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Snow in the Northern Hemisphere is likely to be cleaner by the end of this century — an effect that will partially offset the effects of global warming1.

Global warming has reduced snowfall and accelerated snowmelt in mountainous regions, threatening the supply of fresh water for two billion people worldwide. Snow melts even faster if it is covered with sooty particles of black carbon, which are produced by the burning of wood and fossil fuels.

Dalei Hao at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, and his colleagues used simulations to assess how much soot will land on snow in the next several decades. They project a reduction in black-carbon pollution in snow-covered regions across the Northern Hemisphere between 2015 and the end of the twenty-first century.

Even if global carbon emissions continue to rise for the next half-century, the amount of solar radiation the snow absorbs because of soot and dust pollution will be 62.3% less by 2100 than when the snow was dirtier. The whitening of the snowpack is expected to slow its loss and increase the availability of fresh water, the scientists say.

Zeratosson Young Adult Literature Became the Playground, and Battleground, for Adults

I don't really understand the connection between increased adult YA readership and the culture war stuff that the article tries to make. Seems to me the author just dislikes YA. Pretty sure the "think of the children," hand wringing would occur regardless

Zeratosson [dead]

Not this white supremacy rag again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mankind_Quarterly

Zeratosson Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

Please don't believe any old propaganda you here about Germany. You can browse "anti-immigrarion" Websites as much as you want

Zeratosson MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry

On Android Microsoft Outlook refused to open links in Chrome or Firefox and made me install Edge from the Playstore.

I couldn't even copy the links to paste them manually, as my organization disabled this. This is not OK.

Zeratosson Tidyverse 2.0.0

https://markfairbanks.github.io/tidytable/

maybe this?

Zeratosson Wrongful death lawsuit against Amazon

"turning people into jerky"

This is some better call Saul lawyering

Zeratosson The ‘liveaboards’ sailing away to a new life

Recommend me your favorite liveabaord sailing channels please

Zeratosson Commenting on Hacker News

Any slightly political thread on hackernews is a cesspool on reddit or twitter level. Topics about january 6, the abortion ban, anything adjacent to the "cultur war"...

I suspect the only difference is that technical topics like shiny-rust-program or webframework3000 are less controversial

Zeratosson The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

Funny that you say that.

I found the comments on that hacker news thread predictably awful, like all even slightly political discussion on hnews.

People trying to one up each other with edgy comments on why the ruling is actually a good thing and how smart they are.

A display of privilege and of a real lack of empathy

Zeratosson What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis?

Please dont spread misinformation.

The HIV paper has been withdrawn and was total bunk.

See comments on the paper:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1?...

Zeratosson Show HN: Offline voice messages transcription in Signal Desktop

A variety of apps can do that. Pocket casts and Podcast addict come to mind

Zeratosson No Fair Sex in Academia: Evidence of Discrimination in Hiring to Editorial Board

Author is quite the character

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Emil_O._W._Kirkegaard

Zeratosson Useful Python decorators for data scientists

https://github.com/scverse/scanpy

This is incredibly popular in single cell analysis

Zeratosson Climate Disaster Is the New Normal. Can We Save Ourselves?

Cherry picking failed predictions from popular magazines does in no way counter decades of peer reviewed climate science

Zeratosson Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’

It certainly has a more bigoted feel.

Zeratosson Statement on New York Times Article

Sounds fair to me. He agrees with a bunch of points and calls Murray's ideas sophisticated. Isn't that aligning oneself?

Zeratosson Moderna is announcing three new vaccine programs

Not a stupid question

You don't have to mess around with proteins.

Producing a new protein and especially purifying it is a ton of work. mRNA is comparatively simple to produce

Zeratosson Why Americans Have Been Deceived About Canada's Health Care System

Where did you get the part about it being cheaper from? Most people can't afford private insurance

Zeratosson Doubts over a ‘possible sign of life’ on Venus

can you explain for someone not super math savy?

Zeratosson Medications that change who we are

https://www.livescience.com/55754-does-sugar-make-kids-hyper...

There seem to be a bunch of studies indicating that it is not the sugar that affects the behavior

Zeratosson Modern Alternatives to PGP

He describes the movie as an overly dramatic dark fairy tale and says he doesn't recognize himself in the main character. As far as specific criticism goes, he says the way the main character has to write in secrecy and is suppressed by the Stasi is inaccurate. He says his room was bugged in the 60s but the 80s in the DDR were supposedly much more liberal than what the film shows.

Zeratosson CRISPR is Going to be Replaced

I mean the paper is really the interesting part http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/16/1802343115