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recusancyon Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle Mars

Has he ever talked about how people would survive on Mars without a magnetosphere?

recusancyon The Pacific Ocean is so acidic that it's dissolving Dungeness crabs' shells

They haven't had to adapt at this rapid of pace. And this is also a human story. Yes the crabs may pull through but not in the abundance to provide us a food source.

recusancyon Canada’s Forgotten Rainforest

CO2 Science is a fossil fuel funded climate denial center. https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_the_Study_o...

recusancyon Owning a Pet Is Good for Well-Being

That's probably more related the fact that going into greener spaces helps our moods.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/sour-mood-getti...

recusancyon Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor

> "The debate is why it's happening (human vs natural)."

There is no debate. When people say "climate-change deniers" they mean "rapid anthropogenic caused climate-change deniers"

recusancyon Carbon Removal Technologies

Unfortunately there's no profit motive for this.

recusancyon The Most Common Error in Media Coverage of the Google Memo

It was a blunder because he came across as robotic and overly scripted, reciting it word for word multiple times, even after Christie pointed it out.

recusancyon U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high

It would look like a honeybee https://www.google.com/search?q=honey+bee&safe=off&espv=2&bi...

A lot of what you're seeing are probably wasps (the yellow jacket being one variety).

recusancyon Show HN: Four numbers can predict your lifetime risk of a heart attack

Shouldn't alcohol intake be a major factor as well along with smoking?

recusancyon Microsoft CEO does about-face on women and raises

It's telling in that it's something he hasn't put much thought towards before.

recusancyon Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO

Thanks. That was a well written post by Erin.

recusancyon Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO

Who is "this mob"?

recusancyon Brendan Eich becomes Mozilla CEO

I'd say that working to keep a group of people from gaining rights that I already have are extreme and irrational.

recusancyon Amtrak Residency

Is it true that Americans are driving less and less? Is there data to back that up? Just curious.

recusancyon Personal Fresh Air Desk

Pretty much every Home Depot and Lowes has tons of them, at least here in Michigan.

recusancyon South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies

I can't reply to your statement below for some reason but Reagan vetoed the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid act. His veto was overridden by congress.

recusancyon GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

Media Temple's brand destroyed by one press release.

recusancyon Fox News Touchscreens are Microsoft Perceptive Pixel Displays Running Windows 8

Which one is the journalist? Baier? Wallace? haha

recusancyon A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

Can you build stuff that is useful and useable? That's the line. Not how many boxes you can check off.

recusancyon Amnesty International on the detention of Greenwald's partner

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/greenwald-s...

“When I was in Hong Kong, I spoke to my partner in Rio via Skype and told him I would send an electronic encrypted copy of the documents,” Greenwald said. “I did not end up doing it. Two days later his laptop was stolen from our house and nothing else was taken. Nothing like that has happened before. I am not saying it’s connected to this, but obviously the possibility exists.”

He said he didn't send it but implied he wanted to so it's very reasonable to suspect he did later at some point.

recusancyon Amnesty International on the detention of Greenwald's partner

Just playing devils advocate here: Greenwald did previously state that he was going to send leaked information to his partner. So his partner isn't just his "loved one" in this. He would be one of the leakers.

recusancyon Chomsky praises Snowden and condemns US hypocrisy

Oh good. Trutherism and NWO conspiracies.

recusancyon U.S. assures Russia Snowden won't be executed or tortured

On January 22, 2009 President Obama signed an executive order requiring the CIA to use only the 19 interrogation methods outlined in the United States Army Field Manual on interrogations. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/EnsuringLawfulInt...

recusancyon US Attorney General Holder: We Won't Torture or Kill Snowden

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/EnsuringLawfulInt...

recusancyon US Attorney General Holder: We Won't Torture or Kill Snowden

Utter bs... Obama and Holder have stated repeatedly that "enhanced interrogation" IS torture.

recusancyon Nate Silver Went Against the Grain for Some at The Times

You don't watch much sports do you? Sports is all about stats.

recusancyon Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic Income

Am I wrong?

recusancyon Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic Income

He wrote a book arguing the black people, as a race, are less intelligent than white people.

recusancyon Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic Income

From the author of the overtly racist Bell Curve.

recusancyon Why It's Time to Sunset jQuery

IIRC jQuery 2.0 will have the option for custom builds.