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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
I'm a huge fan of his work, and was greatly influenced by Cosmos, watching it as a child. I don't really care if he had a big ego or wasn't the best at math. What he did better than anyone else was to convey the sense of wond
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
> Start a college savings fund and tell everyone you’d prefer they contribute to that vs plastic junk. You might get a few takers on something with enduring value. Such a great idea. Alternatively, get a snow shovel to use when cleaning
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
I will just add that I was a much better parent when I only had 2.
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
Bill Gates's books has a great account of what it will take to get us out of this mess - and I agree, it is a huge mess - and Carbon capture is likely to be a small part of the solution.
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
As a person with persistent hip mobility issues - from sitting all the time - this is a great idea and I hope it catches on.
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
Malthus was wrong because of innovation, and if Gretha is wrong, it will also be because of innovation.
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
I agree, he seems to argue for conduit, making the house more configurable and thus better able to 'learn'.
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
Why not both? I have neighbors - based in CA- who annually visit family in Germany for months at a time. They get long periods of grandparent help, their kids are fluent in German, and they get CA salaries (and costs of living). Given how
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
Pretty funny! I don't get much that counts as 'thought', but it can certainly pass for twitter content as a service.
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
Fully agree. Seems like that will take decades however.
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Ask HN: Shootings: What /Can/ Be Done
4 points by lnwlebjel 4y ago|6 comments
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
It is so sad, and infuriating(!) that you have to do this. It seems that an immediate action the federal government could do is devote funding toward 'fortification' of schools. Others know better that I how best to do this but it
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
As stated earlier this week, AWS's CF is your opportunity . Seriously, there is a business opportunity here. Make a multi-cloud interface that is easy to use, prevents lock-in, has reasonable defaults ... please?
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
I had to post the text because, it's just so good: "And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudi
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
> He quoted Altman, who apparently ran some rudimentary data analysis based on his own emails while working at Y Combinator. ... which would mean "Fast responses to email from YC Partners was just cited as a key factor in founder
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
> than the university would like you to believe. You may not know it, but the truth is more like "than the university is able to pay". These are non-profit institutions, typically. Consulting is a great idea for many reasons, n
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
> `How can I use this to my advantage?` Align your skills/hobby interests with the work you get paid to do. These are very valuable skills that you have. Perhaps disconnect from the info-shit storm for a while, but look for work wit
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
It was the same guy who said AWS had $64 billion in revenue last year ..
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
Surprised this didn't get more tracking. This in particular seems like a really good startup idea: > cloud computing will require intermediation, provided by systems we call intercloud brokers, so that individual customers do not ha
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Is MDPI a Predatory Publisher?(paolocrosetto.wordpress.com)
3 points by lnwlebjel 4y ago|0 comments
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
"the longest WMO-recognized lightning flash is the single stratiform flash that covered a horizontal distance of 768 ± 8 km (467.2 ± 5 mi) across parts of the southern United States on 29 April 2020. The greatest WMO-recognized duratio
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
I've run a very small (~20) conference over the last 15 yrs and this is basically the plan. We even had it on a cruise ship one year. The friendships, and collaborations that have ensued are a testament to its effectiveness. (To be hon
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
How does geolocation show that they 'hit up' the ballot boxes? It seems like the null hypothesis would be that these people were there to observe, as many people on both sides of the aisle were. I'll pass.
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by lnwlebjel 4y ago
> My rule of thumb is to try and aim for consistency, and never try to change my total miles walked in a week more than roughly 30% a week I've read suggestions to keep it at about 10% per week to prevent injury. And more generally
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by lnwlebjel 5y ago
Invest as much of your income as you can, not to eventually be rich (which you likely could be), but as insurance against being stuck in a boring/miserable job just to pay the bills.
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by lnwlebjel 5y ago
I can think of parts of books that do this. The Splendid and The Vile goes on a 1-2 chapter tangent about the very interesting use of radar during WW2 for targeting London and the many counter measures developed by the British. It seems tha
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by lnwlebjel 5y ago
> The only real advantage cloud has for science is object storage, which is genuinely a much better idea than trying to manage your own long-term archival storage. I work with an academic HPC group, and because researchers generally pay
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Piercing the Fog of War in Ukraine(nationalinterest.org)
3 points by lnwlebjel 5y ago|0 comments
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by lnwlebjel 5y ago
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and referring to Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit to help: "Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the “facts.” Encourage substantive debate on the evidence b
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Putin Has No Good Way Out, and That Scares Me(nytimes.com)
5 points by lnwlebjel 5y ago|2 comments

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