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quantumwannabe

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    You don’t seem to understand the carbon cycle. It is basic scientific fact and denying it is the same level of ignorance as denying that CO2 is a greenhouse gas.

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    Comment #49161816

    All of that would go away with renewable energy and therefore reducing meat consumption would not be "the next frontier" in the battle against climate change as the original poster…

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    Comment #49161762

    Cows eat wild grass for most of their lives. There is zero deforestation to feed cattle in the US. The amount of methane is also fixed as it gets broken down into CO2 which is late…

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    Comment #49161046

    But the supply of herd animals is essentially fixed. There isn’t infinite growth. Eating meat therefore does not increase the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, no matter what vegans…

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    Comment #49160768

    It’s completely made up. All meat is carbon neutral because animals don’t produce carbon atoms from nothing. They get them from the plants they eat which in turn get their carbon f…

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    Comment #49062234

    Or the "Do Not Track" header: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...

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    Comment #48891526

    We already tried that experiment. The result was Houston.

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    Comment #48891461

    If you believe that adding lanes doesn't reduce congestion, then you must also believe that adding transit doesn't reduce congestion.

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    Comment #48578871

    That’s why I don’t understand why Google’s stock has gone up so much recently. They already have maximum market share of digital ads; they can only lose share to competitors like O…

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    Comment #47190420

    More details on the difference between the OpenAI and Anthropic contracts from one of the Under Secretaries of State: >The axios article doesn’t have much detail and this is DoW’s …

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    Comment #47145574

    That's because his American-made competitors charge $50 less than he is charging for his Chinese-made showerhead: https://www.waterchef.com/products/waterchef-sf-7c-premium-s...

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    Comment #47048014

    The old science fairs actually did find real geniuses. Many kids who placed highly in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search ended up winning Nobel Prizes later in life. The modern…

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    Comment #46198805

    They haven't really added anything to Office since 2013, the last pre-subscription version. There were massive changes between Office 98 and 2013, including entirely new programs l…

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    Comment #45526983

    Only because you chose to walk through the port instead of through town. Google Maps' walking route is shorter than the route that goes through that road, entirely on sidewalks, an…

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    Comment #45526681

    Someone didn't read the article.

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    Comment #45376997

    It most definitely is not. The vast majority of customers at European Starbucks are locals, not tourists.

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    Comment #45322894

    Do you know if the knife still acts "sharp" when the physical blade is dull or does it still need regular sharpening like a normal knife?

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    Comment #45188344

    This is likely a prototype for their folding phone, which are essentially just two ultra-thin phones stuck together.

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    Comment #45001052

    You should tell Taiwan that.

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