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Why California needs more water than ever to end its drought(latimes.com)
4 points by hownottowrite 4y ago|1 comments
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Hundreds of MacBook Pro workers break through Covid barriers to escape factory(9to5mac.com)
17 points by hownottowrite 4y ago|2 comments
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by hownottowrite 4y ago
Read the thread, read the posts, read this reply... it would've been trivial to write a nice apology and move on, but instead you tripped over your own ego (twice). Well played! Should've just let it go when you had the chance.
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Thiel Donated $10M, but J.D. Vance’s Other Billionaire Backers Passed(forbes.com)
2 points by hownottowrite 4y ago|0 comments
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The Two Clashing Meanings of 'Free Speech' (2017)(theatlantic.com)
5 points by hownottowrite 4y ago|0 comments
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by hownottowrite 4y ago
Source: https://theintercept.com/2022/04/18/saudi-russia-jared-kushn...
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Jared Kushner’s $2.5B Pitch Deck(documentcloud.org)
20 points by hownottowrite 4y ago|5 comments
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by hownottowrite 5y ago
“The Midwest didn’t appeal.” Clearly climate change was the deciding factor. /s
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by hownottowrite 5y ago
The real question isn’t how intelligent cats are but whether we’re smart enough to really tell. https://wwnorton.com/books/Are-We-Smart-Enough-to-Know-How-S...
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by hownottowrite 5y ago
Recommendation: Read “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed” by Eric H. Cline https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691208015/11...
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by hownottowrite 5y ago
These optimizations are great if you’re selling things people are looking for. However, when you’re selling something people want but don’t yet know it even exists, the problem is thornier.
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by hownottowrite 5y ago
I started at CompuServe in 1990. I met Steve a couple years later when I interviewed to join his team. I didn’t make the cut and I thought he was a bit of a jerk during the interview. Turns out I was the jerk and Steve was actually being re
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We are working for you, from Ukraine. Welcome Luminar 1.0.2 Update(skylum.com)
2 points by hownottowrite 5y ago|0 comments
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by hownottowrite 5y ago
This is happening in Northern Virginia right now. The state is going to create a control structure for a private city, provide unlimited debt funding, and lose significant tax revenues for decades to come. And for what? Bad football and mor
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Updated cost-effectiveness of MDMA-assisted therapy for the treatment of PTSD(journals.plos.org)
1 points by hownottowrite 5y ago|0 comments
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by hownottowrite 5y ago
I live 10 minutes from the White House. I don’t need this in my life.
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by hownottowrite 5y ago
As far as Thomas Jefferson High School goes, this is a multi-decade issue. The Washingtonian covered it well in 2017 and it’s only gotten more complex since then: https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/04/26/is-th
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by hownottowrite 5y ago
Subsistence isn’t the actual threat to a Martian colony, and that is what is so maddening about it. We can go and we can figure out the technical hurdles. But even with those magical capabilities we cannot eliminate ourselves from the equat
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by hownottowrite 5y ago
There’s always something cool to learn about geological processes, even basic examples like this one.
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by hownottowrite 5y ago
Just because you can make air on another planet doesn’t mean you can live to breathe it. If we can’t get life right here, our technical ability won’t mean much on another planet once human nature takes over.
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by hownottowrite 5y ago
I think the only thing we will prove with a Martian colony is that humans can go extinct on two planets instead of one.
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by hownottowrite 5y ago
Not a fulgurite. Not a selenite. Not even a dendrite. Probably just salt. People will always lose their minds over simple mineral intrusions because the only rocks they’ve ever seen are just round.
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by hownottowrite 5y ago
Most of what people love about Carl Sagan is really just Ann Druyan showing through.
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Ask HN: What are you doing now that Facebook’s targeting has gone back to 2014?
1 points by hownottowrite 5y ago|1 comments
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by hownottowrite 5y ago
This story is so incomplete. I hope someone actually does a deep dive on this man’s life some day.
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by hownottowrite 5y ago
Related: https://twitter.com/mattrickard/status/1492548554426048514?s... Not exactly a great attitude, but it’s how I came across the post.
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Against Pair Programming(matt-rickard.com)
100 points by hownottowrite 5y ago|175 comments
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Why are kids afraid to ask for help?(scientificamerican.com)
3 points by hownottowrite 5y ago|0 comments
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Building an iPod for 2022(ellie.wtf)
518 points by hownottowrite 5y ago|149 comments
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by hownottowrite 5y ago
Thanks! And yes, that's exactly what is happening.

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