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I think the influence of religion is people who are religious have lower expectations for life and think having kids is enough. Most secular people think they ought to be rich first and then have kids.
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You will own nothing and be happy.
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If climate change is the motivation for the great energy transition, then China would build a lot of coal plants to prepare for running out of oil and an enormous need for new sources of electricity in order to expand electrification of tra
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The Permian Basin in Texas, which has provided most of the oil supply growth for the last decade, is starting to slowly decline from its peak. Let's say that climate change is a nice way to tell people that we're running out of o
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I don't like the thing because of small flaw x that negates overwhelming benefit to humanity y. No viable x will ever be acceptable to me because it will always have the capability to have flaw x. I will always focus on small negativ
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10 years from now: "GPT-12, write me a browser. Make it like the latest chrome, but make it not do this annoying thing. Build me a github site with full documentation. It should work on Mac, Linux and Windows and support all the lat
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DMSA, which is the treatment for lead poisoning, is cheap, can be taken orally and has a good safety profile. Shame that doctors are not more familiar with it.
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I mistakenly read that as "Kargo, a multi-stage .... lifestyle orchestrator" and thought, damn, that sounds interesting!
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I think this thread encapsulates the politicization of society, basically determining all credibility and worth based on who is on what political team. This reality has been causing a lot of problems with getting productive work done in th
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Has anyone asked Elon how to fix manufacturing in the U.S? Has he given anyone any ideas. The guy probably does as good or better job at manufacturing in the U.S than anyone else, and he has plenty of plants in foreign countries, so he ca
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Gotta pay for those underfunded public employee pensions somehow.
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Fuel cells also need expensive catalyst materials. Ammonia engines just burn the ammonia and turn it into water and nitrogen.
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Even crazier, they were saying it would be vastly cheaper and faster than air freight and would probably eliminate the need for most transoceanic air freight.
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For container ships, engines that burn hydrogen derived ammonia, are more viable than electric to power these ships because of the long distances and the cubic area that ammonia storage would take to travel those distances is dramatically l
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I was there and in it for a little while. The strangest thing was it was over 100 degrees for most of the night many nights. It's crazy going outside at night and it's extremely hot. When it's over 110, sitting outside in
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James Brown is also a legendary source of Hip Hop samples. For example, anyone who was listening to hip-hop music in the 80s will recognize this section: https://youtu.be/FmgJCFk_PIA?t=79
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It's interesting that the article spends a fair amount of space calling carbon capture an outright scam. If "climate change" is just a nice way to talk about running out of oil, that would be a way to tell. China is instal
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I was thinking one way the world ends because of AGI is that the strong AGI uses up all the earth's natural resources turning everything into drones to fight an endless drone war.
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Roadside picnic is so ridiculously melancholy. Everyone in that book is so depressed! I also don't think I've ever seen so much smoking and drinking in a sci-fi book. You could tell the brothers were really not enjoying communis
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Jules Verne is fun to read in this regard because the people who organized to go to the moon in "From Earth To The Moon" were simply part of a gun club that chose to fund the effort privately, not the government. It reflects how p
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I recently bought a full-size bluetooth keyboard with a slot on it for mounting tablets. It's must easier to type on then any portable mini-keyboard and totally worth it if you are going to write a book or code. I consider those litt
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It's weird how tape size just seems to increase steadilyin a smooth curve to roughly match whatever hard drives are doing. It makes me wonder sometimes if they had this tech all along, but it was better just to slow roll it out so the
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I kind of like flat earth because it uses all the bad argument techniques that people I can't criticize on HN without getting downvotes use. Thus, it provides a good example cases for most common bad arguments used in online debates,
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Attacking the source of the information is so common these days that most people mistake that for a good argument.
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Writing on a chalkboard is another situation where brevity is at a premium. There's limited space and the act of writing on it is slow and causes hand cramps if it's too verbose.
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I've gotten paid for working with APL code. Math professors who aren't great at typing love that stuff, but code has to be maintained and some mild verbosity, as python has, is a very reasonable price to pay for that maintainabili
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APL makes a lot of sense in the era of 110 baud teletypes in which it was invented. Brevity was of extreme importance in that era.
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Bringing it back to the original discussion, most of this thread is people hating on the idea that there are exceptional individuals who change the world. The dominant ideology in San Francisco is that everyone is totally equal in all aspe
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The problem here is you consider being a criminal, criminally insane or extremely high on drugs just "culture." You refuse to draw the line of social exclusion anywhere. There is no unacceptable behavior because it's all jus
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I have said for the last decade or so whenever IPV6 comes up on HN that IPV6 was way too big of an address space for anything but having some sort of unique identifier in there to support an online digital ID. Like some space for a hash of

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