thatcat

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by thatcat 5y ago
That's incorrect, if you look into regenerative agriculture you'll see that soil carbon content can be increased from 1 to 8 percent in less than a decade. Carbon sequestration isn't just from biomass above the soil, it also
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by thatcat 5y ago
they switched the water source and didn't add enough hydroxide to adjust pH to level to maintain the caco3 coating the pipes, so the water ended up being too acidic
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by thatcat 5y ago
That's a bad comparison for many reasons. Hiv is not covid, the method of transmission - coughing is involuntary. Compared to your example it will be very difficult to prove intent. The result is not the same either, if no one actually
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by thatcat 5y ago
do you think chip fabs could effectively be moved there though?
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by thatcat 5y ago
Alcohol is legal bc fermentation is easy so restrictions fail, not bc its harmless. Weed is by comparison harmless but easy and lucrative to enforce laws against. The reason for legalization isnt bc drugs are good, its abt the emerging econ
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by thatcat 5y ago
Its not loving to control another person with draconian measures that further harm them with criminal sanctions that cause economic stress and stigmatize the person socially. Love would be creating a social environment that is capable of pr
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by thatcat 5y ago
A car is a small volume space with a high proportion of VOC releasing surfaces due to the plastic and seat fabric off gassing. The rate of off gassing is limited because most of the time the car is sealed.
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by thatcat 5y ago
so you're saying it will incentivize better choices like not choosing a pickup as a daily driver
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by thatcat 5y ago
wouldn't the judge need to have ordered the search for it to be contempt?
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by thatcat 5y ago
That's the unproven assumption made about any cash. There was a choice made between regulation of most black markets and using their existance as a justification for legalizing theft.
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by thatcat 5y ago
The amount of property stolen by police using civil forfeiture exceeds the amount stolen in property crime. On average, the risk of abuse exceeds the rewards of enforcement.
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by thatcat 5y ago
Nah, it's not worth it, the road side is not the place to fill out a form.
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by thatcat 5y ago
There is a clear path for taking ip that is beneficial for national security
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by thatcat 5y ago
Funny you use 007 as an example bc the early films were funded by mi6 as pro spy propaghanda, its a good example of how they would like to be percieved
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by thatcat 5y ago
The PRL-4 media referenced is mostly the same macro and micronutrients that all plants need plus a small amount of sucrose (30 g/L) with 10% coconut milk added.
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by thatcat 5y ago
The paper referenced was written in 1974 and concludes with "The typical aromatic characteristics of roasted coffee can be obtained from roasted coffee cells which have been derived from cultures maintained in active culture at least o
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by thatcat 5y ago
>to try to get a suspect to confess to a crime No, it was used as a form of intimidation. I.e. give me the money or else I'm going to use the power of the state to systematically go through your life and fuck with you and people you
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by thatcat 5y ago
Regenerative agriculture uses livestock to increase viability of soil. If used correctly theyre already a sustainable ag tool that uses waste and grazing as a benefit to plant production and carbon sequestration, not just a meat generation
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by thatcat 5y ago
That is actually very cool and a much more promising path than animal cell culture, but tbh even with 10+ years of sustained investment I have serious doubts about whether it would compete with lower yielding sustainable ag efficiency at sc
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by thatcat 5y ago
Scaling up and replicating the digestive tract and metabolic processes of a cow is so much more complex than a plane, that's a terrible comparison. Continuing with your naive reasoning, let's make synthetic corn instead of farming
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by thatcat 5y ago
those are process problems that already have solutions (which reduce profit somewhat). the biotech process has a bunch of unsolved scale problems, will likely have it's own externalities, and cost significantly more.
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by thatcat 5y ago
I agree about WW design being the current scalable form of bioreactors. There are steady state type designs of bioreactors - called chemostats.
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by thatcat 5y ago
The same issues happen with most biotech production. As you try to scale you need different bioreactor geometry bc the amount of heat, co2/o2 distribution, and waste build up in proportion to side wall area of the vessel changes drasti
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by thatcat 5y ago
Democratization of chem isn't responsible for the dispersal, the lack of regulation and proper labeling is. This occurs at the manufacture level not the level of research chemists.
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by thatcat 5y ago
if your tools and stuff you work on is rusty then there would be an increased risk
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by thatcat 5y ago
Just had a pixel 3a brick out of nowhere a few weeks ago after the battery died
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by thatcat 5y ago
Those aren't economically relevant productivity gains. You're basically required to have a phone to participate in society, that's more of a monthly tax unless you use it to generate income. Same with housing, it costs much
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by thatcat 5y ago
It's the externalities of the consumption - the waste left for everyone else to deal with that should be taxed. That tax should occur where the decision to create the waste is made. The responsibility should be on the producer of the p
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by thatcat 5y ago
maybe it should be based on net worth and not income
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by thatcat 5y ago
It doesn't apply if you're poor and white, probably why you got down voted.

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