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by sparrc 8y ago
Not sure I'm really following the problem this article is trying to warn about. It seems to be stating that there was a very popular banana variety called "gros michel", a disease came along that affects gros michel bananas a
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by sparrc 8y ago
Do you have any references for this? I've honestly never heard of cows or cow-like grazing animals living in forests. I've only ever heard of them in grasslands. To your second point, native biodiversity is definitely destroyed to
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by sparrc 8y ago
I thought we were talking about forests, not grasslands.
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by sparrc 8y ago
Cattle are good for forests? I'm sorry but you're going to have to backup that statement.
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by sparrc 8y ago
You might be mixing up containers and codecs. webm is the container format that most av1 video will be delivered in. With Apple the problem was not so much webm, but the vp9 codec, which is the codec most webm containers use (see youtube).
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by sparrc 8y ago
Obviously they can oppose all they want, but the fact of the matter is that most people are going to love the jobs and opportunities it will bring. Whether that is high-paying jobs in engineering or management, middle-paying in hospitality,
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by sparrc 9y ago
I think you've overlooked this bit of the article: > (Amazon's) roughly $180 billion in annual sales remains dwarfed by Walmart’s $500 billion, but sales at the big-box retailer inched up 3 percent in the year ended on Jan. 31.
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by sparrc 9y ago
I've found NordVPN very good and easy to use: https://nordvpn.com/
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by sparrc 9y ago
I believe the author is advocating for "traffic calming" measures, which are a fairly standardized set of measures that urban planners and developers use to slow down traffic on streets to make them safer. See https://e
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by sparrc 9y ago
TBF I think it all depends on how much people in the city generally obey rules of the road. I don't think I've ever seen a New Yorker walk more than 2 blocks without jay-walking.
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by sparrc 10y ago
> - it supports multi-line logs (e.g. java stack traces) unfortunately it doesn't, there hasn't been a request for it yet but please feel free to open an issue on the repo with any details you can bring: https://gith