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by samvher 7y ago
Do you mean that you don't expect the gains of investment to offset the losses from inflation? Because I would find that surprising. $3M is a lot, typically the rule of thumb is that you need 25 years worth of living expenses to be fin
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I also avoid pandas for simple stuff. But rather than using Excel I use dplyr and other R tidyverse packages. I think pandas is a little bit more powerful but I find R much easier to use (easier than Excel when you get used to it).
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Consuming more vs working less is totally within an individual's control though. Current productivity is amazing, even with a relatively average salary (let's say $50k) it's completely possible to spend only a third to half o
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by samvher 7y ago
Interesting to see that they're no longer only looking at oceans (which is a good thing I think - rivers seem much easier to clean up). Also a pretty elegant design. Looks very similar to Mr. Trash Wheel [0] though, I wonder to what ex
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The Ocean Cleanup unveils plan to address pollution in rivers(theoceancleanup.com)
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Except our last common ancestor with plants was single celled so we’re unlikely to share many multicellular behaviors. Commonalities will be sub-cellular.
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I agree that some of the problems that OTP solves can now be taken over by Docker/K8s if you modify your architecture a bit. I.e. if you only have a few processes running on BEAM it's likely you could replace them by a few contain
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by samvher 7y ago
I deploy the Erlang system I use at work using Docker and it's working very well for me. Like you say, it's not a zero-downtime relup but rather just replacing one app container by an updated one. It was a little bit tricky to get
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We find that the near-miss group naturally received significantly less NIH funding in the first five years following treatment, averaging $0.29 million less per person (Fig. 2d, t-test p-value < 0.05, Cohen’s d = 0.28), which is consist
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by samvher 7y ago
I'm not sure how you read that in my comment. Maybe you could, but I think in general regardless of the length of a life it makes most sense to have most of the investment phase in the first part of your life (although when science&#x2
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by samvher 7y ago
I think that's exactly the point that I'm trying to make. Most of the population ends up spending a much larger time of their life investing in skills and knowledge. So the total amount of knowledge in society would end up being f
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I imagine if you have a longer future to look forward to that also changes the incentives for investing in yourself. So not only would the people who invest in their futures be able to use their knowledge for longer, more people might inves
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by samvher 7y ago
In the Netherlands our main way of growing food is in greenhouses. It causes a lot of light pollution and I actually found it a quite disturbing sight when I flew over one of the greenhouse areas by night once (there are columns of light in
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by samvher 7y ago
Do you have a source to share on this?
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I'm interested in chatting and have emailed you earlier but never got a response. Our organisation (precisionag.org) also works in Kenya among other countries, we provide smallholder farmers with personalized agronomic advice over SMS
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by samvher 7y ago
It’a amazing how much more freedom of choice you get if you limit your spending to necessities. You can choose only jobs that you enjoy, work part time, take sabbaticals, save money/retire early... I honestly think reducing your standa
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by samvher 7y ago
driving yourself to the same location is generally worse for the environment Curious what this is based on, taking road construction, car ownership, etc into the calculation? Because as for fuel consumption clearly it depends - if you&#x2
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Unfortunately many of the offsetting strategies also require additional natural resources which puts more and more pressure on the whole system. It's also not really fair that access to resources then ends up determining how free you a
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by samvher 7y ago
I don't think this "you don't need to feel guilty if you're not a frequent flyer" narrative is useful at all. A flight uses between 2 and 6 liters of kerosine per 100 km for every passenger [1]. You travel around 80
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by samvher 7y ago
There are really many places in code where you really don't care about performance that much. And in that case conciseness/expressiveness/correctness can be extremely valuable. Also there are different aspects to performance,
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by samvher 7y ago
Interesting thought that I had not considered. But I'm also not sure I share your belief that the population density is more a result than a cause. The whole fact that adjusting the subway is very expensive suggests to me that there ne
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by samvher 7y ago
The next weakness might not be "as weak" though. Sure, many might start doing something else, but it will not be as profitable or as easy (otherwise they would be doing it already). The world won't suddenly be perfect but it
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They are two different mechanisms though, it could be that the swimming motion mechanism has a far smaller effect. Google tells me there are 360,000 sperm whales, that would make the combined effect of the swimming of all sperm whales simil
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There are actually people exploring this. I saw a documentary at one point about passive ocean pumps (using wave energy) transporting water from lower layers upwards to increase plankton growth. It seems the company Atmocean is doing things
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I hope you mean sailing yacht :)
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Scientists have made progress in terms of pinpointing exactly how much carbon whales keep out of the atmosphere; one study suggests that every year, sperm whales help sequester as much carbon as 694 acres of U.S. forests do. Another found
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by samvher 7y ago
I don't know you, but it doesn't sound like programming is the problem. 100-120k is objectively a lot of money and it sounds like you're comparing yourself to others who have shinier jobs and higher salaries. Maybe it would b
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by samvher 7y ago
Yeah mnesia is extremely clever and very fun to learn. Also being able to store basically any term without having to do conversions is very useful. I've found some practical aspects a bit painful though. It took me a while to figure ou
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Not sure if you're asking, but I'm not repeating someone else's rumor. I started the set-up I work with using hot loading (after all that is one of the things that attracts to Erlang) where I mean just reloading modules on th
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I did not downvote but possibly because the idea of "good" and "better" programming languages does not mean much. Different tools have different purposes. If you want to write a network driver for the Linux kernel C++ is

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