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by lkbm 5y ago
> In terms of your claim that "western countries have reduced carbon emissions" it is important to realize that increasingly developed countries have been outsourcing most of their high polluting industries. https://
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by lkbm 5y ago
The US has dropped per-capita emissions even when you include the emissions from offshored production: https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
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by lkbm 5y ago
Good catch. I didn't fully reread it before posting. I was also unsure if the individual needles were still around, but the article says they'd have decayed after ~3 years, so it's just those few clumps that are relevant.
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by lkbm 5y ago
As I understand it, the majority of junk is 1. 480 million copper pins the US military put into orbit[0] and 2. 150k pieces of junk from the Chinese anti-satellite weapon test/demonstration[1]. So if we're going to charge someone
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by lkbm 5y ago
> If there is a glut of "low-level" engineers it's impossible for there to be a shortage of high-end mid-level engineers as those mid-level come from the low-end engineers. I was going to point out several reasons why this
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by lkbm 5y ago
It's worth noting that once that information was out, nearly every headline was misleading and half the readers got the wrong message[0]. Maybe the CDC could've gotten ahead of this by reporting clearly and honestly about the actu
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by lkbm 5y ago
When I saw this NYT headline, I rolled my eyes, because NYT has had some seriously misleading and at least borderline-dishonest reporting about COVID, but I paused and remembered that Zeynep Tufekci sometimes writes for them, and Zeynep i
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by lkbm 5y ago
I choose when to open HN. It might be more often than is ideal, but it's not mid-thought.
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by lkbm 5y ago
I don't think YouTube replaces school for most people, but it makes it possible for someone who wants to learn something to do that much more more easily than before. School forces kids to learn a little bit about a wide-ish swath of s
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by lkbm 5y ago
It's not quite the same, but there've been several efforts in the US to shift math education away from "memorize this algorithm for addition, this one for multiplication, etc." and instead get kids to understand our num
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by lkbm 5y ago
The standard lifespan for a roof seems to be ~20 years, though that seems low to me.
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by lkbm 5y ago
I was able to just click through. Here's the PDF: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b4e34d1f2e6b166c33dc...
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by lkbm 5y ago
Good thing we use Cloudfront and Cloudflare where I work. > Statuspage Automation updated third-party component Spreedly Core from Operational to Major Outage. > Statuspage Automation updated third-party component Filestack API from O
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by lkbm 5y ago
Same. I've had them replace phone screens for me multiple times--both in Austin and Atlanta--and neither location asked for the PIN nor reset my phone.
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by lkbm 5y ago
Yeah, the 2008 number is wrong, but the meme comes from earlier. Its first profitable quarter was Q4 2001, three years after IPO, and it's first profitable year was 2003, six years after IPO.[0] This seems like a long time, especially
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by lkbm 5y ago
"Random people" doesn't mean "common people". It means people with no connection to the situation, or to the people involved. On Faceobook, the only people who can flood my notifications are people have I as friends
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by lkbm 5y ago
After college I lived with a bunch of UT students (good university; median family income of students is $123,900[0]) while working at a school for high school dropouts (median family income unknown, but definitely under $30k) and it really
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by lkbm 5y ago
This was a hard-mode fake I just got: > A new era of hyperaridididididemia revealed by single-cell RNA-seq So some are better than others. :-)
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by lkbm 5y ago
In terms of fairness to these companies, yeah. They're rich and it sucks to give them our tax dollars. But in terms of maintaining the competitiveness and security of the US, seems like they do. As a rule, I don't care if giving s
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by lkbm 5y ago
I'm sure we have that, but it's the second filter, after the resumes have provided the first filter. Moving it to step one seems like it would exacerbate the problem. That is, you'll get better results (in terms of hiring com
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by lkbm 5y ago
> The lack of arrow in the merge direction page was baffling For what it's worth, it came from the fact that you were doing `git diff master...feature-branch` Totally agree with you that the coding time is likely a tiny part of the
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by lkbm 6y ago
Do most chimney's have a flue these days? In my experience they do, but I've only really used fireplaces in fairly old homes.
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The Case for Producing Way More Solar Energy Than We Need(qz.com)
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There are a bunch of contributing factors (most schools, indoor public places, and workplaces encouraging or requiring masks, and many workplaces remote), but one thing that I'd expect to help with flu much more than it does with COVID
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by lkbm 6y ago
These tend to be capital-intensive, though. The big problem with most of our solutions is that you spending $50MM on a hydrogen plant and then leaving it idle half the time costs you $25MM amortized over the lifetime of the plant, so you ne
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by lkbm 6y ago
How does this differ from Mighty? As I understand it, they both put the render engine on a remote server and have you VLC into it, essentially. It's so weird to me that this is cost-effective, as I always expect cloud computation time
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Yeah, sorry for the bad formatting. I probably should've taken the time to make it not markdownify the asterisks. Without them, it is mirroring the middle eight.
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by lkbm 6y ago
Oooh, I was stuck because I was insisting on `. (1)(2)(3)(4)\4\3\2\1. ` having the middle eight characters mirror each other, which results in a clear contradiction with a few of the crosses. Thanks for posting the answers. I think I'm
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by lkbm 6y ago
I think it'd be fair for them to say "no, we can't send it to any address but your home address", but that their fallback is to say they'll send it to where you are and then to send it to your home address instead i
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by lkbm 6y ago
Quick note, since I don't see a contact form: Once I signed in, I got this paragraph on my profile: > Welcome to your Library! Once you start creating bookshelves and adding books, they will show up here! Until then here's some

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