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by shkkmo 2y ago
> According to that logic, burning fossil fuels also is not harmful for the environment, because the CO2 eventually gets consumed by plants. No, the difference in logic is based on the source of the CO2. Fossile fuels are burried in the
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Generally, sky to north is what matters. I've done a fair bit of boondocking with starlink and found it to be very sensitive to tree cover in the wrong part of the sky. I don't think that starlink's support or documentation i
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Water flows downstream. The water the Salmon were born is smells substantially the same as the water that is from up river, that chemical content will change as tributaries enter the river but you'll probably see greater variations bet
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> if that actually does happen. There is no evidence that it does. There are cases where such mechanisms have been proposed, but postulating such a mechanism in this case when there isn't evidence of the behavior, is uninformed spec
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It's already been established that a sense of smell is vital in Salmon's ability to return to the headwaters of their birth. I'm not aware of any "genetic" component, it is simply that Salmon remember the smell of w
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Salmon do use magnetic senses to navigate the oceans as well, but it is an acute sense of smell (among other things) that allows (most of) them to return to the headwaters of their birth.
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> Do we understand the mechanisms of this "genetic memory" I don't think there is particular evidence for "genetic" memory here. The salmon were already further down river, they just kept swimming upstream. While
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Most salmon do, but a small percentage always stray. If you think about it, it is kinda an obviously necessary behavior given that many current salmon habitats were not present during the last ice age.
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> but in the context of the victim numbers that most past crimes against humanity have had, it sets a relatively low new bar. Which context is this? If you mean the context of past ICC indictments that isn't true. There are multiple
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The US is not a signatory to the ICC. The US legal position is that the bilateral immunity agreements it has with many (mostly non-european) countries that are signatories to the ICC prevent those countries from being required to arrest US
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Absolutely. The freeze thaw cycle is brutal on asphalt in many ways. Surface cracks expand, frost heaves distort and the material itself weakens. This is before any additional damage caused by plowing or ice scraping.
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Absolutely.
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> This is just a statement by someone that is desperately looking for a negative point No it isn't. This is an expert explaining why journals have ethical concerns publishing the paper and why those concerns matter. >> “I thi
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> Instead of stopping maintenance looking for a sponsor, wouldn't be better to hand it off to other contributors that have already established some trust? Some people may have more time available to be active maintainers. I see acti
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That's only when used as a preposition. When used as an adjective it is more or less a synonym for "appropriate" and works fine in this context.
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Which assumes those staff doesn't have instructions on how to handle such a situation.
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One time when I stopped to let a pedestrian cross at a crosswalk with button activated flashing lights that were flashing. While stopped, I watched not one, but fifteen freaking cars proceed through the crosswalk without stopping...in a 15
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I know plenty of drivers who rather risk hitting someone that take a couple of extra seconds to drive safely. It seems to be give or take half of them, depending on the area.
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While being held captive and done in a way that doesn't give away the location of the kidnappers? The larger the loan Bezos takes, the harder that will be. The extremely wealthy like Bezos have contingency plans and systems for this si
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> It sounds more like being involved in crypto than being publicly wealthy Maybe for now. The cryptocurrenty ricb are lower hanging fruit for sure, but crypto also make other kinds of kidnapping easier so I doubt it will remain soley in
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Next time please bother reading my comment if you are going to reply. I listed spefic gains from lower launch costs that are not theoretical and directly improve the lives of everyday people. As I said before, you don't actually want a
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Weather prediction isn't just about "should I have a picnic today". Accurate weater information is important for innumerable economic activites, from farming to shipping to contruction to power generation planning. Providing
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I see small venues that regularly host live music all over the place. It definitely drives business for the bars, but there doesn't seem to be much money in it for the musicians.
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> None of that listed technology comes from building reusable rockets. Lower launch costs are a force multiplier for all of those technologies and more. > This “boom” is all private for profit companies spending investment money. Not
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> I would hope that isn't true, an economy would function horribly if we only cared about the price change percentage and didn't care why it happened. That isn't what I said. The causes of inflation to matter, but we gene
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Space based technology has massive impact on every day life. From GPS to weather prediction to communications, space infrastructure is critical to modern life. Launch costs significantly reduce what we can build in space and what research w
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Calling people "garbage" is unacceptable. I fail to see how 'Trump does it' is supposed to be any kind of ethical argument.
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Which is why I find it exciting and am stoked every time I see progress made. Howevever, it's hard to view an announcement of the next launch with some minor additions to the experimental flight, as the most exciting space news today.
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With the Weimar Republic, it was specifically section 48 of their constitution which granted emergency powers to pass laws and the normalization of its invocation, paired with a dysfuctional legistlative body that was the only check on that
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There are real, significant between Weimar, Italy 10 years before and the USA today. However the explanation for the rise of Hitler you allude to is woefully incomplete. Hitler and his party didn't get into power by winning the majory

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