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901.
by melling 4y ago
No one said we need unlimited exponential growth.
902.
by melling 4y ago
Looks good right now. LA still vies for the worst air pollution in the country. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution_in_the_United_... https://www.lung.org/research/sota/city-rankings
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by melling 4y ago
Is that why the air is so bad in Mexico City and Los Angeles? Remember during Covid when the sky’s turned blue in LA? You’ve got to be careful on the Internet, people sort of just make it up as they go. http://publichealth.lacoun
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by melling 4y ago
Of course there will be by 2030. People still don’t understand technology curves? https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/8547/teslas-vehicle-deliv...
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by melling 4y ago
Hey, you are your generation’s: “People that don’t smoke get cancer too” That’s what people used to tell me 40 years ago. Yes, bad things can still happen to you even if you take care of yourself. On average though, people will be much hea
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by melling 4y ago
There’s quite a large variation in human life span and health. Some people can run marathons at 100. https://people.com/sports/100-year-old-runner-holds-world-re... https://asiana.tv/top-stories/th
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by melling 4y ago
$2 million year is a bargain for a body that’s 10 years younger. Over a lifetime that’s way less than the price of a billionaire’s yacht. https://robbreport.com/motors/marine/jeff-bezos-megayacht-mo... Sign up eve
908.
by melling 4y ago
I’ve got a version in LaTeX and Word. Perhaps “from scratch“ is a bit of work but LaTeX is fine if you find a template.
909.
by melling 4y ago
How much money was spent on updating code that was written in Python 2, after end-of-life was first announced?
910.
by melling 4y ago
According to Wikipedia Nucor didn’t enter the steel business until 1968 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucor
911.
by melling 4y ago
NOPE, THAT WOULD BE WRONG! In fact, even Exxon had good models 50 years ago https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/12/business/exxon-climate-mo... Remember, when people like yourself couldn’t imagine how 1
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by melling 4y ago
We aren’t trying to cool the planet, we are trying to prevent it from warming by not increasing greenhouse gases. This has been discussed for about 5 decades. After 50 years, I’m not sure why we aren’t discussing the same issue.
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by melling 4y ago
I was surprised to hear Bill Gates say it’s already too late to restrict the temperature increase to 1.5 C https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/01/13/bill-gates-we-will-overs...
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by melling 4y ago
Could you elaborate? People explained that we weren’t in a recession because the loosely defined definition of 2 consecutive quarters still had low unemployment. Now GDP is positive again and unemployment is still low. https://w
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by melling 4y ago
Well, I wouldn’t say it’s a recent concern. Nixon started the EPA in 1970. Historically, there have been issues with coal and air quality. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London Now that we have 8 billion
916.
by melling 4y ago
Yeah, people have been making the argument about inefficient software for about 4 decades now. I remember a decade ago buying a 16GB Mac Book Pro, and listening to people complain that 8GB wasn’t enough, so I’m not sure what world 4GB was e
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by melling 4y ago
Someone should compare the price drops in RAM. Prices dropped quickly back then. More recently, I bought a 16GB MacBook Pro in 2013. 10 years later I would expect my next to be 64GB.
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by melling 4y ago
Lotteries are tax. They aren’t a social good.
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by melling 4y ago
While much more efficient, I believe freight trains are close to 100% capacity.
920.
by melling 4y ago
And Sagan knew coal usage would be a big problem, and yet it’s still a huge problem almost 40 years later. People wouldn’t know if coal power plants disappeared tomorrow, replaced by any other form of electricity
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by melling 4y ago
That’s not a problem, it’s the key to curing cancers, according to Craig Venter @15:40 early detection is the way to eliminate cancer: https://youtu.be/iUqgTYbkHP8 https://youtu.be/iUqgTYbkHP8?t=15m37s The
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by melling 4y ago
Diesel emissions are not particularly good for one’s health. https://www.epa.gov/dera/learn-about-impacts-diesel-exhaust-...
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by melling 4y ago
2.5%. That’s something like 100,000 flights a day, every day of the year. https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-aviation Coal powerplants account for 20% of emissions. Those can be replaced immediately and no one wo
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by melling 4y ago
How many times have solar and wind proponents been told this? It never seems to sink in. We’ve been waiting decades to replace all the coal power plants. 30 years of “it takes too long to build nuclear power plants” and “solar is almost rea
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by melling 4y ago
That brings up the other natural user interface that's missing, which is gesture recognition. https://atap.google.com/soli/ I suppose it'll take another generation before people start to wonder why everyone u
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by melling 4y ago
I also get annoyed at correcting voice errors. Wish it was better. However, I don’t find it cringy. Seems like that would be a more natural interface. It would make mobile devices more productive, for example. Hang out in a park and write,
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by melling 4y ago
Over the past decade there have been some interesting discussions about Plover on HN https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... The video in the first result was good: https://you
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by melling 4y ago
My logic says start with the biggest issues, and the low hanging fruit. Isn’t that the way it’s usually done? “Let’s get everyone in the world to ride a bicycle” What sort of solution is this?
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by melling 4y ago
Once again… It accomplishes next to nothing. And we certainly don’t want people driving 1000 miles instead of flying If the electricity comes from coal or nuclear, no one would know the difference, except for the cleaner air
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by melling 4y ago
100,000 flights every day of the year globally emit 2% of emissions. I’m not sure why everyone talks about flying. It’s a rounding error. I never realized South Africa was such a big emitter of CO2. It only has 15 coal power plants? http

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