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by yawz 7y ago
And also bear in mind that Neonics are relatively new: 25 years IIRC. They can last for years and minute doses over time will lead to death as surely as larger acute doses. So, our pollinators and we are being poisoned slowly and constantly
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by yawz 7y ago
It's naive and misinformed to think that only European honey bees suffer from it. Many European countries have banned the Neonics, but in the US there's a significant resistance to it.
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by yawz 7y ago
Many European countries have banned the use of neonicotinoids, but in the U.S. the EPA has ignored the evidence and has turned a blind eye to the science. As a result the environmental damages in the United States continue to grow each year
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by yawz 7y ago
As a beekeeper I can tell you that Neonics are a very bad and serious problem. I’m surprised that people are not much more outraged by poisoning themselves and their children.
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Things I wish someone had explained about functional programming(jrsinclair.com)
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by yawz 7y ago
> ethical, open, trusted, free, shared Yes, but these concepts were not nearly as overloaded as now. I wasn't around for the 60s or 70s, but I know the days where the only browser was Mosaic (early-to-mid 90s). Even at that time,
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by yawz 7y ago
I imagine each team member writes down their status in a daily page.
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by yawz 7y ago
As an engineer and a scientific thinker I agree with having some skepticism. After all we try to “disprove“ hypotheses in science. However, what we are suffering from as a species at the moment is more related to what Bertrand Russell descr
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Russia’s Retro Lenin Museum Still Runs on Decades-Old Apple II Computers(atlasobscura.com)
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by yawz 7y ago
Did they build a football/soccer field next to it so that we can realize how gigantic it is by looking at the pictures?
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Google will pay $550M after French investigation over dodged taxes(theverge.com)
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by yawz 7y ago
> and some I could find in the history books maybe.. Where you would also be, at that stage.
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The United States of Abandoned Places(atlasobscura.com)
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Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat: Good for the environment, but not for yo(cnbc.com)
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by yawz 7y ago
Another one bites the dust.
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Eggs from last northern white rhinos fertilized, scientists say(reuters.com)
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by yawz 7y ago
AFAIK composting or compost collection is not available everywhere.
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by yawz 7y ago
A used pizza box can almost always only be composted.
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by yawz 7y ago
"Until now, the leading theory was that a brutal hailstorm pummelled all of the travelers to death at the same time around 800 CE in a single catastrophic event, which might explain the unhealed compression fractures found on some of
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Creating and Maintaining Good Documentation Is Hard(twitter.com)
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by yawz 7y ago
https://github.com/quii/learn-go-with-tests is a great resource. It has some relevant sections to writing Web APIs.
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A Conversation with the Team That Made Bread with Ancient Egyptian Yeast(eater.com)
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There’s still hope for building on the web(theverge.com)
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by yawz 7y ago
I can ask a similar question: What makes you think that Uber can destroy/prevent the system/model that disrupts another (future) unfair market that it benefitted from? I don't think that Uber is a good example in the original
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NASA's Apollo program kicked off Silicon Valley's tech revolution(cnn.com)
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Apple baits Trump by saying it wants to keep making Mac Pro in the US(theverge.com)
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Record labels have a new target: streamers and gamers(theverge.com)
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by yawz 7y ago
> If it was for just batteries, wouldn't cheetahs on treadmills be more efficient? There were billions of people around, and not that many large mammals, I bet.
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Turkey defies US as Russian S-400 missile defence arrives(bbc.co.uk)
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Tor.com Reviewers’ Choice: The Best Books of 2019–So Far(tor.com)
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