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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> I have no idea what they are going to do with said information... Typically, try to make sure that you are comfortable? Humans communicate nonverbally, just like most social animals.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
People enjoy the things they enjoy. Busting out the "No true Scotsman" to put down the tastes of others as having the 'opposite of personality' is needlessly negative and gatekeep-ey. The bar for personality is not &#x27
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Heh, I tend to try and avoid 'programmer' because programming is only one part of the job. It's like calling a carpenter a 'measurer'.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Line engineers totally need to read body language. Presenting a paper or design? You need to read when your audience is drifting. Discussing a contentious code review? Body language can tell you loads about how much they are committed to th
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> The burden of proof runs the other way. It’s mundane and uncontroversial to state that open plan offices fail to save money. What? That seems to be the opposite of what most folks would reasonably intuit. More space per worker means mo
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The title threw me a bit, i was expecting an article on redistribution of existing wealth. The thesis is that if wage growth kept pace with GDP growth, the median salary would be 102k. Wages for the bottom 90% have stayed fairly constant, w
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Garments that are high quality are designed to last and be worn for a long time. High end selvedge jeans might run a couple hundred bucks, but they will last a decade. I suspect cheap, disposable clothing is driving much more emissions.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I've said it in every previous post where Boeing makes a profit vs safety trade-off: We should nationalize Boeing. It's in our strategic interest to be able to manufacture planes, Boeing provides lots of decent wage jobs, it has w
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I understand that. I'm saying it's a false dichotomy. Like, would you rather drink a shoe leather smoothie or a shoe polish smoothie? Neither! Why are we drinking shoe related smoothies at all?! Why do we need to assassinate anyon
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Doesn't that line of reasoning presuppose you need to be firing missiles into crowded areas? Rather than develop those missiles, what could be achieved by investing those millions into developing economies and relationships abroad?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Imperialism and extrajudicial killing is only bad when other people do it, obviously. /s
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I don't think I agree with the "Stop Snacking" advice. We all go through times where we need a boost to our sense of accomplishment, it can put the wind in our sails to address bigger problems. Sometimes snarfing up a bunch o
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You need to remove 30 gigatons per year to eliminate all the CO2 humans generate. This is the "what if humans disappeared" baseline you mentioned. If we eliminated 30 gigatons annually, yes the earth would recover at the rate you
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'd be careful to use the label Democrat so broadly. Neoliberal, centrist democrats (which is the predominant wing of the party, e.g. Pelosi, Biden, Obama, et al) are definitely caving to corporate interests over people's health&#
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I think most folks aren't super worried about a Venus-like runaway scenario where the planet starts boiling lead. Instead the concern is that while the planet will reach homeostasis over the long term, in the short term it will cause m
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Every time I've seen someone suggest that plants could have taken up the load it seems trivial to demonstrate this is not the case. For plants to take up the load, they would need to absorb and retain 30,000,000,000 tons of additiona
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
"Americans don't feel they can get justice" is probably sufficient.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> This thing serves no purpose if the movement and lights are seemingly random... It looks neat. It makes for good discussion. It inspires others to think about various ideas. Art serves a purpose, but we all appreciate it differently. &
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Doesn't it discolor the edges of the fabric?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The idea was that a home user cannot afford an industrial machine.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Interesting. Author describes a few methods for cutting fabric on a hypothetical fabric CNC. Lasers are out because of the impact to the material, so they investigate a few cutting options: Blade - Cuts well, but drags material Roller - Cut
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I agree with you, but even among capitalists Amazon is uniquely brutal to work for.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Not only do they work their employees hard and offer limited benefits, they tightly constrict what they can say and what they can do outside of work. For instance, want to grab a couple buddies and do a game jam? That's against the rul
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
They do, but it isn't represented in either of their two parties. The Liberal party and the Far Right party both do their best to ignore the leftists. That said, at the local and house level there is an increase in left candidates gett
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I think my argument is that thinking about efficiency at this scale actually costs more and uses more power overall. It's like spending an extra ten dollars once to save a tenth of a penny on each future tank of gas. Yes, there are tim
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Yes, it's absolutely a reason to consider not making something more efficient. It's not free to do the things this author recommends. Increasing efficiency has both a cost (how many hours did it take to improve this, and how much
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Wait, design is the big energy hog? I find that... well, in need of some evidence and data. I was expecting something like using serverless, or serving only static content or something. There's just no way that "write less JavaScr
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Wait, we're better than this on HN. If you have concerns about an argument being made it's important to articulate the concerns. Pointing out someone's career/reputation is an appeal to authority, and a form of bias. It&
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You and I are talking past one another, and I suspect we are unlikely to come to any sort of satisfying agreement. I believe, fundamentally, a landlord who makes a profit is immoral. Therefore, I'm not interested in understanding someo
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I think perhaps you misunderstand my position. I'm not interested in an accurate assessment, and I certainly don't want to hear from someone's creditors. Creditors don't tell me what it's like to live with someone.

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