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by lovecg 5y ago
I do like the idea of ground source heat pumps. If we all lived in caves hundreds of feet deep, the temperature would be near perfect year around. In a way, the heat pump “brings the cave to the surface”. There’s something very satisfying a
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by lovecg 5y ago
Note that this is pollution as measured by a few specific pollutants and explicitly _not_ CO2. While this is definitely a problem, if you care about climate change the cars are still a big deal.
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by lovecg 5y ago
I’m guessing you’re new to PG’s writing? His whole thing is drop out, do a startup, work for yourself, work hard.
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by lovecg 5y ago
He might have meant something like “never took a day off beyond the usual weekend/holiday”. Or “even on vacation, I did things like exercise and reading books, so it doesn’t count as taking a day off”. Who knows.
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by lovecg 5y ago
It’s just not written for you. There’s a small percentage of people with whom this attitude resonates. This essay is advice on how to harness these personal tendencies in an effective manner, so it’s natural that it seems foreign to you if
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by lovecg 5y ago
If you read his footnote, he’s talking about how these alarm bells go off on the order of days, not hours, and how taking vacations is good.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Onyx Boox is a GPL offender though with some other sketchy call-home activity going on. This is a dealbreaker for me. https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/hsn7kx/onyx_usin...
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by lovecg 5y ago
Inflation is… complicated. One component of inflation is people’s expectations of future inflation. If prices keep going up, people will start to expect it and won’t hold on to cash for as long, which creates its own feedback loop, etc.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Yeah I think I understand this viewpoint but I fundamentally disagree with it. I would absolutely prefer to live in a world where academics are free to express controversial opinions that would be debated on their own merits, and not shut d
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by lovecg 5y ago
Thank you for your response. In some ways I have a reverse experience: I grew up elsewhere and then moved to Canada (I did get to go to school for a few years). I was blown away by how accepting and open the Canadian society was. Trust me,
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by lovecg 5y ago
If you don’t mind me asking, did you grow up in Canada? When you’re saying that Canada is racist do you have any experiences of living in other countries to compare with? Can you point out specific examples of Canada being a racist country?
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by lovecg 5y ago
What do you think about cases like this one? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/mount-allison-s... An immigrant _tenured_ professor in Canada got suspended for saying that Canada is not racist on he
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by lovecg 5y ago
On the other hand the rule of “if you’ve ever been a dick in the past, your life and career should be destroyed proportionality be damned” seems like a societal failure.
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by lovecg 5y ago
They’re a one person company, and I assume their competitors are not exactly Google and Facebook either. Surely there’s enough market share at that level to allow for some compassion and basic human decency? Not everyone has to be ruthless
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by lovecg 5y ago
Going public works if a) you own the newspaper or b) your story can pull some serious societal heart strings. Unfortunately the public at large is largely ignorant to the mess that the software patents are, it’s hard to see this getting tra
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by lovecg 5y ago
This article was an entertaining read https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/
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by lovecg 5y ago
This is somewhat true for older (say, 1920s) American houses. There’s some consideration for airflow and making sure that the tree shade on the roof creates a strategic sun heat gradient.
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by lovecg 5y ago
I think this confuses patents with trade secrets. You only patent something that’s easy to observe and copy, and the patent is a public record that you have some temporary exclusive rights to the invention (well at least in theory. The worl
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by lovecg 5y ago
The variants where the host does not know are also worth considering. If they’re just guessing and happened to not open the prize door by chance, you’re back at 50/50. If they have a hangover and you think there’s a 5% chance they forg
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by lovecg 5y ago
This argument is repeated a lot but I never understood the mechanics. Wouldn’t they have to pay back the principal + interest, from a supposedly taxed source of income? This sounds like a scheme to delay taxes and optimize cash flow, but no
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by lovecg 5y ago
Would do wonders for the Bay Area housing market! On a serious note, this proposal was originally coupled with a pretty radical (from our point of view) approach to land ownership. Land is closer to zero-sum than many other things (ignoring
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by lovecg 5y ago
And in case there was any doubt he also came out and said he intentionally lied about the required level of vaccination needed to achieve herd immunity [0] so that people don’t get too discouraged. He seems to be squarely in the “ends justi
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by lovecg 5y ago
It will probably not go extinct, no. But these changes might not be compatible with the kind of advanced civilization we’re all used to and that supports a population of billions. I, for one, am not ready to go back to whatever living stand
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by lovecg 5y ago
Fascinating. Looks like the original motivation for the campaign was the fact that loose change was required as payment, and not really any highbrow philosophy beyond that? This should be an easily solvable problem by now (though judging by
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by lovecg 5y ago
The story has a sort of a dreamlike quality. All the words and sentences are there and any individual piece kind of makes sense but if you zoom out the whole thing is nonsense.
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by lovecg 5y ago
> What about… I seem to remember there’s a term for what you’re doing in your post…
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by lovecg 5y ago
If a government cares enough to deploy fighter jets to hijack a plane like this in violation of every international norm, you can be sure it has the resources to know where you are at all times regardless of how tightly those databases are
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by lovecg 5y ago
Cost of some these things you mentioned definitely went up by a lot and is not fully explained by inflation. A good blog post on the topic: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...
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by lovecg 5y ago
Would they even be able to cash out though? Even a small transfer from a presumed-dead wallet can trigger a massive market crash in your scenario. Now if they just want to watch the world burn, that’s another matter.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Google is claiming to be Carbon neutral though, so not a good comparison. https://sustainability.google/commitments/

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