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by melling 4y ago
It’s called “Dog Fooding” https://www.techopedia.com/definition/30784/dogfooding
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by melling 4y ago
Makes the space station or going to the moon in the 1960’s look cheap. https://www.yahoo.com/video/cost-travel-moon-mars-beyond-200... With that kind of money, we could have cured a few cancers, cured Alzheimer’s, solv
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by melling 4y ago
I have no idea and I don’t care. What people should realize is that the discussion is a complete waste of time. Furthermore, no one here will be showing up to say they were wrong if it does happen in one form or another. Remember when Apple
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by melling 4y ago
Don’t burn all that coal for decade after decade. It’s 20% of greenhouse emissions. If instead we are going to rely on miracles, maybe we should further develop AI to work on these miracles. It’s sort of irrelevant how good ChatGPT is, the
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by melling 4y ago
How dangerous are the current nuclear plants? Also, it appears that you are lying through omission: “The basic plan calls for building next-generation nuclear reactors to replace decommissioned ones within the premises of the nuclear plants
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by melling 4y ago
The fear of tsunamis hitting nuclear plants in Germany seems remote. How do Germans feel about all those nuclear power plants next door in France? Does anyone have any fear of the health effects of burning coal decade after decade?
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by melling 4y ago
Ousterhout developed RSI in the mid 1990’s and started programming with Dragon Dictate. https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/wrist.php About 15 years later, Tavis Rudd developed his system to program by voice.
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by melling 4y ago
Steve Jobs and Apple were a fan of small teams… https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/leading-apple-with/9781... But some people still have this belief that 9 women can make a baby in a month.
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by melling 4y ago
I’m pretty sure everyone understands you can’t compare the price drops of electronics with durable goods. Are cars cheaper today? How about all that construction equipment the Caterpillar sells? Are the price of tanks and jets getting chea
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by melling 4y ago
Must have its own terminology? “What about this related or unrelated other thing? Isn’t that important?” People waste incredible amounts of time making these sorts of comparison complaints. “Sending all this money to protect Ukraine. What a
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by melling 4y ago
Whataboutism really needs to come to an end.
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by melling 4y ago
Article’s headline says he died at 94. Quite a prolific person. A couple songs we’ve all heard that he wrote: - Do You Know The Way To San Jose - Dionne Warwick - Rain Drops Keep Falling on my Head More info: https://en.m.wikiped
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by melling 4y ago
“And ML is a much more popular topic than finance.” Well, clearly that’s not true, unless you have a very narrow definition of finance.
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by melling 4y ago
Great. It won’t make a bit of difference! My hope is that we can soon start applying math to the problem of climate change. For example, We have something like 8500 coal power plants generating electricity in the world. They emit 20% of th
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by melling 4y ago
“Somewhere between 10 to 15% of computer professionals suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome” Sounds a little high. If the number was this high, we would hear about it more often. This Tavis Rudd video is almost 10 years old. Still no general
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by melling 4y ago
He did the “exact opposite“? Can someone expand on this? He said he would rather pay $1000…. Was he advocating one thing then did another? I don’t see, at least in this story, where he was advocating anything.
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by melling 4y ago
Lex is going for a larger audience. He knows what attracts more clicks. He’s drawing in an audience on a very hot topic.
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by melling 4y ago
Strange, only 8 days ago I was told this on HN “Most emissions from modern vehicles these days comes from things like tire dust rather than tailpipe. What would be best for local street level pollution would probably be something like a lig
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by melling 4y ago
The weapon’s range is 100 miles. Which large sections of Russian could they reach at this point? Also, what is within reach of 100 miles of the Ukrainian border, assuming at some point it’s reached again?
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by melling 4y ago
It feels like only 3 months ago I was repeatedly trying to convince HN readers that Meta was a great investment opportunity at a P/E of 9. In fact, it was…: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33572187 Markets aren’t
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by melling 4y ago
Coal power plants are currently generating 20% emissions, and I imagine that’s a decrease. So, over the past 50 years, … If we made it go away 50 years ago, … But hey, let’s keep talking about aviation
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by melling 4y ago
Commercial flights are a rounding error. Why even bring them up? one year of coal power plants is about 10 years of all aviation
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by melling 4y ago
We squandered half a century. If we acted then we would be talking about getting to net zero by 2125, instead of 2050, in order to prevent major climate change. Instead, it’s already too late to prevent 1.5C. https://amp.theguard
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by melling 4y ago
8 of the past 10 years have been a drought? https://universe.byu.edu/2023/01/26/historic-snowfall-is-a-s...
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by melling 4y ago
Yes, it was obvious a couple of months into the war. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30777097 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31842578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30626765
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by melling 4y ago
“Their 360-degree rearview cameras may malfunction and display a blue screen that impacts the ability of a driver to see behind them.”
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by melling 4y ago
Shouldn’t WFH be reflected in US oil consumption? https://www.statista.com/statistics/282716/oil-consumption-i...
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by melling 4y ago
As I stated 6 years ago, we aren’t likely to “cure death” anytime soon. So, rather than run into the weeds and wax philosophical, maybe we can give it a good effort “Finally, let’s not delude ourselves into thinking that death is going to b
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by melling 4y ago
Hey, 6 years ago I wrote a blog to address the need to waste hours having such a discussion. It’s a form of bike shedding. Immortality is a really hard problem so we kill time playing “what if” https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2
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by melling 4y ago
Found this FT article with some additional information The paywall let me through so hopefully others can also view: https://www.ft.com/content/649b0446-698c-4363-82ad-0be5b5faa...

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