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7y ago
I don't have time to verify the video at the moment, but I believe this is them testing said engine 60 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmxPRCyR-Co
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7y ago
grab a trash bag and spend a few hours picking up plastic trash on your street. You'll probably remove more plastic from the environment than 100 lifetimes of avoiding the delicate cycle.
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not going to destroy my clothes for an infinitesimal amount of plastic in waste water, especially since I have no doubt that any positive environmental impact would be offset by replacing clothes more often. they do argue that their 1 small
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7y ago
dont give them ideas
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7y ago
I dont want to go anywhere that involves getting into a plain such that I: - get talked to like I'm a dog by TSA - forced to wait hours in lines to get through security - violated by being forced to remove my belt and shoes
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7y ago
while there is variance in how my models do against a test set, its highly unlikely my rank 10 model is going to dethrone a #1 rank model, nor a rank 1k model going to beat mine. Its possible, but only because I over fit the public leader
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7y ago
black market e-cigarettes harms/kills some people the solution people come up with? ban legal e-cigarettes
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7y ago
Thanks, didnt have earnings per share on cloudfare so skipped it
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7y ago
added link above
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7y ago
> "Point is the media is making this out to be an indictment on some SV tech bubble" Its not the media, I think its just true. Had WeWork IPO'ed under the same conditions a year ago, I think it would have been 'fine&
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7y ago
I hate to be one of those "I been complaining about this all along", but I have since my early college years in 2000! I didn't have quite the sophistication in the arguments today, though they were essentially the same (1
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7y ago
I like how it has an audio option, much easier to consume that way
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7y ago
you are wrong. in north america, forests sequester layers of methane in burred layers of rotted material that are supposed to keep building up. however, the arrival of the earth worm has been releasing those layers of methane into the atm
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7y ago
any efficiency claimed should be about how much water its able to wipe from the view of the occupants, not motor efficiency.
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and fighting climate change. Earth worms release more green house gasses than cows that politicians seem to like going on about.
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> "Amazon famously circles around the profitable/not-profitable line frequently" I dont agree with this common saying. Amazon was founded in 1994, IPO in 1997, and made a profit by 2003. Amazon's philosophy is to re
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7y ago
I think its top left corner of the pond, it seems to be parallel with the edge of the pond
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I thought the Amazon was called Earths lungs because of how it sucks moisture from the ocean across land. (Please correct me if I am wrong) its my understanding that the area would be quite dry, but the plants manipulate the atmosphere with
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I believe it was connected as little is 7.5k years ago? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland
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7y ago
yeah this is all about hate and power. companies make a business by tearing down others and spewing hate to build platforms of clicks and advertisements.
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7y ago
problem with any messaging system is people abuse it / don't respect other peoples time, and software can't control for that. people have to own up. an example not necessarily tied to work directly: there was a slack channel
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7y ago
> "I would easily be able to get a good job and be successful" I think the misconception is on 'easily'. It took me a lot of work at every possible part of the chain to get to where I am. While it wasn't easy f
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7y ago
likewise I also don't contribute questions either. I always say its a great place to find answers, terrible divisive place to ask questions.
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I disagree with his hypothesis but: "A thought experiment considers a hypothesis, theory, or principle for the purpose of thinking through its consequences."
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so sounds like this will be bad for alibaba. Has anyone seen any quantitative numbers on this?
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7y ago
I believe thinking of it only as a 'meat substitution' might be missing a larger trend in that a new segment is being created.
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I see people shooting up in public places, people walking around naked, doing wheelies on a wheelchair on high traffic roads, drug needles laying on the side walk, etc. I think enforcing these laws would make Seattle safer and an overall be
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yeah and 5 fires on just 240 stores sounds like a staggering amount
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its mind boggling that the same jurisdictions that want to make e-cigarettes illegal want to make shrooms and marijuana legal. absolutely mind boggling.
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7y ago
anecdotal evidence ahead ... I wanted to be a data scientist at a top tech company, so I did as Hanif did, and went to the data on LinkedIn. my search was more specific - only data scientists at top tech firms, and is also a very tiny samp
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