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by hippo22 8mo ago
When you hear someone say “I do drugs” do you imagine them sitting at a bar to have a drink? Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
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by hippo22 8mo ago
The issue with “just” insulating your home is that many homes weren’t designed with insulation in mind and thus it’s not a straightforward proposition. For instance, masonry was a common building material and that is not easy to insulate. Y
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by hippo22 8mo ago
The issue with poorly insulated houses in cold climates is not about efficiency. The issue is that the thaw cycle makes it impossible to actually come up to temp because too much heat is lost during thawing. Most of the UK isn’t really cons
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by hippo22 8mo ago
It really depends on how well your home is insulated. Heat pumps don’t work well on old, poorly insulated houses in cold climates. If they can keep up, which is a big if, the price of electricity generally dwarfs natural gas, even if the he
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by hippo22 8mo ago
I didn’t quite mean that programming languages have reached their terminal state, although I understand how my comment was interpreted like that. I meant that programming languages, as we known them today , have reached a terminal state. U
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by hippo22 8mo ago
I agree it will hold back new technologies, but, at the same time, I'm not sure what the value add of new technologies will be going forward. Often, as is the case with git vs. jj, the value add of a new technology is mostly ergonomic.
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by hippo22 8mo ago
What is the lesson in the anecdote about film students? To me, it’s that people like the idea of studying film more than they like actually studying film. I fail to see the connection to social media or AI.
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by hippo22 8mo ago
The high fat is a benefit not a detriment.
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by hippo22 8mo ago
Not related to your question, but the lead levels in psyllium husks are too high for me to consume them daily.
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by hippo22 9mo ago
My point is that there are plenty of other places to discuss this topic, e.g. Reddit and Facebook. The reason you don’t like those venues is because they produce conversation of the lowest common denominator. What you don’t realize is that’
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by hippo22 9mo ago
Try Reddit. You’ll see this exact topic discussed nearly indefinitely.
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by hippo22 9mo ago
None of that is present in the article, however, which essentially consists of a restatement of the headline. This post is essentially engagement bait.
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by hippo22 9mo ago
I don’t think this belongs on HN. There isn’t a compelling technical angle and there are plenty of other venues to discuss politics.
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by hippo22 9mo ago
It’s the financialization of outcomes.
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by hippo22 9mo ago
The gamblification of everything is just another stepping stone on the path to the financialization of everything. Many of our best and brightest dedicate their lives to “financial innovation”. It’s sad.
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by hippo22 9mo ago
The exporters care because tariffs cause the demand curve for their products to shift to the left. As a result, the exporter can either choose to lower prices or sell fewer items. If they choose to lower prices, then that means the cost of
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by hippo22 9mo ago
A market with only two players isn't much of a market.
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by hippo22 9mo ago
If you can read fast enough, grepping is probably faster than waiting for a compiler to tell you anything.
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by hippo22 9mo ago
Trade deals with poorer countries usually hurt the working class of the richer countries and benefit the wealthy. It's basically freedom to perform labor arbitrage.
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by hippo22 9mo ago
What happens if the person who wrote the code went on vacation? What happens if the code is many years old and no current team member has touched the code? Understanding code you didn't personally write is part of the job.
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by hippo22 9mo ago
It's not as simple as it might seem at first glance. People often go into their basement and think "wow, it's cool down here. If only I could make my house this cool." But, as soon as you moved the air from your basement
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by hippo22 9mo ago
The story of their shutdown is really quite crazy. The shutdown was initiated by chancellor Gerhard Schröder. After killing Germany’s nuclear sector, he signed off on Nord Stream 1 as he was on his way out of office. Just after leaving offi
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by hippo22 9mo ago
I don't think disposing of stuff deep in mines would be a good idea as it would be easy to contaminate the ground water. Modern landfills are generally well engineered and don't contaminate the surroundings too badly.
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by hippo22 9mo ago
The main thing about plastic is that it’s made from oil, and oil already exists in the ground. Putting it back into the ground is basically neutral minus the pollution involved in manufacturing.
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by hippo22 9mo ago
Why is trash an "enormous externality"? Even if the retailer took it back it would still be... trash.
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by hippo22 9mo ago
It's not "normal competition" to be displaced by immigrants in your own country. Allowing that is simply allowing the capitalist class to assault and weaken the labor class.
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by hippo22 9mo ago
During the dotcom bubble, Alan Greenspan recognized that irrational exuberance was driving the market to unsupported valuations. He said this in 1996. The bubble wouldn’t pop for many years. In fact, the deepest nasdaq market correction was
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by hippo22 9mo ago
I think the key word is “autonomously”. You can assert the AI caused the harm, but you cannot assert it did so outside of your control.
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by hippo22 9mo ago
I don’t think this isn’t true. If you buy VOO, you’re buying shares in a fund that owns shares of S&P 500 companies. The managers of that fund are free to exercise their voting rights however they please. The reason why Vanguard shouldn
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by hippo22 10mo ago
Are ships even defendable in the age of hypersonic missiles? It seems like, should a large-scale war happen again, it will look entirely different from the wars in the 20th century.

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