NickM

27 ms·

361.
by NickM 8y ago
It's the richest company in the world so why the heck do New Yorkers need to hand over their cash to bring them the Queens? Because Amazon can easily go elsewhere, and most places have lower taxes than NYC. Giving them a ~10% off cou
362.
by NickM 8y ago
I think Tesla may start to face issues when the other automakers start coming out with electric cars within the next few years. Perhaps, but people have been saying exactly this about Tesla for the last ten years now. Hasn’t been an issue
363.
by NickM 8y ago
This comment is a pretty big spoiler to the entire first book. I agree it's a great series; would you consider making an edit so as to be a little less specific?
364.
by NickM 8y ago
This kind of finger pointing really misses the forest for the trees. I know it's popular to hate on the global elite and jump all over their hypocrisy at any opportunity, but we need to take a long, hand look at ourselves for a minute.
365.
by NickM 8y ago
The longer answer it is too cold to make the same cool cloud patterns in the visual spectrum Jupiter and Saturn have. That's not what the articles says at all.
366.
by NickM 8y ago
Growth in the economy is not necessarily predicated on growth in consumption of natural resources. Those two things tend to be correlated in modern society, but they're not inextricably linked; we don't necessarily have to give up
367.
by NickM 8y ago
"other people having different values than you" makes it sound like the value of ETH is purely a matter of personal opinion. It is, however, possible to fundamentally misprice an asset. I think OP is arguing that the ultimate real
368.
by NickM 8y ago
I'm sure of the US govt increased the federal tax credit for EVs from $7.5k to $40-60k, you'd see similar adoption in the US too. I get your point, but to be fair, the numbers in your comparison are a bit off, since a $40-60k ta
369.
by NickM 8y ago
These seem like very reasonable questions to me. Is this comment just getting downvoted because pro-nuclear HNers don’t like the opinions being expressed, or can someone legitimately justify the negative comment score I’m currently seeing?
370.
by NickM 8y ago
There was a great Radiolab episode about the lower-frequency stuff. IIRC, the hypothesis there is that you can stimulate certain types of brainwaves that tend to run on similar frequencies, so that seems like it's probably working via
371.
by NickM 8y ago
Smaller, less "glamorous" cities are often the best option for remote workers in my opinion; there are a lot of cities out there in places like e.g. Ohio or Western NY that are looked down on as "boring", but which actua
372.
by NickM 8y ago
Well yeah, nowadays contractors can charge through the nose when hardly anyone even has the necessary skills to maintain existing slate roofs anymore, much less install new ones. It didn't always used to be like that, though. The mater
373.
by NickM 8y ago
Yes, absolutely. I live in a city with a ton of old freestanding houses that were built around 1900, and they're incredibly sturdy. You can see this all throughout the construction: The frames are built from really thick wooden beams t
374.
by NickM 8y ago
This article seems to be putting on some strong rose-colored glasses. It appeals to the idea that people in the past all lived in beautiful, long-lasting buildings. The reality is that the long-lasting buildings are the only ones that stil
375.
by NickM 8y ago
Let's try to break this problem down to first principles: - Humans need food to live because it provides energy and nutrients. - From a fundamental standpoint of physics and available materials, nutrients are relatively easy to get; as
376.
by NickM 8y ago
The raw materials are certainly valuable enough to be worth recycling, assuming it's not terribly hard to separate them back out from each other. But suppose we never figure out a good way to recycle these batteries, and we just have t
377.
by NickM 8y ago
Maybe caving in and lowering the revenue would encourage future customers for other expensive treatments to boycott high prices and hold off for price drops. Refusing to negotiate and forgoing revenue now could be the rational strategy in t
378.
by NickM 8y ago
Sure, but what I can't fathom is why they would pay more to hire a dev in SF or NY when they could easily hire a better dev for the same price from somewhere else. Allowing remote work is a big benefit from the employee perspective,
379.
by NickM 8y ago
Individual action is unlikely to be effective in this case. For every person that cares enough and is aware enough to boycott these products, there are a thousand other people who either don't know, don't care, or can't affor
380.
by NickM 8y ago
The whole thing he is explaining is just regression to the mean. The author directly addresses this further down in the article. Regression to the mean is a possible explanation of the numbers he cites, but it doesn't refute the ma
381.
by NickM 8y ago
True, but there are potentially much larger economic and social costs incurred when people remain oblivious of something that is harmful. Playing it safe is likely worth the cost, even if we pay for a lot of false positives along the way.
382.
by NickM 8y ago
Nope, printed money is fine too. I used to live in Ithaca, NY, which had a fairly successful printed currency called the "Ithaca Hour": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca_Hours
383.
by NickM 8y ago
it's the first time in hundreds of years when an individual can print money and not be called a criminal...thanks to blockchain there's nothing stopping you to create a coin for your group, your neighbourhood or your town Local
384.
by NickM 8y ago
The calories in/out model is technically true, it's just not very useful. It's like saying "there's no secret to how a jet plane works, you just need to have enough lift to counter gravity, it's basic physics.&
385.
by NickM 8y ago
Phones are much less powerful than PCs, but they feel comparably fast because most software developers waste exactly as much performance as they can get away with. The phone app developers are forced to write better, faster code than the PC
386.
by NickM 8y ago
I think all the bastardized carbon accounting, market based solutions are on average quite bad. I'm curious, do you think the whole idea of a market-based solution is bad, or do you just think that actual real-world implementations h
387.
by NickM 8y ago
How do you feel about cruise control? Or automatic transmissions? I like semi-autonomous systems because they still take some of the cognitive load off of driving. Paying attention is still easier than paying attention plus constantly havin
388.
by NickM 8y ago
I can’t say, but keep in mind that there are plenty of examples of indie games that used a custom engine and went on to be highly successful. It could be that those games would have been just as successful with an off-the-shelf engine, but
389.
by NickM 8y ago
I think you're misinterpreting what he's saying (which might be my fault for expecting the quote to make sense outside the context of the talk). The quote is referring to the fact that we frown on people making money from running
390.
by NickM 8y ago
A thin atmosphere is still very different from no atmosphere. If you have access to CO2 you can break it apart to get breathable oxygen, or use it as in ingredient to make methane to fuel a return trip. If you have no atmosphere to draw on

More ›