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by adriand 8y ago
> What would be the drawback of simply creating a global fund for actual human cleanup at scale? With some set incentivizing price for retrieval, say $0.01 per gram? I'm imagining huge machines trawling the landscape, chewing up bea
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by adriand 8y ago
It doesn't burst blood vessels, it covers them up!
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> You should be more careful about victim blaming. I think you should be more careful with how you use the phrase "victim blaming", which is commonly used in cases of injustice towards victims of sexual assault in particular.
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by adriand 8y ago
Fascinating article. Reminds me of a sci-fi story from 1958 called "Business As Usual, During Alterations". The premise is that aliens introduce a "matter duplicator" to human civilization that can instantly duplicate
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Marriott Concedes 5M Passport Numbers Lost to Hackers Were Not Encrypted(nytimes.com)
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by adriand 8y ago
The scientific basis for links between red meat production and environmental harm due to greenhouse gases, and between red meat consumption and harm to individual health, is well established. I’m not here to criticize the choices of one ind
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by adriand 8y ago
No judgment here (do what you need to do) but this is both bad for the environment and bad for your health (cancer, heart disease, etc.)
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by adriand 8y ago
This is a great comment and a really valuable perspective. I have to note, however, that financially precarious nonprofits can also veer off in bad directions, or become ossified, or whatever, and the result is they fail outright. A benefit
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by adriand 8y ago
Different strokes for different folks. If it works, don’t fix it. Etc. Some of us succeed not just despite our bad habits, but because of them.
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by adriand 8y ago
I think as ethical, intelligent and conscious individuals, we folks in the developer and hacker community want people to make decisions on the basis of principles, when the reality is that people generally make decisions on the basis of con
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Some unexplained physical symptoms may be caused by unresolved emotional trauma(theglobeandmail.com)
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Gravity did it really well.
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by adriand 8y ago
This is pretty incredible. There was once a time when the only way for the average person to see a beautiful painting was to go to church. Later on this role was taken up by art galleries. Now anyone can see this stuff from the comfort of
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by adriand 8y ago
Native English speaker here (Canada) - I believe I can honestly say that I have never heard anyone refer to the colour of the sky as either of those things. Certainly never "cerulean", and I have strong doubts about "azure&q
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by adriand 8y ago
It's interesting to look at this through the lens of startup creation. Here is an example of something where there will clearly be customers that need assistance from technologically sophisticated companies. Quote: "Mr Steel say
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by adriand 8y ago
I've been pondering the plight of homeless people and buskers and panhandlers lately too, for the same precise reason, which is now that tap to pay is almost universally accepted I find I'm rarely carrying cash. I went in a diffe
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by adriand 8y ago
'Toronto’s tech scene is so hot the city created more jobs than the San Francisco Bay area, Seattle and Washington, D.C., combined last year, while leapfrogging New York in a ranking of “talent markets."' https://w
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by adriand 8y ago
I really love stories about people who become totally, utterly absorbed in something, to the point where they obsessively spend time on it, in a kind of natural sense that does not require checklists, reminders, etc. It's just always
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by adriand 8y ago
Crazy thought, but, what if the primary motivation of the creator of JGuitar has nothing to do with his website, his reputation, etc.? For example, what if his primary motivation is to do something useful for others? What if his primary m
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by adriand 8y ago
This reads like an article that got half-written before the author said, "fuck it" or ran out of time. The first half is excellent but it gets shaky with "The Hopeful", then falls apart in "The Revisionists" w
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by adriand 8y ago
You're not kidding - I hadn't read about him before, but wow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Brunelleschi Architecture, ship engineering, mathematics and sculpture. The dome itself is the largest br
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by adriand 8y ago
Reminds me of an idea I had a few years ago when the northeast states and provinces like Quebec and Ontario were in the grip of an intense cold snap as a result of a "polar vortex". I live near Lake Ontario and the surface of the
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by adriand 8y ago
These conversations, which appear every time a post appears on HN that talks about what a great place Toronto is (along with many other places in Canada), make me sad. There is so much more to life than money.
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by adriand 8y ago
I remember sitting at a bar in a distant city in some other country one night, and the person next to me, who I had just met that day, suggested that we do a shot together. Now these shots were big, and it had already been quite the night,
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by adriand 8y ago
It's not how many kids you have, it's how old they are. The period of time between 0 and 6 months is very challenging from a sleep perspective unless you avoid taking responsibility for the child at night (e.g. by dumping nightti
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by adriand 8y ago
I don't agree with this, even though it's a common opinion. There is something about the combination of cannabis and certain people (their mental makeup? their neurophysiology?) which either inevitably, or randomly, leads to po
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by adriand 8y ago
I'm not suggesting that the research is invalid. I have no reason to think it is and in fact I believe - as I stated - that maximizing individual productivity by working from home is effective. However, I don't believe that eve
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by adriand 8y ago
I think it depends on what you want to optimize for. If you want to optimize for individual productivity (and there are no trust issues) then sure, working from home is effective. However, you may decide that the individual productivity lo
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by adriand 8y ago
Hippie is a culture. You're right about tech tho.
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by adriand 9y ago
You should never mislead a potential investor. Why would you want an investor who is misaligned with your core technology/strategic direction?

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