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by gascan 8y ago
Fights about finances are known to be one of the top causes of divorce.
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by gascan 8y ago
Immune mosquitoes would be good too, though certainly more challenging to engineer than "kill everything".
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by gascan 8y ago
But really, when has that ever happened before?
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by gascan 8y ago
Yes, here it is again, the nearly ten year old magazine article written by an intern. Nothing could be more definitive.
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by gascan 8y ago
Trust us, pyrus calleryana - sorry, I mean anopheles gambiae - definitely won't crossbreed with anything.
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by gascan 8y ago
The tiger mosquito your parent mentions, though, is invasive. Ecologists are usually more than happy to target invasive species.
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by gascan 8y ago
Do they work offline?
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by gascan 8y ago
And before you try to rationalize this with "per capita" arguments This is moronic. After all, the other 49 states combined produce more greenhouse gas than California. Don't try to rationalize that with "per capita&qu
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by gascan 8y ago
Things get pretty weird when you start contemplating doing things at this scale. My father likes to tell of how, supposedly, McDonalds was considering introducing a new menu item, let's say it was an eggplant burger (I forget). The fir
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by gascan 8y ago
I have no problems with cutting second growth, especially timber that was planted by man. It's specifically timber companies interested in harvesting old growth that irks me, because there's hardly any left, especially in Europe.
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by gascan 8y ago
Environmentalists are not the driving force to mine this coal, but many campaign heavily against nuclear, and the effect of decommissioning nuclear in Germany has been increased coal activity. I'm not placing the blame at the feet of e
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by gascan 8y ago
From what I recall, the Hadza (hunter gatherers of Tanzania) work ~6 hours a day. Sure, 8 hours a day is more, but same ballpark.
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by gascan 8y ago
Well, we spend a third of our lives sleeping by design (which, you should rest reassured, improves the quality of your waking hours). As for the third spent working, for as long as we have liked eating & having a roof over our heads, th
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by gascan 8y ago
Sure makes decommissioning nuclear (and bringing coal back online to replace it) look better and better. Good job, environmentalists.
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by gascan 8y ago
RWE has undertaken measures to mitigate the mining’s impact Mitigate the impact of clearcutting an entire forest ? What a laugh.
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by gascan 8y ago
Masks help with particulate, which I think is Asia's core problem (from all the coal). But most bad-air US cities struggle with ozone, and I don't think masks help with that.
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by gascan 8y ago
Dang, would be nice if Android had more AQI built in. The 3rd party apps are not exactly rock solid.
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by gascan 8y ago
I looked it up, and I guess I have to say I'm impressed it's not been reformulated into a mix of corn & soy product.
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by gascan 8y ago
if I run a tech company and wanted to target "people you are into the Python programming language", that's a group that will likely skew male... "Yeah, um, we want programmers and I thought targeting people into Pytho
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by gascan 8y ago
Intent is nine tenths of the law.
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by gascan 8y ago
If they aren't pay per view, there's much less incentive to show them to only certain users, and much less burden on the employer to be inclusive.
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by gascan 8y ago
I'm not saying facebook shouldn't police their listings. But were old school newspapers legally required to do that? I'm asking, are we wanting facebook to do it because it's ethical? Or are we wanting to legally requi
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by gascan 8y ago
Are you suggesting Facebook do that helpfully to aide their customers in avoiding mishaps? Or are you prescribing this be government ordained & required?
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by gascan 8y ago
Yes, I was thinking about that as I wrote, one imperfect but possible fix would be "no pay per view for job listings". Which, for all I know, could already be the case.
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by gascan 8y ago
I'm not an ad man, but you have imperfect data about your customers, and I gather it's all about trying to predict what they might buy based on very imperfect/incomplete information about them. Plus, your ability to apply mor
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by gascan 8y ago
While I see both sides of the argument, as long as the advertiser pays per view, it seems wrong to require the listing to target demographics that are almost certainly uninterested. Your example of listing a job in Men's Health but not
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by gascan 8y ago
I honestly don't even understand the purpose of advertising anything to only men or only women. If you pay per view, it's entirely rational to target towards the demographic that produces the most spend for your ad budget. Why w
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by gascan 8y ago
Just speculating, but looking at the photos from Fayetteville, it was totally car-scale. Sure, it was pedestrian-only, but just look at the pictures of the locale. Huge buildings, long distances, wide street. This is not the best example bu
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by gascan 8y ago
Do you have a source for that? I had always understood the speed limit as simply being an objective, statutory codification of the subjective notion of "appropriate maximum speed for conditions" Which fits well with dynamic speed
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by gascan 8y ago
If we insisted bicycles only be allowed on dedicated bicycle tracks, there would be no track because there would be no bicycles (because there was no track!) As a bicyclist, I would love to have a dedicated network of bicycle track all ov

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