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Ask HN: Are NFTs as bad for the environment as people make them out to be?
2 points by gdubs 6y ago|1 comments
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by gdubs 6y ago
Came to say something very similar. While having a prominent call to action button makes sense, the call to action is basically ALL I see when I land on an iPhone. There’s 0 chance I will click a button without some enticement as to what th
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by gdubs 6y ago
I’m with you. As soon as that page loaded I had warm flashbacks to my first days exploring the early web with Netscape. Incredibly magical time.
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by gdubs 6y ago
Rural internet users keep getting shafted. It seems every time there’s hope on the horizon, the definition of broadband gets shifted. I really hope this time is different. To this argument in particular: the whole idea of providing access t
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by gdubs 6y ago
Hey all: link got mangled on entry so the previous conversation didn’t come up. Looks like there was a lengthy conversation on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26540458
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by gdubs 6y ago
The link got mangled. Dang: if it’s possible, could we update to this: https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/4765985001 The author has been covering lab security for over a decade. A year into a pandemic, people should be able
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by gdubs 6y ago
Well, we could just ‘appeal to authority’ on things but then why have Hacker News, where intelligent people can come and discuss things? As for this specific question, it’s the same thing people said in 2007 about mortgages: “these are expe
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Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory shouldn't be dismissed(usatoday.com)
21 points by gdubs 6y ago|4 comments
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by gdubs 6y ago
For anyone discussing the food system and fragility of society — if you missed “Connections” when it came up here a while ago, it’s brilliant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11075430
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Connection Machine Applications (1986) [video](m.youtube.com)
2 points by gdubs 6y ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 6y ago
A couple of NASA scientists published a paper on this a little while back and apparently we’d have a hard time even detecting a previous advanced society on earth . Pretty mind blowing. I often wonder if Venus had an industrial society tha
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by gdubs 6y ago
I studied art at Bard. Some of my best memories are late nights in the studios, everyone burning the midnight oil, and exploring the various installations people were building. A lot of the professors were / are working artists — livin
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by gdubs 6y ago
On the same ride. I got help from a friend over Instagram early last year, and it’s become an ingrained routine. It has become such a pandemic cliche, but I don’t care - it’s really satisfying. Calming, fulfilling, and just really nice to h
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by gdubs 6y ago
I got so much closer to my young kids this year. I didn’t quite realize how many precious moments I’d already lost by having to spend time at an office every day. (I had a somewhat flexible work schedule before this, but being around them a
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by gdubs 6y ago
My Sicilian uncles prefer their pasta with a thinner sauce. My (German) grandma made very thick pasta sauce, and I was not a fan. (She also sweetened it, I found it gross. Sorry grandma. There were German dishes she made that I absolutely
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by gdubs 6y ago
While the separation can be helpful, it also minimizes the actual carbon footprint of our food system. Petrochemical production, for instance, is a different category according to the epa. But one of the biggest uses of petrochemicals is
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by gdubs 6y ago
My dad’s uncle had an enormous model railroad in his basement. He used to let us go down there and he’d turn them all on for us. We’d spend the entire family gathering just staring at the set. If you’re in the Bay Area, Los Altos has a yea
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by gdubs 6y ago
“I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.” - Steve Jobs, 2011
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by gdubs 6y ago
This ignores young healthy long haulers, who very much do exist. I know one very close to me, and based on their doctor’s experience they’re not alone. Everything from blood clots to chronic fatigue.
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by gdubs 6y ago
I’ve seen a few! And I second that. My comment above only scratches the surface of Warhol. Some of his work would be classified more as paintings, some as happenings or installations, some as films. In this narrow context of NFTs — I think
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by gdubs 6y ago
I think of Andy Warhol, who became famous silkscreening Campbells Soup can labels. Often it wasn’t even him making the prints, but his assistants in his “factory”. Should a Warhol be worth more than an identical silkscreen you could buy in
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by gdubs 6y ago
Someone very close to me is a “long hauler” and the quality of life effects have been horrible. A young and healthy person, now dealing with fatigue, blood clotting, and a host of other uncomfortable and troubling issues. Throughout, medica
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by gdubs 6y ago
You’re not alone. Signed up for the beta almost right at the beginning. In a good zone. Nothing. Also signed up for the pre order. Very eager to ditch my patchwork of expensive cellular and traditional satellite.
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by gdubs 6y ago
Steve Woz in his biography talks about the uniqueness of his era, where you could know every single aspect of the machine you were working on — and how that let you squeeze every last drop out of it, often through really creative ways.
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by gdubs 6y ago
You seem to have a knack for finding problems and solving them. Maybe you’d find happiness in helping others learn how to do this? Perhaps teach kids, or find some way to give back to the communities that gave you the opportunities to get t
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by gdubs 6y ago
“Success” can be subjective. To some, it means being the richest, or the best in your field. To others, it’s the pursuit of knowledge and experience itself. IMHO, there’s far too much compartmentalization in today’s world, and we’re lacking
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by gdubs 6y ago
http://gregorywieber.com/ I make a bunch of stuff from digital drawings to pixel art to 3D simulations using low level 3D frameworks like Metal. I also trained a neural net to paint like a Fauvist. Though currently my creat
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by gdubs 6y ago
Some tips: Try holding the pencil less like a writing pen, and a little further back from the tip. Loosen up a little. Exercise your ability to look at your subject and not the paper. Try not looking at the paper at all, and doing continuou
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by gdubs 6y ago
I haven’t used this specifically, but I’ve been really impressed with the DJI brand overall. I got a Mavic Air 2 and a gimbal for photography from them this year, and have been very happy with the quality of both. (The gimbal, being more of
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by gdubs 6y ago
I loved that processor [line]. When I first started learning Objective-C I was building a particle system playground with my friend. Then I learned about the vDSP / Accelerate framework, which harnessed the parallel capabilities of the

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