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by alephnerd 2mo ago
We need better models. The reality is we are on track to break 2C by 2050, and there is nothing that can be done about it . 3C is a real risk later in the century. Tens to hundreds of millions will be impacted so a realistic range needs to
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> Want to buy some cigarettes while you take a stroll in the evening Why would you go buy a beedi from the local paan-wala? > Want a tuktuk to take you a mile across the beautifully walkable road infrastructure Why would you call an a
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> Not being able to pay for things is a pretty fundamental problem even for a business traveler to Bangalore In what situation were you as a foreign traveler where you needed to pay UPI? Convenience stores and hypermarts like Reliance SM
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
Knickerbocker Saloon (and Lafayette and Purdue, or as my sibling calls it - Purdon't) slaps. Midwestern college towns are great.
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> it's been an absolute nightmare for a tourist to play along. The only route for a tourist to use UPI is via third party apps An NRI account with PhonePe is good enough as someone with OCI, but even in my ancestral town and village
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> I also feel it's topic-based. On general systems engineering, think databases, OS, architecture, webtech, the SNR on this site is generally amazing. But these days those articles are fewer than before. For example, 2 years back wh
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> And majority of Asia is simply 'WILL' Nope. It's also "should/oughta" as well - even in developed Asian countries like South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan where bribery in development tenders is treated as the
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
This roughly tracks. There are different categories of crime which aren't directly linked with each other, and different cities in the US have entirely different policing methods. And it's the same story in Europe. Making broad ge
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
Not for me.
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65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and They Outperform(philippdubach.com)
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
This is a good example of someone who is out of the loop. Luma was always a public events app optimized for discovery. Partiful on the other hand was meant to be a a replacement for FB private events when hosting a house party or private ga
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> How would you say the "IRL conversation topics in the Bay Area tech scene" diverge from HN For starters, most Bay Area residents are not active on HN on a sunny Sunday afternoon during peak brunch time, a Giants v Rockies gam
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> I honestly do not get this at all. HN remains very US-centric to me, and apart from some takes on tech rights, does not really remind me of my experience in DACH. The majority of HN's usership, posting, and comment activity occurs
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> it's a breath of fresh air compared to the usual bay area centric takes... HN hasn't been Bay Area centric in years. Honestly, most comments and usership on the platform seems to now align with SWE culture in DACH and CEE. Pr
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
It's not something that's in the US's hands now. Much of the bleeding edge research around mirror life is occuring at Westlake University in Hangzhou.
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The danger is that (to quote Jurassic Park) "life always finds a way", and the risks are massive. A good example of the risks of mirror chirality is thalidomide - thalidomide has two enantiomers (one that provides sedative and ant
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Technical Report on Mirror Bacteria: Feasibility and Risks (2024)(purl.stanford.edu)
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
What incorrect reporting did you find with Reuters? The beats I have personal knowledge about have been correct.
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No prob. Luckily BBC's digital platform is garbage so ad blockers or browsers like Firefox and Brave are fairly successful at blocking them so the only visible aspect is sponsored content and listicles (which all use the same BBC UI ou
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> Was the BBC always this bad No. The BBC severely degraded over the past decade after multiple budget cuts forced it to take the clickbait approach especially for non-British reporting because BBC's ad-free mandate is only for UK r
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
Also, if you have the option to hire Dali Radjic (Wiz, Zscaler, AppDynamics) for a CRO position you take it. Denise and Fidji's backgrounds are in productivity SaaS (Slack) and B2C+B2B2C (Instacart) respectively, which require a differ
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> Intellectual property in making green steel is not the big competitive advantage of European steelmakers It is for ThyssenKrupp (Germany), LKAB (Sweden), HYBRIT (Sweden), and Voestalpine (Austria). Chinese, India, Vietnamese, Saudi, an
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> If Asia and US are not willing to decrease their CO2 emissions, Europe should also decrease it's efforts in CO2 emission reductions... Already happening [0]. India (Tata, AccelorMittal, JSW Group) also lobbied for this with Nether
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> The difference between China and India,Indonesia,Australia,Vietnam,Brazil,South Africa is the scale of Coal-to-Liquids expansion China began their buildout in 2008-09 following the oil shock due to the Iraq Civil War. India, Indonesia,
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
The IP is tightly held by a handful of European steelmakers who aren't interested in transferring it abroad as it would remove their CBAM advantage against Asian exporters and completely destroy them and Germany (ThyssenKrupp), Sweden
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
I have - this is my throwaway account, and my primary account has been alive since a little after YC moved from Boston. I hate HN and how it has gotten worse and worse as the years go by. There are a couple basic changes that the mod team c
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
I smell a felony case with a non-trivial chance of lead poisoning or a visit to a trauma center.
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Hope you have (best case) a good lawyer or (worst case) good health insurance as well if you attempt physical intrusion. Their physical asset security team is hardboiled [0][1]. I've dealt with them as well - they don't like being
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> PBS does bear some responsibility here PBS is an association of local public broadcasters, most of whom are SEVERELY underfunded.
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by alephnerd 2mo ago
> is PBS that bears responsibility here. Very likely the decision by PBS to hire OSS was corrupt Don't blame corruption for what was most likely extremely strained budgets. Local public access TV stations like KETC (Nine PBS) tend

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