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by briholt 11y ago
To add on - the goal is to preserve more forest space. If we do that, we can effectively sequester that carbon for long periods of time.
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by briholt 11y ago
This is a bad list. First, it's basically a list of minor nit-picky random things rather than a thoughtful list of essentials. How is "Pages don't refresh automatically" on the list, but, "Buy an SSL certificate&quo
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by briholt 11y ago
You misunderstand. "Because science" is the correct reason to do anything. It is short hand for everything objective and rational in the world. It means, "we've conclusively proven this will have a better outcome; your p
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by briholt 11y ago
So basically, "because science."
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> female students are more interested...if they are shown a classroom...decorated not with “Star Wars” posters, science-fiction books, computer parts and tech magazines, but with a more neutral décor > If the actor wore a T-shirt that
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by briholt 11y ago
You're being optimistic. I'd bet the majority of Americans could not identify their ancestral country on a blank map[1]. HN is not a very representative sample. [1] See any survey about Americans and geography ever.
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Show HN: Educelerate, HN for education technology(news.educelerate.com)
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> [JustFab] was valued at $1 billion by investors, making it a “unicorn,” Silicon Valley’s most coveted achievement. Rookie mistake. The most coveted achievement is to exit for over a billion dollars.
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I was wrongly under the impression contrails reflected more sunlight, creating a net cooling. But it looks to be the opposite as you suggest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail#Contrails_and_climate
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I agree it's deliberate. I took the fleeting scenes and topics as simulating the experience of bouncing from Vietnamese hamlet to hamlet, never really stopping to know anyone or anything about them, then getting whisked stateside for a
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by briholt 11y ago
I see your point about moral hazards, but in this case, I don't think anyone would avoid working in order to become poor in order to get free advice about how to work.
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Following that logic, why is the tech industry targeting mostly white men creating harm? Why did the Boy Scouts banning gays create harm? Why did all-white country clubs create harm? Why did a ban on gay marriage create harm? We can easily
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by briholt 11y ago
You would think all the efforts towards social outreach would focus on poverty as their #1 criteria - the most direct and obvious criteria of people in need - but they almost never do. The problem is these programs are created by upper-clas
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I always assume startups are riding investment money for personal income until proven otherwise.
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It doesn't have "pinche" which is about the most common Mexican curse word.
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That's a pretty sweet site. I'd vote a freemium option. You could do things like: X conversions free per IP per month, upgrade for more X Mb files are free, upgrade for bigger files Do you have some stats on visitor loyalty? You p
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by briholt 11y ago
Could you share what they are?
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how tall is mt everest? https://hulbee.com/?query=how%20tall%20is%20mt%20everest%3F&... vs. https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=how%20tall%20is%... Hulbee can correlate the words "mt ev
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by briholt 11y ago
Understanding the battle is three halves the battle.
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"Showing up is half the battle"
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Snow White
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by briholt 11y ago
Fair enough: * ...only not-completely-screwed-up-trainwrecks will raise future rounds...
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by briholt 11y ago
Looks like there's a useful built-in selection bias. YC commits itself to investing in future rounds, but only good companies will be able to raise future rounds, so they probably won't get stuck doubling down on too many failing
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by briholt 11y ago
This doesn't solve the problem. Banning "[a]nything that harasses, bullies, or abuses an individual or group of people" is so open-ended that it could include minor criticism or it could exclude flagrant bigotry, depending on
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by briholt 11y ago
Interesting. The life-giving essentials like food and healthcare have increased, while superfluous things like toys and TVs have decreased. (With the exception maybe being clothing). Good news if working-class families can figure out how to
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by briholt 11y ago
Best practice is to hash the password. This is good for a lot of reasons, one of which is that the time to compare hash("hunter") vs hash("hunter2") vs hash("hunter21") does not correlate in any meaningful way
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by briholt 11y ago
As the article says, this is equivalently achieved by naming div classes and IDs (or some other attribute like itemprop a la schema.org). Also I'd say a completely style-free HTML scheme with open-ended semantic tag names (XML) style
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With CSS, the concept of differentiated HTML tags basically became obsolete. The purpose of HTML now is just to break apart and identify the content fields in an XML format. The only tags I really use in the HTML body are div and a - an
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In the past few weeks there's been a concerted effort to rewrite the history leading up the Iraq war as a big "whoopsies!" Now that the whole process has come to light, with all of it's incompetence and misdeeds, it&#x27
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by briholt 11y ago
I'd like to offer a simple red flag that I haven't seen mentioned enough: deception. If management is hiding information or providing misleading information to employees - even on small issues - it's a huge red flag. First, i

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