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by pkdpic 4y ago
That's a really excellent point about existing car battery recycling / safe disposal. Imperfect as I'm sure it is. Concrete precedent though.
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by pkdpic 4y ago
> Melanoma? True, the sun worshippers had a higher incidence of it—but they were eight times less likely to die from it. > Over the 20 years of the study, sun avoiders were twice as likely to die as sun worshippers. > Avoidance of
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Agreed if you mean WE as a hypothetical union of all individual humans and human institutions. But all of this makes a lot more sense to me if you distinguish between individuals and institutions. Institutions (companies / governments
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Yeah, I dont know if its pointless to get in early (as if now is really early) given the subsidies in some areas. And it does seem realistic to become an energy independent home for not that much investment which 10 year old me still cant b
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by pkdpic 4y ago
> The structure ensures that individuals within the working class choose individualized forms of resistance over collective ones. :thought-provoking-emoji: Very readable / pretty UI / makes me wana think hard about stuff Im too
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by pkdpic 4y ago
I don't know if I really feel like there's anything wrong with the web. Sure its harder to make slick looking needlessly infinitely scalable socially addictive platforms, but nothing has undermined the ease of writing an html page
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Ask HN: What should I read next?
1 points by pkdpic 4y ago|0 comments
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by pkdpic 4y ago
The Ministry for the Future
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Thats a really interesting thought. I would guess there're are a lot of untapped ideas from the early 20th / 19th century that deserve reevaluation / resurrection. Like drinking more. I'm experimenting with that one. I&#
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Ask HN: What should I read next?
7 points by pkdpic 4y ago|8 comments
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by pkdpic 4y ago
No idea what the deal is with this site, it seemed intriguing but found this on their articles index. Probably should read it before making any judgments but... its mothers day, who has the time? > The Taliban Were Afghanistan’s Real Mod
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Its probably just me but I guess I teach web dev professionally so I might as well say that I was really excited to see something like this for free from Microsoft but confused to see so much time spent on a canvas app and backend functiona
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Thats such a good idea. Or just a youtube channel where people walk dow the street like that and perform basic errands / tasks. Driving would be interesting too.
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Really glad people pointed out the front / back yard thing. Our place is like 1916 so yeah...
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Yeah we've definitely got the paint thing to test too :/
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Yeah our house is like 1916 I think and close to a super busy road. I wouldn't have thought about the other side being safer though. Im definitely going to test both.
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Thank you so much I wouldn't have thought about looking into a county / city provided kit!
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Fantastic! Thank you for the tip on the university kit : )
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Oh thats a super good point, I wouldn't have thought about that.
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Ask HN: Should I test my garden for lead?
19 points by pkdpic 4y ago|21 comments
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by pkdpic 4y ago
> Yetish describes a typical evening with the Tsimane: After spending the day working on various tasks, a group comes together around a fire while food is cooked. They share a meal, then linger by the fire in the dark. Children and mothe
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by pkdpic 4y ago
This is excellent! And super fun to play. Really nice work! : )
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by pkdpic 4y ago
well put for sure
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by pkdpic 4y ago
the best one ;^)
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by pkdpic 4y ago
definitely, my best friend cant stand it and another engineer mentor friend has suffered really legitimately from it, but honestly its a good reminder, and a privilege check on being in a relationship and living in a walkable mixed-zoning a
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Ive worked for a coding bootcamp since before covid. We used to be in person only and Ive gotten to see the ups and downs of the full-remote transition for at this point hundreds of jr devs entering the field. Long story short everything I
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by pkdpic 4y ago
I heard somewhere that RSS is actually more popular than it's ever been because its used under the surface for apple podcasts. Not sure if thats true but it sounds true so maybe it's true. PS I love RSS, it plays by Tim BL's
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Finally, our species can take more selfies! Sometimes I think my favorite part of the future / present / whatever is how dystopian and utopian it is at the same time with stuff like this. I sincerely love and hate everything about
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by pkdpic 4y ago
I like that analogy but I'm realizing I have no real understanding of if people saw the yellow pages as a problematic monopoly in any way. I'm sure no where near where facebook is with negative perception but it seems like small b
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by pkdpic 4y ago
I went to a bootcamp for 6 months for less than $20,000.

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