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https://idele.fr/?eID=cmis_download&oID=workspace://SpacesSt... French beef and dairy-cattle-finally-eaten-as-beef eat 2/3 grass.
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> A lot of people here despise rural people, as a matter of cultural tribal affiliation. That's a great way to shut down a reasonable conversation! Makes a great talking point for rural politicians, too.
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The classical example is classical Athens and the practice of ostracism, which was only used against the rich. The current version is giving undesirable people one-way bus tickets to SF or LA.
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> even if we could make all those EVs and solar panels in the first place Production of both is currently rising rapidly.
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France doesn't use feedlots? In the US, half of the meat weight is added to cattle in feedlots, using 1/2 of US corn production.
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Crop rotation doesn't improve the soil at scale?
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I have a 27 year old email address that's on every spammer's list, and it's in a lot of password breaches because I used to not be diligent about changing it. So you'd think I'd see this happen... but it hasn't
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The residential rate I pay in Palo Alto is 16 cents. PG&E is one of the most expensive providers in the state. That's why bay area datacenters are concentrated in Santa Clara and use Silicon Valley Power.
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Are you recommending people use a non-approved medical treatment?
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> People care only about the end results, not about the efficiency (or inefficiency) of the intermediate steps. Look up for the guy claiming hydrogen is best and most efficient, even though performance per dollar is poor.
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How about this independent analysis: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220510267P/abstra...
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Enjoy: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220510267P/abstra...
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> old hydroelectric dams around the world My local power company owns several small, old dams, and uses them to supply peak power. That's valuable enough to maintain them.
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Europe allows biomass to count as renewable, but they're going to phase it out. The US didn't make as bad of a mistake. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/climate/eu-burning-wood-e... https:&#
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There are electric vehicle chargers that know the price of electricity and time recharging your car to the best time of day.
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It was popular in the 1950s. Deployed near where you live, even.
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I’m looking forward to reading your scientific paper.
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Yes? He’s correct.
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I’m fine with questions and challenges, but not aggressive ones from people who don’t like my explanation and will not read the literature.
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We published 10 papers today.
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No, this one, same user, same skepticism, 19 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31134691 Btw we released the 2017 calibrated data today, too.
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You read the 10 just published papers? Impressive.
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Didn’t I already reply to you weeks ago about a similar comment? Now you can read the actual papers which explain in detail why your comment is incorrect.
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10 papers total in this batch.
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This is pretty cool: it's very complementary to the EHT's ability to directly image a black hole shadow... but the EHT can only resolve the shadow of 2 black holes, while this technique could look at many more. I'd advise cli
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Ah, I had no idea that's what you meant. Thanks for explaining.
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> and encourage others to not buy the high end iPads right now. My entire group at work bought iPads as dedicated Zoom devices at the start of the pandemic. Did we make a mistake because our needs are different from yours?
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100% of the details are in the papers.
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I'm glad you've read enough to realize how that image was made, but we did publish a lot more than just the one image. The raw data will be published eventually. Thanks for being interested in our data.
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Is this also your reddit username? If so, I can totally see why you have such a unique opinion.
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