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by incangold 6y ago
In what way is this not an ad hominem? Which of his specific points are you disagreeing with? What platitudes? What are examples of his writings or talks where he is not clear to you?
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by incangold 6y ago
This is a lovely story. Thanks. I’m quite a bit more liberal than my family, and we manage to get on too, with basically this approach. Over the years we’ve also found plenty of areas of agreement, if we stay off the hot button topics. It g
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by incangold 6y ago
So you’re saying that we should promote fascism to our children? ...obviously you did not say that- it’s a ridiculous straw man. As is your first paragraph. This whole area is rife with complexity, nuance and extremely difficult trade-offs.
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by incangold 6y ago
A further discussion of some of the details. If true Taibbi's piece loses some of its sting: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/06/has-the-american-left... I don't agree with all the opinions in this ar
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by incangold 6y ago
Still the most useful article on UX I’ve ever read, 26 years later: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/goal-composition/
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by incangold 6y ago
An obvious thing I’d barely noticed the full impact of. Thanks.
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Algebraic structures: things I wish someone explained about FP(jrsinclair.com)
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by incangold 7y ago
Your numbers don’t disagree with the article. The data in the article tell us that most of those 446 deaths in which C19 played a part would have happened in the next few years anyway. So we would expect fewer people to die in Bergamo next
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by incangold 7y ago
Is this calculation as simple as: it takes order of 10 years to build a reactor using existing tech, and we don’t have that long left?
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by incangold 7y ago
Straw man arguments do not belong on hacker news
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by incangold 7y ago
The U.K. will soon charge manufacturers for the recycling of their packaging: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46261129
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by incangold 7y ago
If by “knock you off your diet” you mean “knock you out of ketosis”, then eating enough protein will do that. I experimented with a keto diet for a neurological condition. I invested in some blood ketone measuring strips and was surprised h
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by incangold 7y ago
Does pumped-storage hydroelectricity meet a similar need? Or does it take longer to come online than natural gas?
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by incangold 7y ago
Same. Not sure why you're getting downvoted. People have been saying we need to avoid scaring people for decades, and look where we are. Panic now, helpfully, to avoid panic later when we are more helpless. I don't know what other
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by incangold 7y ago
Interestingly, some of the issues Cummings is concerned with are similar to those raised in the 1968 Fulton Report https://civilservant.org.uk/csr-fulton_report.html
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by incangold 7y ago
Agreed. But if we’ve learned anything from the last 4 years it’s that “low quality lies” (which I’ll read as “obvious untruths”) presenting a simple message are fiendishly, fiendishly difficult to defend against when the truth is complex an
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by incangold 7y ago
Hey, a left-leaning folk here (in that I broadly approve of Labour’s manifesto, if not its execution or current leadership). The things Cummings gets right are already well-discussed, among the lefties in my social group at least. And he ge
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by incangold 7y ago
Cummings shares some qualities with the rest of that list, but he’s not a nationalist if you believe his extensive blogging. Although he is comfortable using the language of nationalism, which perhaps amounts to the same thing practically.
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by incangold 7y ago
His reading list is excellent. I enjoy many of the same thinkers he does, and it pains me that Cummings associates himself with the rationalists. Alan Kay and Paul Graham will be unaffected by being name-dropped I’m sure. Lesswrong and slat
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by incangold 7y ago
As someone who took up smoking when I was young, stupid, and vulnerable, describing it as a personal decision doesn’t fit my reality. I quit eventually but it took 15 years of stop-start, combined with a constant, desperate sense of guilt a
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by incangold 7y ago
Typo in “Ethno-nationalism” “Eton-nationalism” is what we have in the UK at the moment.
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by incangold 7y ago
An upvote doesn’t quite convey what a delight I’m finding that first article. HN at its best- thanks.
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by incangold 7y ago
I read a sentence just before our first son was born that I’m glad I heard. “One day, your parents put you down and never picked you up again”. Every time my son woke me up in the night I would cherish every exhausted second of holding him.
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by incangold 7y ago
Really like this. “Average” engineers manage to be productive with React, Spring, WPF[1]... These are not simple technologies. Why can’t “average” engineers be productive with my stuff? Quite often it’s because these bigger, more complex, p
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by incangold 7y ago
“ Being able to fly direct to smaller airfields near one's destination on smaller aircraft at a very low cost could open up private-like air travel to the masses.” https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about&#
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by incangold 7y ago
Goop is on to something important I think that it’s worth listening to, even if Goop and the wellness movement need to go away. The way we have organised society, including the way we practice medicine, is not fantastic for human well-being
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by incangold 7y ago
This was such an exciting comment to read. It’s easy to forget how many potentially revolutionary ideas are yet to be tried, once we remember the power of good government. Although I am also skeptical of hyperloop delivery, it seems worth c
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by incangold 7y ago
I'm so glad Cursive ended up generating enough to keep you afloat Colin. It's a great product.
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by incangold 7y ago
Exactly this. It scares the life out of me that even on HN, a community of generally scientifically-engaged people, the scale of the problem is often not understood. We are literally looking at the end of civilisation as currently constitut
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by incangold 7y ago
I’m too tired to respond in detail but this underestimates the scale of the problem. There is no “adapting” to the scenario if we don’t stop kicking out CO2. We’re talking billions dead and most large species extinct, over the course of dec

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