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by swe 10y ago
It can happen anywhere there's fiat currency and long supply lines.
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by swe 11y ago
Depends on the problem. If the general human consensus believes the sun revolves around the earth, you're going to have a hard time working with multiple minds. Problems which require radical shifts in ideology are more than likely goi
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by swe 11y ago
Horizontal gene transfer is one of the issues brought up by researchers who discovered the plastic eating fungus Pestalotiopsis Microspora
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by swe 11y ago
Losing the pollinators is part of an unravelling ecosystem. If you think you're safe in your bubble, you won't be.
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by swe 11y ago
We'll pollinate by hand: https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/5193-De...
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by swe 11y ago
> Long term, it is the most economically sustainable business from the perspective of the business owner That's true, but not for the reasons stated. Once the population bubble bursts, the majority of human beings will become farmer
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by swe 11y ago
No, what we need is a decentralized food system. You really should be eating food indigenous to the region in which you live.
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by swe 11y ago
According to historian Dr. Joseph Tainter's book 'The Collapse of Complex Societies', if you exclude isolated groups such as tribes, there have been 23 distinct civilizations throughout the course of human history and 22 have
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by swe 11y ago
This really should be no surprise. Mainstream economics practices that the environment is a subset of the economy and not the other way around. "Sure, I can live without fresh water and clean air, but a market? I need a market." &
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by swe 11y ago
Love to see where you found that 99% figure
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by swe 11y ago
Search, or the quest for knowledge, is not going to be displaced or marginalized. If a small company builds true AI, Google is done.
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by swe 11y ago
kilocalorie
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by swe 11y ago
You still get bugs inside
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by swe 11y ago
Numbers vary, but somewhere between 7-12 calories of hydrocarbon energy in every 1 calorie of food. That's precooked; afterwards it can be 25 or more. The entire food system is heavily dependent on hydrocarbon energy and long supply li
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by swe 11y ago
"There is evidence for it" I would be super interested to see some evidence. Any peer reviewed journals would be fine
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by swe 11y ago
Wow!
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Andy Friedman's Physics/Math/Astronomy Cheat Sheets(web.mit.edu)
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