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by dawg- 7y ago
That was one of my major questions with this article. The author leans pretty heavily on the 2.7% loss in global GDP by 2100 that is predicted to occur because of climate change. While GDP is surely important, I think it's a pretty sho
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This all depends on how far you are willing to stretch the definition of "experience", I think.
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The real tragedy here is how invested millions of people are in national-level politics, yet ignore city and county-level politics which actually has the biggest impact on their daily lives. And that's where the average person realisti
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by dawg- 7y ago
Thus far in my life I have always voted Democrat, and have not been a big fan of Trump at all. But the word "unhinged" is a perfect descriptor. The cycle of outrage and self-righteousness is counterproductive. Even worse is that w
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by dawg- 7y ago
>it almost sounds like HN is more social than the behavior-hacking money machines Excellent point! You have gotten to the core of the issue. Mediated social interaction is not more social. It's just a way to harvest data. Mere &qu
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by dawg- 7y ago
The market for my industry (nonprofit admin) is way different than the market for the tech industry, for example.
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by dawg- 7y ago
Is it possible to be proud of your own hard work, without necessarily making a contrast to others who you perceive as "lazy'? So goes the old saying, "The true test of character is what you do when nobody is watching". S
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by dawg- 7y ago
I love the idea, but the interface needs some work. In my humble opinion, your home page should be the interactive map part - show people the good stuff as quickly as possible. Those who want to read about the project will find their way to
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by dawg- 7y ago
I want to chime in here too, because I am from a similar place - deep suburbs where having a car is a necessity. Only difference is I still refuse to pay to live in an inner city. I am counting on the current renaissance of suburban cities
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by dawg- 7y ago
Hey! I actually have all of the things on your list. But with one catch: I work for a community nonprofit in a small town of 15,000 people in the deep south, and make probably a very small fraction of what you do. I guess life is all about
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by dawg- 7y ago
You are missing something really important though. Those kind of claims usually start with the phrase, "If X continues at the current rate..." Just in the last few years we (in the U.S. at least) reached the lowest rates of smokin
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by dawg- 7y ago
I guess HN and similar platforms could fit into the social media box, broadly. Taken extremely literally, they are mediated social environments. But I would absolutely make a distinction between sites like HN and "real deal" socia
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Headphones are dumb, single-purpose objects. The long term vision of airpods are that they are part of users' everyday interface with the world - with someone else in the middle harvesting data. Ditto with glasses.
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by dawg- 7y ago
Exactly, google glass was ugly and boring. That's why Google spinoff Niantic pivoted to gamify AR with Pokemon GO in order to take a different strategy. The idea was to get people comfortable with it using the cultural capital of Pokem
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by dawg- 7y ago
I have been teetering on the edge of full blown luddism ever since the first iPhone came out. Then social media took over . I have never used social media, and only just recently used a smartphone. Even though I hate the form it has taken o
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by dawg- 7y ago
I expect the vast majority of people on HN to be familiar with Lanier and already have an opinion on him, but for those few who are not I will highly recommend his writing. I love this book in particular. It presents itself as more serious