Gauss supposedly did it when he was 7. The hardest part for the compiler is figuring out that you have a loop that computes that sum and does nothing else important.
If structured the right way, agricultural land has numerous tax benefits that can range based on jurisdiction from carve-outs on inheritance taxes all the way down to property tax exemptions on what could not even be considered a hobby farm (very large exurban lots)
I've got a ton of mason bee tubes. They are awesome.
To use a silicon valley analogy, nobody has figured out how to scale out mason bees. Not to the > 200sq miles of pomegranates, pistachios, and almonds owned by the Resnicks. The Resnicks funded some in-house research and apparently considred it a failure.
It's probably possible. Might not even be hard once you know the trick, but it's certainly not a slam-dunk.
Supposedly, it only takes 250 mason bees to do the same pollination as 10,000 honeybees. I think there are people working on scaling this. The honey business is secondary to the pollination money, so having pollination done without having to truck around large hives, could be a big deal.
I'm not saying anyone is doing 'enough' but neonicotinoid bans in EU are perhaps the most effective and 'costly' thing done so far. In Not that costs borne by poisoners
I mean, even if it wasn't effective for the bees - it certainly helped human health with regards to breast cancer and neurological damage in children [0]. If you scroll to the bottom of the article, you'll find links to the studies that are source to this claim.
I may miss something but the linked studies say that neonicotinoids are bad (which I 100% believe), but don't actually say anything about the effectiveness of the bans.
E.g. it is possible EU agriculture replaced these pesticides with different ones which are just as bad, or with larger amounts of different ones.
I'm not saying we shouldn't have banned these substances, I'd just like to know if we have data showing this was actually useful.
Neonicotinoid are just analogs of nicotine but with less affinity for mammals aka less toxic(higher LDL). If you’re worried about the effects of nicotine(eg: cancer,ADHD in kids), don’t eat anything from the nightshade family like eggplants, potatoes, peppers or tomatoes. There’s more nicotine in your mashed potatoes than neonicotinoid residue on your vegetables.
Beside the point you were making, but is there an established link between nicotine consumption and cancer, without smoking? What do you mean by "effects of nicotine - ADHD in kids"?
I couldn't find any source to confirm that acetamiprid is naturally in nightshade. If you know of any for this specific compound, would you please link them?
It's true but honey bees are still extremely economically important. And very useful because their hives are large and portable.
The billionaire Resinick pomegranate/pistachoi/almond oligarchs put quite a bit of effort into native bees which seemed quite successful but they shut it down I think about 5 years ago. I can't find the article now. Gen X+ might remember them as owners of the 'Franklin Mint' hawkers of knickknacks you either are or soon will be throwing into a dumpster.
They are BTW also largest renters of honeybee hives in the US.
> And very useful because their hives are large and portable.
I have no proof of this, this is just my theory, but the "portable" might be the issue. I think industrial beekeepers in the US might be part of the problem. Yes you can technically move the bees, but should you? You're moving around disease, you might be overworking and stressing the bees. Meanwhile you have farmers create massive fields with nothing but corn, grass, wheat, whatever, leaving you with essentially green deserts from the pollinators perspectives.
Again just a theory of mine, but the reliance of "portable" bees is what's causing the problem. Other countries have beehives for rent, but they aren't moved constantly. Often they stay in the same location all year and the bees are allowed to follow their natural cycles.
Trucking around hundreds of hives always seems rather stupid.
Right, it's interesting from a technical perspective, but it's a story about battery-farmed livestock, not about North American ecology. My guess is they'll figure out how to keep growing more bees. The prices of honey bee queens have been pretty stable for the past 15 years.
I think it is not a great analogy. As Jeremy Bentham wrote, “The question is not: can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But can they suffer?”
I have relatives that do or have raised bees (as a hobby). Can bees suffer? I don't know. I kind of think a bee can experience suffering in a small degree. I'm not going to run the experiments on that because I'm not a sociopath. Also arguably the hive is the basic unit of the honeybee organism, not the bee itself.
I do know for certain hogs can suffer. I'm a farm boy from Iowa. I've been around them from a young age and I hate everything about them. I hate the smell, I hate the way their meat tastes to me like they smell, I hate how if you are small enough and don't take care, they are mean enough to knock you down and eat you.
I'm probably one of the few people on HN who have actually experienced in person what a hog confinement facility looks and smells and sounds like. I wouldn't wish it on my worst hog enemy. It is a vision of hell, illegal to film in Iowa, and in no way comparable to how we treat bee hives.
I am for complicated reasons unusually familiar with battery hog farms. I'm not making an ethical comparison; I'm just saying: ecologically speaking, American honey bees are an industrial product, not part of our fauna.
I think it was only in the last 5? years you can no longer buy a brand new helicopter with manual throttle control right on the collective. Not even RPM control, just a stupid manual linkage going straight to the carb :|
Socialism with chinese characteristics/ Xi Jinpeng thought is the most successful ideology currently. Free speech/free markets power has decayed since people found ways to exploit them and more powerful people found ways to aid the exploiters.
The US is apparently powerless to exploit our own rare earth resources and fund/subsidize them or lithium production or photovoltaic production, nuclear reactors, or even semiconductor production.
> The US is apparently powerless to exploit our own rare earth resources
The DOD took a direct stake in a US rare earth miner / refiner, in addition to a long term purchase agreement at set prices. Apple also piled on last week (no doubt after some backroom conversations).
It depends what adversary I guess. It seems like several middle eastern countries of very different religious bent are quite happy with our military activity. Though they are not usually named as adversaries they certainly are by any rational metric.
No it is not, an earlier WA building (not necessarily the earliest) was across from the Burgermaster on SR520/Northup Way. I think they meant it's the original MS building 3. As far as I know there is no 'new' building 3.
