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Re:Farmers facing fertiliser sticker shock may cut use on Thursday January 06, 2022 @03:03PM (#29829175)
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 production delays, COVID caused production/shipping delays, power shortages in China (a major exporter) resulting in lower production

Re:Stilled Chimeras: Troubling the myth of individual identity on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:58AM (#28404312)
This is an article about a still life painter.
Re:Stop Death Shaming on Thursday September 02, 2021 @08:18PM (#28399032)
"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.
Re:Goodbye climate deniers, hello climate bullshitters on Thursday August 26, 2021 @04:12AM (#28311990)
If you have enough electricity to do that, you can just put into EV batteries directly and skip the hydrogen middle man.
Re:Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:16PM (#28291922)
> 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 should be happy if their driving performance is above average. I fear that the public (and the courts and the insurers, etc) will require airline levels of per-mile safety and still be wary.

Gt of CO2 = (12+16+16)/12 * Gt of Carbon
The missing component is curiosity.
Re:Evolution is now accepted by a majority of Americans on Sunday August 22, 2021 @01:33PM (#28267580)
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 present form within roughly the past 10,000 years.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creati...

That's over 100 million people.

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 whether the suspect was on foot or driving.

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 prevalence increased to 77% after 60 days of follow-up. Researchers also found that individuals who experienced long COVID were more likely to be less educated, have seasonal allergies and pre-existing health conditions, and self-report greater symptom severity than people without long COVID.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

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 make financial sense to just drop the entire transaction category.
This is a different paper.
Re:Alcohol linked to more cancers than thought, study finds on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:23PM (#28076748)
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

Re:The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @07:51PM (#28067957)
> How TF is this news, on Wired

Wired was always a gossip magazine, but now it is just a gossip magazine. It's sad.

Re:The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @07:03PM (#28067569)
Workhorse has full on plans for drone delivery that use the van as a base:

https://workhorse.com/horsefly.html

Re:The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:41PM (#28067399)
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 being granted a pilot's license, so that might shift things again.

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 advantaged, 60% mostly unaffected. Strongly correlated with household income.

Somehow I don't think the app developer is experiencing the same sense of sublime transience as the Buddhist monks.
Re:Americans' life ratings reach record high on Sunday July 25, 2021 @04:24PM (#27952607)
You shouldn’t be downvoted. Web only vs. conventional phone surveys is a significant change. Cheaper, but definitely excludes poorer demographic sections. You can’t ignore this for a survey about ‘life ratings’.
Re:Floating wind turbines could rise to great heights on Friday July 23, 2021 @12:55PM (#27932879)
It's interesting tech, but a big part of offshore wind power is bringing the power back to shore. Onshore wind and solar are going to have the advantage there for the foreseeable future.
Re:$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @04:29PM (#27825903)
Re:EU draft exempts private jets, cargo from jet fuel tax on Thursday July 08, 2021 @04:34PM (#27777269)
This doesn't appear to be the case (as of Oct 2019) ...

> members of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), including the United Kingdom, are prevented from taxing international aviation fuel, or any proxies for fuel, under the Chicago Convention.

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN00...

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