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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Cool, so does a feel good piece about the Beatles count as satisfying "intellectual curiosity"? Or is it just a story about a celebrity? Again, I'm not making a claim one way or the other, but it's hardly an invalid que
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Sure, so your argument is, no, HN essentially has no theme, it's just what the audience upvotes. Because if it's "content that hackers may find interesting", then that's literally any topic at all. To be clear I&#x2
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Their point is Hacker News is branded as a place for posting links to content specifically relevant to the technology industry, and this isn't that. It's clearly a general interest piece. Is that a problem? Well, first I'd p
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
It's both. The answer is both. These storms are becoming more frequent and more powerful, and the public is more aware of them.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
It's a bit more nuanced than that: https://gpm.nasa.gov/resources/faq/what-difference-between-t... > The terms "hurricane" and "typhoon" are regional names for tropical cyclones. ... &g
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> what about all the energy needed to recharge the batteries? Last I checked, most of that still comes from fossil fuels. In my part of Canada a full 1/3rd of our electricity comes from renewables. In other places the number is eve
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Headline is borderline clickbait. The article is about fine particulate pollution from tire and break wear, which is not the kind of "air pollution" most people are concerned about when we use the term. From a microplastics persp
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
It's both. The Starlink satellite construction is cap ex (maaaaybe arguably part of the launch, which is required to make the satellite operational? Not sure...) while the launch and operating the network is ongoing op ex.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> By definition, spending on something that is consumable (like a rocket launch) is not a capital expenditure. Uh, I was talking about the Starlink satellites which SpaceX owns, not the rockets. I am not, in fact, an idiot. But thanks
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> Also sending "sweet" signals from the mouth can't be good in the long run Well that's a bold statement based on nothing... > pretty sure it spikes insulin somewhat, Pretty sure "pretty sure" isn't
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Probably cap ex which means they can use depreciation to improve their bottom line numbers.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
For a free speech purist that should be a distinction without a difference.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> I said "allowed a tiny bit more of free speech" I see, so on the one hand banned journalists, but on the otherhand reinstated white nationalist accounts so, you know, net positive in your books? Okay. Sure. Why not.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> And yet, when Twitter allowed a tiny bit more free speech Did they! Was that before or after they banned a bunch of journalist's accounts for making Elon mad? https://observer.com/2022/12/left-wing-twitte
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> You may be misunderstanding his point. No, I'm not. He specifically mentioned broken window theory elsewhere. > The data certainly supports this observation, There are multiple interpretations of the data, and the Wikipedia pa
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Same story for me at my last company, which started up in Canada but then relocated headquarters to the US. Why? Access to funding and industry partners. I was making great money compared to my local peers. But compared to my American co
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> If they start moving to Canada they take that knowledge gained in the US with them and instead of building the economy here it contributes to building it there. Which is why I say you have to pair this policy with policies to create lo
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> Anyone getting hired by an American company is looking to immigrate. Absolutely not true. I just left an American company composed of 1/3rd Canadians and none have demonstrated an interest in relocating. I could go into the man
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
I couldn't agree more. Canada is a perfect place for near-shoring: high quality, cheap labour with none of the timezone or language issues. It's mystifying why we don't see more demand.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
I can only assume you've not been to either city if you think Montreal is that much worse or NYC that much better, in terms of year-round climate. But more importantly, you can't increase your population if your cities have to rat
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
No because those brains increase the pool of inexpensive labour in the market, which will allow companies to avoid increasing salaries. To be clear, this is a super hard problem and I'm not claiming limiting tech labour immigration is
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
I'm all for immigration, but I'm not a fan of companies benefiting from cheap labour and driving down our already middling tech industry salaries. Brain drain to the US is already a huge problem due to the vastly higher compensat
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Ugh, not this again. Our northern regions are rugged, heavily forested, undeveloped, and in the northernmost regions, experiencing loss of permafrost upon which communities and transportation corridors are built. The southern parts of the c
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> There's this bizarre reaction I see from many where they see the excitement and curiosity and hopefulness as a form of error and source of embarrassment. When mixed with an open mind and reasonable skepticism... Kinda buried the l
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Maybe. So what? Humans are wired to form small communities. That was the world before the internet. Now everyone is connected on these massive platforms and people are miserable. Maybe that older model was the right one after all, and the
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
First, that wasn't my question, nor was it you I was asking. But sure, let's go with this. Frankly, this reeks of empty cynicism and we can do better than that around here. Your experience is also far from universal. In my previo
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Sounds like you would've been better off with kanban. Did you ever consider switching?
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> if petty crimes aren’t enforced even with just small punishments, then more serious crimes accelerate. For readers who run across this, this is referred to as the Broken window theory: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
No, the core theme was technical debt. Technical debt happens to be (typically) a function of time.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Conservation to enable ongoing future exploitation. That's a very different brand of conservation. There's a reason those same groups refuse to support policies that would stave off climate change: it would require less exploitati

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