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by eloff 4y ago
The parts of Russia where they grow most of the food is in Europe and would also be affected by the Gulf Stream weakening or halting. Likewise so would Greenland, which will not be good for agriculture anyway, even with serious warming.
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by eloff 4y ago
Or Canadian shield topsoil. The last ice age scraped Eastern Canada down to bedrock and deposited all the soil in the US.
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by eloff 4y ago
It won't just be very unpleasant, but it will have serious ramifications on the world's food supply if growing seasons are dramatically shortened and viable ranges for crops shift south by a large amount.
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by eloff 4y ago
In my building people kept throwing glass down the chute, which explodes at the bottom and injured some employees working around there. It was poorly designed, and after two injuries they welded the chutes shut and put in a trash can on eve
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by eloff 4y ago
Crypto really is a golden age of opportunity for hackers. When else in history could you rob a bank anonymously from your mom's basement for $570M. Cashing it out without getting caught is a little on the tricky side, but not impossibl
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by eloff 4y ago
First of all the 10K-hour rule is pretty bullshit. Not all hours are equal. It's all a sliding scale with diminishing returns. Also there's no minimum level of expertise to reach your career goals. Like in body-building, the initi
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by eloff 4y ago
Still, it will set an example for the blue states to follow. That's something at least. Red states would probably be less likely to do this just based on where the example is coming from. It's progress of a sort in undoing a grave
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by eloff 4y ago
Once you get out in the suburbs it's every 30-60 minutes. You've usually got at least 5 minutes walking at each end. Sometimes in inclement weather. There's always exceptions, but there's a reason people use cars when th
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by eloff 4y ago
Unless you're in an apartment with a bus stop right outside, the losses from walking to the stop, waiting at the stop, having the bus stop all along it's route, and then walking from the final stop to your destination will usually
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by eloff 4y ago
Self-driving cars solve the last-mile problem of public transport. They also solve the problem of wait times at bus stations, and while buses stop along the route. In all you'd do most trips in about half the time in self driving cars
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by eloff 4y ago
Water. They literally watered it down.
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by eloff 4y ago
In theory Java is not so bad. I just have never enjoyed working with it or with the code Java developers end up creating. Kotlin is reasonably pleasant. I've sometimes used it when the JVM was a hard requirement.
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by eloff 4y ago
I've always thought of C++ as the most complex programming language I know. With each revision it becomes more complex. I gave up and just moved on to Rust a year and a half ago. I have no regrets. C++ has not quite joined Perl, PHP, a
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by eloff 4y ago
It doesn't mention anything about what a write unit is, except to say you can reduce write units by batching inserts (that part I guessed already.) There's no way to think about what an actual write unit means. You could measure t
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by eloff 4y ago
While this is technically renewable energy, it involves huge amounts of non-renewable energy to turn carbon sequestering forest into energy. It must be logged, shipped, processed into wood pellets, and then energy to ship that to a port an
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by eloff 4y ago
First of all expired things are rarely dangerous and useless. Some medicines becomes less effective. A rare few transmute into something that could be harmful. There was a huge study by the department of defence on many drugs, since they st
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by eloff 4y ago
An I wrong to think they could theoretically sue Google for knowingly publishing false information about how likely they are to cancel Stadia? Stadia execs said a few months ago that they will not cancel Stadia, but I'm sure the intern
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by eloff 4y ago
Japan's economy has been stagnant for the last thirty years[1]. China can look forward to worse by all indications so far. Upskilling their labor force won't fix that. It didn't save Japan. [1] https://www.macrotr
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by eloff 4y ago
Europe doesn't have a population collapse. They make up the difference with immigration, as does Canada and the US. Japan and China do not.
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by eloff 4y ago
Hah, good point! In the case of China they're likely to peak soon. The USA might peak much later still. The Roman empire lasted over 1000 years. I have my doubts the US can go the distance, but let's see.
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by eloff 4y ago
China doesn't have another generation. They'll be going into a very stark population collapse that's worse than what Japan is experiencing now, where adult diapers outsell baby diapers. I expect that China's economy and
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by eloff 4y ago
So that doesn't look like an accident. I have difficulty imagining accidental ignition in an underwater gas pipeline. Where would the oxygen come from? Plus it's more than one explosion on the same day - can't be a coincidenc
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by eloff 4y ago
I probably inherited some values from the group of software engineers, but it's not a well defined group. Can you point to any values we might have in common? I would say a love of logic and the scientific method, but even that isn&#x2
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by eloff 4y ago
Why would you bring privilege into an unrelated discussion? Also you're assuming a lot about my background that would surprise you. I wasn't born a software engineer. I chose the field deliberately as the best way to make money, a
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by eloff 4y ago
So almost 10% drop relative to the Euro in addition to both of them falling against the dollar. I wonder what's behind that particular weakness for the pound.
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by eloff 4y ago
I'm Canadian, and I lived in Vancouver for six years recently. Never once did I consider working for a Canadian company. They're a joke when it comes to compensation. You can literally double your salary by moving 100 miles south
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by eloff 4y ago
Maybe I'm uncommon in this aspect, but I don't feel like I'm a member of many groups. I'm not religious, but don't really consider myself an atheist. I'm not for any particular party. I don't care about sp
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by eloff 4y ago
These are two separate problems that can be solved concurrently. The future here looks bright. On the frontpage of HN today is an article on Ars Technica saying the cost of installing and operating new solar power farms is dropping below th
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by eloff 4y ago
No, if you're paying attention, what I'm saying is there is no financial incentive to learn Rust, it's not going to help land you a job. You won't learn it in college, you won't learn it at work. So if you know Rust
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by eloff 4y ago
You'll have a harder time finding work, as there aren't a lot of Rust jobs. That's why it's a signal that a person loves their craft - there's little financial incentive in learning it. When it comes to finding work

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