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by evunveot 3y ago
I've encountered less about rice, but the transitional practices I described can be used in the (otherwise conventional) growing of corn and wheat and can produce comparable yields for lower cost to the farmer, directly in the case of
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by evunveot 3y ago
It would be maximally eco-friendly to transition agriculture away from chemical fertilizers (and pesticides, herbicides and fungicides/off-farm inputs in general) by focusing on soil generation and ecosystem development primarily throu
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by evunveot 4y ago
(Attempting to speak from the Orthodox Christian point of view:) While we know some things due to divine revelation, there's plenty of truth to be discovered through the observation and contemplation of God's creation (both seen [
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by evunveot 4y ago
The Orthodox Christian version of stoicism is to recognize that your selfish desires and fears ("passions") aren't who you are, that they're more like spirits who want to bring you down, and that once you observe them an
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by evunveot 4y ago
Your post shows up as two minutes after this one on /newest
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by evunveot 6y ago
Do you run the Linux versions of your Jetbrains IDEs using WSL or the native Windows versions? I was setting exactly this up just this past weekend after 10 years of running Linux exclusively and I'm not sure which way to go.
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by evunveot 7y ago
> Reality tends to make sense on scales and in environments where making sense of reality conferred an evolutionary advantage on the brain-haver. I get your point, but I was just making an observation: historically, when we encounter som
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by evunveot 7y ago
Is consciousness an emergent property of brains or are brains an emergent property of consciousness? That's the question.
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by evunveot 7y ago
The article talks about a philosophical concept called "dual-aspect monism" which, in the author's interpretation, basically means that everything we think of as physical/material has some kind of consciousness, and that
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by evunveot 7y ago
> Democracy could only work effectively if most of the population is very well educated ... as ignorant people are much easier to manipulate I don't think that's true. In order to manipulate lots of little people you have to ma
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by evunveot 7y ago
"Wisdom of the crowd" was also a common refrain for a time. Somewhat trendy in the years before Twitter and Facebook blew up. I think it's widely regarded as naive nowadays, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by evunveot 7y ago
I'd argue those are more like cartels than unions.
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by evunveot 7y ago
> By the standards of 2007 PHP this is good code By the standards of early 2004 (when Facebook was originally written) this is still mediocre PHP. People who cared about writing good PHP were reading magazines like this (2003): https:&#
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by evunveot 7y ago
I'd say the phenomenon is pretty unique to Trump and Sanders. In Trump's case, his speeches are largely stand-up comedy, and the parts that aren't played for laughs contain the kind of rah-rah patriotism that people come out
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by evunveot 7y ago
The only somewhat encouraging thing to me in the IG report was that the FBI's lawyers refused to submit the FISA application initially because there wasn't enough meat to the suspicions about Carter Page. They reversed their decis
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by evunveot 7y ago
> scum like Carter Page All I know about Carter Page is he was falsely painted as a spy for Russia by the FBI and compliant media organizations for several years, even after the FBI knew he had been working with the CIA. Not sure what ma
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by evunveot 7y ago
Ongoing Dave Rubin livestream talking about what this is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_v4-kajAWk Sounds like they're going to mass produce white-label websites and apps for content creators with existing audiences
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by evunveot 7y ago
> Wages have been mostly flat, so consumers have no extra money to engage in additional buying. Check out [1] and scroll down to Table A-7 (it's an Excel file). It's the real earnings data (in 2018 dollars), by gender, from 196
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by evunveot 7y ago
> Would they know how? They wouldn't normally be accustomed to using those tools, right? A sighted person with laryngitis doesn't need to bother with learning text-to-speech for the 2 weeks they don't have their voice beca
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by evunveot 7y ago
I should have said "Not being able to speak the local language isn't germane to a discussion about the Americans with Disabilities Act," because not being able to speak English isn't considered a disability under that la
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by evunveot 7y ago
I tested the Domino's home page with WAVE (I had to install the browser extension for some reason) and it found no errors and what looks like healthy use of landmarks and ARIA, though I didn't dig too deep. Would any blind HN read
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by evunveot 7y ago
I'm pretty sure phone companies in the US are required to provide free text<->speech services (dictation) for people who can't speak and/or hear. They've been popular with prank callers. Not being able to speak the
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by evunveot 7y ago
I'm in the same boat, but I'm just a contract web developer for a college within a public university. Turns out the university now requires outside "vendors" to provide a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template [0] and
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by evunveot 7y ago
Would the plaintiff still have a case if the defendants staffed a phone line with someone available to navigate the websites by verbal instruction and made the availability of that service obvious? (I believe phone companies already provide
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by evunveot 7y ago
Say I'm a solo web developer and I've built informational websites for some doctors' offices and small hospitals. They want to have simple patient referral and appointment request forms on their websites (mostly they still do
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by evunveot 8y ago
You're right, but you can just replace mysql_* with mysqli_* if you're so inclined.
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by evunveot 8y ago
>Imagine a world with double the amount of people living in it. I find it mildly disturbing that the author assumes everyone reading this sentence is going to agree that it's an ominous prospect. Obviously, the implication is that i
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by evunveot 8y ago
Steele was shopping it around to media outlets extensively before the election, and Mother Jones reported on it on October 31, 2016: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gav...
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by evunveot 8y ago
>trying to change things >trying to understand things as they are Some might regard the following as overly charitable to the latter, but I think you could map those two strategies to political progressivism and conservatism (left and

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