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That is a bit extreme. Wanting to preserve the environment isn't the same as wanting to let everyone starve, it's quite the opposite. Spend a minute or two looking up soil erosion,…

It depends who's definition of organic you are using. Demeter and Biogro, which are the certifications I am familiar with prohibit most conventional artificial fertilisers.

Yes, the Green Revolution. I agree it's not black and white, which may well be an ironic turn of phrase.

Turns out the article is on the Ammonia Energy Association website, wake up Richard.

I grew up on an organic orchard, so don't get excited about artificial sources of nitrogen for agriculture and horticulture. It is better than getting fertiliser from fossil fuels,…

Ha, for the last 30 years I have been convinced it was Disk Direct.

I naively sent the Docker developers a PR[1] to add this functionality into mainline Docker back in 2015. I was rapidly redirected into helping out in other areas - not having to u…

It is a prototype online designer for small buildings. It provides easy to use controls to design a small building from within your web browser. As you change options, a 3D model a…

Wow. Did you read the next three paragraphs to the end of the article: | Policymakers are now attempting to come up with solutions. “You can make solar play nice with the grids,” .…

You are reading that very narrowly. The paragraph is simply pointing out that solar power is cheaper when built out in a centralised way because of: * economies of scale for constr…

Sounds like as well as mandating limited on-duty time government needs to mandate pay for waiting time is same as pay for driving. This would reduce the incentive for drivers to dr…

I suspect it is the credit card company rather than the banks that have the power to fix this, but yes the incentives seem wrong. They have successfully shifted liability for the p…

This would be more secure than what I proposed, but requires changes that are out of the control of the credit card companies. For the card to sign the transaction, you need to add…

Sure, there is a trade off, but they have it wrong for online fraud from stolen credit cards. The three digit CVV code should be a one time passcode (OTP). Banks have been using th…

For reasons I wont go into here, I built a system with a similar approach 10 years ago. The system was horizontally scaleable. There was no database tier, instead each server had a…