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by dappermanneke 3y ago
it’s a good thing there was a hospital maintained by non hermit people that other non hermit people paid for that was able to help him after his fall
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
what is exactly the anglospheres obsession with trying to make their life more like that of people who live in squalor and possess nothing?
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
all this is just hype games to drum up the importance of their product and have no real impact on any real biological research
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
probably the lack of extraordinary ability
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
now many hackernews residents are parents the conspiracy theorising about the government trying to get to theirs and theirs kids precious bodily fluids is even more neurotic
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
against what timeframe are you betting a load of money on batteries displacing all fossil fuels
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
looks like HN isn’t interested in hearing how economics actually works today
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
a doubling of barely anything is still barely anything
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
it won’t make any impact on the prices there because it’s a drop in the bucket compared to what they spend importing oil and diesel to burn for the majority of their electricity
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
this is misleading at best, outright disinformation at worst. coal generation accounted for only 7% of hawaii’s electricity. the vast majority, 70%, is diesel and oil generators. just like any other island in the world. once again we demons
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
it’s been going down in quality as an actual teaching aid for a while, beyond maybe sentence structure memorisation, so it’s sad to see this accelerate further
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
seems like incomprehensible nonsense for hacker news retirees to fill time with
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
unfortunately plenty of scientists presenting themselves as quite serious are willing to say things like that based on even weaker evidence because companies that actually make stuff that keeps us alive, fed, warm, are piñatas full of money
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
and yet hn is going on rants about all weedkillers and all chemicals in the comments. the limits of expertise
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
oh boy
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
I don't know why your reply is being hidden. it is completely fair to say most people drawing such links are likely mistaken.
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
the problem with using anecdotes like these to evaluate causation is that the people who handled herbicides and pesticides all their life and did not get Parkinson's will not be posting about it
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
your close family member would need to be exposed to tubs of paraquat for at the very least months at a time for this to be even remotely probable. unless he had to go to hospital due to acute exposure and paraquat toxicity that day, and ev
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
what stops you from running this on a container and dumping the results with a script to be queried by a reporting solution into bigquery or snowflake?
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
zanzibari gays do not exist? they are not locals in your understanding of the word? glad to hear the rich expat bubble in zanzibar is generally tolerant though! you’re only risking a life sentence as a western gay if you can’t afford to bri
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
greens and environmentalists write shit like this and then wonder why none of us elect them to flush our prosperity down the drain
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
i mean it does doesn’t it? this person worked on hard technical problems for a long time, selling himself as a solver of those, and now recommends people do not have to do that. yet if they didn’t do all that solving they would not have bro
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
there is a very large amount of forgetting and memory rewriting for most people who make it that far. for most of us who survive until that old age our life will be more of an idealised narrative that factual - so yes, not very useful for o
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
people think that at deaths door we obtain some deep insight, something of universal clarity. the truth is that it’s just a different perspective, one that may be maladaptive at another stage of your life
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
woe to the ones who live their life in fear
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-gdp-decoupling
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
this slogan is meaningless. economic growth is pretty meaningful and material for me - it means a possibility of retirement for me, a world with jobs, comfort and prosperity for my children. there are plenty of countries on this earth that
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
sorry but this comment is a bit too incoherent for me to parse
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
uhm yes american tax payers absolutely do subsidise european security? this isn’t a new fact for you surely? one of the bigger reasons for this is that europe simply doesn’t have the economy to maintain anything even close to american spend
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by dappermanneke 3y ago
I’m sorry I don’t want to dox myself nor spend my time arguing with people who just googled “how does X country benefits system work” on HN I think you can easily see from the replies to my comment however that this sentiment is widely shar

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