Untrue about the China comment. India and China are locked in their own Cold War at the moment so India would be hesitant to export strategic components to China. Also, there are many countries in Europe importing multiples more Russian hydrocarbons than India. Only difference is natural gas versus oil, either way European countries feed the Russian war machine much more than India who still gets majority of their hydrocarbons from Middle East.

It is not completely burned. It is more like making charcoal. Biochar is mostly carbon, and some carbon is released when burning, but most of it is in the char. Greenwashing exists but this is not it and so, you seem uninformed about basic chemistry and your comment is quite silly.

With wind turbines scratching at 5mw per, and most hitting 2mw easy, how does it make sense to fund nuclear? Is there some math Iâ(TM)m missing here?

Itâ(TM)s not about CO2. Itâ(TM)s about methane, which is dozens of times more potent of a GHG than CO2. Ruminants produce massive amounts of it. Eat what you want, but science doesnâ(TM)t care about your feelings.

It does not seem like you have experience in enterprise sales. Comp plans leave relatively few ambiguities when it comes to commission on a sale. There are multipliers and other gimmicks on difficult or target customers. IBM comp plan was black and white and they violated it which is why they lost the first case and this one also.

You are repeating an old truth back when AWS was being scaled up. It has not been true for years. They make tons of profit that is not reinvested into the business. They instead use loopholes like subsidiaries in tax-advantaged countries to export IP and license it back at very high rates to net out any profits. Do not kid yourself - they are very profitable and only get out of taxes by using a variety of shelters and loopholes that are not available to small businesses.

90% of that soy goes to feed cattle, people are not eating it

If you think theyâ(TM)re equally shitty candidates, youâ(TM)re a fucking idiot.

The SAT hasnâ(TM)t been about merit for a long time. I came from a disadvantaged background and took the test once, got 1450/1600. Others in my AP classes faired much worse, could afford to take the test multiple times, pay thousands for test prep and eventually all scored in the 1500s. If privilege can let you brute force from 1100 to 1500, thereâ(TM)s a problem.

In medicine we call it âoevirusesâ not âoeviriiâ. The latter is used in tech but not in medicine. You may work in medicine but I doubt youâ(TM)re a researcher or a clinician. Maybe a technologist?

Just as bad is the egg and dairy industries. They spend millions on phony research that tells people that dietary saturated fat and dietary cholesterol don't increase serum cholesterol. They do. They create faulty studies where they take people with already high cholesterol and feed them these foods, and it doesn't go up much because cholesterol levels horizontally asymptote. Take someone with an LDL of 50-70 (ideal, hunter-gatherer levels), feed them saturated fats and/or cholesterol, and cholesterol skyrockets. The other trick is to do cross sectional cohorts which the american heart association and the american college of cardiology have repeatedly said are inherently flawed because there is a "wash out" effect in these cross-sectional populations. But of course, there's a huge market out there for "ketogenic" diet, which is not the clinical form of ketogenic diets that was created in clinical settings to help with intractable seizures in epilepsy patients where they are fed MCT oil and vitamin pills, instead it's just Atkins diet being called "Keto". All of these recent studies "debunking" previous, well-established studies are from industry, just like all the sugar studies sponsored by industry, as well as the cigarette studies sponsored by industry (doctors used to PRESCRIBE cigarettes to pregnant women, that's how fucked up it was!). If you like sugar, listen to the lies that sugar industry tells you. If you like fat, eggs, and butter, listen to the lies that the egg and dairy industry tells you. Heck, if you like cigarettes, go back and read the countless studies that were poorly designed but showed incredible benefits (you won't find them on pubmed because they were expunged, but you can look at the archival journals). The unbiased, unsponsored science is clear: you should limit or ideally avoid fat (particularly saturated fat), all dietary cholesterol, processed sugar, refined or processed grains, and salt. Eat whole unprocessed foods with plenty of spices, herbs, and non-sodium seasonings, all the while not eating an excessive amount of calories and maintaining a healthy mixture of micro and macro nutrients.

That is unlikely to happen. The sale/transfer agreement usually includes significant non-compete and non-solicitation covenants. Whereas it's difficult to enforce employee non-competes in California, the CA courts have regularly and repeatedly enforced non-competes on key members who sold their stake in a company.

The problem is that you don't die right away with cancer. One could suffer quality of life issues for decades. If you ask smokers suffering from late stage cancer whether the fun was "worth it" a year or two into chemotherapy, very few will say yes. Frankly, anyone who has dealt with late stage and terminal cancer personally or in a loved one knows no amount of "fun" is worth it. Your statement is very easy to say when you're healthy.

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I upgraded a few days ago and I haven't noticed any sluggishness issues. I have an iPhone 5. I also have an iPad Retina that I haven't bothered to upgrade, but I'm hoping it'll work as well as the iPhone.