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by melling 3y ago
Within 50 years, India will pass the United States to become the second largest economy: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/10/india-to-become-worlds-secon...
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That’s three James Webb Telescopes. https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/3567388-most... That’s 10x our yearly federal research budget for Alzheimer’s disease. https://alzimpact.org/rese
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“In another example of illusory precision, the Wall Street Journal—in a 2021 investigation seeking to unearth the truth about EV emissions” The Wall Street Journal is biased garbage when it comes to climate change. They’ve spent decades doi
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Not sure it matters that we knew. World population in 1950 was only 2.5 billion. We definitely knew 40 years ago we’ve done little over that time as the population grew to 8 billion. Today we’re using more coal than ever. https:/&#x2
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“As someone who easily spends more than 60 hours a week at the keyboard gaming, coding, working, and writing, I am no stranger to wrist pain. Particularly the part where my thumb and wrist meet on my right hand.” Patient: “Doctor, doctor, i
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What kind of system? IntelliJ has always seemed to require a lot of resources. I bought 16GB a decade ago, for example, so I wouldn’t have swapping issues with my tools. That machine is still usable today.
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It’s a well-known machine learning book. I’ve read through it and done the exercises in R. https://github.com/melling/ISLR There’s an edX course from the authors: https://www.edx.org/course/statis
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We already subsidize roads and highways. People conveniently forget that. The idea would be to target the largest cities, of course.
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I remember that brief period 30 years ago when we were going to have high-speed maglev trains. https://www.amazon.com/Popular-Science-Vol-June-1992/dp/B008... https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03&#
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“It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It” https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/?amp=1
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He was originally from Bulgaria and there are Roman ruins there too: https://davidsbeenhere.com/2017/03/01/top-10-ancient-sites-i...
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Plymouth Rock is half its original size. Tourists used to take a piece. https://www.frommers.com/destinations/plymouth-ma/attraction... . The tourist who carved his name into the Colosseum didn’t realize how old it
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Nah, it’s a completely inaccurate statement. He was wrong and trying to annoy people who believe in climate change. Such is the world in which we live. “ This newly built Las Vegas sphere cost $2.3 billion and uses 150 terawatt-hours of ele
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Not sure how you did that. The point was about using cluster bombs on civilians. The Ukrainians will be using them in their own country. Not on civilians
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Nope, we wouldn’t be using all that coal if… Aviation? Please look up the emissions for aviation va coal power.
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I don’t believe causation was mentioned. There was a study done that said people who took the drug were slightly better off. No idea how valid the study was. There seems to be a lot of questionable statistics done.
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Please quit asking to make fossil fuels more expensive. This gets people to vote for those who run on cheap gas and energy, and it plays well politically. Fix renewable energy, invest in the R&D, etc. Climate change is a slow train wre
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To be clear Russia is already using cluster munitions in Ukraine. They are banned because many have a dud rate which means civilians can be hurt by unexploded ordnance.
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So, no he doesn’t work at Meta. We could have stopped this thread an hour ago. We need a social network that removes the noise from the conversation
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Is the person from Meta? Doesn’t appear so. It’s still perfectly acceptable for Twitter users to discus other platforms on Twitter.
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yes, that’s usually the first thing people say. It’s easy to be skeptical. The odds are often in the skeptics favor. Personally, I don’t see any value in debating it. Here’s a classic article explaining why Apple opening retail stores will
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Can’t deal with a little extremes on earth? Sort of makes one wonder how we’re ever going to colonize Mars so we’re not a single planet species.
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But… but…but the statistics… say 57% 1.5C is guaranteed within a decade. People need to quit telling themselves silly narratives.
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Self-driving mine clearing devices seem like a no-brainer. The technology used for self-driving can’t be used to clear mine-fields? Even Roomba level “intelligence” would be useful?
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Mentioned many times in the past 8 years on HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1688294284&dateRange=custom&...
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Yes, declare personal bankruptcy at 22 when you have nothing. What’s the downside? Maybe the government should get out of the loan business and we can go back to complaining that people can’t afford college. People will have to choose cheap
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I like it. Rage, rage, rage against the system. Perhaps give it some thought about what would happen if housing prices nationally dropped 20-30%.
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Drones are the future of warfare so you are a little late to complain about drones being used for warfare. The race is well under way. “…used by both Russia and Ukraine for surveillance and for delivering bombs, goes for around US $2,000. Y
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Strange, it was exactly what I expected: “We may be on the cusp of an era of astonishing innovation” One of us must have developed a flawed model of the world in which we live. A lot of innovation starts off expensive then becomes much chea
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I reimplemented part of this, from the Python version, in Swift a couple years ago. https://github.com/melling/SimpleStatistics

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