DougN7

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by DougN7 8y ago
I’ve thought about collecting all those emails I get. There is some good creative writing going on :)
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by DougN7 8y ago
Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not...
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I’m sorry but you can rationalize literally almost anything using that argument. I’m quite sure the babies will get made just fine without alcohol.
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by DougN7 8y ago
I always wonder about that. I remember very specifically learning 40(?) years ago that the expansion was slowing, supposedly proven by some sort of red shift in light. That is now out of favor, but a few more new facts just might swing thi
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by DougN7 8y ago
That is interesting. So if cows are slaughtered at 15 months instead of three years, methane per cow life time has been cut by more than half. So we could have twice as many cows with the same methane output, right? Something doesn’t se
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by DougN7 8y ago
How does that work if your social graph doesn’t move with you? This reminds me of the 90’s when we had so many messenger apps - you needed different apps to talk to different people. Data portability doesn’t help that. I suppose Zuck is
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by DougN7 8y ago
> thus proving ... Seriously? There is a $20 Billion dollar advertising industry with countless studies behind it, and hundreds of thousands of people working in, all of which says persuasion works. You’re going to need a little more p
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by DougN7 8y ago
The bills for what though? A car, iphone, internet, Netflix, attending movies? 100+ years ago people were happy without that. The reason we wouldn’t be today is our relatively poor way of life without them compared to those who have. I
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by DougN7 8y ago
Yeah, I hate weasel words like that too. Eating sand “may” make me a genius. For that matter it “may” allow me to fly!
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by DougN7 8y ago
The Economist had an article about 6 weeks ago that reached the opposite conclusion. It essentially found a comfortable middle class lifestyle was going to be hard to achieve without higher education now, compared with previous generations
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Ask HN: Hobbies Outside of Tech?
3 points by DougN7 8y ago|4 comments
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by DougN7 8y ago
It took me years to convince my kids that studying with (vocal) music was not a good idea. After a particularly bad semester at college my daughter got desperate and decided to study without music. Her grades shot way up and now she’s a b
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by DougN7 8y ago
Is this a relatively new development?
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by DougN7 8y ago
Are psychedlics not addicting?
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AI generates infinite fake faces(engadget.com)
1 points by DougN7 8y ago|1 comments
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Of course. I shouldn’t comment so early in the morning :(
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If the energy to do the reverse is not from carbon fuels (solar, wind) then it gets interesting though, right?
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by DougN7 8y ago
Arter reading your comment I was envisioning a world that emitted no carbon. It made me wonder if the pendulum could possibly swing so far in the other direction that plants could start suffocating. Certainly not something we need to worr
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by DougN7 8y ago
That’s awesome - congratulations! I’m glad it worked for you.
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by DougN7 8y ago
Good luck. Cautionary tale: I have a buddy that was in a similar situation (more than $1M actually). He started a business, was careful, and after a few years went bankrupt because the business never gained traction. He sure wishes he ha
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by DougN7 8y ago
The inflation would render the money we gave everyone nearly worthless, by approximately the amount given out. It’s similar to adding six zeros to every bank account.
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by DougN7 8y ago
Having only participated in a single cul-de-sac party, I can’t imagine why anyone would be against these. This sounds exactly like something that should be encouraged to create community in our increasingly insular lives.
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by DougN7 8y ago
Yes, the environment definitely makes it easier and more feasible. Still, what if we have Star Trek-like transporter building blocks today but just can’t see it yet?
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by DougN7 8y ago
I don’t know why you were downvoted because you’re right. A simple thought experiment can prove it: give everyone $1 million every year starting today. Is everyone suddenly rich? Just for a few days. Eventually milk will cost $500/
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by DougN7 8y ago
What always amazes me is this could have been done back in the day if someone had had the vision and belief that it was possible. Understandable that they didn’t because it’s so far beyond the then current level of expectation. So that mak
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by DougN7 8y ago
I’m guessing the percentage of people smoking cigars, and those who get started smoking via cigars, is pretty small.
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by DougN7 8y ago
What is a “3D” car? Seems needlessly redundant.
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by DougN7 8y ago
You sound like you know more about this than I do. Are there any theories (not even with evidence) about how sex evolved? I can’t find a way two unrelated species (that did not have a “mother and father” of some sort) came together to pro
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by DougN7 8y ago
I think maybe you’re comparing “open society” to utopia. There will always be bad actors that have to be accounted for and handled in some way. What is bad and how bad is always up for debate, but their existence will always be with us.
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by DougN7 8y ago
Maybe I clicked the wrong link but I would hardly call that PDF a picture book

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