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by ThomPete 7y ago
It's just not plastic.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Yes, which is why I want them to keep having access to cheap reliable energy so they can build their way out of poverty. It's exactly not black and white which is my whole point. There are good sides and bad sides to everything we do.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
It's not a few bits of plastic. It was the difference between whether my son who was born 10 weeks to early would both survive and be a normal kid or risk not survive and whether he would become normal.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Nature does that all the time though. It would seem to me that the only thing for humans to do is to look at it from a human-centric view which would naturally involve some sort of bio-centric view. I for one is not ready to have a bio-cent
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by ThomPete 7y ago
I wasn't really trying to make a counterargument against the legal case, just that it's more complicated than that IMO. For one thing, the idea that they knew it would cause climate change seems highly suspect to me.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
I am talking about incubators for children not the company.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
I was responding to the blanket claim in the parent that oil kills people. In my view it's not as simple as being claimed but I am sure technically there is a case here. The positives are also externalized. The internet wouldn't h
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Sure I get the technical argument but in my view it makes things much more complex than simply arguing some technicality ill intent. Then again I don't know all the details, I smell an attempt at scoring political points though more th
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Technically you might be able to make that claim, but I have a hard time understanding the point if it saves more people than it kills. Then at least morally I would question who is really in the right here.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Cigarettes only kill people. Oil saves more lives than it kills and it makes lives better for all of us. You can't just take the negatives and ignore all the positives. Most of us wouldn't be here if it wasn't for oil, the in
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by ThomPete 7y ago
This is a purely political article from what i can see, not really HN material or am i missing something
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Thank you so much. I have had people who used it for emac and you can with some proper configuration use it for things like Sublime. There is also a code editor so you can write your own scripts for apps we don't support as long as the
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Blue collar workers cant be more competitive than the cost of living supports.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
the reliability of nuclear is 90%, the reliability of wind and solar is 20-40% So yes its pretty disingenuous . Nuclear is a backup for wind and solar, not the other way around.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Well, nations are part of everyone in globalization no? Not sure I understand the distinction. The issue wasn't of trade but of a small group of people who benefitted from exporting jobs abroad to sell products at home and then still a
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by ThomPete 7y ago
It's not low that is the status quo. Wind and solar have a capacity factor of 20-40% why do you think you always need backup from coal, gas, oil or nuclear?
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Paul Krugman and other mainstream trade experts are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization: It hurt American workers far more than they thought it would. Did America’s free market economists help put a protectionist demagog
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by ThomPete 7y ago
I dont' see how it depends. You can take wind and solar energy out of the equastion and you will still be able to grow crops and distribute etc. You can't take fossil fuels out and do the same. Intermittency and capacity factor is
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Wind and solar is less then 1% of worlds energy today and not projected to be more than 3-4% in 2040. My guess is that it won't even be 2% by 2040.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Fossil fuels are used for thousands of products everything from medicine to concrete to asphalt to pesticides, to solar cells, to windmills and machinery and manufacturing, etc. We are not even close to having the battery technology that wi
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by ThomPete 7y ago
There are a number of misunderstandings when it comes to wind and solar I wish more people were aware of. Wind and solar is only electricity. Electricity is 15-20 percent of our energy needs. Wind and solar needs backup sources from either
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by ThomPete 7y ago
They already can so that's hardly a good test. But I think you are looking at this the wrong way. Technology is the natural evolution of biological material which is currently being used as the information carrier of DNA. Think of AI a
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by ThomPete 7y ago
That's not how things work. There is an advantage to automation. If you decide not to you are just leaving it to someone else to do it an be more competitive than you. That's what is meant with inevitability in this context. If yo
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Ghostnote is a contextual notes and todo app. https://www.ghostnoteapp.com It is profitable but not enough to live of when you have a wife and too kids and live in new york. I build it because i needed it myself.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
We left the app store because it was making it hard for us to do anything innovative. The mac appstore is litterally hindering innovative apps from existing, and for no good reason that couldnt be solved other ways. I completely understand
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Of course there are other factors, but what I was responding to what the claim that meeting early lead to poorer performance. THATS the context here. You are moving the goalpost whether you want to admit it or not. You made the mistake and
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Huh? I learned in school that sooner or later anecdotes become statistics. If you didn't learn that you are missing something. So here is the statistics for you. 2400 elementary schools in NY state, ALL 30 SA schools is in the top 3% a
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by ThomPete 7y ago
I am understanding what they are trying to tell me, they are just wrong about it for reasons I have already explained.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
2400 schools and exactly the same school system the “scientific studies” are based on, so yes you are moving the goal post. What i have is a pretty clear indication that meeting early in school does not affect your abilities to perform well
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The Worlds That AI Might Create(wsj.com)
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