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by lkbm 2y ago
We don't have to reel back 200 years. We can reel back 80, 50, 30 and look at: Who has electricity? Who has indoor plumbing? Who has air conditioning? Who has internet access at home? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher&
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by lkbm 2y ago
> The US has one of the highest child poverty rates of any "first world" nation Yeah, we should do way better, but this article isn't about the US today vs. western Europe today. It's about the world today vs. the wor
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This isn't 20% cheaper—it's 20% more efficient. Do they require 20% mounting systems or inverters? If not, you're getting more power without increasing the spending, regardless of which part is the expensive part. I'd to
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by lkbm 2y ago
Fair. I spent some time trying to figure out how to make it do roughly that before giving up.
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I used to pipe things through black for that. (a script that imported black, not just black on the command line.) I also had `j2p` and `p2j` that would convert between python (formatted via black) and json (formatted via jq), and the `j2p_
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by lkbm 2y ago
Yeah, something like that would help—I might go with "achievement chart", since many aren't even "skills". But there's also a lot of people pointing out that the basic vs advanced sorting is really questionable
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by lkbm 2y ago
"Make Sushi" doesn't mean "catch and prepare your own salmon". It just means you assemble some seaweed, rice, and optionally raw fish. It's 100% in the realm of doable (safely) by an amateur. Sushi is absolutel
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by lkbm 2y ago
Cooking has such a weird idea of basic vs. advanced. "Make garlic bread" is near the bottom, and then "use fresh garlic or ginger in a meal" is five rows higher . Apparently using fresh garlic and ginger is more advan
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by lkbm 2y ago
Depends. For my hobby project that hasn't been monetized, being charged $100k is way worse than it going down. If it were critical infrastructure, or monetized in a way that brought in revenue to cover the charge, then maybe I don&#x27
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by lkbm 2y ago
I haven't seen that, but at work we all once dressed as our boss once, and several times I've had friends have dressed up as me.
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by lkbm 2y ago
Are there newspapers that: 1. Don't dox private individuals for no good reason (rules out NYT, Washington Post, and Forbes) 2. Have ethical business practices around a subscriptions, such as letting you cancel easily? (Rules out the th
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by lkbm 2y ago
Junk drawers accumulate homeless items. This is for temporarily holding items which you will move to a different, correct location either daily or weekly.
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by lkbm 2y ago
> Coloration of Tagged Comments He mentions Jetbrains let you do this. I do it in vscode using the TODO Highlight extension.
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by lkbm 2y ago
Heroism as described in this slideshow prevents anyone from realizing/accepting that they need to hire the appropriate headcount.
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by lkbm 2y ago
For years, I've been hoping some startup will finally "fix" hiring. When I was in college, we had CyberCoders, which was a job search engine. Then we got Monster, which was a job search engine. Then we got Indeed, which is...
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by lkbm 2y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c288eewr1wko might be a better source. It's not paywalled, for one.
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by lkbm 2y ago
> In context, it sounds like you think that the genocide of indigenous peoples was totally worth it for European nations and that callous lack of concern for human life and suffering is an example to be followed by modern space programs.
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by lkbm 2y ago
For the ones doing the colonizing? Overwhelmingly yes. A good potion of the issues with colonizing is about how the colonizing nations end up extracting massive amounts of resources for their own benefit.
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by lkbm 2y ago
> The Perplexity chatbot itself is more specific. Prompted to describe what Perplexity is, it provides text that reads... This is something that comes up a lot: people thinking an LLM's output about it self is some special insight.
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by lkbm 2y ago
This is 100% false. The agreement in which Amtrak was created to take over passenger service, allowing commercial railroads to prioritize freight, they were given precedent[0]. You might think the regulations leading to this agreement were
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by lkbm 2y ago
I was intrigued by one of the other ways—"high-performance wires"—which they don't explain at all. I found one article[0] (podcast, I guess, but with a transcript) that goes into it: old wires are aluminum supported by steel.
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by lkbm 2y ago
Yes. I don't know exactly how cheap, but it's a big risk for pregnant women (not to have it, but to get infected while pregnant), so they have tests available, and it was affordable enough that my fiancee did it as part of her a p
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by lkbm 2y ago
You can. Advanced settings allows you to set a URL of your choice, so Ollama's OpenAI-compatible API should work fine.
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by lkbm 2y ago
Oh, nice! I've been sponsoring him on Patreon for years, but I'll switch over to to Github Sponsorship since that doesn't take a percentage.
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by lkbm 3y ago
This article is over seven years old and has been on the HN frontpage at least once before. It's nothing new, and I don't see a reason for them to suddenly care.
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by lkbm 3y ago
Possibly if you're using "fake meat" as your vegan protein. If you go with beans and rice, or pulses, that's still much smaller: https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local
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by lkbm 3y ago
The article links to another article[0] (way down in the final paragraph) about how some transit upgrades were put on hold because they were 50% funded by the congestion pricing: > The MTA said money from congestion pricing makes up more
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by lkbm 3y ago
I biked for transportation (and fun) for years and it was great. In 2022 I moved and had no bike for eight months and hurt my back ~four times in that period. I got a new bike about a year ago and have had no back pain since (until randomly
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by lkbm 3y ago
Scott Alexander had a post about this a few months back considering a lot of the obvious follow-up questions people might have: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/defying-cavity-lantern-biow... I haven't gone in for
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by lkbm 3y ago
It doesn't need to for productivity gains to be good for workers. Employment and real wages both are up. The fact that profits are also up doesn't change that.

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