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by sampo 5y ago
I think the literature review article in Frontiers in Environmental Science is pretty honest at being what it is. They do literature searches and take notes on the presence and potential of a hazard. It's not a risk analysis, and it&
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by sampo 5y ago
> For example, the Swiss pension system is similar to others in Europe, where the current working population pay taxes almost directly towards pensions of the retired. Since this system will break down if taxes aren't increased like
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by sampo 5y ago
BASF has produced herbicide tolerant crops plants without using GMO in the breeding process, and patented the whole system (BASF Clearfield ® Production System). This does everything people accuse GMO's for, but it's not GMO.
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by sampo 5y ago
> Why do you think plants that produce pesticides are not an environmental problem of their own? All plants that, in the nature, tend to get eaten by insects, naturally produce pesticides against their pests. Humans have bred super-edibl
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by sampo 5y ago
This is a skillfully written piece to raise anger. But if you look closely, there are some signs: This piece refers to a study [1]. As they mention, this Scientific American piece is written by 2 of the 5 authors of the study. 4 out of 5 of
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by sampo 5y ago
> A third implementation of the rust compiler. What is the second rust compiler?
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by sampo 5y ago
> In Europe, "Computer Science" is translated with a word that is a mix of "information" and "mathematics". I don't think the "ics" in Informatics comes from "mathematics". It is mor
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by sampo 5y ago
> our descendants will most likely be artificial He accuses biologists for taking it for granted that future space exploration will be by biological humans. But then he himself has an equally strong assumption that it will be by a roboti
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by sampo 5y ago
> Living on the west coast for the last twenty years, the situation is totally different. On a bike trail, on the sidewalk, people often smile and nod at each other. No need to go to West Coast for that. In the more affluent areas in Cen
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by sampo 5y ago
> reach out and touch someone's shoulder with your knuckles - after taking that course this became a company greeting .... This greeting might not be perceived too well in Germany.
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by sampo 5y ago
> it is run by all the people who have been successfully running Freenode for all these years Not all: 2006-2021 head of staff, Dahlskjaer, resigned in February 2021. Some sources maybe hint that there was some drama involved.
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by sampo 5y ago
> The non-profit isn't really live yet Sweden seems to have really lightweight legislation for non-profits: Write by-laws, convene a meeting of at least 3 people, accept the by-laws, and bang: you're a legal entity. So it may b
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by sampo 5y ago
> Typically, you could direct yourself to a local tax office or public registry where you could search and look into basic information about a legal entity as defined / outlined in a legal statute. Sweden doesn't require non-pr
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by sampo 5y ago
> Some untrustworthy entrepeneur bought Freenode. In 2017 > Network staff quit in response and started Libera. In 2021
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by sampo 5y ago
> Now none of us can speak on #newsboat But now #newsboat has a pointer to ##newsboat, can you talk there?
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by sampo 5y ago
Here's a possibly charitable interpretation: Like the post says, some channels moved over to Libera and left behind a "zombified" channel on Freenode [1]. A channel where nobody can talk, and only function is to have a pointe
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Ultra-Fast Grocery Delivery Startup Gorillas to Launch in US at End of May(businessinsider.com)
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by sampo 5y ago
Covid restrictions are also there to protect a minority, not the majority.
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by sampo 5y ago
> I think the issue is that it's unclear what was actually sold to Lee (possibly just a domain name and a website) Looks like Lee legally owns something. I am not exactly sure what it is? Something much less than the entire IRC netw
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by sampo 5y ago
> Andrew Lee <rasengan> currently controls the freenode domains and is being accused of a hostile takeover. The network was sold to Andrew Lee Doesn't it sound contradictory to be accused of a hostile takeover of something you
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by sampo 5y ago
Both the "Rockchip engineers found that the Gregorian calendar contained flaws" in the title, and the "in A.D. 2013 Rockchip hardware engineers found that the new Gregorian calendar still contained flaws, and that the month o
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by sampo 5y ago
If your main interest is reading papers and not being political about it, just use sci-hub to read the papers.
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by sampo 5y ago
> Isn’t this a description of native vs non-native speakers in many languages? I'd venture to guess, that only with English you can find businesses that run in English but native speakers are a minority in the company.
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by sampo 5y ago
Here is another BBC article, from which I learned that this international insurance company has organized training for native speakers to speak in a more understandable manner: > After taking an in-company e-learning course to help nativ
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Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca situation(bbc.com)
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by sampo 5y ago
> The privatization of public infrastructure (ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail ) was a crime From that same Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GB
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by sampo 5y ago
> It's utterly wild how there are people in the comments saying "maybe slave labor is actually good for the slaves." There are many countries that treat their prisoners as prisoners, not as slaves. Maybe prison work can be
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by sampo 5y ago
Some people get so comfortable with a mask, that it's more trouble temporarily removing it, than to just keep wearing it for the whole trip, even when outdoors or in their car. A respirator mask also filters out pollen, and particulate
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by sampo 5y ago
Also, Mac kitchen knives are quite popular among professional cooks and chefs.
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by sampo 5y ago
Clothes, car tyres, cosmetics, fishing nets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics#Sources

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