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cpearce··on Nobel prizewinner: We are running out of helium
Better get cold fusion working, or find a way to mine asteroids profitably...
cpearce··on Ask HN: What should we eat?
Most fish eat smaller fish. So farmed fish are fed fishfood which is made from caught wild fish. It takes something like 5kg of anchovies to make 1kg of farmed salmon.

Sustainable fishing means taking less from the sea, adhering to quotas, not continuing to catch species at risk, and setting up sanctuaries where fish stocks can replenish.

cpearce··on Ask HN: What should we eat?
> I prefer fish to meat

As much as I like fish, and though it is in general good for you, commercial fishing is emptying our oceans at an alarming and unsustainable rate. If humans keep fishing at the current rate, we'll have emptied the oceans of fish by some time in the later half of this century. We'll be left with jellyfish, worms and krill as our only seafood.

Do you want your grandchildren to eat fish? Only buy sustainably sourced seafood!

See the documentary "The end of the line" for evidence and info: http://endoftheline.com/

cpearce··on Monty - In Defense of Ogg's Good Name
Seeking in Ogg/Theora/Vorbis files works fine in Firefox. If seeking is broken in other players, it's an issue with their implementation.
cpearce··on Why the HTML5 ‘Video’ Element Is Effectively Unusable
Unfortunately John is entirely wrong, about Firefox at least. Firefox does not buffer the entire media when autobuffer is not present. I don't know how he came to that conclusion, but just check out this page as an example:

http://pearce.org.nz/video/bunny-poster.html

Note that the progress bar on the controls does not turn to a lighter shade of gray until you press play - this means Firefox isn't buffering data unless you press play.

John's blog post is wrong.

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