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by strainer 8y ago
Its a good article with stimulating ideas I should take the time to read properly, but it seems to omit this feature of the arrow of time which I have noticed: In a basic gravitational simulation time would be completely reversible except t
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by strainer 8y ago
The ubiquitous float Double has 15 places of accuracy that is secure for summing integers up to that size. I think the core frustration is how values less than one are subject to about 1 million-billionth part of noise, which could be toler
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by strainer 8y ago
"What time is love" seems related, by the KLF in 1988. It sounds to me like the 303 might feature there as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT7lwdui4HY The KLF became more theatrical and were the biggest sing
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by strainer 8y ago
> Unless you construct that environment in a way that's 100% isolated from anything on Earth, it disrupts something in nature. Again, by definition. You limit your outlook by reading simplistic language such as "live like anima
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by strainer 8y ago
As well as having ecosystem needs, each person has potential to be a supplier of ecosystem services. Each person can be inspiring, inventive, remediative and helpful when enabled and when not diverted by conflicts, economic and so on. It is
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by strainer 8y ago
I recall hearing that sunlight sterilizes E.coli. Not sure what can be made of this. Here is an example of the claim from an article[1] >In 1890, the German microbiologist Robert Koch (who had isolated and described the tuberculosis bact
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by strainer 8y ago
The Organic "designation" has to be adequately enforced for international trading purposes, as well as your own consumer confidence. How did you come to the belief that it is being significantly gamed? Besides rumor and anecdote,
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by strainer 8y ago
Organic farming enhances soil microbial abundance and activity—A meta-analysis and meta-regression [1] > we integrated data from 56 mainly peer-reviewed papers into our analysis, including 149 pairwise comparisons originating from differ
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by strainer 8y ago
I'm curious how LZ4_HC version (high compression) compares to ZSTD since LZ4 benched about twice as quick for compression and decompression, albeit at the lower ratio. Also reportedly, that decompression speed is not slowed by higher c
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by strainer 8y ago
"almost ... factually incorrect" ?
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by strainer 8y ago
Well there is a lyrical aspect, 300 Tera-grammes is also 300 Mega-tonnes but that sounds like the familiar nuclear weapon rating. There are many sources in broad agreeance for these heavily researched measurements. I included one recent sou
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by strainer 8y ago
It is not emitted in similar quantities to CO2. It is remarkable that practically all of the charts of greenhouse gases show methane as a fraction already multiplied by its Global Warming Potential factor. Its sensible to present the gase
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by strainer 8y ago
In table 3* the study summarizes 4 categories of generator. Low speed Permanent Magnet PMSG Low speed Excited Synchronous EESG Mid to High speed Geared PM PMSG High speed Geared Induction DFIG All these types are cur
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by strainer 8y ago
In contrast to the common expectation and statements in this article - most turbines are already not using the rare earth magnet design. Study: Substitution strategies for reducing the use of rare earths in wind turbines [1] >According t
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by strainer 8y ago
Electromagnetism confounds that expected tendency. In combination with the nature of charged particles to repel each other - they divert each other in an unsymmetric, chiral direction to their relative motion. This leads to the obvious magn
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by strainer 8y ago
Not a fair comparison. See[1] how a whales digestive tract can be a fraction of the size of a humans, relative to overall size. Also 6 grams can be three whole plastics cups - or a dozen lightweight bags, not that neat little teaspoon full.
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by strainer 8y ago
No doubt it would reach more people if it was not banned - the Christmas TV adverts are exceptionally visible in UK. I think it was rejected by Clearcast (a commercial company) because its emotional punch was too intense: "There's
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by strainer 8y ago
Knocking out similar characters is a good idea but could be done to base32 to make it a little handier. I don't feel adding case sensitivity is worth a 15% reduction in string length.
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by strainer 8y ago
Its a puzzle how paintings were added tens of thousands of years apart, yet not cluttered by random additions in the intervening thousands of years. Its also rather sweet how the stick-people added 15 thousand years ago, are holding hands a
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by strainer 8y ago
Looking into those calculations, I see the current average energy used to make 1 kg of steel is about 10 thousand BTU [1] - about 3 kWh. 75% is consumed in blast furnace and "About 50% of an integrated facility’s energy input comes fro
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by strainer 8y ago
Its a nice fit for 10 bits
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by strainer 8y ago
I didnt expect that! Interesting that there are even telecommunication experiments with "circular polarized" light. It still seems most light has no circular polarization though and it can't supercoil like DNA either, unless
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by strainer 8y ago
> It's called a "rethorical question". No, rhetorical questions have expected answers. You simply rejected answers which you did not expect and then declared your own questions "not to be answered". >It's
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by strainer 8y ago
> my question weren't to be answered Please don't defend untrue claims in these discussions by asking questions "not to be answered"
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by strainer 8y ago
Ive not been giving my opinions - criticisms or expectations of organic farming: the global mature, studied, developed, alternative agricultural system. This is not opinion, it exists. Its actual flaws - thats a different class of discussio
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by strainer 8y ago
How long did you take looking at the references I provided, to answer the questions you asked me ?
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by strainer 8y ago
The organic farming regulations are professionally developed for decades, globally. US labeling options and regulations are officially defined [1,2] Very small scale producers like the farmer in this thread have some leeway - this is a feat
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by strainer 8y ago
That "in a sense" is just making light of what is literally a falsehood and which introduced a string of them in the source comment: "It doesn't have any properly defined meaning ...." Organics pesticide use is much
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by strainer 8y ago
Its not just a label, its a regulated labeling term. Practically all food labelled as organic in US, EU and other regions has to be certified organic. This "marketing BS" idea is pure meme. https://www.ams.usda.gov&#x2F
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by strainer 8y ago
Considering reduction of pesticide use and exposure is one of the main objectives of the organic movement, which has been developing for over 60 years now - it would be a hopeless situation if it resulted in "more pesticide residue tha

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