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by papreclip 7y ago
My brother worked in a mosquito lab for a while and said that mosquitos lose these resistances pretty quickly (as a population) if they aren't regularly being dosed. In the absence of pesticide, the more efficient organism is generally
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by papreclip 7y ago
Waze feels more like a social network. You get a little cartoon car avatar to represent you and can see other people's avatars on the map. There is a leveling/experience system for your character. Waze also allows the user to manu
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by papreclip 7y ago
Below ~$45k/yr, the actual income tax rate paid is zero or negative after filing for a return. These are the 47% of Americans that Mitt Romney correctly described as paying no income tax. A $21/hr tax-free job minus driving costs
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by papreclip 7y ago
Maybe he didn't word his post perfectly but he's still pointing out an important distinction. If you could conjure a star of 0.001 solar masses, or one of 1000 solar masses, the first would be a gaseous planet incapable of sustain
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by papreclip 7y ago
It makes sense the same way it makes sense for KFC to replace honey with "honey sauce", (main ingredient corn syrup). I personally have no interest in eating plant-based substitutes for my food.
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by papreclip 7y ago
Another fantastic memoir you'll find recommended on chemistry blogs is Max Gergel's Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide? http://www.sciencemadness.org/library/books/gergel_i
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by papreclip 7y ago
They might make up for their electricity bill 1:1 but they'll never go neutral on the amount of carbon wealth they consume in payment for their services. Imagine I have a business where I busk for money with my guitar outside of a coal
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by papreclip 7y ago
If you spend all day walking, you rack up miles. As a furniture mover I was walking 8-10 miles a day, carrying furniture for a significant fraction of that. If these workers are walking across giant warehouses they should definitely have bi
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by papreclip 7y ago
If I'm remembering correctly from my chemistry lectures, there's an upper limit on how much nitrogen can be fixed "organically", and it's nowhere near enough to support the current world population. It's not on