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by clarry 7y ago
> This is provably false. Then I guess I just saved the planet, everyone thank me. I'll leave the proof to you.
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by clarry 7y ago
It takes around five years to build a reactor, give or take (and yes, I'm well aware that in .fi we have the world's most expensive nuclear reactor that's taken 15 years and still ain't ready). I'm pretty sure the
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by clarry 7y ago
That's right, there are EU countries we could wipe off the face of the planet and it wouldn't make any difference. Looking at per-capita numbers and trying to hold everyone in the world to the same standard has never been the way
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by clarry 7y ago
They could even reduce growth, but regulating one's continent out of competitiveness with the global market is one hard pill to swallow.
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by clarry 7y ago
- I've never flown to a conference. I've been on a plane twice in my entire life. - No investments - I work remotely; no commute. - I hardly ever buy meat. Yet none of this matters. If everyone in my country followed suit, it st
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by clarry 7y ago
> I have noticed there is a massive disconnect from the reality of just how complicated modern software is. There's also a massive disconnect from the reality of just how complicated modern software needs (not) to be. That said I ag
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by clarry 7y ago
I sleep with plugs every night and I get that pain & irritation. It really sucks. Maybe one day we progress as a society to the point where one's right to quiet isn't dwarfed by others' right to make noise. Not gonna ho
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by clarry 7y ago
> Car horn use seems to be extremely culture-dependent. I almost never hear it in Finland except when someone does something stupid in traffic. Can confirm. It's quite rare to hear the horn here. I haven't ever used the horn (
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by clarry 7y ago
When I go on a walk in town (with speed limits usually at 50 kph or 40 kph), it's generally the tire noise that prevents me from having an enjoyable chat. It's especially bad in wet weather, but even on dry asphalt it's rare
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by clarry 7y ago
What about those corner case users that use a non-qwerty layout but the layout is in hardware (or keyboard firmware) rather than software?
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by clarry 8y ago
I'm so glad to have a remote position. Less distraction than any office I've ever been to. And much more cozy, because I can choose exactly how to furnish my own space. It's such a massive perk I have no second thoughts a
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by clarry 8y ago
Huh, why not? Things people do generally become a problem only at scale. If the scale isn't there, there's no problem. There is no global law, everything we regulate is regional. The consequences of regulating a speck of noise
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by clarry 8y ago
> Re "not the main source" - the co2 emission pie is very fragmented. We can't afford to go after only the biggest source of emissions. This is the divide-and-not-conquer method of losing this battle, to consider all the l
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by clarry 8y ago
> What will earn him more money in later life, though - stacking bricks, or using a computer? I'm pretty sure we recently saw a study that showed a lot of kids being tech illiterate despite growing with and regularly using a bunch o
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by clarry 8y ago
Yeah, well, I did things the other way around and picked my job around not having a commute. That means remote, I work from my apartment. I still have a car, but I drive much less than those who commute by car every day. It might be sitti
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by clarry 8y ago
> The alternative, not beating global warming is a big compromise too. It's not either-or. Owning a private car in the Alps and using it for the occasional shopping or skiing trip is far from being the main source of CO2 emissions
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by clarry 8y ago
Doesn't mean they'll be living next door all of a sudden!
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by clarry 8y ago
> You can pick your housing and location based on not owning a car If all I ever wanted from life was to go to work and back to my apartment, via a grocery store. As a matter of fact, I can't choose where my friends and relatives li
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by clarry 8y ago
> A car costs about $6000 per year, so about $30 per workday. And I thought owning cars in America was comparatively cheap. Meanwhile in Finland, 500-600 eur is enough to cover my tax & insurance. I'm coming close to 2000 eur o
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by clarry 8y ago
> Just my personal story: Moved away from FF because of their privacy concerning unwanted plugins and marketing campaigns. How did they violate your privacy?
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by clarry 8y ago
> my 2 cents: A few days of outrage will do absolutely nothing to stop or change the law. Yep, it's going to be just another "oh lol there's a protest" and a week later nobody remembers it. I'd be happy if wikime
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by clarry 8y ago
> >There is a reason every game company is switching to it. > Are they? No they aren't. It's more like a new market that has some overlap with the traditional offering. There are tons and tons of people who will never be
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by clarry 8y ago
I'd like to see crowdfunding move in this direction, but it'd be too good, right? Calculate that a project takes $100k, amass the backing, then release the finished work for the benefit of the whole world. What happens instead o
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by clarry 8y ago
You mean games like Diablo weren't very successful?
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by clarry 8y ago
> Find something you love doing and do it for the 'work' itself People keep repeating that advice, but finding something you love doing just for the work might be an endless chase, not unlike the chase after success and money.
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by clarry 8y ago
Showering, bathing, washing hands, flushing toilet, washing dishes, washing clothes, washing surfaces or floors (i.e. wetting and washing the rag/mop you use for wiping said surfaces), maybe watering lawns & washing cars, if I had
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by clarry 8y ago
Power to performance is far from linear (and gets worse the higher you go). High TDP desktop chips are pushed to the point where a marginal increase in performance would require a massive increase in heat.
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by clarry 8y ago
Ok, where is the benchmark that shows the performance parity? All I've ever seen is comparisons to low power mobile chips. And then extrapolation from there. You can't just extrapolate and assume your 2W (or whatever) phone CPU
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by clarry 8y ago
I've lived most of my life in places ranging from a monastery to a town with around 20k people. I never needed to spend a day driving around to get basic shopping done. I now live in a place an order of magnitude larger, but that real
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by clarry 8y ago
The ear itself produces some harmonic distortion, at moderate levels. I don't know if that's important enough to play a role in our pitch perception though.

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