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by oatmeal1 9d ago
The difference between you and Amazon is hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations and lobbying. Amazon certainly has the political connections to make defense of its datacenters a national security priority of the strongest m
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by oatmeal1 9d ago
Excluding war as force majeure in the Middle East is the same as excluding high tide as force majeure building a sandcastle at low tide.
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by oatmeal1 11d ago
Braess's/Pigou's Paradox that more car lanes cause more traffic was found in the 1920's. We massively overbuilt for the car regardless and keep getting worse traffic to this day.
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by oatmeal1 14d ago
What democratically established laws? This is America. Policy is determined 95% by monied interests over the preference of voters at large.
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by oatmeal1 16d ago
There are compromises to any proportion decision. A tall rectangle is much more natural to hold than a fat rectangle, especially at the size of this device. The user also has to relearn the location of on screen buttons that have always h
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by oatmeal1 22d ago
High density development leaving as much pristine nature as possible is vastly superior to sprawl for the environment, but the comment you replied to didn't seem to describe a density issue.
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by oatmeal1 22d ago
There's more food, less energy wasted fighting excessively strong current, and more places to hide from predators. Water quality goes up downstream of a beaver(-ish) dam.
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Marijuana Legalization Didn't Fill Emergency Rooms with Stoned Drivers(reason.com)
16 points by oatmeal1 29d ago|3 comments
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by oatmeal1 29d ago
Then get off HN.
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by oatmeal1 29d ago
It's not unusual that the "shadow docket" orders have limited briefings when the extent of the ruling/order is usually procedural, as opposed to ruling on the merits of the case. It should be noted any justice can write
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by oatmeal1 1mo ago
Ecocide should be taken as seriously as homicide.
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by oatmeal1 2mo ago
I haven't seen any claim that it was isolated to one ethnic group. I have only seen the claim that it was disproportionately immigrants of Pakistani background.
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by oatmeal1 2mo ago
I find the idea of planting trees ironic. It would seem to me the better aim would be identifying the issue as to why native plants are not already reproducing successfully, and then fix it. Plants are quite good at reproducing themselves
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Why America Won't Copy Sweden's Cheap Highway Fix That Saves Lives [video](youtube.com)
2 points by oatmeal1 2mo ago|0 comments
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by oatmeal1 2mo ago
> There's still a need for growth in just traditional datacenters hosting things like your email and Netflix, not just AI, and those projects are going to get swallowed up in the AI hubbub Growth in almost any datacenters is not wor
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by oatmeal1 2mo ago
> But people who hate on cars don't want to hear the truth A tad heavy on the rhetoric, wouldn't you say?
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by oatmeal1 2mo ago
Subsidies for using non-car transit would make more sense (health benefits in addition to safety and savings). >I assume the 18-tonne lorries that move most of the world’s goods would be exempt, too, or would you pass that cost on to con
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by oatmeal1 2mo ago
We need a pigouvian tax based on vehicle weight to address the increased deaths due to noise pollution, collisions, and increased wear to roads.
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by oatmeal1 2mo ago
They didn't think it was a bad idea because they don't have a sense of right and wrong. If something is potentially profitable and technically legal they will do it. This is what YC screens for.
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by oatmeal1 2mo ago
Curing all cancer would be bad for the world, because 90% of those cancer kills are old people.
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by oatmeal1 2mo ago
Dunning Kruger effect at work.
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by oatmeal1 2mo ago
Not quite, but big pharma promotes preventive screening in excess of what is justified. They don't care if false positives create stress and unnecessary, dangerous procedures that eliminate the benefit of screening. They just want to
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by oatmeal1 2mo ago
Live Nation needs to get the guillotine. The monopoly will find other ways of extracting value if you try to fix one problem created by it at a time.
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by oatmeal1 3mo ago
Yeah, it is cool, but this article is not HN appropriate.
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by oatmeal1 3mo ago
If they pay an appropriate tax for light pollution affecting telescopes on earth, I'm all for it.
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by oatmeal1 3mo ago
We pulled out of the JCPOA. It worked but we quit.
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by oatmeal1 3mo ago
The next revolution is zoning reform so it's legal to build shopping people want to do within walking distance of where they live.
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by oatmeal1 3mo ago
> But in general, should this bill become law in Michigan, an employer could not require an employee to access or respond to work-related matters outside of their assigned hours... Violations could be reported to the state's Departm
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by oatmeal1 3mo ago
In general yes, but a datacenter is to many people a categorically different kind of development because they oppose AI companies. The first datacenter should trigger a lengthy discussion and create rules that apply to all further datacent
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by oatmeal1 3mo ago
Heat related deaths predominantly kill the elderly. That may save lives overall because of their voting behavior leading to more deaths.

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