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Comment Re:This is misdirection (Score 1) 99

The OP's claim is that soil depletion is "the real reason", not "a reason".

I find your comment a difference without distinction. One does not address a problem with a monovariant. If we wish food to return to previous levels of nutrition, we address all of the reasons. If you are going to debunk, you debunk - not declare soil depletion as irrelevant. Now the next question becomes, will vegetables return to previous levels if we only return CO2 levels to 1750 ( the beginning of industrial era radiative forcing via increased CO2 in the atmosphere?

If you were to make a presentation on decreased levels of nutrients in food crops, and only use CO2 levels, there's your monovariant, and you will be taken to task for it. Don't like it? Use thoughts and prayers.

Comment Re:This is misdirection (Score 3, Informative) 99

Oh, are you like an LLM agent that's making me do homework for some schoolchild or something? Cute. Sure, whatever.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/...

Specifically ran experiments with three specific, noted mixes of soil in containers, with the same soil used for both increased and baseline CO2 content.

Yes CO2 is definitely an issue in nutrient uptake. (I haven't finished the paper yet) So is soil depletion. This is not an either or situation as posters seem to be arguing.

Comment Re:This is misdirection (Score 1) 99

I'd like to ask what gives you the potent confidence to just go and voice easily debunakble falsehoods with literally nothing to back them up with?

Papers:

https://www.jacn.org/are-food-...

https://www.tandfonline.com/do...

General articles:

https://climate.sustainability... https://www.scientificamerican...

I take it you have the scientific papers debunking this? It is interesting the claim that no nutrients are removed from soils by growing things in them. Even if fertilizers are used, fertilizers do not have the identical characteristics of the entire soil composition in any area, they are there to provide for rapid growth, replacing some of the nutrients that end up in the veggies grown in those soils.

Now there is a relationship between Atmospheric CO2 percentage and growth. This probably contributes to the issue, but yeah - soil depletion can be a part of the nutrient uptake by veggies. Looking forward to your providing them - should be easy as you claim.

Comment Re:Tihange is dangerous (Score 1) 32

Like most reactors in Europe, they are getting well past their design lifetime and only kept active by continual testing to demonstrate that degradation of the reactor vessel and systems is below some threshold of risk that the government is willing to tolerate.

Nationalizing them is inevitable. France did the same thing. They were always expensive and uncompetitive, but as they get older they reach the point where even the standard subsidies aren't enough and the government just has to take ownership.

While we have people complaining about privatized profits and public losses, massive public money injection is the only way for nuclear fission to exist.

There is a reason that the Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act exists in the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–Anderson_Nuclear_Industries_Indemnity_Act No private company can absorb the worst case damage a large nuc plant can cause if it goes Oopsies. And commercial insurance for such a thing will either put the insurance company or the business out of business.

Comment Re:Tihange is dangerous (Score 1) 32

I live relatively close to the Tihange plant (the plant is in Belgium, I live in the Netherlands). The reactor regularly automatically shuts down due to several issues. The concrete containment buildings are full of cracks, they are falling apart due to concrete degradation. Of one of those buildings the building plans have vanished.

The internals are certainly not going to be great either. The areas that are under constant irradiation don't improve. Neutron irradiation is an issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

Some years ago the Dutch government distributed iodine pills for everyone under the age of 18 who lives in a certain radius of the plant. The plant is old and should be shut down.

I guess they can't claim they didn't know about the upcoming problem.

Comment Re:Note that this is a local exploit (Score 1) 126

privilege escalation vulnerabilities are dime a dozen (please show me the CVEs of OPEN exploits)

You're an idiot and you know it, otherwise you wouldn't have added the stipulation "open"

If you just want reasonable privilege escalation vulnerabilities, there are three mentioned in TFA. Three for free, don't have to pay a dime numb nuts.

Comment Re:Note that this is a local exploit (Score 1) 126

Everyone might as well be root, if one with bad intentions gets access to a system, well they should be assumed to just be root anyways?

That's how AWS does it.

I used to run a data ingest system where we gave limited shell accounts to somewhere around 1,000 clients, plenty of similar but much larger systems are out there. No one *at my company* had messed up in any way if one of those accounts went rogue.

If they have hacking skills, the "limited shell access" wouldn't be limited long. Giving someone local access is insecure.

Comment Re:Note that this is a local exploit (Score 2, Informative) 126

In the Linux kernel (as with most kernels) privilege escalation exploits are a dime a dozen. You should not use shared machines as a form of security unless you trust everyone involved.

The reason is because the kernel/userland interface is huge and was not designed with security in mind (it was designed for efficiency, functionality, and sometimes outright braindeadedness). Even OpenBSD doesn't count local privilege escalation exploits, only remote exploits.

Comment Re:That's not a high paying job in SV (Score 1) 84

There's a shortage of labor, even with recent layoffs. There are few highly skilled engineers sitting around unemployed wishing someone would give them a chance. Most of them took shittier jobs if they didn't suck

In Silicon Valley, the recent trend (for the past 15 years) is to find a programmer you can control, rather than a programmer who is good.

Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 65

No, that one would kill somebody and everyone would turn against the idea as a result.

It certainly would - probably many people killed, NYC is a big city with a lot of people. But my experience with drones is that they need to be hitting on and synchronizing on all props.

Now just possibly, someone could program the software to cancel the side opposite to the one not working. But it better react really quickly. There's a saying in flying, always try to be three mistakes high.

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