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by polote 5y ago
> Interesting opportunity to rethink the model of "make billions and THEN do good by giving it back" Well if you want to give back, you need to have something first. As heirs, Scott got money without really (deserving|working f
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by polote 5y ago
I doubt something like that can happen actually. Global warming is less obvious risk than an asteroid and still today most of the big economies start transitioning to greener energy. Not at a fast pace, but still a lot of work is being done
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by polote 5y ago
So basically you say, let's replace most of the energy sources by solar, wind and hydro. And use battery every time we need to get off the grid. As for storage for the grid, are we actually confident that we can transfer that quantity
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by polote 5y ago
Ok global warming is happening we know it for a long time. But is there a place somewhere that explain how could the world works without emitting too much co2, or any gaz which are problematic. How do we replace cars ? trucks ? how many peo
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by polote 5y ago
> Who still believes global warming does not exist? The same people who think there are more risks for old people to take the covid vaccine than to not take it. Not everyone is rational, and especially on climate change were acting means
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Ah get it. They don't want the password to login on github to be the same as the one you store on a text file. Makes sense. But it is still Baby-sitting
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This is stupid, they only had to request passwords longer than 15 characters and that would have an even better effect. As web access will be also safer. They do it to prevent password reuse, but still allow passwords on the web. I don&#x27
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by polote 5y ago
Honest question, imagine if at your company tomorrow they decide to fire one principal engineer. Would you find it fair that the one is you? Would yo find it fair if you were among the 10% they fire? The 20%? The 30%? I ask you that because
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by polote 5y ago
There is a big speed difference between lxml alone and lxml + bs4
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If they beat lxml it is pretty impressive. Too bad that they don't support xpath
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by polote 5y ago
Executing javascript and being to render a HTML page are completely different things. To render an HTML page you need a way to create a DOM, donwload all ressources, ... An Node gives you no advantage, as you have to use another lib for tha
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by polote 5y ago
BeautifulSoup is great if you don't care about the performance at all. Because it is painfully slooooooww. Lxml doesn't work well with broken html, but is an or two orders of magnitude faster for parsing, and same for querying wit
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by polote 5y ago
The candidates all mostly have the same program. Having the choice is an illusion. Trump is not doing what's right for his supporter, he is doing what companies who paid him ask. Biden is not doing what's right for his supporter,
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by polote 5y ago
> 40% of the public who see climate change as some kind of job destroying conspiracy. These people are not the ones who need to take action, so who cares? Policy makers are the ones who need to act, and they are already well aware for mo
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by polote 5y ago
The issue with Algolia is that they have insane technology but it is mostly used only to search documentation. They are struggling to sell their techno to people who need them deeply, for a lot of reasons. But one of them is that they are
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by polote 5y ago
> the results are okay but not great What results do you expect more than keywords search ranked by upvote on HN? I find it great honestly, it's fast and don't do magics
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That's what I meant by choice. I never said they made the choice to be unhappy. They just made the choice to be addicted. An addiction is not always something negative
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Of course you can't control an addiction, because your brain, or body is asking for it. But when you are aware that you are addict, there are ways to overcome it. The fact that you don't have the energy, or motivation or anything
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by polote 5y ago
To me, a lot of time addiction is a choice. I'm not saying all the time, but very often still. I've tried helping different people overcome an addiction, and even though at first they want to stop it, when they start to think more
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by polote 5y ago
Of course, if you were the ceo of Google and have something like that happen. You would ask your teams, what are the different scenarios we can explore? And one of them would be buying Epic. What people expect? Google is a for profit compan
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by polote 5y ago
It more or less made sense to require masks when people where unvaccinated. But now there is no reason to be OK to require masks either unless you are for mask wearing mandate for everything, everywhere, all the time
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This measure can't be a way to create "zero covid spaces" because people who are vaccinated can still transmit the virus (even though less than unvaccinated people, but it doesnt seem to be a 90% reduction either). So the goa
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by polote 5y ago
>Maybe the headline's a bit misleading Nah, a lot of people just don't read the articles before commenting, whether it is on HN or anywhere else
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The problem is that "how?" doesnt have any convincing answer. People who are GTDoners are not more motivated by the things they do than other people. The only difference is they do the work and spend the less time as possible thin
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by polote 5y ago
There is only one way to get things done [1]. It is just DO and stop thinking about it or how to do it. Todo apps will not help you get things done, they will only help you accumulate much more tasks that you can do. I mean how can some peo
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> likely more powerful than the vast majority of US cities, the vast majority of small countries Indeed there are not a lot of countries/cities that are wealthy/powerful enough to send people in space
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I also had a to pick a rich text editor to build a "better Confluence" [1]. Initially started with Quill, but Quill is really limited and for example can't support rich text inside tables, only simple text. So after some rese
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by polote 5y ago
If you don't promote it, how do you want people to discover it ? Long post do well on HN comparatively with other boards. [1] is exactly the kind of post that I include in my newsletter, but if it is not posted on HN, I can't see
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If you prefer something daily, you could check https://hnblogs.substack.com/
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"After Shapira and Plichta were caught by the remainder of the peloton the rest of the riders seemed to believe that they were racing amongst themselves for Gold, unaware that Kiesenhofer was still in front." Not saying she should

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