A lot of the comments are fairly critical, but I think your move was praise worthy from the perspective of CO2 emissions alone. You should feel good about that. While Iceland may not be a privacy paradise, I still think Icelandic hosted ser
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by ozborn 7y ago
The article asserts, but provides no real evidence that steampunk has "died". I wanted to refute the author's claim by looking at google n-grams, but the viewer cuts off in 2008 with the steampunk n-gram still going strong...
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by ozborn 7y ago
Yes, you are correct. Of interest though is this study: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3073842 which indicates that prices are 7% than they would be otherwise.
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by ozborn 7y ago
Agree with paultopia - I'm an assistant professor and have also never heard of this happening. The closest I got to some indignation from the University bookstore which wanted to list a textbook for my course and was seemed confused or
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by ozborn 7y ago
"demonizing the only technology" Really, the only technology? Not inshore wind turbines? Not hydrochlorofluorocarbon elimination? "that can really help us in the next 10 years." I doubt California could build a nuclear
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by ozborn 7y ago
Electric cars are not at all "counterproductive" for long term solutions to climate change. They are one piece in the big picture of fixing climate change, drawdown.org ranks electric vehicles as #26 on their solution list. ( http
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by ozborn 7y ago
goda90 is correct, this months Scientific American shows you can differentiate between organic posting and corporate posting for vaping. See also: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6379814/
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by ozborn 7y ago
Because there is only one Japanese federal government and Abe is supporting whaling at around the level of $50 million a year? Most Japanese may support whaling, but don't actually eat the meat. The government has also been requiring w
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by ozborn 7y ago
Given their electricity projections are so awful, why would we trust IEA for energy or anything else? They consistently underpredict renewables each year. https://cleantechnica.com/2017/09/06/iea-gets-hilariou
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by ozborn 7y ago
Is it just me that finds it bizarre that they call Shanghai "the capital of the future" without any references to global warming and the vulnerability of Shanghai to sea level rise? Although not as at risk as Miami, Shanghai is on
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by ozborn 8y ago
Nuclear fission is a compact, high powered energy source. It is a practical and cost effective energy source for energy generation on submarines, warships and spaceships. In 2019 however, it is not any longer worth advocating as a source of
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by ozborn 8y ago
Thanks for the BRAT software - I used it for my PhD and it was very helpful. From the looks of things things though BRAT is now abandonware? Despite that, I actually used it this semester to have students do annotations and it worked out qu
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by ozborn 8y ago
You really think adding in a few hundred million years of extra data about the Precambrian period (assuming we have any) is going to add value to his chart or this conversation? No humans were even alive during this period. We don't kn
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by ozborn 8y ago
Another problem with this data is the rise of team science and huge author lists for papers - something the Nobel prize isn't really able to deal with. Think of the human genome paper or the Higgs boson paper - both good 21st century s
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by ozborn 8y ago
"But I could already see major limitations looming ahead: the huge amounts of land needed, the lack of scalable ways to match their inconstant power to society’s unremitting thirst for energy." I sometimes wonder if authors of the
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by ozborn 8y ago
I'm guessing the crown prince was upset with his journalism, I don't think a deeper reason needs to be found. From inside the bubble of absolute power (when you have already killed and tortured dissidents, rivals and potential thr
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by ozborn 8y ago
He's not really a scientist - at least one as theory heavy as the names above. However, his work with linux and git is at least comparable to that of other big scientific names known more for their engineering impact - like Van Leeuwen
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by ozborn 8y ago
Brutal torture of dissidents and consolidation of wealth played a role for most revolutionary groups, but at the onset of the revolution in 1979 most groups were not looking for a theocracy. The Tudeh and Fedaian were more important in fini
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by ozborn 8y ago
While carbon emissions are an important consideration, they are not only impact of plastic. Plastics often end up in the ocean where they cause havoc with not just marine marine life, but also people. It is not just about viewing unsightly
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by ozborn 9y ago
"if yeoman farming were actually more productive per unit input, then even enclosure wouldn't be enough to stamp it out." I'm not making the claim that yeoman farming is more productive. I do claim however that such laws
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by ozborn 9y ago
"The Industrial Revolution put farmers out of work, but not because farming became illegal" Not completely true, see the Inclosure Acts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclosure_Acts It's not unique to Eng

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