CptJamesCook

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by CptJamesCook 10y ago
A 747 in the air consumes more power than every single home in San Francisco. "A Boeing 747 jet has an average power consumption of 140 megawatts." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(power) Yo
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Air freight.
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Too bad Google's founders fly all over the world on private jets, doing far more damage than these measures prevent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviati...
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Here is a great primer on stoicism: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/3a2bl4/stoicism... I love the practice of stoicism, but I cannot do the negative visualization. It just gives me anxiety!
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Michael, How much racism have you faced in Silicon Valley? Do you ever face racism from companies going through the YC program?
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There is no racism on the_donald. In fact, the sub prides itself on it's non-racist attitude.
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The conclusion of this article is not that global warming is dangerous but that local air pollution is bad for public health: "According to research published last year, spending a day in Beijing is currently akin to smoking almost 40
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The Mark Rich pardon was purely wrong, and yet perhaps not illegal.
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Thanks for helping the readers of Hacker News understand why Trump won.
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Please stop calling people you don't agree with racist and sexist. It's wrong, it's mean, and it does not seem to have the desired effect. Human beings are basically good. We are trying to go about our lives and do the best w
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Do you think heroin should be legal?
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Porn is more pleasing when the girl sounds and looks like girls that you know. It gives it a more realistic feel. So consumers actually do care where the porn is made.
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The laws are complex and varied, but it's typically legal to discriminate when renting individual rooms. Entire houses are a different story, though.
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I've been treated unethically by four relatively senior employees of Slack myself. It never occurred to me to complain until they started acting so holier than thou.
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What a smug, sanctimonious piece of writing. It's hard to imagine that anyone who read this came away with a positive perception of Slack.
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Peter Thiel cares a great deal about the greater good. And since you are attacking Paul Graham for not disassociating YCombinator with Thiel, why don't you put your money where your mouth is and refund the money you raised to YCombinat
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The part that made me cringe was the insulting a major party nominee for president, and the talking down to me: "Oh, you didn’t? Well, now you do." Right, I had no idea that not all African Americans live in inner cities. Why pres
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NFL players aren't the audience. The general public is, and at least 40% of the public doesn't think Trump is a racist.
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ESPN recently launched a new site: theundefeated.com They link out to it aggressively from the homepage of espn.com. It is a very strong SJW site that I often find cringeworthy. Here is a story from today: http://theundefeated.co
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If it was so basic, why did the head of the party email the campaign the exact question? She must have thought it was important, otherwise why put your career on the line
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You don't think that cheating in the debate by providing one candidate with questions in advance is significant?
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The head of the DNC (and Hillary's former campaign manager) giving debate questions to the Clinton campaign is truly outrageous, and it is only the media's extreme hate for Trump that is keeping this from getting more attention. B
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One reason is that Bernie Sanders, who was not that far off from winning the presidency, takes him very seriously. From Michael Moore's website: "I first endorsed Bernie Sanders for public office in 1990 when he, as mayor of Burli
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In 2005, Time magazine named Moore one of the world's 100 most influential people. So, not exactly just a dude. Michael Moore represents a growing anti-capitalist ideology in America, and when their socialist experiments fail it should
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Just three years ago: https://twitter.com/mmflint/status/309124649244057600
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In addition to forcing transparency on governments, corporations, and non-profits around the world, I think he would like to secure his own future freedom. It seems highly likely that a Trump administration would give him immunity or a pard
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No one is coming for anyone. No one has said a thing about American citizens. Your comparison is unfair. Comparing people whose policies you disagree with to Hitler is McCarthyism. Hitler: Before he even gained power, he said he wanted to g
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The words brave and courage do not appear in this threat. They should. Mr. Thiel is standing up for his beliefs in the face of great personal risk. I applaud him.
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Sure, we should be vigilant against hate speech. But not by banning speech, and not by manipulating it. And saying that we shouldn't allow a specific faith into the United States, even on a temporary basis, is certainly against the Ame
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A comparison between Trump and Hitler is ridiculous. There is simply no comparison, and the idea of is an insult to the millions slaughtered by Nazi Germany. 9 years before Hitler became president of Germany, he wrote in Mein Kampf: "t

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