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by drclau 5y ago
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And people forgot how the internet works, and reinvented the _decentralized internet_. Behold, the engineers of now give you… Web3!
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by drclau 5y ago
> Bitcoin is already approaching 1% of global electricity consumption, if it hasn't passed that point already And this is the reason why I cannot take any climate change conversation seriously unless it includes the topic of cryptoc
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by drclau 5y ago
And... "it was already _late at night_" (emphasis mine). I learned a long time ago that not all hours in a day are created equal.
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by drclau 5y ago
Every time I hear or read about happiness, I remember this quote from Thomas Metzinger. I hope you’ll find it useful, too: “Evolution as such is not a process to be glorified: It is blind, driven by chance and not by insight. It is merciles
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by drclau 5y ago
> we're not concerned on R&D budgets Just curious, why do you think so? I do think this should be the case, but I just don't see it happening.
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by drclau 5y ago
Yeah, Apple hardware may be worse than it used to be. But as far as I can tell, it's still at the top. Can you point out a company that consistently makes better hardware than Apple does?
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by drclau 5y ago
Maybe you've seen the problem discussed here? Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29142157
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by drclau 5y ago
I do wonder sometimes if at least some articles are so long just to be able to fit more ad banners within a single article. I turned off the content blocker and counted 6 ads within the length of this article.
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by drclau 5y ago
I have this idea that maybe ads should be entirely disallowed from everywhere, except for catalogues, printed and online. Crazy, right? It would work like this: you feel like spending money or you want to buy a specific type of product? You
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The Pentagon’s view of climate change and the risks of state collapse(futureoflife.org)
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by drclau 5y ago
Btw, your idea reminds me of "Enemy of the State" movie [0]. I feel it was somewhat similar to your idea, except it dealt with what seemed to be a potentially big issue back then. Links: [0]: https://www.imdb.com/t
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by drclau 5y ago
It's a good idea. But I don't think the impact will be as big as you hope. The "it can't happen to me" bias (optimism bias [0]) will make sure of that. Links: [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by drclau 5y ago
You know what would be nice? HN stats! Active users (daily, monthly, etc.), how many posts a user checks on avg., how many comments per user, how many submissions per user, top commenters, top etc. etc. etc., breakdown per OS more etc. etc.
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by drclau 5y ago
> Don’t ask questions that can be answered with a web search. These days, that’s equivalent to saying “don’t ask questions about what the day to day job requires one to know”. Sites like stackoverflow contain answers to problems that peo
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by drclau 5y ago
I think what you see, and quite likely misinterpret, is world leaders who are still waking up to the issue. I think most of them have not yet fully internalized what the climate crisis truly means (and even if they do, maybe some just are n
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by drclau 5y ago
> Mankind does not have an energy generation problem. No, humankind does not have an energy generation problem. The problem is the side effects of the methods used to generate the energy. The existential risk is very real, but because it
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by drclau 5y ago
It's artificial* selection. The ones with husks die** more often before having offsprings, or will on average get to have fewer offsprings, in comparison to the tuskless individuals. *) Humans are putting the pressure. **) Are killed b
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by drclau 5y ago
AFAIK, replacing the battery on the previous generation meant replacing the top part of the body, to which the battery was glued. That included replacing the keyboard and the touchpad (not 100% sure if the old keyboard and touchpad could ha
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by drclau 5y ago
There are approaches that can alleviate the impact on the less wealthy (think progressive taxation; taxing progressively only amounts above predefined limits, such that you don't end up getting less money in hand after a promotion etc)
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by drclau 5y ago
(not GP) Better distribution of wealth comes to mind.
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by drclau 5y ago
> For the vast majority of people the only piece of property they own in this sense is their home I agree with what you said, and just wanted to make a minor(ish) correction: if you exclude homes bought w/ a mortgage which is still
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by drclau 5y ago
I get what you mean, but I still disagree. "Jihad" is a poor example, because it is essentially a word in the English dictionary too. Say, we use this as a made-up example: "shay' tayir". Do any of the words mean an
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by drclau 5y ago
In other words, they are random for all practical purposes, to a vast majority of readers.
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by drclau 5y ago
Was wondering what to pick next. I’ll pick Diaspora, thanks to your comment. :)
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by drclau 5y ago
I have just finished yesterday Greg Egan’s Permutation City (a great read, even though I wouldn’t say it’s for everyone), which was published in ‘94, and I was pleasantly surprised to see the climate change theme in the story, although it w
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by drclau 5y ago
You get more screen estate with the notch, than without it, because they would have taken the entire horizontal space and make it a piano black bar. And because Apple controls the software too, I expect the integration will be good. I am mo
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by drclau 5y ago
> No, Google would easily survive if they focused on maintaing existing services and making the headcount stable instead of increasing. No such thing. In capitalism you are either growing or dying. Stagnation means others will grow aroun
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by drclau 5y ago
I don’t disagree on the importance of communication. But I have to say, your message seems quite biased towards the VC. Surely not all VCs are created equal. Just as not all founders are equally capable in communicating ideas, I’m sure not
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by drclau 5y ago
I find it odd how much people tend to move the responsibility for obtaining funding on the founders. No doubt the quality (for lack of a better word) of the founders is important. But what about VCs that are actually capable of seeing beyon
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by drclau 5y ago
The quote was literally a copy & paste from the parent post. No distortion there. I am genuinely curious why people think we should aim to grow even more in numbers. More so, I am genuinely curious what the same people propose we do whe

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