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by gersh 7y ago
This isn't simply a divestment campaign. This is one of the largest shareholder telling the companies to change their practices. There was a business group that played a major role in negotiating the end of apartheid in South Africa (s
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by gersh 7y ago
I'd like to know the land use requirements of direct air capture technology. Will it use enormous amounts of land? What is currently on that land? Will this entail scalability issues?
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by gersh 7y ago
There are also climate strikes December 6 in the US. See https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/winter-climatestri... for details.
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by gersh 7y ago
Do you want to do something about this? I suggest joining the Sunrise Movement. Go to https://www.sunrisemovement.org/ to join.
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by gersh 7y ago
Lithium ion batteries have limited lifecycles so they aren't sustainable. We need to be building massive pumped hydro.
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by gersh 7y ago
I'm an experience full-stack software engineer, specializing in data engineering and data science. I'd like to work on something that helps address climate change or other major problems. Location: San Francisco Remote: Maybe Will
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by gersh 7y ago
If you just put up the wires for part of the route, can't the bus charge up while it is under the wires for the rest of the route?
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by gersh 7y ago
I think there is an inherent in optimizing for retention time. Ideally, the recommendation should help find stuff which improve people's health, make them happier, or more informed about the world. However, it doesn't seem like Yo
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Show HN: Track the most electable candidate based on betting odds(electabilityodds.com)
1 points by gersh 7y ago|0 comments
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by gersh 7y ago
The land tax along with the house. Perhaps, you believe the land should be taxed more highly and the house should be taxed less. When permitting is tough, the fact that you got the permits to build the house should increase the value of the
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by gersh 7y ago
There is already land tax, but with proposition 13 people lock in low tax rates. So, if you've owned a home for a long time, you are gonna pay a lot lower taxes than someone, who recently bought a condo on land with the same value.
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by gersh 8y ago
If it raises the price of oil, it incentivizes people to shift their demand to renewable energy technologies or to invest more in energy efficiency.
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by gersh 8y ago
It's the right decision. If we keep extracting every last drop of oil, the effects of climate change are going to irreversible (see https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/09/tipping-... ).
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by gersh 8y ago
I can imagine the Egyptians like cat pictures like people today. However, the statutes don't look like the most beautiful of cats. Have the aesthetics of cat pictures changed over time?
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by gersh 8y ago
As launching satellites into space becomes cheaper, I'd imagine we will get increasing issues of satellite collisions and interference. Do we need a regulatory framework to address this? I understand space is becoming increasingly mili
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by gersh 8y ago
I find it kind of ironic to see the WSJ essentially publish an ad for Facebook disguised as an article. Still, it is probably true to some extent. Is Facebook just a fancy machine for auctioning off the electorate to the highest bidder? Sho
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by gersh 8y ago
It'd be helpful if kids actually got a greater chance to see things like where their food came from or the factories where the things they use get made. Our modern economy cuts off and hides much of the world and gives them a filtered,
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by gersh 8y ago
Many of these schools have run deceptive marketing campaigns to convince students to get useless degrees. Meanwhile, many colleges have hired endless useless administrators, while most classes get taught by underpaid adjuncts. They should g
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by gersh 8y ago
1) Reach out to people studying Petroleum Engineering and convince them to study something else. This can be done through thing like websites, social media and handing out flyers. 2) Convince universities to end their Petroleum Engineering
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by gersh 8y ago
I think we need to convince people to stop studying petroleum engineering and prepare for a different economy instead. If you'd like to work with me on this, please email me.
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by gersh 8y ago
I've felt similarly. I'd be interested in discussing solutions with anyone, who is interested. Please email me (email in profile) if you want to discuss this stuff.
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by gersh 8y ago
Not quite true. Algorithms like vgg-16 typically involve subtracting out the mean at the beginning for better performance. For example, look at https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/torchvision/models.html . Red has
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by gersh 8y ago
They have a nice theory that the spacecraft won't melt when it gets close to the sun, but do they really know for sure? NASA doesn't succeed on every mission. It is possible something will go wrong, and the probe will melt.
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Building a Technology of Creative Expression and Greater Human Intelligence(medium.com)
1 points by gersh 8y ago|0 comments
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by gersh 8y ago
I think that can work to an extent, but who decides what code gets pushed to production? You can decentralize responsibility for tasks, but ultimately you need some method of resolving competing pull requests. If someone can take control of
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by gersh 8y ago
I think self-organizing lead to more secretive hierarchical structures. People's positions are inherently insecure, and there is more pressure to organize cliques for people to secure their positions and then shut out everyone, who isn
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by gersh 8y ago
I think Steemit has some traction as a Reddit-like blockchain company. Wikileaks has been funded with Bitcoin donations.
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Show HN: AI-Generated Fashion Brand(roarshockbrands.com)
4 points by gersh 8y ago|1 comments
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by gersh 8y ago
There are probably simpler methods, but if the United States really wanted to, they could probably buy/seize enough computers to pull a 51% attack.
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by gersh 9y ago
What is a medical device? Are we talking about things like thermometers, wheelchairs, and surgical knives. Is this saying you need a double-blind study for every new design of wheelchair?

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