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Comment Re: People don't change (Score 2) 478

The Greeks and Romans weren't destroying entire ecosystems

Yes they were. North Africa was known as "the breadbasket of the Roman Empire". Today it is the Sahara Desert. Destructive farming practices destroyed millions of tonnes of topsoil. They also exterminated many species, including the North African Elephant.

Sahara oscillates between desert and savanna due to solar forcing with a period of 41,000 years (Ref.)
I can find no support whatsoever of any Roman influence in the wikipedia article.

In fact, whether human activity is a factor at all is debated
If it was a factor, then earlier than the Roman empire.

Submission + - The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With (schneier.com)

AmiMoJo writes: One of the effects of GDPR — the new EU General Data Protection Regulation — is that we're all going to be learning a lot more about who collects our data and what they do with it. Consider PayPal, that just released a list of over 600 companies they share customer data with. Here's a good visualization of that data.

Is 600 companies unusual? Is it more than average? Less? We'll soon know.

Comment Not evidence (Score 1) 125

This is a highly speculative interpretation of existing data. Other speculative interpretations are possible. The scientific method would dictate proceeding by designing clever experiments whose outcomes could rule out various alternative interpretations. I'm not convinced this is possible here, and not persuaded that this is true science. Certainly it's not "evidence".

Comment Re:News for nerds? (Score 1) 734

Why is this here? How is any of this related to what Slashdot is supposed to be about? I'm usually pretty lax about what's posted on Slashdot, but this question should be posted on a forum somewhere else, not on a news site for "nerds".

"Nerds" working in tech and science have the entire world as potential workplace and many change their host nation during their lives. Voluntary or because they have to. Highly specialized skilled workers often need to move to where the jobs are.

Thus, very relevant post. I myself am a Swedish citizen working in Germany.

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