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by nkurz 3y ago
The system is working as designed. All of your submitted links have been about the same company. You seem to be submitting them primarily to advertise this company, rather than out of any genuine intellectual curiosity. The one last week
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by nkurz 3y ago
I think you are interpreting your linked article wrong. The claimed "million times" is if you add up the effects of their investments. Individually (from flying, driving, houses, etc) it says the "average billionaire"
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by nkurz 3y ago
I suspect discussion may be off-topic for HN, but for anyone who wants to explore this on their own, here are some background links: Original by Uri Berliner: https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-tru
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by nkurz 3y ago
This is being tried in parts of the US as well. Here's a story from a few years ago about a ski resort in Vermont that is trying it: https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popov... It made me wond
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by nkurz 3y ago
Because in the US we already have laws that cap the fees on most debit cards: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/plain-language/bu... There's even a proposal to drop these fees even lower:
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by nkurz 3y ago
> It’s obviously a win for all involved or they wouldn’t be so popular. Why is it obvious that it's "a win for all involved", as opposed to some big powerful financial companies taking advantage of a bunch of less organize
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by nkurz 3y ago
An interesting article, but it doesn't sufficiently emphasize the lede: When you use a reward card, the merchant is charged a higher fee than if you used a "normal" card. Simply by putting a different branding on the plast
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by nkurz 3y ago
In case you are wondering how this works in practice, American butter typically comes in "sticks". Each stick weighs 1/4 pound, and is individually wrapped in foil or paper. These wrappers are typically marked in Tablespoon
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by nkurz 3y ago
I spent some time puzzling over what "winkle" might be a typo for before realizing it was a British verb I was unfamiliar with: "chiefly British : to displace, remove, or evict from a position" Apparently the etymology
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by nkurz 3y ago
I'd like to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the "Bayesian analysis" being used in this article. I'm referring to the long chart of probabilities that are multiplied together to give the final odds. The articl
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Wait, does America suddenly have a record number of bees?(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by nkurz 3y ago|2 comments
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https://archive.is/T9TgD
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by nkurz 3y ago
Thanks, I'll try to check it out. Full article here: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12914 At a quick skim, I'm not sure this contradicts what I'm saying. Yes, large tre
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by nkurz 3y ago
I know from your other comments that you are knowledgeable in these areas, so perhaps you could explain further? I could be wrong, or as I think might be the case, the situation might be different in different ecosystems. The Northeaster
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by nkurz 3y ago
Full PDF report: https://wildlandsandwoodlands.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03...
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New England Study Calls for Dramatic Increase in Sustainable Forestry(wildlandsandwoodlands.org)
3 points by nkurz 3y ago|1 comments
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by nkurz 3y ago
>> mature forest is generally close to carbon neutral. > Even the 19th century portions are filled with all manner of life / transpiration. Definitely. We own and live on a somewhat similar parcel in Vermont next to the Green
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by nkurz 3y ago
Not to discourage you, but mature forest is generally close to carbon neutral. It stores a reasonable amount of carbon, but usually isn't sequestering much more. For actually offsetting carbon, what you want is new growth. Typically
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by nkurz 3y ago
I also downloaded the report, and while I only skimmed it, I came to a similar conclusion. This doesn't mean that there isn't gender disparity of pay in tech, but it doesn't seem to be well supported by that particular repor
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by nkurz 3y ago
Your logic isn't exactly wrong, but I don't think it applies here. A woman in tech wants to have a discussion about a recent report saying that women in tech are paid less than men for equivalent work. Some people flag it to pre
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by nkurz 3y ago
> If power or internet goes out, wired VOIP phones won't work. Both the power and the internet have way worse reliability than the copper wire telephone where I live in a top 1% part of California. It doesn't quite contradict w
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Emission Impossible: Two climate reporters try to ditch natural gas(grist.org)
2 points by nkurz 3y ago|0 comments
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I wanted to know when pencil leads stopped by made of lead, and was surprised to learn that they never had been: Going back to an earlier point, when the graphite was discovered the English thought they had unearthed a lead deposit, a misu
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The history of lead pencils and their lack of any lead (2021)(pensunlimited.co.uk)
91 points by nkurz 3y ago|49 comments
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by nkurz 3y ago
You're a good poster, but you are hurting your cause by taking this approach. Take the advice of others and email Dan (hn@ycombinator.com) and make the case for why you think he should protect this post from flags. He'll probabl
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by nkurz 3y ago
While there is probably a bubble effect happening, he's right that younger generations seem more likely to travel abroad. Slightly over half of Americans under 30 have a current passport (essentially required for travel outside the US
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by nkurz 3y ago
You're usually a very accurate poster on legal matters, but this contradicts the linked article: SBF may serve as little as 12.5 years, if he gets all of the jailhouse credit available to him," Mitchell Epner, a former federal pr
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by nkurz 3y ago
Interesting. I hadn't been paying attention to this, but it seems accurate: https://caes.ucdavis.edu/news/feeding-cattle-seaweed-reduces... Yes, assuming the research is correct, this would seem like the sort of
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by nkurz 3y ago
> China and Russia are building the most reactors. Are there good estimates for the cost of nuclear power in China and Russia? The estimates we see for the US and Europe show it to be relatively expensive, but it seems likely that it mi
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by nkurz 3y ago
There are screenshots of the full comment thread here: https://old.reddit.com/r/berkeley/comments/1bitr75/another_d... Shewchuk's comment is on the third image.

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