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sawaruna··on Cloud Cities of Venus - Why So Set on Colonizing Mars? There’s Better Options
>There is this idea that Mars won out over Venus for one simple reason: a surface.

The bias for a planet with a surface makes sense because of the majority of the technologies we would use with regards to creating a habitat are far easier on a surface than hypothetical floating cities that we haven't even developed here yet.

sawaruna··on Whole Foods CEO John Mackey: Plant-Based Meat Products Aren't Healthy
Of course it isn't, it's still a burger. I hope people don't pretend like these were being advertised as some sort of health food rather than simply a plant-based burger.
sawaruna··on Fracking in North America could be partly to blame for methane spike – study
>Something like making the producer of the thing causing remnant environmental leftovers fiscally responsible for cleaning them up? That would price cleanup into the sticker price.

There was a report estimating how much the "environmental leftovers" that fossil fuel industries don't have to pay for cost - https://www.vox.com/2019/5/17/18624740/fossil-fuel-subsidies...

sawaruna··on From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love
>being a long time lurker of Reddit's r/unixporn

lol of course they would go with Manjaro and i3.

sawaruna··on Seattle-area rents drop significantly for first time this decade: Supply grows
> Originally published January 12, 2018
sawaruna··on Ask HN: How do instructions on opening the Soyuz capsule survive reentry?
That part is underneath a primary heat shield: https://i.imgur.com/CovYbor.png

You can see it dropping off @ 5:20 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWusG5EW3dU

sawaruna··on Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over the next nineteen years
> JAN. 26, 2019
sawaruna··on 'Climate change contrarians' receive 49% more media coverage than scientists
It seems like the 49% is when taking into account a wide variety of sources, including random online magazines and blogs. When using "mainstream media", the coverage drops to 1%. The fact that they get even 1% more (or equal for that matter) coverage is still dumb but at least it's not as bad as 49%.

From the paper:

>Here we show via direct comparison that contrarians are featured in 49% more media articles than scientists. Yet when comparing visibility in mainstream media sources only, we observe just a 1% excess visibility, which objectively demonstrates the crowding out of professional mainstream sources by the proliferation of new media sources, many of which contribute to the production and consumption of climate change disinformation at scale.

>Together, these results show that CCCs derive a comparative visibility advantage from non-scientists gaining attention in peripheral non-mainstream media sources. Conversely, the observed parity between CCCs and CCSs in mainstream media sources may reflect media writers seeking journalistic balance when reporting on CC. Indeed, we find that every select-30 media source has provided CCC significant visibility, thereby increasing CCC authority and credibility (see Supplementary Fig. 4). The disproportionate visibility of CCCs, even in mainstream media sources, is reminiscent of early contrarian efforts that leveraged the U.S. Federal Communications Commission Fairness Doctrine to obtain equal press time.

sawaruna··on Darpa's $10M voting machine couldn't be hacked at Defcon
>For the majority of Defcon, hackers couldn't crack the $10 million secure voting machine prototypes that DARPA had set up at the Voting Village. But it wasn't because of the machine's security features that the team had been working on for four months. The reason: technical difficulties during the machines' setup.

>Eager hackers couldn't find vulnerabilities in the DARPA-funded project during the security conference in Las Vegas because a bug in the machines didn't allow hackers to access their systems over the first two days.

sawaruna··on Finnish Scientists: Effect of human activity on climate change insignificant
A response to this: https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/non-peer-reviewed-ma...
sawaruna··on Ask HN: Paid News vs. Free News
I'd like to try Apple News and would consider paying for it. Too bad it's still only offered in like 4 countries.
sawaruna··on How I Made My Own Android Phone
Was hoping they made some diy bespoke phone with diverse parts. They just built an S9 Plus :(
sawaruna··on Chinese repos are ruining the GitHub trending page
Not really, but better to not frame the page as being "ruined". Something about Github's popularity in China making the case for language options or something, maybe.
sawaruna··on Chinese repos are ruining the GitHub trending page
>Repos already have a “language” property funnily enough which is based on the code contained in it. Similarly they could introduce another property to detect the natural language of the readme/docs/etc and assign it to the project. On the trending tab you already have an option to only browse projects in a specific programming language so you could also set this as well. A “worldwide” option could be the default. I don’t want to hide other people’s projects.

Sounds good to me. Post title is a bit too strongly worded though.

sawaruna··on Running with your arms bent does not make you go faster, Harvard study finds
What about running with your arms straight, pointing behind you? Surely that increases speed.
sawaruna··on The coal mine that ate Hambacher forest
If interested in some footage from protests and the site in general - https://twitter.com/JoanieLemercier
sawaruna··on Dissenter Browser Released
“Dissenter creates a comment section on every URL online. Leave a comment on news sites, videos, and more. Easily view comments left by other people and chat with others visiting the same link in real time.”

“Dissenter was built by Gab.com”

Can’t wait to see how that comment section turns out.

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