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fungicide

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    Comment #22131270

    Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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    Comment #22073649

    Depends where it happens. The speed of light is quite slow relative to the size of the universe. So Higgs field collapse could happen a long way away and take millennia to reach us…

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    Comment #22010347

    What the hell is water?

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    Comment #21862843

    Surely you mean easier. It's easier for governments to control electronic money than cash. The government knows nothing about all that cash under that mattress.

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    Comment #21856983

    I think it's probably virtue signalling rather than appeasement. Advertises probably welcome anti-vaxers as they are demonstrably gullible and easy to persuade.

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    Comment #21776153

    Sure. But how would it compare to a CPU clocked at 3.5Thz?

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    Comment #21775673

    If you think that's cool check out some cave movies. https://kottke.org/12/09/cave-paintings-were-stone-age-anima...

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    Comment #21771347

    Plenty of info here. Enjoy https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/technology_node "Recent technology nodes such as 22 nm, 16 nm, 14 nm, and 10 nm refer purely to a specific generation of chi…

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    Comment #21771146

    Because "nm" doesn't mean nanometer anymore. Not in the context of CPUs anyway. Some time back, around the 34nm era, CPU components stopped getting materialy smaller. Transistor co…

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    Comment #21642872

    "The Fourth Industrial Revolution" is one of the most successfully lobbied and marketed instruments of our time. It has preoccupied governments and distracted them from addressing …

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    Comment #21626977

    Where infant mortality is high, humans tend to have more children.

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    Comment #21613753

    Tesla is a car maker, not a tech company. They don't sell Autopilot to other car makers.

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    Comment #21572425

    They've been repeating the same message of doom now for 30 years and it always fails to materialise. Eg 1989 "The most conservative scientific estimate that the Earth’s temperature…

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    Comment #21526726

    The tide was higher 50 years ago, before the effects of climate change started? But the mayor says its climate change. Is the mayor an authority on climate science?

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    Comment #21440970

    No kidding. CERN takes in public money which it turns into research. It then gifts that research to businesses (frequently owned privately by CERN employees) who then sell products…

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    Comment #21389620

    "Stanford Professor Andrei Linde celebrates physics breakthrough" https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZlfIVEy_YOA

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    Comment #21389351

    Where does he mention "Ancient Rome"?

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    Comment #21377082

    Fun fact: The "oid" suffix in factoid means "like", or "resembling". So a factoid is not a true fact, but a statement resembling a fact. The word "factoid" was coined by Norman Mai…

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    Comment #21370561

    "senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000."…

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    Comment #21364921

    Too late. https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0