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masseydnc t1_j83lqu6 wrote

Reply to [OC] More than 130 earthquakes rocked Turkey in 48 hours by MePiyush

I find it very difficult to believe, just from the standpoint of probability, that there were precisely zero earthquakes between magnitude 2.5 and 4.0, as indicated by the comment.

Also, were the earthquakes evenly spaced in time, as the lines on the chart appear to be? This makes it appear that the quakes occurred exactly 19 minutes after the last one.

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V8O t1_j83hpjd wrote

Reply to comment by hadukenski 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

India is indeed 2nd largest in production, and India + Brazil together account for over half of all commercially grown sugar cane on the planet.

India is also the world's largest consumer of sugar, while Brazil (having a much smaller population) is the largest net exporter of sugar (even though half the sugar cane crop there gets turned into ethanol instead of sugar).

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V8O t1_j83gz5j wrote

Reply to comment by Roadkill_Bingo 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

You can't import sugar cane, it can't be stored for long before processing.

You could import ethanol made from sugar cane, but Brazil's entire production capacity is less than 2/3rds of US ethanol consumption.

And of course Brazil is already using this sugar cane and these factories to make ethanol for its own car fleet... Ethanol amounts to like 30-40% of all fuel used in gasoline engines in Brazil (which is like the world's 5th or 6th largest gasoline market).

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Volcic-tentacles t1_j83dhdy wrote

Reply to Recent Superbowl Win Probabilities, Ordered by "Excitement" [OC] by tree-of-thought

I only started watching NFL this year (in week 11 of the 2022 season). It took me a while to decode the labels, which require quite a bit of specialist knowledge of the NFL and there is no key. Marks off for that.

Once I tuned in though, I did find this interesting. How were the probabilities worked out though? Where is the background on this?

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rogert2 t1_j838jz0 wrote

Reply to Top lies that romance scammers use to take advantage of people—lies that reports to the FTC show cost nearly 70,000 consumers $1.3 billion in 2022 by allpenny

This reminds me, I need to hire a caligrapher to write the following message into 100 Valentine's Day cards:

> Dear Sir or Madam,
>
> We’ve never met, but I need you to know that I’m in jail on a far-away military oil rig, I’ve found some gold that I can teach you to invest, and I need your private pictures to bribe the guards so I can escape, deliver the gold, and we can get married.

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sifterandrake t1_j82ztja wrote

Reply to comment by Coloradostoneman 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

Yes!

You. Do. Not. Fuck. Around. With. Famine.

It's just simply that devastating to country.

Having a secure food supply in case of a multitude of disasters is probably the single most important aspect to national security.

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hadukenski t1_j82zkgu 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

India must be the 2nd largest then with production of 419.25 million tonnes. https://www.chinimandi.com/sugarcane-production-in-2021-22-season-estimated-at-419-25-million-tonnes/

That's a lot of cane sugar in the world.

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quintinza OP t1_j82z92r wrote

Reply to [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

Tools used:

Python, with the phidgets library to read the sensor.

Visualization made in Google sheets.

Data sources:

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quintinza OP t1_j82ymh4 wrote

Reply to comment by 64sweetsour 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

I put the sensor on the inlet side of the server room, to see what the incoming temperature is.

And yep, South Africa.

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