I bake bread every other weekend, and I use AP (12% protein) flour, not bread (15% protein) flour. Bread flour isn't necessary, but it does give you a denser crumb, all things equal.
I like "eating the seed corn" as a metaphor. You can get a great short-term boost by eating the resources that you'll need later, and by the time the bill arrives, he's going to be out of office, and most likely dead.
Nothing Trump does is going to buy him another minute on this Earth.
I'm not sure if you're kidding or not, but the concentration of CO2 isn't nearly as important as the rate of change. A small change every year over a couple of hundred thousands of years leaves ample time for species to adapt as the oceans rise and climate zones shift. A change as rapid as we see today is going to change them quite a bit faster, possibly faster than most species can migrate or evolve adaptations to.
So while it is true that CO2 levels have been higher in the past, the suddenness of the change is potentially very damaging.
We're looking at more a Venus scenario than a Mars scenario, if runaway warming ever does happen. However, it's unlikely to happen, because there are strong feedback mechanisms. Humans may not live to see it, but Earth will correct over a few tens of thousands of years.
Surely they could be used as storage tanks, instead of living spaces. I doubt they'd be rated, after the stresses of launch, for long-term habitation, but there's going to be ample need for the bulk storage of mass. One of the sad things that is done, is the jettison and burning of trash; perfectly good organics and mass that might be someday useful in orbit, when the technology is developed to make use of them. Then the containers themselves could be used as raw material for some hypothetical future process.
Whether it's worth the investment is another question entirely, though the existence of a tank full of vacuum-dried sewage co-orbiting the ISS might inspire some thinking about what to put it to use for.
The investment, unfortunately, would also have to include the cost of periodic reboostings, keeping it all fastened together, keeping it balanced along a thrust vector, and several other considerations. It could get very expensive to maintain that orbital junkyard as a future investment, which may or may not even pay off.
I swear, some people have the memory of mayflies. The voting machine debacle has been with us for almost 20 years now. They've been proven to be trivially hackable, poorly documented, and lacking significant paper trails in MANY different jurisdictions for ages, now. Suddenly Trump mentions it, and it's this partisan issue? How many people here are so young that they don't remember the blatant corruption surrounding Diebold?
British Columbia already has this rule; government data (including university data for researchers) must be kept on Canadian servers. There's some wiggle room for opting in to US storage, though.
I think it's important legislation, and it motivates some good duplication of infrastructure within Canada. It makes it harder to abdicate our responsibility to data and makes it just a bit harder for US subpoenas to get a hold of it.
Trees have a number of problems. First, they're low-efficiency, they only turn a small percentage of sunlight into fuel, the narrow photosynthesis range. Second, they have a long maturation time until they're ready. It takes significant fuel and effort to turn them into a usable fuel; there's cutting, trimming, overburden, hauling, storage, all of which is labour-intensive.
I do this sometimes. Changing into clean clothes plus a little deoderant, maybe sponge down the pits and crotch a bit, and you're pretty much good to go.
Also tip: drink down as much cold water as you can manage. It'll help you stop sweating sooner.
Well, that's how the scientific process works. It's not pretty sometimes, but finding a mistake in someone else's work is how we progress. Sometimes people are dicks about it, or refuse to admit their own error.
Get out the popcorn if you like.
This is a question of facts and evidence. Whoever has the best conkers will win.
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I bake bread every other weekend, and I use AP (12% protein) flour, not bread (15% protein) flour. Bread flour isn't necessary, but it does give you a denser crumb, all things equal.
Historically, cats have preferred the fat and lazy seabirds to the hard-to-catch and wily rats with big teeth.
I like "eating the seed corn" as a metaphor. You can get a great short-term boost by eating the resources that you'll need later, and by the time the bill arrives, he's going to be out of office, and most likely dead.
Nothing Trump does is going to buy him another minute on this Earth.
Another step toward Vinge's locators.
I'm not sure if you're kidding or not, but the concentration of CO2 isn't nearly as important as the rate of change. A small change every year over a couple of hundred thousands of years leaves ample time for species to adapt as the oceans rise and climate zones shift. A change as rapid as we see today is going to change them quite a bit faster, possibly faster than most species can migrate or evolve adaptations to.
So while it is true that CO2 levels have been higher in the past, the suddenness of the change is potentially very damaging.
We of the four-digit UID club have delegated language policing to the five-digiters.
(however, it will almost certainly happen in about a billion years)
We're looking at more a Venus scenario than a Mars scenario, if runaway warming ever does happen. However, it's unlikely to happen, because there are strong feedback mechanisms. Humans may not live to see it, but Earth will correct over a few tens of thousands of years.
in fairness though, people have been complaining about how much Slashdot has gone downhill since, like, day 2.
Surely they could be used as storage tanks, instead of living spaces. I doubt they'd be rated, after the stresses of launch, for long-term habitation, but there's going to be ample need for the bulk storage of mass. One of the sad things that is done, is the jettison and burning of trash; perfectly good organics and mass that might be someday useful in orbit, when the technology is developed to make use of them. Then the containers themselves could be used as raw material for some hypothetical future process.
Whether it's worth the investment is another question entirely, though the existence of a tank full of vacuum-dried sewage co-orbiting the ISS might inspire some thinking about what to put it to use for.
The investment, unfortunately, would also have to include the cost of periodic reboostings, keeping it all fastened together, keeping it balanced along a thrust vector, and several other considerations. It could get very expensive to maintain that orbital junkyard as a future investment, which may or may not even pay off.
Quite a few people do care, even if you don't.
I swear, some people have the memory of mayflies. The voting machine debacle has been with us for almost 20 years now. They've been proven to be trivially hackable, poorly documented, and lacking significant paper trails in MANY different jurisdictions for ages, now. Suddenly Trump mentions it, and it's this partisan issue? How many people here are so young that they don't remember the blatant corruption surrounding Diebold?
British Columbia already has this rule; government data (including university data for researchers) must be kept on Canadian servers. There's some wiggle room for opting in to US storage, though.
I think it's important legislation, and it motivates some good duplication of infrastructure within Canada. It makes it harder to abdicate our responsibility to data and makes it just a bit harder for US subpoenas to get a hold of it.
Trees have a number of problems. First, they're low-efficiency, they only turn a small percentage of sunlight into fuel, the narrow photosynthesis range. Second, they have a long maturation time until they're ready. It takes significant fuel and effort to turn them into a usable fuel; there's cutting, trimming, overburden, hauling, storage, all of which is labour-intensive.
Not all Americans like driving, and not all potential customers are Americans.
Yes. One in every million car trips will dispense you into an organ harvester. Problem solved!
I do this sometimes. Changing into clean clothes plus a little deoderant, maybe sponge down the pits and crotch a bit, and you're pretty much good to go.
Also tip: drink down as much cold water as you can manage. It'll help you stop sweating sooner.
Why do you think it has to be ubiquitous to be successful? It doesn't have to be used by everyone, at every time, in order to be useful.
It's like people saying that Linux must be on 100% of all computers or it sucks. False.
16,000 kilometres over 5 years? Well done, I commute to work a few days a week over the summer and I struggle to put on 1,200km/year. Props!
Well, that's how the scientific process works. It's not pretty sometimes, but finding a mistake in someone else's work is how we progress. Sometimes people are dicks about it, or refuse to admit their own error.
Get out the popcorn if you like.
This is a question of facts and evidence. Whoever has the best conkers will win.
If it's cloudy, they can probably just not do it.
You. I like you.
CDC recommends you sneeze/cough into your elbow. Less opportunity to touch something with your germy hands.
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do not repeat DO NOT send them a signal