rmah

11 ms·

121.
by rmah 2y ago
How do you know they didn't stop to ask if they should? And concluded after, detailed and deep study, that yes, they should. Perhaps they (or someone else) already did studies of the impact of blocking rivers partially or totally? A
122.
by rmah 2y ago
Are those rivers, by any chance, the rivers along which most people live? Weird that.
123.
by rmah 2y ago
No, that's not why. It's because models are not reality, they are a (mathematical) description of reality. And descriptions rarely perfectly match reality.
124.
by rmah 2y ago
Relative to all oceangoing vessels, there are no large sailing vessels.
125.
by rmah 2y ago
At end of life, cargo ships are cut up into scrap steel. That scrap is then melted down and re-used to make new steel. I strongly suspect that, if you take into account the energy used to manufacture the ship, sailboats will turn out to ha
126.
by rmah 2y ago
Given that every commenter eventually leaves a discussion after reading/replying to some post, doesn't that mean that a that what they're actually measuring is how long discussions are?
127.
by rmah 3y ago
Something is very wrong with your iPad storage. My Apple Music (also mostly unused) takes up a grand total of 28 MB, of which 23.5 MB is the app.
128.
by rmah 3y ago
You're mixing up percent that succeed (a statistic) with percent chance of success (a probability). IOW, the fact that 1% of businesses succeed does not mean that a particular business has a 1% chance of success. The reason is that b
129.
by rmah 3y ago
> The standard way of getting "rich" is to get into a good career that > pays a lot. Before Silicon Valley, people got "rich" by working at > Wall Street, law or Congress I'm afraid this isn't re
130.
by rmah 3y ago
Their competition is the enterprise hardware divisions of HP, Dell, and IBM. SuperMicro makes reasonably good quality, lower-cost server equipment. They are, IMO, a pretty good value if you don't want high-end support from the hardw
131.
by rmah 3y ago
The title of the article, is, of course, just click-bait. And the author of the story could only make Chen (the subject of the story) an offer because they had others on staff who could be tasked to train him and/or cover the gaps in
132.
by rmah 3y ago
While I certainly don't condone the way the English state put down the Luddites, if it had not, it's quite possible that England would not have led the way in industrialization. And that spurred other nations to push too or be le
133.
by rmah 3y ago
In fairness, everyone has been doing it to each other for millennia.
134.
by rmah 3y ago
It seems pretty clear to me that the author means "has meaning" means "is important".
135.
by rmah 3y ago
I can't even tell what that gadget is for. I can't tell what it does. There is nothing about what it can do for me (or anyone for that matter).
136.
by rmah 3y ago
If there's no way back, then why bother with painful mitigation efforts? But seriously, this sort of "it's over, there's only doom ahead" is, IMO, counterproductive and hurts the efforts to help the environment more
137.
by rmah 3y ago
It's interesting how Europe-Asia interconnects are so small relative to US-Asia and US-Europe.
138.
by rmah 3y ago
Civilization to early man was not global, it was local. And yes, the Chinese myth you mention doesn't include a guy saving animals on a boat. But the indian Manu and Matsya myth does. As does the Ziusudra myth and the Gilgamesh floo
139.
by rmah 3y ago
Did the rest of Asia not realize they existed?
140.
by rmah 3y ago
There's no need to go searching for the "real" Noah and an "actual" flood in the distant past. It seems that most early civilizations that developed on alluvial flood plains come up with flood myths that explain
141.
by rmah 3y ago
Universities could afford to pay more if they redirect funds from paying for "administrator" to paying for instructors and researchers. Or diverting funds from beautification projects. Or from the mass of consulting firms they h
142.
by rmah 3y ago
Indeed. I'm sure a reasonable case can be made to oppose Andressen's screed. But this author doesn't make one. The entire article can be summed up as: I disagree, and Andreessen is a poo poo head! It's sorta ironic t
143.
by rmah 3y ago
People have been complaining on HN that "houses are too expensive to buy" almost since it started 15 years ago. Yet 65% of Americans currently own their own homes. This is not as high as the peak in 2005 of 69%, but higher than
144.
by rmah 3y ago
Um, mass quarantines of healthy people is not unprecedented. It was, in fact quite common through history when outbreaks seemed to be getting out of control. First they'd quarantine families. Then neighborhoods. Then entire cities.
145.
by rmah 3y ago
This graph will make things a bit clearer... https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/food-expenditure-vs-gdp
146.
by rmah 3y ago
$70 mil is not what IBM would consider a large contract. Certainly not large enough to risk actions like kickbacks. Now if it was $700mil, then maybe.
147.
by rmah 3y ago
In fairness, that system wasn't designed to increase the # of skilled workers in the US, it was designed to propagate and spread "American values" overseas. A half century ago, the idea was that you bring a lot of the best an
148.
by rmah 3y ago
"It's incredible that the figure is so high"... lol, 20% seems incredibly low to me. The "study"'s authors must have a really low quality bar for what a malfunction or delay is.
149.
by rmah 3y ago
The author asks "Is loss of human life really necessary to innovation?" The answer is: yes. In fact the loss of human life is really necessary to the simple continued existence of civilization (at pretty much every level). This
150.
by rmah 3y ago
But they're not actually enforcing existing legislation, per se. One of the major issues wrt crypto in the US is that the SEC won't tell you what's legal or not. Seriously, when companies ask them "is doing XYZ ok?&quo

More ›