jnmandal

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by jnmandal 3y ago
Both cars I've owned have had better efficiency and thus range than advertised (a Honda and a Subaru). I'm often shocked at how I can get 38-40mpg + on a car that is supposed to be getting 29mpg.
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by jnmandal 3y ago
> Krill serves as an ingredient in aquaculture feed and, to a lesser extent, in pet foods and omega-3 supplements for human use. Pretty depressing that is why they are doing this. Those needs could be satisfied with completely different
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by jnmandal 3y ago
From January of 2020
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by jnmandal 3y ago
REI flexlite camp dreamer is pretty good, but its not adjustable.
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by jnmandal 3y ago
> The sky is falling! The sky is falling! The sky is falling! > Nobody cares. We're too busy trying to get through our lives. No, I'm not a climate change denier, I'm a climate-change not-care-er. I keep my heat/AC
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by jnmandal 3y ago
Yeah these things are awesome. Exactly what I need on my land. I hope to get one someday.
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by jnmandal 3y ago
A lot of this comes down to the clunkiness in high level programming languages. We will have all sorts of abstractions over enumeration and collections yet for some reason few languages seek to include niceties for state machines in their s
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by jnmandal 4y ago
This is a complete waste of time and resources. There are many, many more ideas that are essentially "low hanging fruit" which could be implemented today. Government is kicking the can by throwing excessive cash at an issue becaus
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by jnmandal 4y ago
Heavy handed interventions from upper courts, like this one, only make itbmore likely that localities will fracture and separatism will take root. The central government should be making it easier for municipalities and states to set their
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by jnmandal 4y ago
Anytime you have a technology that is marketed ubiquitously as if it's a silver bullet solution, you are going to have disappointed users and implementations that under deliver. Of course it's extremely important to switch people
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by jnmandal 4y ago
Do you mind sharing how you set that forecast UI up?
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by jnmandal 4y ago
I have no idea but I'm laughing because HN is almost always wrong about these things. I remember about a year back reading a thread here about the UN FAO food price index showing inflation and most of the responses were about how wrong
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by jnmandal 4y ago
In 100yrs or even 1000yrs, do you think people, if they still exist, will look back and say "wow we're amazed at the hard work of those men and women who drilled the last hydrocarbons"? Chances are they will have a lot of rea
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by jnmandal 4y ago
I get where you are coming from but its best to not to frame it that way. This planet is now in flux. It will never be the same again. We are far, far past the point of preserving some sort of status quo on ecology. The Willow Oil project i
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by jnmandal 4y ago
It's good to see efforts at adaptation. This is an important aspect of dealing with climate change. There's simply no preventative measures that can be implemented at this point. So if we can get Alaskans and the fishing industry
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by jnmandal 4y ago
To be honest, this has very little to do with fishing practices. It's more about the temperature of the ocean. There are some folks who think by catch (a very destructive externality from ocean floor trawling) has an impact on this fis
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by jnmandal 4y ago
The CIA has long had a "VC" arm; I think it's inevitable that there will be climate and energy investment funds (more like agencies) directed by DoE, DoT, and whatever Department gets created when the US finally decides to ta
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by jnmandal 4y ago
Same place and people as always: the venture capital firms. Now their scope and focus will just be under harsh criticism and slight duress from the treasury dept for all the assurances they've been given. I wonder if we can still build
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by jnmandal 4y ago
Do you really need someone to explain to you how being a funded startup founder is different than being an hourly worker on tipped wage at upscale restaurant? Is that a serious, genuine question or are you just trying to deflect criticism w
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by jnmandal 4y ago
This is so aloof. People are engaging in a conversation about how to structure innovation. Many, many people don't want to see "startups solving hard technical problems." That's the nature of the guillotine images. The
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by jnmandal 4y ago
Ok I'm sorry but both of these tweets are funny, if only because the tech community's hubris and cluelessness is on full display. First person is trying to contrast herself with the "1%" but if you read what her startup
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by jnmandal 4y ago
I disagree. The poster has an interesting point and contrarian perspective. Is it a grandiose metaphor? Probably. Can we learn from the discourse? Definitely. Even if the hyperbolic claim you made was true (it's not - see below if you
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by jnmandal 4y ago
Agreed. It's funny that many still cannot see the writing on the wall.
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by jnmandal 4y ago
> Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. This is what I meant by "a bridge." I don't think you really understand the point of my comment. > unless you have a mysterious power making you able to compel mankind to c
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by jnmandal 4y ago
There's no issue with mass transit. It's possible. It's even inevitable. I guess it depends what you mean by mass transit but communal, shared transportation solutions that replace private vehicle ownership. Yeah, that's
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by jnmandal 4y ago
Yeah, this is the crux of it. Many responders here seem to believe they have a choice in the matter, or perhaps more acutely that their limited choiceset is the only factor in what happens. People seem to have forgotten that government, tra
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by jnmandal 4y ago
They're cleaner, no doubt. But are they clean enough that a 1-1 replacement could avert massive ecological destruction à la global warming? No they are not. They are a bridge towards lowering emissions but they cannot get us to zero or
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by jnmandal 4y ago
Are you implying we are approaching a post-scarcity world now?
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by jnmandal 4y ago
Pretty bad news. I think most of us knew -- subconsciously at the least -- we might already be here. To see it documented like this is a major bummer though. Adaptation was always going to have to happen. We definitely knew that. I don&#x27
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by jnmandal 4y ago
Yes, the US is a country that cannot process its own waste so it ships it overseas just to be rid of it. The solution is not to raise money and send it to the Philippines to build landfills. The solution is to actually recycle plastic, buil

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