pieterjands
Re:Italy wants an exception to Europe's gas-engine ban for Ferrari, La...
on Saturday September 25, 2021 @07:12AM (#28652162)
Why would anyone still buy a dinosaur engine car is beyond me. Electric cars have a higher top speed and accelerate faster.
Re:Direct Air Capture of CO2 Is Suddenly a Carbon Offset Option
on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:43AM (#26425990)
> Climeworks is planning to start operating a plant in Iceland later this year that will be capable of capturing 4,000 tons annually.
On average human activity puts about 40 billion tons of CO2 into the air each year.
How is this even remotely 'an option'? Stop fetishizing technosolutions.
Start planting trees today. We need a trillion of them.
Re:Elon Musk’s $100M Gigaton Scale Carbon Removal Prize
on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @08:03AM (#26076982)
Easy: Plant a trillion trees. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/04/planting...
Re:Plants smell explosives and send emails
on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:03AM (#26002582)
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Min_Hao_Wong/publicatio... for those countries where sci-hub is blocked
Re:Couples are having less sex, study finds
on Thursday May 09, 2019 @01:18PM (#19870154)
> Men burned more than women, at about 100 calories versus 69.
I chuckled.
Re:4,000-year-old termite mounds found in Brazil are visible from space
on Friday November 23, 2018 @05:55AM (#18515705)
here you go: https://www.google.be/maps/place/12%C2%B036'17.1%22S+40%C2%B...
edit: you can find the coordinates in the xlsx file they attached to the paper: https://www.cell.com/cms/10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.061/attachmen...
Re:Ask HN: If I like programming, what other hobbies would I likely en...
on Thursday November 22, 2018 @05:05PM (#18512865)
I second this as well. Healthy mind in a healthy body and all.
Re:How to Get Kids to Do Chores: Does the Maya Method Work?
on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @12:53PM (#17910535)
thank you!
Re:Using Git to manage a one.com website
on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @07:49AM (#16575346)
Usually it’s a breeze to deploy a website using git. Until I had to do it for a one.com account.
5 different support reps said it couldn’t be done, so I did it anyway, just to show them.