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by grecy 3y ago
Haha, thanks ,yep. I learned all this when I lived in the Yukon and sunset takes about 2 hours...
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by grecy 3y ago
> P.S. Using this has made it clear to me how bad most sunrise/sunset calculators actually are. That may just be a function of how you define "sunrise" and "sunset". It is never as simple as "when the sun
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by grecy 3y ago
I couldn’t agree more. The saying ‘concrete jungle’ is so far off the mark. There’s no similarity between a city and a real jungle. Once you’ve been out for a while, cities are clearly concrete zoos.
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by grecy 3y ago
> They should've been spending they $100 million attempting to make... I'm not sure you understand how the world works. You don't get to decide how institutions spend money that is donated to them, and I really don'
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by grecy 3y ago
You said: > If you have evidence of Apple or Google cutting a cheque to any lawmaker And then > That's a campaign donation Use newspeak and call it whatever you want, it is VERY clear MONEY WAS PAID TO A LAWMAKER, which is
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by grecy 3y ago
> they spend millions per year on lawyers and lobbyists to keep that position. They paid lawmakers to keep the laws the way they want them to be. Just so we're clear, if we were talking about some other country it would be called
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by grecy 3y ago
In case you missed it, this is Hacker News. Where people post inspiring and interesting things we can learn from, we can aspire to and maybe even improve some things from time to time. There's no need for all the negativity every time
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by grecy 3y ago
> To be honest, it seems like you have no idea what you’re talking about. Almost like you're just reciting some stupid Twitter/Reddit talking point that you agree with but don’t understand beyond "Arghhhhh I hate big corp
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by grecy 3y ago
Not just fat either. The cold snap has me dealing with frozen pipes in our house right now...
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by grecy 3y ago
Here's a full timeline of all bailouts listed by propublica: https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/main/timeline which clearly shows this is the last company to receive a bailout (Harbor Bankshares Corporat
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by grecy 3y ago
It's interesting how quick you are to jump into an ad hominem attack, rather than discuss the topic at hand. Please don't do that. It makes your argument look very weak, and it's not polite. We're here to have a discussi
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by grecy 3y ago
I'm not comparing it to standing at a gas pump. I'm talking about this statement on the CDC site you linked: "There is not enough information available to determine if gasoline causes birth defects or affects reproduction&quo
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by grecy 3y ago
That link you posted reads almost criminally negligent. "There is not enough information available to determine if gasoline causes birth defects or affects reproduction" My god, spend some time in a remote aboriginal community in
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by grecy 3y ago
You, ah, might want to check your numbers. Fully 70 countries in the world generate more than 50% of their energy from renewables [1], and it's climbing rapidly. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_
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by grecy 3y ago
> Yeah but do they calculate your personal time value in sitting at a charging station for an hour? An even more interesting calculation would be how much you are shortening your life by standing at a gas pump inhaling carcinogens. Not
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by grecy 3y ago
Yep, here's the author visiting it http://www.datapointed.net/2010/10/the-farthest-place-from-m...
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by grecy 3y ago
https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/list 991 times for a total of $635B
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by grecy 3y ago
Given large companies get bailouts whenever they need them, I would argue the same is true of many companies in the US.
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DJI introduces an areal delivery drone, 30kg max payload, 16km range [video](youtube.com)
2 points by grecy 3y ago|0 comments
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by grecy 3y ago
Fun fact illustrated by the map on this page map - it's impossible to be more than 115 miles from a McDonalds in the lower 48. [1] Note that is not by road, that is taking a helicopter. I always take that to be proximate to electricity
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Cloudflare employee records her layoff call with random HR(old.reddit.com)
20 points by grecy 3y ago|6 comments
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by grecy 3y ago
> It could just be a PR campaign by <vested interest>, I'm not in a position to judge that. The really wild part about the world today is that is true of literally everything you ever hear. There is a very good chance ther
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Majority of debtors to US hospitals now people with health insurance(theguardian.com)
183 points by grecy 3y ago|194 comments
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by grecy 3y ago
Remember people said exactly the same thing about flying, and about stepping foot on the moon. Everything is impossible until it's done.
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by grecy 3y ago
Checkout the graph https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-lif...
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by grecy 3y ago
Do teens have much to look forward to? Climate change is already causing severe weather events, which are very likely to ramp quickly. Careers are a thing of the past, and it seems like no matter how hard you work you'll never "ge
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by grecy 3y ago
Wow, that sounds like a really cool experience. If you every write more about it, please post a link here in HN, I'm sure tons of people would be interested in more details about the what, why, how of what you were doing, and life in S
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by grecy 3y ago
Absolutely, just have to throw out OSHA, take land from people that own it without due process and ignore everything the EPA says. ... in all seriousness, it would be a lot more useful to compare what a developed country has been able to ac
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by grecy 3y ago
Don't forget it costs $30B and takes 20+ years to build!
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by grecy 3y ago
Why does an extremely rich person want to bet a billion dollars against EVs?

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