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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…

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 so…

(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 observatio…

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…

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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 …

> 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 m…

Is consciousness an emergent property of brains or are brains an emergent property of consciousness? That's the question.

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 …

> 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 …

"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…

I'd argue those are more like cartels than unions.

> 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 go…

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 kin…

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 suspi…

> 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 FB…

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 co…

> 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 earni…

> 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 th…

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…

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, tho…

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 call…

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…

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…