whyenot

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by whyenot 10y ago
> California has not approved a coal plant since at least 1978, mainly due to NIMBY concerns wherever they tried to build them. This seems like a misleading statistic. Since you have looked at the numbers, how many natural gas power plan
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by whyenot 10y ago
In Limbaugh's lexicon, feminists turned into "feminazis" because advocating for equal rights for women was somehow equatable to a group advocating genocide.
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by whyenot 10y ago
You dismiss the environmental concerns with little more than a handwave, but they were substantial. The plan would have re-routed entire river systems, including economically important salmon runs, created a 500 mile long artificial lake in
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by whyenot 10y ago
Another problem that the article didn't mention is that with the end of mandatory retirement, professors take a lot longer to leave [1]. With people sticking around longer, there is less turnover in tenure track positions, and more com
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by whyenot 11y ago
The problem is, it doesn't just infect oaks, but several other plant species like California bay laurel. The pathogen lives as an endophyte in the leaves of bay laurel without killing the host or even causing significant damage, yet st
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by whyenot 11y ago
I don't think regular fire would solve this problem (it would solve other problems, though). Fire might strip out some of the carriers of the disease (California Bay Laurel), but infected tress would still spread the infection and many
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by whyenot 11y ago
Yes, it can survive in soil, although I don't know how well it would survive fire. Many of the affected oaks have very thick bark and are well adapted to seasonal fires, though. It's thought that a major route of infection is late
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by whyenot 11y ago
Five hundred years ago, Spaniards spread the seeds of european annual grasses as they traveled between missions in California. Within a century or two, a large part of the California landscape had changed. Annual grasses crowded out native
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Scientists say sudden oak death epidemic is no longer stoppable(washingtonpost.com)
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by whyenot 11y ago
In many science disciplines it's not uncommon for someone to do two or ever three postdocs while looking for more permanent employment. The underlying cause is the same reason people settle for the low pay and poor job security of bein
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by whyenot 11y ago
Obviously I did not read the article the whole way through. Thank you for setting me straight.
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by whyenot 11y ago
> Root crops, on the other hand, don't store well at all. They're heavy, full of water, and rot quickly once taken out of the ground. "In the Altiplano, potatoes provided the principal energy source for the Inca Empire, it
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by whyenot 11y ago
She dropped out of Stanford's chemical engineering program. Surely that should count for something!
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by whyenot 11y ago
I think she would be an absolutely terrible role model. She is a college dropout who built her company on marketing and unicorn farts without taking the time, or apparently even caring whether the science is right or wrong. We don't ne
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by whyenot 11y ago
> I guess that lingering smell of urine keeps people coming back to SF? That's true. Seattle has the frequent rain to wash smells like that away.
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by whyenot 11y ago
> There are property owners who would like to build on their own property, not hurting anyone. If they are impairing their neighbors' views, it seem pretty obvious they are actually hurting someone. San Franacisco has already experi
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by whyenot 11y ago
> banning plastic bags in California to help the ocean They were banned because they don't decompose, so they end up all over the place. Not just in the ocean, but on the beach, in creeks, lakes, anywhere near a highway, etc. As an
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by whyenot 11y ago
Right now that old lady on social security is likely paying property taxes that are 1/10th or less of what someone purchasing a similar house with the same market value would pay. Is that fair? If she has any children, she can even pas
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by whyenot 11y ago
> Pentagon advisory board aimed at bringing Silicon Valley innovation and best practices to the U.S. military snark: The US military already know how to move fast and break things. DARPA and the Pentagon have done a tremendous amount to
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by whyenot 11y ago
Good for them. Emergency workers should be paid a living wage, and for SF $72k-$112k seems completely reasonable. > Firefighters are actually some of the highest paid city workers. In 2013, 31 of the top 50 earners were from the SFFD. as
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by whyenot 11y ago
Actually, pair-bonding and promiscuity are almost completely mutually exclusive, as used in animal behavior research. Pair-bonding implies long term attachment between two animals, often, but not necessarily, including mating. Promiscuity i
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by whyenot 11y ago
This article is about same-sex pair bonding, not mating. An interesting question is if homosexual pair bonding might be an evolutionary stable strategy under some circumstances.
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by whyenot 11y ago
Unless you are sterilizing everything entering the cleanroom, that is simply not possible. Fungal spores, bacteria, and viruses are everywhere. If one of your workers is a smoker, they can spread Tobacco Mosaic Virus, for example.
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by whyenot 11y ago
I hate articles like this. The headline is deceptive and the article rambles all over the place before getting to the point at the very end. Catherine did not make "gloves laced with poison fashionable," she made perfumed gloves f
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by whyenot 11y ago
I don't know. When cities get involved in a venture like this, it's usually because that is what their citizens want. For example, Levi Stadium in Santa Clara went before the voters, who approved it's funding model (1). On a
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by whyenot 11y ago
Nice snark, but, syllabuses is also acceptable. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/syllabus
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by whyenot 11y ago
It's $15 a month (3.75/wk). I don't know why you believe the cost is $37, but that is not accurate.
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by whyenot 11y ago
For me, paying $3.75 a week (or in my case $1.88 since I have an .edu address) is worth it. It's about the same as a drink at Starbucks, and I do go to their website and also use their iPhone app every day.
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by whyenot 11y ago
Yeah, sure. ...for the handful of sprayings before mosquitos evolve resistance again. ...also assuming you are fine with killing off lots of other insects including bees and other pollinators, since DDT is a very broad spectrum insecticide.
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by whyenot 11y ago
He is not talking about today's Saint Louis PD. If he joined the force in 1994 and was there for 5 years, he's recounting events that happened 17 or more years ago. A lot can change in (almost) two decades -- or not change, of cou

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