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inconvenientnews t1_j80th79 wrote

Reply to comment by latinometrics in [OC] Sugarcane was first introduced to Brazil in 1532. Half a millennium later, the country produces over 700M tonnes yearly (roughly the same amount as all of Asia, and 7x the amount produced by Africa) by latinometrics

> Portuguese settlers

Who were the workers doing the farming work on sugarcane plantations?

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latinometrics OP t1_j80q9tw wrote

Reply to [OC] Sugarcane was first introduced to Brazil in 1532. Half a millennium later, the country produces over 700M tonnes yearly (roughly the same amount as all of Asia, and 7x the amount produced by Africa) by latinometrics

From our newsletter:

Sugarcane was first introduced to Brazil in 1532. Nearly 500 years later, the country exports over 700M tonnes yearly—roughly the same amount as the continent of Asia, and 7x the amount exported by Africa.

This is a staggering number, not least because Brazil’s population of 216M is far below both continents’ total populations and land area. The country is the world’s largest exporter of sugarcane, producing 40% of the global total in 2020, which contributed $8.95B to its economy.

Cana de açúcar, as it’s locally called, is not native to Brazil and was instead brought to the country by Portuguese settlers. The commodity has a number of distinct uses. It can be drank raw or turned into a special juice, caldo de cana, which is quite popular across the country.

Source: FAO

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Ineedtwocats t1_j80ixlr wrote

Reply to Who Owns the Most Land in the United States? by Artemistical

please use similar units of measure

dont tell me there is 3.7 million square miles of land and then have all the info presented in acres.

keep them the same.

either tell me there are 2,368,000,000 acres in america

or have the breakdowns be in square miles

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quintinza OP t1_j80embo wrote

Reply to comment by flerchin in [OC]The effect loadshedding has on my server room temperatures. I generally run my room between 23C and 25C, but with loadshedding it skyrockets and I only realised how much when I used a phidgets temperature sensor to graph how the temperatures change during loadshedding. by quintinza

Today it was 38C outside when I left, and inside it was 28.8C in the server room. This was at 16:30 and the aircon switched off at 16:00.

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papertiger OP t1_j80ab6n wrote

Reply to [OC] NBA Score Leaders - Heatmap of Points Scored per Year Aligned to Player Age by papertiger

Description: Answering the question, How does LeBron James' scoring record compare to other NBA score leaders?
Data source: https://www.nba.com/stats
Data totals checked with: https://www.nba.com/stats/alltime-leaders and http://www.espn.com/nba/history/leaders Tools: Python, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, https://github.com/swar/nba_api
Code: https://gist.github.com/papertiger-stash/b3fb7127cbb8e457a85222ab25691a30
Notes: API hung, more reliable later at night. API double reports totals years a player was traded.

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quintinza OP t1_j8013oc wrote

Reply to comment by flerchin in [OC]The effect loadshedding has on my server room temperatures. I generally run my room between 23C and 25C, but with loadshedding it skyrockets and I only realised how much when I used a phidgets temperature sensor to graph how the temperatures change during loadshedding. by quintinza

It's a rolling blackout. The aircon is not on backup power, so the aircon goes dead when the power goes off.

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askLubich t1_j7zxher wrote

Reply to [OC] Programming Language Popularity: Reddit vs. TIOBE by whatweshouldcallyou

I'd have used actual logarithmic scales, because I don't think it's clear to everyone what you mean by "Logged".

That way one could directly read off numbers without having to guess which base you used. Depending on personal background, people would assume bases e, 10 or even 2.

Personally I find the regression line a bit pointless (what do we learn from it?) and I absolutely hate the grey shaded areas around it. Truth is, OP has no idea about the underlying distribution and the grey band fakes a level of sophistication that just isn't there.

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bigslimjim91 OP t1_j7z8dpt wrote

Reply to comment by Chris-1235 in Which of the food that pair with lemon pair well together [OC] by bigslimjim91

Yes, your point about tomato being acidic enough is interesting because it highlights a flaw in this model of food pairing. The theory is that food that have common molecules go together but as you say that can lead to (for example) over acidic food. I think a more useful model needs to consider the balance of flavours.

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