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by npo9 7y ago
This is happening one country at a time. It happened to South Korea and a lesser extent Japan. It’s happening in India and China. We still have centuries of third world countries to exploit until they are fully developed.
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by npo9 7y ago
It’s also easy to imagine some combination of biotech and genetic engineering can make a biomass capable of being 5x-10x as capable of capturing carbon as your hydroponic basil. Most likely basil isn’t the most efficient “natural” biomass g
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by npo9 7y ago
This won’t work if your goal is to lower CO2 levels to below outside levels.
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by npo9 7y ago
Has anyone measured how big of an impact plants have on C02 levels in a room? I’d imagine it wouldn’t do much, but perhaps large amounts of other biomass might help.
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by npo9 7y ago
Imagine paying to have extra oxygen inserted into homes, schools, and offices. To offset CO2 levels. Or perhaps we will use CO2 scrubbers. This will further increase the division between the haves and have-nots because it puts a higher pric
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by npo9 7y ago
Alcohol can make people highly unpredictable and violent.
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by npo9 7y ago
Pollan, in the book, repeatedly stressed the importance of taking psychedelics in the presence of sober professionals. This is because a “bad trip” can not only be dangerous to the people around the user, but also very traumatic for the use
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by npo9 7y ago
We definitely standardize runtime and compiler versions across runtime environments and build servers and have planned upgrade paths with rollback options.
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by npo9 7y ago
I think it has the ability to do more once it is sufficiently miniaturized. Small to the point that it’s not much different than wearing eye glasses. Glasses can make a viral and sticky form factor that we already have centuries of experien
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by npo9 7y ago
It’s an obvious vertical integration play to make an operating system for the hardware you manufacturer. I’d like to see an AR/VR first OS/UI.
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by npo9 7y ago
Wouldn’t we? If Superdeterminism is correct than it wouldn’t be up to us if we continue to experiment. Maybe we are compelled to try to understand the world.
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by npo9 7y ago
In Superdeterminism the obvious line of research is to look for hidden variables when we find things that are seemingly probabilistic or random. If we found hidden variables to control when a radioactive isotope will decay we could possibly
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by npo9 7y ago
Points against charging extra for public transit during congested times. 1. It’s much better for someone traveling during congestion to use public transport than to use a private vehicle. 2. Traveling during congestion almost always is acco
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by npo9 7y ago
It tries to quantify how much better a mechanical keyboard needs to be before it is worth it, which is not much.
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by npo9 7y ago
It depends. Mechanical keyboards last for about a decade, probably more. During which time I’ll be at my main computer and typing about 20,000hours. So using a mechanical keyboard less than a penny an hour. So yeah, if something makes my
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by npo9 7y ago
Addiction is a disease of loneliness.
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by npo9 7y ago
Do you want to reduce drug addiction? Make the world a better place. Everyone suffers so much. Loneliness, depression and anxiety and becoming more prevalent. These are increased risk factors for addiction.
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by npo9 7y ago
It is unethical, but the entire article is designed to convince people LinkedIn is outdated. It’s written on a blog that has 0 other submissions to hacker news. It was obviously a fluff piece written by someone trying to disrupt profession
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by npo9 7y ago
Most of the jobs listed are centuries old not decades. Most of the jobs listed were before people started tracking things like unemployment.
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by npo9 7y ago
I’d describe Moore’s law drying up within the next decade as a 40% likelihood, and it would really hurt a lot of products and companies. For example, this might be the last video game console generation.
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by npo9 7y ago
I feel really comfortable being in that bucket. It’s a very large bucket.
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by npo9 7y ago
You don’t. Anything you need to do can be done via iCloud. Also the newest generation comes with a usb-c to lightening port.
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by npo9 7y ago
What if Moore’s law drys up in the next decade? What if quantum computers never ‘happen’? If those two things are true then Unix will still be around I believe. Just like Diesel engines are still around.
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by npo9 7y ago
This is a common framing borrowed by steroid use in athletics.
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by npo9 7y ago
A lot of the journals about positive effects on nicotine was sourced by tobacco companies in order to sell tobacco and has iffy science that hasn’t been reproduced. I wouldn’t bet my health on it.
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by npo9 7y ago
At first I thought “Isn’t copper really rare, surely there isn’t enough copper to plate all of the door knobs and other surfaces of the worlds hospitals.” As it turns out we’ve only mined 12% of known copper reserves and once mined copper s
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by npo9 7y ago
Discord has millions of users. Less than 1000 people are probably bothered at Google to fix the problem. My sympathies lie with Discord users. I’m sure it’s ruining a lot more weekend plans with them. I’ve both a discord user and someone
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by npo9 7y ago
This type of outage happens with all of the cloud providers from time to time.
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by npo9 7y ago
I have another way of dealing with road rage. I am overly empathetic and give everyone the benefit of the doubt. Someone cuts me off in traffic? Whoa, they must be in a hurry to take a risk like that. I wonder if they have a very importa
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by npo9 7y ago
OpenStreetMap data is very weak in many countries. It’s not an option if you are building applications for a global audience.

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