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How Much CO2 Gets Emitted to Build a Wind Turbine? (2014)(stopthesethings.com)
1 points by lai-yin 3y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Best resources/advice for growing an online clothing shop?
1 points by lai-yin 3y ago|0 comments
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You Could Print a Pathogen(science.org)
1 points by lai-yin 3y ago|0 comments
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The Challenger Disaster(feynman.com)
2 points by lai-yin 4y ago|0 comments
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by lai-yin 4y ago
Birds and little critters to be relocated to affordable housing in San Marcos. But seriously why can't we just start building more net-zero natural gas plants that take up 1/100 of the land area? This is insane.
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The Kekulé Problem (2017)(nautil.us)
2 points by lai-yin 4y ago|0 comments
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Oil rigs can save coral reefs(wired.co.uk)
2 points by lai-yin 4y ago|0 comments
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Windmills projected to kill 20k golden eagles by 2050(apnews.com)
5 points by lai-yin 4y ago|2 comments
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by lai-yin 4y ago
Don Draper would have vanished for a year-long bender if he read this
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by lai-yin 4y ago
Never heard of that song! Sounds awful.
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Ask HN: What probiotic supplements do you use?
1 points by lai-yin 4y ago|6 comments
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How to Choose Trousers for Any Sport Coat(putthison.com)
2 points by lai-yin 4y ago|0 comments
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by lai-yin 5y ago
My aunt, recently retired from the printing industry, has regaled me with many tales of the intricacies and complications she went through to print everything from Harry Potter to Jocko Willink. Kindles were also banned from entering her ho
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by lai-yin 5y ago
That's a good human survival play book. But what are we capable of now to clean the planet after a quadrillion tons of ash and fire hits our atmosphere.
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by lai-yin 5y ago
Absolutely agree with this point! You also raised another interesting idea - since we don't know when a giant impact or similar catastrophic event will occur, we can't categorize it as a near-term risk or long-term risk. It could
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Ask HN: What can we do after a giant impact event
9 points by lai-yin 5y ago|17 comments
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by lai-yin 5y ago
I understand this won't sit well with a lot of people, but reading a chapter or two of the Bible before bed totally resets my mind and helps me fall asleep almost immediately when I am ready. It calls you to a different realm. Especial
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Rooftop solar is more dangerous than Chernobyl (2008)(nextbigfuture.com)
3 points by lai-yin 5y ago|0 comments
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by lai-yin 5y ago
When I walked the Camino de Santiago (Catholic pilgrimage across Spain) there was one segment near the Pyrenees where lots of aggressive graffiti seemed to warn that "you are in Basque country now!"
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by lai-yin 5y ago
The soundtrack, amnesia mysteries, with hint of sci-fi make me long for Mr Robot.
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Approved Cameras(partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com)
305 points by lai-yin 5y ago|307 comments
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by lai-yin 5y ago
I think you mean, reverse engineering to create new, better machines: good. Reverse engineering to game a medical testing device: bad.
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by lai-yin 5y ago
Oil and natural gas have lifted billions of people out of generational poverty. It wouldn't be possible for you to type that comment on your computer or laptop and post it to Hacker News without their existence. When I got into Bitcoin
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by lai-yin 5y ago
Haha sounds like fun! I need to dive into that more. Maybe for the next iteration of our website. I tried emailing a few of these accounts from a burner email and got bounce backs on all of them. Also just realized that since 12-15 another
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by lai-yin 5y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. There is no visible counter on the webpage for users to see, and I'm not seeing one when I look under the hood in DevTools. I could be missing something though. It still would be odd since given my industry a
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Ask HN: What is this user doing?
42 points by lai-yin 5y ago|33 comments
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by lai-yin 5y ago
The rendered actors look so close to reality but at the same time so obviously artificial...something is just off the mark. How would a cgi expert put it into words?
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by lai-yin 5y ago
Please do explain your insights into this psychological effect you speak of.
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by lai-yin 5y ago
It was closed for COVID but I saw a sign last weekend saying a new installation would be opening soon.
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by lai-yin 5y ago
Every time I've seen a Rothko in a museum I've felt underwhelmed. But the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas is something special. Quiet, immersive, spiritual. Secular spiritualism. While you're there hop across the street to th

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