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by rindalir 3y ago
In most forests in the New England and New York State areas that I am familiar with, it's actually nearly impossible to find healthy beech trees, and has been for decades. Beech bark disease kills mature trees over a period of years, a
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by rindalir 4y ago
Some "pop"-sci books that have inspired me: 1."Uncle Petros & Goldback's Conjecture" & "Logicomix" (both by Apostolos Doxiadis), 2."Chaos" by James Gleick, 3. "The Man Who Loved Only
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by rindalir 5y ago
That would be ... scary for me. The closest I could find was some limited evidence of an association between cyanobacteria blooms and odds of ALS in the surround population: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles&#x2
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by rindalir 5y ago
In many mathematical circles, and certainly in a lot of popular books about mathematicians, there's this persistent idea that you are at your mathematical peak in your 20's (or earlier) because that's the peak of your brain p
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by rindalir 5y ago
Right, my comment was ignoring the geopolitcal constraints -- which are, um, substantial. But, there is an LNG terminal in Świnoujście that will soon(ish) be upgraded to process 8.3 billion cubic meters per year of LNG, which from what I un
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by rindalir 5y ago
It is on the way out, but there are several economies in Europe (such as Poland) where coal is the dominant energy source (I think it's around 70% in 2021). Even in Germany, where it's significantly lower, it's around 25% (li
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by rindalir 5y ago
This is a major bummer for me. I live mere feet from the previous center of population for my state, and now it has moved nearly a mile away :(.
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by rindalir 5y ago
yeah
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by rindalir 5y ago
Well, I guess it's better than sending an "inbound missile" alert to everyone's phone across a whole state.
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by rindalir 5y ago
In my undergrad abstract algebra class our professor asked us a question about finding the order of a group that involved dividing 32/8 and we all just sat there for ten seconds before someone bravely ventured "...four?"
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by rindalir 5y ago
I would also like to see a more walkable future, but I've given up hope that such a big transition will happen within a timeframe small enough to make a difference for things like GHG emissions. I guess I've made my reluctant peac
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by rindalir 5y ago
I also thought it was more (I remember reading about 30% in the early 2000's), so I was kinda surprised. I think you are right that miles traveled will be higher, so from an emissions perspective the decrease in commuting is good news.
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by rindalir 5y ago
In 2017, only about 15% of vehicle trips in the US were taken for commuting [1], the rest are for shopping/errands (45%) and for socializing/recreation (the balance). So even if we eliminate half the commute trips, we still have a
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by rindalir 6y ago
Maybe it's not a technological problem or a sheer-numbers problem of why we haven't been "visited". Maybe, after billions of years, aliens have gotten so weary and emotionally drained from watching primitive species (som
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by rindalir 6y ago
One technical point that I disagree with is his characterization of exponential spread. He is mentally modeling it like every person is the root of their own tree in a societal forest. While the number of infected nodes in an SIR model on a
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by rindalir 6y ago
Yeah I was just genuinely curious and hoping someone who was more knowledgeable than I would know.
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by rindalir 6y ago
As I've said, the people I've met with Down Syndrome seemed to be genuinely happy (and just all-around delightful) people, to the best that I could determine. I've also read that parents and other family members of people wit
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by rindalir 6y ago
Well I think it's a matter of "is it ethical to bring into the world a being who is more likely to have a bad life or lots of suffering?" Once the person is here we are of course obligated to treat them with compassion. BTW,
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by rindalir 6y ago
Would there be any reason that people with DS would react poorly to the vaccine (not because of the DS but because of the specific immune issues the article points out)? I really hope not, because wow is it clear that they should be near or
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by rindalir 6y ago
Not particularly well - it's ... less offensive, and sort of a combo of fishy, oily, and vegetative?
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by rindalir 6y ago
I kept a bottle of Caol Ila by my desk and sniffed it every few hours so I could detect when my smell start coming back. I accidentally did it on a few work calls...
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by rindalir 6y ago
Same thing happened to me -- and I also tested negative for antibodies about five weeks later. My partner (who had more of a flu-like illness) did test positive for antibodies though, so I'm very certain I had it. My hypotheses are: te
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by rindalir 6y ago
When this happened to me I recovered my senses within about two weeks, but coffee smelt like a combo of burning plastic and rotting flesh for several weeks after. To this day (six months later), certain things smell different than they did
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by rindalir 6y ago
how would you know?
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by rindalir 6y ago
Thank you! Your comparison made me laugh (dark humor, of course)
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by rindalir 6y ago
It's true, a major part of setting public policy is making things as uncomplicated as possible, which results in often stricter statements than would be necessary if people were better at following directions. But from my observations
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by rindalir 6y ago
It's been a while since i read about the SAGE / Imperial College Model, so I'm rusty on the details. However, my recollection is that a. there were serious technical issues with it, in terms of quality of construction, stabil
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by rindalir 6y ago
Unfortunately only a few weeks, and I never made it north of Trondheim. Someday, when travel is allowed again ....
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by rindalir 6y ago
I was actually talking about the UK (since it's a guardian article). I actually live in Vermont in the US, which is currently much more like northern Norway than England.
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by rindalir 6y ago
I am really not appreciating the comparison in this article. There's a world of difference between living in a beautiful place in a functional country with a long winter darkness (and adapting yourself to it) and living somewhere where

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