richardjordan

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by richardjordan 13y ago
What nonsense. The KKK are directly linked to countless acts of physical intimidation, violence and murder perpetrated against the targets of their prejudice. Military units socialize over dinner, doesn't make them less lethal. I&#x2
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by richardjordan 13y ago
I'm interested in that too if there's an attempt to redo this again with some changes. My email is just username at pretty much any email provider.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
I loved the post but I agree that the energy infographic was a bad example to use because it's one of my favourite infographics. I have referred to versions of it often and find it very good at expressing some of the points I want to
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by richardjordan 13y ago
No it doesn't assume no innovation. It's based on the fact that wishing for a magical elixir which will replace our dwindling resources is just that - wishful thinking.
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That makes no sense. You can't just wish energy into existence with an idea. Efficiency gains aren't going to cut it with the energy consumption dynamics we have.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Of course we can. 90% of food production is based on fossil fuel inputs. Fossil fuels flow rates have plateaued and will move to decline. Because of the increased demand of population that decline will be rapid and increase quickly. Whe
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Those prices are merely a proxy for the complexity and resources necessary to go and mine off-world resources. We need a highly complex economic and manufacturing system to remain in place for a long period despite increased pressures of r
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I am not suggesting we don't do this. Just highlighting that radical life extension poses unique problems which are an order of magnitude more serious to think through than regular medicine advances.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
No they don't. Ideas don't replace energy. Once we run out of fossil fuel inputs to the system it's highly unlikely we can run things as we are doing.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Extended life is great, provided you solve the problems of over-population / birth rate exceeding death rate, and resource depletion. The carrying capacity of the planet is limited. Technology and ideas don't replace physics and
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6352061 As nobody else had submitted it that's what she presented. And yes, I'm the proud Dad so maybe a little biased.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Okay so I'm instantly biased given that this is my daughter, but I think that this is what our community should be about. A young person following her dreams and trying to build something, and put it out there for all to see. Given th
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Super Fun Kid Time (TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon)(techcrunch.com)
22 points by richardjordan 13y ago|4 comments
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Sysadmins have lots of access into systems. Governments routinely favor security theater over actual mechanisms to secure things. The US government has a strong cultural bias towards having outside contractors rather tha employees on the go
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by richardjordan 13y ago
This comes across as a lot of nonsense. There is little here to support the rather outrageous claims. The whole "Ed" thing is typical of folks of a certain political bent who think diminishing a person through disrespectul over-fa
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by richardjordan 13y ago
So the NSA has basically destroyed a business sector where the US had leadership. It may not be an immediate impact but this will clearly have an impact on US sellers of security products. Why would anyone trust one of them going forward?
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Anticlimax. The down side about a strategy like this is that it's very unlikely that you'll produce anything OTHER THAN an anticlimactic sense of meh.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
as someone who spent 7 years at boarding school, they're not synonymous with corporal punishment either - if you have parents with jobs that cause them to move a lot (military) it can provide stability and a great education... loved it
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Yeah that was weird.
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That Russia is issuing statements like this and we all know the truth underlying it is the problem. Regarding Bout. They don't say he's innocent. They say he got disproportionate sentencing and an unfair trial. That's certain
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by richardjordan 13y ago
So we've become the bad guys now I guess. It's always shocked me how little my fellow Americans appreciate the massive benefits they've gained from global good will over decades. Having grown up British in Cold War Europe an
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Well this is what you get for wanting to live in the cool city. I get that more and more startup activity has moved up from the valley to the city but you also get far more of the folks with money to burn who want to play entrepreneur who
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by richardjordan 13y ago
I think this has been expected since the Nokia Windows Phone bet. I suspect that this is not unrelated to the Ballmer departure. I'm not sure it does either company much good. If anything it looks to me like a panic move of two compani
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by richardjordan 13y ago
I know a lot of Hacker News readers haven't worked in a truly huge company but this kind of distopia feels me with despair. Big bureaucracies are should destroying.
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Expect bigger orgs(overcomingbias.com)
5 points by richardjordan 13y ago|1 comments
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The anger and bitterness that comes across in this post suggests that Facebook isn't the problem here.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
His comment didn't come across like that at all. He just pointed out that the bitterness and vitriol directed towards Facebook seems detached from the experience of folks who use it to keep in touch with family and friends quite happi
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I don't get the griping over having to share stuff with people you don't want to - current second ranked comment complaining about professional contacts. There's no law that says you have to Facebook friend people. I make it
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by richardjordan 13y ago
When gas/petrol goes to 2x what it is now it'll be on a journey that is very fast and shoots to 3x, 4x and beyond. This will cause huge economic shocks and there won't be the time then to start building electric cars.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Not to mention resource depletion and the peaking of flow rates in oil extraction.

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