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A more in depth look at the factors causing high fertilizer prices: https://www.fb.org/market-intel/too-many-to-count-factors-dr... tl;dr: high natural gas prices, weather caused p…

This is an article about a still life painter.

"Flattening the curve" is about not overwhleming hospital resources, to avoid non-COVID avoidable deaths spiking.

You're lucky it isn't just images of their tweets tied together with an 'emerging trend' narrative.

With US troops.

Counterpoint: high quality journalism must be well funded, and funding based on advertising and 'clickbait' undermines quality. So paywalls it is.

If you have enough electricity to do that, you can just put into EV batteries directly and skip the hydrogen middle man.

> To me it is sufficient to beat the top 20% of drivers. It's interesting that you set the threshold there (I presume you meant 'beat the bottom 80% of drivers'). Rationally, we sh…

Gt of CO2 = (12+16+16)/12 * Gt of Carbon

The missing component is curiosity.

I don't think your intuition is the problem: > Forty percent of U.S. adults ascribe to a strictly creationist view of human origins, believing that God created them in their presen…

The Google doc doesn't say. The article says: > details of who was in a geographic area, such as a radius of a few hundred feet at a certain point in time It probably depends on wh…

Actual paper ... > Among participants who tested positive for COVID-19, 68.7% experienced at least one symptom after 30 days, marking the distinction for long COVID. This prevalenc…

It makes it easy to comply with the Fair Credit Billing Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Credit_Billing_Act

If you think about what payment processors actually do, dealing with fraud is one of the main costs. There's a lot of fraud associated with porn related transactions, so it can mak…

Both have been proposed: http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/16202/1/Hunt2019_Article_C...

This is a different paper.

Here you go: An umbrella review of the evidence associating diet and cancer risk at 11 anatomical sites https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24861-8

> How TF is this news, on Wired Wired was always a gossip magazine, but now it is just a gossip magazine. It's sad.

Workhorse has full on plans for drone delivery that use the van as a base: https://workhorse.com/horsefly.html

I don't know about the UK, but in the US the FAA required that each drone be operated by a licensed pilot, which changed the economics. There's some talk of autonomous software bei…

I think the hope was that the money would be used to support local cultural content/events since people in those enterprises have been hard hit by the COVID crisis.

Yes, this has been a common experience: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28264/w282... 20% of kids were disadvantaged (-0.4 standard deviation on tests), 20% were …

Somehow I don't think the app developer is experiencing the same sense of sublime transience as the Buddhist monks.