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by akamaka 6y ago
Did you know that one third of US carbon emissions come from buildings? Upgrading buildings would massively reduce emissions, and we’d never have to generate the electricity in the first place. It pays for itself.
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by akamaka 6y ago
There’s an elegant solution to all this: better energy efficiency for buildings. It’s funny seeing people in this thread jumping right past the root cause and suggesting elaborate solutions like nuclear power. And before you say it’s not f
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by akamaka 6y ago
I’ve enjoyed many of pg’s essays, but this is my favourite of all time. I often feel burned out and uninspired these days, even after past successes. It’s wonderful to take a look back at a time when overly ambitious ideas would be naively
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by akamaka 6y ago
I’ve built successful large enterprise apps in React, and would recommend it. Here’s how we avoided some of his pitfalls: * Small team of talented developers who didn’t always agree on libraries and methodology, but worked through disagreem
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by akamaka 6y ago
But the article doesn’t actually explain any of those politics! That’s the point, they just dropped in Biden’s name, despite the fact that he has no position on this issue, and despite it being largely in the hands of congress to decide th
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by akamaka 6y ago
It seems to be part of the New York Times style guidelines to put everything into context of presidential politics. For example, they published an article yesterday about the technical merits of hypersonic missiles, but instead of focusing
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by akamaka 6y ago
Or perhaps it’s a response to the purge of pro-democracy politicians in Hong Kong this week?
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by akamaka 6y ago
> It's awesome because you are a westerner. Are you really sure only westerners are having an awesome time in Taiwan? Have a look at the data for who travels most to Taiwan (and presumably enjoys it): https://en.m.wikipe
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by akamaka 6y ago
I hope you reconsider your approach. It won’t help you much if you one day find yourself in a persecuted minority.
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by akamaka 6y ago
Why do you think it is specifically relevant to say “He did not tell people to commit their crimes”? Do you imagine some “correct” process exists for this situation, where Trump would face a trial and conviction for inciting the riot, and t
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by akamaka 6y ago
You certainly can label it as misogyny if you wish to, and you’re not wrong, but ultimately it’s little more than a pejorative. Outside the confines of a Foucauldian academic discussion, these words are used to define and exclude people, n
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by akamaka 6y ago
Why ask me? I don’t claim to know what they’re thinking, I’m just skeptical at the idea that misogynists are so evenly distributed between genders. Why don’t you actually go talk to pro-life people and really listen to what they have to sa
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by akamaka 6y ago
> > Are against abortion? Then you’re a misogynist. > > Yes. This is correct. Have you looked at the data of how many women are pro-life? Do you think half of women are misogynists? https://news.gallup.com/poll&
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by akamaka 6y ago
They certainly could have done more within the law. The FBI has been successful at snaring people who were merely thinking of committing terrorism, through elaborate sting operations.
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Services make up 80% of US GDP, so it is definitely being measured to a large degree. I think you have a valid point to make about GDP being a poor measure of certain things, but I think you would find it worthwhile to study more about what
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by akamaka 6y ago
As a teenager, I picked out a copy of The Little Drummer Girl from a used book store quite by chance. I expected a simple spy action story, but what I read was a deep and anguishing examination of the personal impact of geopolitics on a
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by akamaka 6y ago
This article is not really worthy of Hacker News. We already have a tax system that is designed to do a fair amount of wealth redistribution. That moral argument was fought and largely won a long time ago. Now, that system certainly needs
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by akamaka 6y ago
Somehow Zoom made the jump to being a consumer brand because of the pandemic. I never expected it either, since I had only seen it used in the corporate world up to that point.
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by akamaka 6y ago
Yes, we also all know that nobody rational would launch a pre-emptive strike. Nobody is saying NK would launch one.
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by akamaka 6y ago
As a Canadian, I was amazed to see unrefrigerated milk in boxes on my first trip to Europe. I agree about the taste. That being said, it is easier to get raw milk in Europe, so I envy that.
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by akamaka 6y ago
Sounds promising! I hadn’t heard of this before, but apparently it has recently been approved for use in Canada, so hopefully dairies here will give it a try.
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by akamaka 6y ago
I think that’s something different from what I’m describing, since it’s higher temperature than the HTST that’s typical in North America. UHT milk never became very popular in North America, so I’m not to what extent ESL has been introduce
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by akamaka 6y ago
This article is very out-dated. Some organic milk brands nowadays are actually using very low temperature pasteurization, which heats the milk to 63°C for 30 minutes. It’s more expensive but considered to have a much better flavor. https:
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by akamaka 6y ago
> The drug may well have made bearable the last months of millions of people. If you think that is a fair trade-off, how many deaths would you consider acceptable to gain the pain relief benefit? As an exercise, try calculating an exact
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by akamaka 6y ago
Thanks for the interesting links!
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You might like to read about Cuba’s agricultural crisis after the collapse of the USSR, and how quickly they were able to adapt, despite being an isolated island nation. It might give you more confidence to pursure your dream to move to Ha
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by akamaka 6y ago
Isn’t it more of a slippery slope argument?
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No, I’m not an analyst who crunches those numbers. But it’s worth highlighting that Ontario didn’t find it worth building more reactors, even with all of the necessary infrastructure in place and plenty of public support for the nuclear in
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by akamaka 6y ago
New reactors were considered for Ontario, but the plans were withdrawn because it didn’t make economic sense. It would have been great if we had built enough nuclear plants in the 20th century, but at this point it’s pretty clear that most
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by akamaka 6y ago
Do you imagine that there is some hard limit beyond which adding more pollution won’t make any difference to someone’s health? Or is the relationship more linear, where every additional particle inhaled will cause more damage?

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