crygin
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4 years ago
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on: Bill to kill up to 90% of Idaho wolves heads to governor
Smaller towns here in the northwest that have developed suburbs over the last decade or two are overrun with deer, because coyotes have been displaced. It's a real problem.
crygin
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4 years ago
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on: Where to see the oldest living things on Earth (2019)
It's not the most visually impressive, but seeing King Clone (a ~12kiloyear creosote bush -- none of the original plant still exists, but the ring is a clonal descendent thereof) is a pretty easy side trip from Joshua Tree or on the way back from Death Valley:
https://mojaveproject.org/dispatches-item/king-clone-creosot...
crygin
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4 years ago
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on: How Doctors Die (2013)
A 94% male cohort is so wildly disproportionate to the actual population of physicians (60% female) that it beggars belief. There are a number of potential confounding factors that could explain this ("natural" death being disproportionately represented and skewing the age of the cohort being, imho, the most likely), but with this skew against the total physician population... best taken with a whole lick of salt.
crygin
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5 years ago
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on: Redefining what a map can be with new information and AI
The reason for the enactment of the nationwide 55mph speed limit in 1974 wasn't safety, it was oil prices.
crygin
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5 years ago
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on: A Medieval Woman Wore ‘Birthing Girdle’ to Protect Herself During Labor
crygin
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5 years ago
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on: It's Never a Bicycle Accident
> Bicycles are dangerous...
It's an interesting statement, given that every example you gave is about a driver of a car about to kill a cyclist. It seems that it's the cars, or rather, the drivers, that are dangerous.
crygin
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5 years ago
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on: A Medieval Woman Wore ‘Birthing Girdle’ to Protect Herself During Labor
Your entire comment history is a giant expert fallacy. Maybe try and do better.
crygin
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5 years ago
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on: How prepared are we for the next giant solar flare?
As the sibling comment notes, there have been, but one major reason they are not more common is the mysterious extinction of the Rocky Mountain Locust in the late 19th century, leaving North America as the only continent (other than Antarctica) without an extant locust species:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_locust
crygin
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5 years ago
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on: Sea Levels Are Rising Faster Than Most Pessimistic Forecasts
crygin
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5 years ago
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on: Bitcoin Core Lead Maintainer Steps Back, Encourages Decentralization
This is a simple untruth. Vegetarianism is possible in specific ecological conditions (e.g. the Ganges Delta) and in those conditions it wins, economically, because as you note it is notionally ideal. In a non-tropic or desert environment, vegetarianism is a wasteful use of resources that typically involves transport of goods from remote locations in the service of performative consumption.
crygin
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5 years ago
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on: The Exploding Whale remastered: 50th anniversary of legendary Oregon event
Not all whale carcasses float -- some sink like a stone (and some sink, only to later rise again).
crygin
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6 years ago
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on: Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychloroquine+Azithromycin
Generally speaking, a criticism of a study that focuses only on something like this is uninteresting -- while it _may_ be a valid criticism, it is not always (many valid studies have very small samples!), and so stating it unsupported is actually more like evidence that you don't know how to critically evaluate a study. As Zeynep Tufekci said: 'Anybody immediately responds to a correlation with “but correlation does not imply causation” probably doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Don’t have much to say, throw around smart sounding cocktail phrase.'
crygin
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6 years ago
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on: How Is Python 2 Supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux After 2020?
As an alternative viewpoint, it's bizarre that we can't support these things. Mathematics textbooks from 400 years ago are relatively intelligible, and those from 100 years ago are easily readable. But with computer science, a domain which consists entirely of problems we ourselves invented, we've wedged ourselves into a situation where we are apparently so bad at computer language design (let alone systems engineering/systems architecture) that something surviving for a decade is frankly notable.
crygin
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6 years ago
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on: Capital One Cyber Staff Raised Concerns Before Hack
To use your analogy no surgeon is allowed to cut until he or she does have a solid grounding in biology.I take it you're unfamiliar with the content of the MCAT exam, which is a prerequisite to admission to American medical schools.
crygin
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6 years ago
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on: Nutrient deficiencies in rice grown under higher carbon dioxide
Simply purchase your single-generation seed from Monsanto at exploitative prices, and you can continue to subsist without major nutritional deficiencies.
crygin
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6 years ago
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on: A Look at Overnight Stays at US National Parks
I've always been curious about this -- mine is also counter-clockwise, but with January 1 down around the 7 o'clock position. I've always assumed I imported that from a calendar with aligned seasons (like with the peak of summer at July/August being at the top of the circle), but no real idea of where it originated.
crygin
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6 years ago
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on: Forget Silicon Valley, It Still Pays More to Be a Doctor in America
Three years of residency will make you a GP, on the very low end of the MD salary range. Specialists typically have a 4-5 year residency with 1-2 years of fellowship following.
crygin
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6 years ago
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on: Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
Perhaps more critically, we've burned most of the easily-accessible fossil fuels, which means that if we drop below a critical threshold we won't be able to reboot from scratch because there will be insufficient high-energy-density material available.
crygin
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6 years ago
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on: A “bike platform” that temporarily swaps one car parking space for ten bicycles
Drivers getting angry for a few minutes kills more people than all the named acts of protest combined.
crygin
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6 years ago
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on: Thawing permafrost is destroying Arctic cities (2016)
They're not going to be so nice when they're at the other end of a four-billion-person refugee crisis in a few decades.
