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by nearbuy 7y ago
> Larry Page and Sergey Brin ... had designed their company's famously open culture to facilitate free thinking. Employees were “obligated to dissent” if they saw something they disagreed with, and they were encouraged to “bring the
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by nearbuy 7y ago
Nitpick: > I do not forget what Albert Einstein said: > If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. Einstein didn't say this, nor is it true. https://quoteinve
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by nearbuy 7y ago
In the example, the common shareholders didn't make a profit because the company didn't make a profit. Ignoring the bridge loan for a moment, after all their expenses, the company just managed to make back what was put in. The hyp
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by nearbuy 7y ago
You cut off the quote too early: > Again, let me emphasize, this is not inherently unfair. [...] The problem is most companies hide it. The author is saying it's not inherently unfair if the company is honest and upfront about it.
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by nearbuy 7y ago
Would they even need to attract foreigners? They have more people than all of North America and Europe combined.
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by nearbuy 7y ago
The flip side is every now and then a situation arises that requires machine reaction times or attentiveness. Waymo cars have driven over 10 million miles so far without any fatal accidents. That's not nearly enough miles to compare ag
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by nearbuy 7y ago
> the Chinese mindset is extremely subtle, resourceful, calculated, opportunistic, and oftentimes underhanded. This is dark and is the type of claim that could be applied to almost any group of people without evidence (i.e. the American
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by nearbuy 7y ago
Does that work with something like credit cards, where your old debt is paid off but you constantly have more new debt?
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by nearbuy 7y ago
Quebec. There are two main cultures here: francophone (the majority) and anglophone. Among francophone couples, about 80% aren't married. There's no real discernible difference here between an unmarried couple and a married one. T
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by nearbuy 7y ago
I'm guessing this is a religious view (Christian or Muslim maybe?). Where I'm from it's both common and normal for people to never marry their lifelong partner and even raise a family together.
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by nearbuy 7y ago
> It's not wealth and population, it's the use of fossil fuels It's all three. Our formula was emissions = (GDP/capita)(emissions/GDP)(pop). Reduce any of the three factors and emissions drop. Your phrasing is of
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by nearbuy 7y ago
It's shown in the article and it's not small at all. It's the 3rd largest group after parents and spouse. 24% live with a spouse and 17% with a partner.
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by nearbuy 7y ago
It should be easier to detect if they're reading it at the ends because they'd then have to retransmit the data to Facebook with a different key.
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by nearbuy 7y ago
Young adults are also more likely to have parents than spouses. This doesn't seem so surprising. The chart shows in 1968, about 80% of 26 year olds lived with a spouse. Today, even if every married 26 year old lived with their spouse,
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by nearbuy 7y ago
It seems like all the most accurate predictions were predictions of things that were already happening becoming more prevalent. The factory farms were one example. Increased automation and and use of computers proved correct, as did viewing
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by nearbuy 7y ago
It's strange to just dismiss the significance population after saying it increased our emissions 8x. An 8x decrease is far more than what the Paris Agreements call for to keep global warming under 1.5°C. We wouldn't even be talkin
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by nearbuy 7y ago
I've used calorie counting before, and I don't think it's hard to do - just a bit inconvenient. Having a little digital scale helps a lot. Measuring out the calories in a recipe can be a pain, but people tend to repeat the sa
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by nearbuy 7y ago
One piece of advice that won't change: maintaining a calorie deficit causes weight loss. It's a basic property of physics that the extra energy used has to come from somewhere if don't eat enough to cover it. Tracking your ca
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by nearbuy 7y ago
That's not really how it works. If Earth's gravity were 1.3% stronger, you'd need about 0.6% (√1.013) more delta-v to escape Earth, or about an extra 70m/s. That's not hard to achieve. Increasing the total mass to d
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by nearbuy 7y ago
Ah, that makes sense for the milk, and clears up how they're classifying ultraprocessed. Like you, I'm skeptical that this classification system is useful for determining healthiness. I can't see why you'd expect, for ex
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by nearbuy 7y ago
Why is whole milk considered ultraprocessed and skim milk considered unprocessed? Whole milk is literally what you would get if you didn't process milk. Why are canned corn and green beans ultraprocessed? They contain nothing but corn&
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by nearbuy 7y ago
The problem is they're selling you (for a TI-83+) an outdated 6 MHz Z80 processor for $100 when a modern 48 MHz ARM Cortex M0 with more memory only costs about $1. If the market was more competitive, graphing calculators would be about
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by nearbuy 7y ago
Unity is frustrating because the regular C# CLR (and Mono) have a much better generational GC with fast Gen 0 and Gen 1 collections. Unity's crappy GC is always slow.
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by nearbuy 7y ago
I really don't like the destruction of our environment, and we should protect it, but the idea that humans depend on bees (and even more so for wild bees) for survival is a complete myth. > The most essential staple food crops on th
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by nearbuy 7y ago
It's about a meter deep on average, but it's such a moot point to quibble over because it's too low by a factor of about 100,000. If it were 100 meters deep, we'd still have to answer the same question. Yes, the rainfore
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by nearbuy 7y ago
Then why mention oxygen? It's irrelevant. It's like advocating that people should only shoot people with non-lead bullets so the victims don't get lead poisoning. > If you destroy the forest then you will reduce the capaci
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by nearbuy 7y ago
1. The article explained this isn't true. Carbon dioxide is a problem. Oxygen depletion is not. Burning enough forests to decrease atmospheric oxygen by just 1% would increase CO2 by 5000%. We'd be dead long before we ran out of o
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by nearbuy 7y ago
Most of the soil is kilometers away from the nearest tributary. And it wouldn't explain why it washes away everything except for the last 1 meter of soil. Or why the organic matter wouldn't re-enter the food chain once it reached
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by nearbuy 7y ago
If fungus or aerobic bacteria eat it, then the Amazon doesn't produce surplus oxygen from it. Eating involves recombining the carbon with oxygen into CO2. The biomass of the Amazon is not, for the most part, sinking into very salty wat
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by nearbuy 7y ago
Then why is the soil layer in the Amazon only about a meter deep after millions of years of carbon sequestration? The rainforest photosynthesizes about 3 kg of carbon per square meter per year.

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