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by melling 4y ago
Something grating going on with him. I think it might be the way he tries to make it sound exciting for a general audience.
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by melling 4y ago
Have you considered that replacing a billion cars will take a couple decades, and it’s really not important that the grid is ready at the beginning. I’ve been having this discussion for a decade. The “do you know where the electricity comes
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by melling 4y ago
So will all the coal we’re burning globally. I thought it was a given that 1.5 wasn’t going to happen. We waited too long. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/01/13/bill-gates-we-will-overs...
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by melling 4y ago
Not sure why it matters. Sharing desks and saving money will encourage companies to continue WFH. People not driving to work has so many pluses.
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by melling 4y ago
This must be the original story picked up by others? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/us/whiskey-fungus-jack-da...
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by melling 4y ago
We have a few friends and family in their 90’s but I thought it better to stick with people everyone knows
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by melling 4y ago
100 doesn’t sound extremely optimistic. Jimmy Carter is 98. Kissinger is 100. Munger is 99. Buffett is 92, Dick Van Dyke is 97, Mel Brooks is 96,… The body can last well into the late 90’s. It’s probably just a matter of treating people wh
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by melling 4y ago
There’s no science that says that. Talk like this only gives fuel to climate change deniers.
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by melling 4y ago
Fox News Alert! Politics does not belong on HN
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by melling 4y ago
Microsoft bought Access, PowerPoint, Flight Simulator, Skype, GitHub, LinkedIn, etc That’s part of the game…
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by melling 4y ago
Not me. Climate change deniers favorite line is “the climate is always changing“ I patiently explain it changing over 200 years vs 5,000 years. We discuss the climate during the time of the dinosaurs. Then after an hour, we start over again
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by melling 4y ago
I imagine that simply lowering the dose over a few weeks before quitting might help with the headaches, for anyone else who decides to give up caffeine.
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by melling 4y ago
I don’t remember that one. People love to reach for the dystopian future point of view. I do remember 20 years ago the ad nauseam complaints about tracking cell phones. Then 7-8 years ago we had the complaints about Amazon Alexa. I’m simply
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by melling 4y ago
Sounds good. Let’s get the technology over the finish line. The future is behind schedule.
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by melling 4y ago
Which stated intentions? They initially claimed they weren’t going into Ukraine.
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by melling 4y ago
For the same reason people say “anyways” instead of “anyway”, they grew up hearing it spoken that way. When I was in college a few people pointed out my bad grammatical speaking habits. It requires focus to undo what one has spent years say
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by melling 4y ago
Didn’t most people expect Russian to easily take Ukraine? They are several times bigger, larger military, etc.
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by melling 4y ago
Every human requires the same energy, 20+ years, and training. The trained computer model can be duplicated and used, requiring much less energy. None of this matters to me, though. The goal is to build better models. We can worry about the
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by melling 4y ago
Well, we do have this: “It’s pretty well-established that PFAS are toxic to the adaptive immune system” Certainly the idea of “forever chemicals” seems like a bad idea. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/
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by melling 4y ago
I've been studying MIT's OCW for Probability with a partner. It's a great course. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-041sc-probabilistic-systems-an... We're 4 months in and on Lecture 15. These do take
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by melling 4y ago
This really isn't a HN story. However, the American consumer funding both sides on the war on drugs for half a century seems a bit insane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs
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by melling 4y ago
Yes, I’ve been preloading Google Maps before trips for years because I never know if I’m going to pay for service while on vacation.
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by melling 4y ago
“His four-year tenure is said to be a mishmash of screw-ups, from high energy prices and even higher inflation to low economic growth and a very public, very embarrassing hostage rescue attempt in Iran.” We never have more than a superficia
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by melling 4y ago
Nope, if that was the case, people wouldn’t go around closing questions because you didn’t “try hard enough before asking” I used to ask “interesting” questions to build that quality knowledge base, usually in less popular topics. At one po
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by melling 4y ago
Compare the improvements in tanks and planes from WWI to WW2, a period of 25 years. The same thing is about to happen with robotic tanks, jets, drones, etc.
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by melling 4y ago
Tensorflow is written in C++.
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by melling 4y ago
He had a bunch of 2019 predictions: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NcGBmDEe5qXB7dFBF/assessing-...
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by melling 4y ago
Maybe the United States got it wrong? Someone else should evaluate the situation.
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by melling 4y ago
Can someone please adjust for inflation and put things in context.
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by melling 4y ago
“Between 1896 and 2021, winters in Massachusetts have warmed by 4.5 degrees” How much has it changed since Carl Sagan addressed Congress in 1985? https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI He told us that coal would be a big problem, and

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