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by nend 6y ago
Maybe, but worth noting that both Vermont and Colorado (maybe more), have banned the use of salt on roadways due to environmental concerns. So to ops point, there are alternatives to using salt, even with near-freezing temperatures.
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by nend 6y ago
I always thought HN (or reddit, youtube, etc), with a Bayesian filter would be interesting. I'm sure there's a good amount of obscure content that doesn't get appreciated because it never reaches the people that would enjoy i
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by nend 6y ago
>To me, that entire industry seems geared towards grabbing fresh faced grads who are loaded up on dreams of making games, putting them in infinite crunch, and discarding them later when they are burned out. This is the way it's &quo
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by nend 6y ago
Well, if you want actual data, here's one (composite) metric. China performs poorly, compared to par/GDP here, similarly to India. Brazil meanwhile ranks better. https://epi.yale.edu/
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by nend 6y ago
>Folks like Muir prioritize nature for nature's sake. Not really. Muir argued that nature provided "spiritual nourishment" to people. Like I said in another comment, the argument was that nature was a public resource, so s
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by nend 6y ago
"Protecting nature" isn't just about not destroying ourselves though. It wasn't even the primary reason in the modern america nature movement (and by modern I mean starting with the John Muir/Teddy roosevelt era, wh
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by nend 6y ago
In addition, many smaller dams in New England were built to power mills, which are no longer operational. Despite no longer being needed and crumbling, the dams can't be removed until environmental impact studies can be completed, beca
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by nend 6y ago
Doesn't "retail investors" refer to any individual, non-professional, investor? Sounds like to me the SEC is warning any party involved in this, RH and WSB included.
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by nend 6y ago
>I thought fundamentals mattered. Turns out they don't right now. Fundamentals never matter "right now". Fundamentals are about long-term investing and growing money over time. Day trading is about speculation, not investi
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by nend 6y ago
>It was clearly taken over by folks intending to have it shut down because it did not look like that prior to this GME bet gaining media attention. That's one theory. Another would be that the gaining media attention caused an influ
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by nend 6y ago
Yes but there's a difference between being unable to study all ant species due to a lack of resources, and being uninterested in doing so. I expect we'll continue studying ant species with the goal of studying all of them we can (
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by nend 6y ago
>We may be a phenomenon as uninteresting to them as ants are to us; after all, when we’re walking down the sidewalk we rarely if ever examine every ant along our path. Not really the most convincing argument. There are professions that s
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by nend 6y ago
Blazor is still a bit rough around the edges but I find it so promising. I really hope Microsoft whole heartedly embraces it for front end development.
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by nend 6y ago
>Making software should not be about making the life of the developer as easy as possible, it should be about making things easy, small, and FAST for the user. Seems a bit presumptive to decide the requirements for every console app ever
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by nend 6y ago
The title seems wrong, as the article specifies: "our researchers identified dozens of different entities that own the Gateses’ assets" It doesn't seem to specify how much Bill and Melinda privately own, but it seems like the
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by nend 6y ago
That doesn't seem very misleading. The estimated temperature difference for every 1000 meters in additional elevation is only 5-6C.
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by nend 6y ago
Are you referring to me? I don't think any of that reflects my opinions.
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by nend 6y ago
>If this speech threatens democracy, peace, and safety, why hasn't it been made illegal by the government Because of the first amendment, and how the courts have very consistently interpreted to allow hate speech. >and how has th
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by nend 6y ago
>In either case, best this be settled in courts and legislation, not corporate meeting rooms that are echo chambers of opinion. I'm really confused by what your points is. You spend most of your post talking about how laws against h
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by nend 6y ago
That's typically the reason why I get into a debate.
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by nend 6y ago
>Who gets to define "hate"? I really dislike this argument. A lot of democratic countries have defined hate speech. In the US, individual companies define it and moderate it as they see fit. In other countries, their legislator
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by nend 6y ago
That's fine it works for you but it just shifts the burden off yourself by putting it on your coworkers. Unless it's specifically discussed and agreed upon for your role, that's rather unfair to the rest of the team.
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by nend 6y ago
>600M sounds like very very few doses given worldwide population and even western world population. Which is why people are so keen on getting more vaccines approved (in the US and abroad). Pfizer is targeting 1.3B doses manufactured in
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by nend 6y ago
Thank you. I can't really think of a worse way to read twitter than a long form story broken up in to 13 separate posts.
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by nend 6y ago
>I am not 100% committed to that being an impossibility, but I have yet to see any evidence to make me question the final outcome of the 2020 US election. Are you also 100% not committed to the 1969 moon landing being an impossibility? B
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by nend 6y ago
I find the new design horrendous if you're not signed in to an account. There's so many dark-patterns, it makes the site completely unusable. I suppose there's some metrics they optimize for that drove those decisions. When l
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by nend 6y ago
This same phenomenon is seen not just with work/leisure (with time being the limiting factor), but also with food/leisure (with money being the limiting factor). Studies show that people who are malnourished due to living in pover
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by nend 6y ago
This is a little off topic so apologies, but I was watching a documentary on nasa's project mercury last night, and one thing that struck me was how pro science the "america first" crowd was. Framing it as a competition for s
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by nend 6y ago
Agreed, I wasn't criticizing the study. I was criticizing OPs argument that people should simply "get busy running." Blaming individuals for a lack of success when the deck is stacked against them is likely to lead to more me
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by nend 6y ago
This is classic survival bias. You worked hard and succeeded, congrats. People work hard and don't succeed all the time. Their children don't deserve mental illness because of it.

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