ddebernardy

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by ddebernardy 4y ago
Per the linked article, the problem is misdiagnosed. Forestry research shows that a) patches of tree stumps emit on the order of 10 tons of CO2 per acre, and b) these emissions go away when loggers thin forests instead of clearing them. Why
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How do climate scientists justify not counting avoidable natural emissions?(earthscience.stackexchange.com)
4 points by ddebernardy 4y ago|1 comments
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If not fossil fuels, what could be driving the carbon hockey stick?(earthscience.stackexchange.com)
6 points by ddebernardy 4y ago|0 comments
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by ddebernardy 4y ago
For the longest of times I thought the same way. Realizing that the actual issue was almost entirely tied to topsoil loss is what made me change my mind. If you look into the atmospheric carbon dioxide data, you'll observe seasonal up
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by ddebernardy 4y ago
Author here. TL;DR for those who don't click links: - Corporate green solutions are shams - Promote gardening if you care about fossil fuels - An accounting chicanery keeps natural emissions out of view - The hockey stick is actually a
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The Science Is Wrong: It's Soil, Not Oil (Climate)(ddebernardy.substack.com)
3 points by ddebernardy 4y ago|5 comments
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by ddebernardy 4y ago
Author here. TL;DR for those who don't click links: Corporate green solutions are shams. Promote gardening if you care about fossil fuels. An accounting chicanery keeps natural emissions out of view. The hockey stick is actually about
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Help Stop the Climate Agenda: It's Soil, Not Oil(ddebernardy.substack.com)
7 points by ddebernardy 4y ago|1 comments
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by ddebernardy 4y ago
Author here. This is a TL;DR version for readers who only read discussions. The link is a summary of my short book, which you can read online at the same address. What the book does is expose an accounting chicanery that underpins the fossi
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A Natural Language: Exposing Environmental Big Lies(ddebernardy.substack.com)
2 points by ddebernardy 4y ago|1 comments
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by ddebernardy 6y ago
> Can someone help me understand why the broader stock market is actually up compared to six months ago despite all these dire numbers being thrown around? Heck, Boeing stock is up today! Dumb money is pouring in, and institutional inves
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by ddebernardy 6y ago
> Bay Area politicians including the speaker of the house Pelosi were encouraging lots of people to come to Chinatown parades. That seems like a rather murky assertion... https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pelosi-twee
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by ddebernardy 6y ago
> I kind of assume the virus grows exponentially inside the body and would dwarf the initial constant. That assumes your immune system wouldn't kick in during the asymptomatic phase or a time close to exiting the latter. But your im
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by ddebernardy 6y ago
That, and the fact that they're still advertising 12 job openings... https://lambdaschool.com/careers#jobs
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by ddebernardy 6y ago
No idea where you're from or what you did... https://imgur.com/a/XBzfOsF Might your search history be so that you're so contrarian that Google suggests contrarian results? :D
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by ddebernardy 6y ago
The correct query would have been "shirt -stripes". That works fine, or at least does on Google. But yeah, sentence parsing fail.
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by ddebernardy 6y ago
> Actually the doses given for COVID are often higher. Not just higher. The original article (the one out of China) that mentioned that there might be some positive effects reportedly suggested using doses that were a whopping 5 times hi
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by ddebernardy 6y ago
(2012) Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=utf8everywhere.org
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by ddebernardy 6y ago
Yeah, I only kept the second part of the title when submitting it because it was a) too long and b) too clickbait-y.
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Zoom’s encryption has links to China, researchers discover(theintercept.com)
275 points by ddebernardy 6y ago|124 comments
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by ddebernardy 6y ago
Sure, but for how long will it remain sustainable? The lockdown hasn't lasted a month in Italy and they're already seeing early signs of food theft that could potentially degenerate into food riots. I'm struggling to imagine
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by ddebernardy 6y ago
As the saying goes, you can depend on Americans to do the right thing when they have exhausted every other possibility. (Not by Churchill [1].) Plus, it's not a given that it is the right thing to do, especially if there's no pl
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by ddebernardy 6y ago
It seems macOS could use virtualization or permissions to run these scripts in some throw away environment to get rid of the problem altogether. Preflight check programs shouldn't be able to write anything to disk.
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by ddebernardy 6y ago
Bruno Le Maire said so himself this morning on TV: https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/maladie/coronavirus/bruno-... J'invite (...) toutes les entreprises qui ont accès aujourd'hui au chômage partiel,
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by ddebernardy 6y ago
> He is adamant that we are at the very bottom of the beginning of the curve Sounds about right. The US is heading for a rough ride, which is made worse by a combination of lack of universal health care and sane coverage being tied to ha
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by ddebernardy 6y ago
If someone accepts your -$10 bid the house will totally be worth that by definition. Remember the $1 houses from Detroit a decade ago. They weren't even worth $1 due to the tax liability that came with them, and they didn't sell f
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
Yes, at least in France. They passed (or merely announced?) a number of measures so that SMEs don't collapse due to treasury problems: postponed/cancelled taxes and contributions, paid time off for the staff without the usual dela
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France recognises Uber driver's rights in blast to 'gig economy'(aljazeera.com)
1 points by ddebernardy 7y ago|0 comments
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
Care to share in what positions such companies make such hires? I've looked around a few times over the years and have never found the slightest hint that they did such a thing.
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
> thus i’m curious how conservatives or Trump have anything to do with one’s departure. Oh, that one's simple enough if you assume they're part of the reason why you'd leave the country. And while we're on that topic,

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