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by crystal_revenge 7mo ago
It’s funny how you basically explain precisely why the war in Ukraine has gone on so long but refuse to recognize it. As Russia’s economy has continually reshaped over the last 4 years there has been increasingly a domestic demand for war
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by crystal_revenge 7mo ago
Europe doesn't want to be reliant (understandably) on the US military for defense, because if they are, as Trump has demonstrated, they will be pressured to make concessions not in their interests. The need for a military is tightly co
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by crystal_revenge 7mo ago
> fully ceding the research front is not a good way to keep the EU competitive Tech is ultimately a red herring as far as what's needed to keep the EU competitive. The EU has a trillion dollar hole[0] to fill if they want to repla
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
This is an excellent point. When working at larger orgs on legacy projects (which I have also done) you think "what sort of idiot did this?" Then when you're the one tasked with getting a project shipped in two weeks that mos
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
I suspect the issue is the parent has never worked in an early stage role at a growing startup still iterating on finding product-market-fit. If they had they would realize you learn a lot about "maintaining and expanding", espe
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
That's what I've come to realize. For most of the commentators here "greenfield" means typing in 'npm init', for me it usually means doing three different roles in order to iterate as fast as possible on the pr
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> You learn the most valuable information from watching how things break and then fixing them. Trust me, you get plenty of experience in this as a founding engineer in a startup. Many of these comments make me wonder how many people here
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
Not sure what type of "greenfield" startup experience you've had, but most of the work I'm talking about involves solving problems that most people simply don't have the combined skill set to solve. Typically proble
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
I generally tend to interview every year to see what's out there in the world (sometimes I find something worth switching for, other times not). I'm not even looking very hard but have had 4 interviews in the last month. Personall
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
I think you're missing the point. A large part of the things we import from those countries indirectly come from China , so it's disingenuous to claim that China is not a major contributor to the US economy based solely on what w
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> the ingrained short-term thinking of the markets and politicians Honestly, if we made even a step towards the changes necessary to limit the current damage most of HN readership, especially the "green" ones that don't se
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> Mexico, Canada, and the EU Do you want to take a wild guess as to which country is a top 3 importer to all of these countries/regions? Here's a clue: it's the same country that is a major exporter of oil from GCC countri
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> Ironic OECD countries actually REDUCED their emissions based on a peak in 2007 and continue to do so. Our economies are built on oil burning somewhere else in the world. You can try to point the blame at China, but the wealth generat
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> And honestly, wars and trump are making climate concerns so difficult to think about. These are all related. All of them are connected to humans pushing the planetary resource limits from various directions. We're attacking Iran
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
This is why it's clear we will never do anything to slow the progression of climate change. By far the most effective an immediate solution to limiting the damage of climate change is to simply to keep fossil fuels in the ground . P
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> ... we just don't know. It's too complicated of a system. I wish this comment was higher up. The big thing under-discussed about climate change is that the deeper we get into it, the harder it is to predict and understand. I
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
Reducing the severity of climate change (we've already signed up for potentially civilization destroying consequences, even if we could go zero emissions today), requires keeping proven reserves in the ground. No amount of "green&
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> wrong side of history on this one. There's not much history left. What we're seeing right now is people getting ready to win the end game of civilization. The oligarchs are well aware of the myriad existential threats to ou
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
And the Obama administration really just talked about it. It was under his administration that the US shale oil extraction really started heating up. The problem is the only solution to climate change is keeping oil in the ground. There are
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
I'm guessing you've only worked at very large companies, specifically tech companies then? I've worked at pretty much every size company imaginable.As the top post pointed out, these titles are meaningless across smaller comp
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> Story Source: > Materials provided by Flinders University. It's not that the "journalist" didn't think to ask, it's that this is a PR piece sent out to media outlets from the university that did the researc
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> they always disappoint in actual use. I’ve switched to using Kimi 2.5 for all of my personal usage and am far from disappointed. Aside from being much cheaper than the big names (yes, I’m not running it locally, but like that I could
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
If you really dive into the mathematics of finance, you quickly realize that the edge is never "we're better at math than you", but a much more fundamental asymmetry in information/control. Sometimes that's getting
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
This is such a silly point to argue over. From 1789-1947 we had a "Department of War", which then merged into "Department of Army" under the newly formed (in 1947) National Military Establishment (NME) which was changed
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> I hope we are in a similar era with regards to climate change. I'm struggling to understand the level of completely irrational rejection of reality in all these comments. Emissions continue rise every year , we are already locked
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
It's clearly a language designed for people interested in programming languages. Plenty of straightforward examples to show what makes this language interesting/different/worth your time. But if you're incurious about
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> Oil is over Then why has both global [0] and US [1] consumption been rising year-over-year for the last few years and projected to continue to rise [2]? All those articles you're posting about short term changes in the dynamics of
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
That entire talk didn't once mention the phrase "energy density" which is the real reason we rely so heavily on hydrocarbons. Additionally this talk makes the usual mistake of conflating "electricity" with "e
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
It's also been a great year for oil production which has reached new record highs in the US! [0] 0. https://www.energy.gov/state-american-energy-promises-made-p...
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by crystal_revenge 8mo ago
> Do you whine about Hiroshima ? It's been awhile since I've been in high school, but even back then standard public education was to discuss the topic very respectfully and to question the mainstream narrative that "mor

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