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by mdorazio 5y ago
This is effectively a "think of the children argument". People with health complications will always be at higher risk of bad disease outcomes than the rest of the population. That includes the regular flu, too, and is pretty
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by mdorazio 5y ago
You need to qualify a few statements there. Total electricity consumption peaked in Western nations over a decade ago and has basically been flat or dropping since [1][2]. So when you say, "In the future, we will need far more electri
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by mdorazio 5y ago
It’s by far the #1 cause. People lose their job or get priced out of their home and then either can’t afford to move elsewhere or don’t want to leave their support network, so they just… stay. LAHSA tends to provide good data via their annu
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by mdorazio 5y ago
In LA alone we would need over half a million units of affordable housing [1]. Good luck with that when communities fight new development of any kind every chance they possibly can. [1] https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=726
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by mdorazio 5y ago
What part of LA are you in? I’ve lived on the west side for the last 13 years and tent camps have been an issue for at least the last 10. They started getting noticeably worse about 5 years ago in line with a rapid rise in the unsheltered p
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by mdorazio 5y ago
The problem is that even pre-COVID, business travelers only accounted for somewhere around 30% of air travelers. Post-COVID, that number is far lower. So stupidly high prices that are affordable to business travelers with expense accounts
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by mdorazio 5y ago
You really need to provide sources for claims like that. Here's the EPA saying that land use and forestry is a net carbon sink in the US [1]. If you're talking about international then that's a completely different conversa
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by mdorazio 5y ago
The data does not at all imply that something is wrong or that we need to do more than is already being done. Vaccines are not 100% effective and we were never going to prevent infections entirely. The only real issue here is that way too
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by mdorazio 5y ago
1) People who are vaccinated are more likely to get tested. 2) People who are vaccinated are more likely to be in positions where they are exposed to COVID (remember who got vaccines first?). 3) People who are vaccinated are probably more
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Multiple misconceptions here: 1) We don't cut down old growth trees to make paper products - we cut down fast-growth trees that are farmed for exactly this purpose. Cutting down these trees is not a problem, and in fact pulls some car
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by mdorazio 5y ago
The vast majority of HN commenters are young and have never been managers themselves, so don't have much appreciation for what the role really entails or its difficulties. Also, tech seems to have a higher percentage of bad managers t
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I learned Chinese in college and then lived in China for a year and a half. Personally, I think sentence structure and basic (spoken) vocabulary are the easiest parts of Chinese since there's no real conjugation and particles do all t
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Don’t think I agree with this. Rampant sexism and general abuse of workers has been an open secret in the game development world for many years now, and people still line up to work at the big studios because they love games.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I think a big component of this is that men just don’t often receive compliments on things like appearance, so we are immediately suspicious when we do. This is especially true with receiving compliments from other men. This situation sucks
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by mdorazio 5y ago
No, you really can't. In order to make high-pressure hydrogen tanks in passenger vehicles safe in crashes they are embedded deeply inside the chassis and are much bigger and more difficult to access than you seem to be thinking. Ther
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I don't think you're interpreting the labor force participation rate correctly. A low rate usually means that a significant portion of people simply aren't looking for work at the moment, but the reason for that is not refle
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by mdorazio 5y ago
This may not have been a violation. Age discrimination is only illegal if the person is over 40. You could easily be “culture fitted out” for being mid-thirties when everyone at a startup is early to mid twenties. And yes, it really is that
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Also OT: I built something very similar, but with text messages and asking for a positive thing that happened during the day rather than a journal entry (forcing myself to look for positive things in a day helped snap me out of a spiral tow
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by mdorazio 5y ago
To your #5, I find that developers tend to be allergic to the term "marketing" because it's easy to think it's a waste of money or the department of flashy do-nothings if you've never tried to actually build a busin
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Nice to have is a luxury - it doesn't solve any actual problem people have, it just make life a little bit nicer. Need is an actual value proposition - people are already spending time or money to do a thing that you can do better. I
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by mdorazio 5y ago
> I am skeptical than anything short of 20% would make an impact on any major attribute of an area. That's not how market pricing works for things like property since the supply is basically fixed. Changing the available supply by
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by mdorazio 5y ago
1) Change zoning to actually allow mixed use and high-density living space instead of single-family 2) Fix tax laws and incentives so that property owners actually pay tax based on the real value of the property instead of whatever nonsense
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by mdorazio 5y ago
The issue with this line of reasoning is that money is generally not going to solve the problem of people barely surviving. In the vast majority of cases, sociopolitical issues are the root cause and throwing money at things doesn't r
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by mdorazio 5y ago
It works just fine, but it's expensive and requires a lot of power as well as access to an ocean. You can read about the one that San Diego uses for something like 7% of total water needs here: https://www.carlsbaddesal.com
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Crew members have defined roles and responsibilities, and are important to the success of a mission beyond having paid to be there. The alternative is more apt here, I think: passengers.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Yes. The idea is that without being able to differentiate features, a 3d object painted with it looks basically like a silhouette, so your brain interprets it as a 2d object.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
This is not clear at all. Rockets and artillery shells follow high trajectory, extremely predictable ballistic paths. If your radar is good enough to accurately spot the rocket or shell against the entirely blank backdrop of sky, you can
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by mdorazio 5y ago
As chrisseaton said, this is the exact response users on this very forum had to both Dropbox at its launch ("it's just rsync, why would anyone use it?") and Slack ("it's just IRC, why would anyone use it?").
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Honest question: are these things actually surprising to people? All of the things admitted to seem pretty standard for lobbyists of large companies with less than stellar ethics. That applies to tech companies, too.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I think you nailed it, but an added wrinkle is that I’ve seen a lot of people (myself included) have worse work/life balance with wfh. When there’s no separation between you and “the office” it’s very easy to just never stop working.

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