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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
Indeed that's the point, not being a producer of oil by extraction.
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
Sweden is not an oil producer.
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Indeed, "import" and "export" are merely nation-based lenses on regular trade. If you make the lens small enough, you or your family unit are "importing" all sorts of foods and products, and "exporting&quo
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
I would strongly recommend not attempting to contract for or ship oil extracted in Sweden to the USA, or to anywhere else in the world. Unless you premise this on holding that Norway should never have gotten its independence 100+ years ag
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
Immediately kick off the industrial revolution, with an accelerated path to large-scale power-generation, electrical devices, and information technology.
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It is only bad fiction writing that attempts to be didactic or prophetic.
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Bose announces Frames: augmented-reality audio wearable(globalpressroom.bose.com)
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
Logically, we should expect them to launch a Waymo Two service (or Zero!?) -- and so the relevant question is: what will be different about it?
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
This would be an easy thing to do and everyday occurrence if we had proper, first-class-citizen transclusion [1] mechanisms as part of the Web standards and their implementations. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
Interesting how the presentation of healthy sexuality and eroticism in US culture increasingly suffers under a joint assault by neo-puritans, radical feminists, middle-of-the-road advertisers, and gender-smashing warriors. By the gods, even
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
Short for Noureddine, a common male name. Source: several North African friends with this exact name. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur_al-Din
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
Yes, there are many commercial greenhouses that operate year-round, including the summer months. The deliberately increased level of CO2 in a commercial greenhouse has no measurable thermodynamic impact.
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The number of base pairs in human mtDNA is not a subject of scientific ignorance nor of dispute; it has been known for decades. [1] This kind of objection is unproductive, and indicates one may benefit from personal study of the subject ins
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
Hypothesis: eventually all programming languages either add a library for fixed-place decimal maths, or revise the language to take care of it. Ada had proper fixed point types in 1983 already, and added additional requirements for the impl
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
The distinction between proximate and ultimate causes is deeply relevant for science and scientists. For instance, when oceans change, such as el nino, la nina, reversals of enduring currents, or even new connections between seas due to tec
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
While it is correct that this one particular comment of mine was inappropriately posted in anger at (perceived) dishonesty, please substantiate your statement that I have posted personal attacks "here and elsewhere ".
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
It is not "misleading" when the scientific evidence collected via NASA's satellites is that CO2 fertilization has been measurably greening the continents for decades: "From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands ha
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
Biologist here. I have a simple question in response to your disinformation: What CO2 level is used in commercial greenhouses? All scientific, controlled experiments with plants demonstrate conclusively that they thrive (faster growth, la
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
Maybe we should go by scientific facts? plants thrive in warmer climate and higher CO2 levels, not in colder climate and at starvation levels of CO2. I suggest you look into the operations of commercial greenhouses, then study the temperatu
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
The largest and, long-term, most effective carbon sink are phytoplankton. They are responsible for half of all photosynthesis, thus absorbing tremendous quantities of CO2. As they individually die, they over millions of years accumulate thi
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
My main point is that if CO2 levels fall below 150 ppm there would be a mass extinction of land-based plants, and of all the animals who depend on this vegetation. If you care about life on the continents, and human life, this is a valid co
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
The two photosynthesis paths that evolved in land-based plants (C3 and C4) are very specific, not adaptable. There has been no such thing as further "evolution" of these chemical/physical processes in plants.
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
We do live in an interglacial [1] period, which is a slightly warmer, shorter time in the midst of an ice age. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interglacial
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
We should remember that CO2 is an essential fertilizer for plants and phytoplankton, all of which thrive when there is much more CO2 in the atmosphere. Their photosynthesis processes evolved in and are ideal for an environment with CO2 co
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The War That Made the World We Live In(steynonline.com)
2 points by zerealshadowban 8y ago|0 comments
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New Mac Mini(apple.com)
84 points by zerealshadowban 8y ago|50 comments
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
I'm glad we have SCOTUS available to smack down POTUS idiocy when necessary.
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New MacBook Air with Retina Display, no TouchBar but TouchID(apple.com)
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
compel: force or oblige (someone) to do something Speech can motivate, encourage, inspire, disgust, leave indifferent, irritate, and so on -- but people who act on a given idea do it of their own free will. What authoritarian government fea
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by zerealshadowban 8y ago
Speech does not compel. People have free will, which is why they are held responsible for their actions, and judged accordingly.

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