sky-kedge0749

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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
We can probably feed everyone given expected population growth through 2050 with a lot of work, unless there is some huge disaster: https://www.wri.org/insights/how-sustainably-feed-10-billion... . Item 4 talks about en
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
People don't talk about world population because population growth is mainly happening in the developing world where environmental damage is small per capita compared to the developed world, particularly the U.S. The environmental bene
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
"Asylum seeker" is a specific term, for example see this UN glossary: https://www.unhcr.org/449267670.pdf . In particular it's not about huddled masses, it's about people escaping violent situations and a
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
From https://beautyschoolprograms.com/cosmetology-licensing-requi... you can see that some states have licenses available with lower requirements. Two examples from the link: * Idaho has "Barber – Barber-stylist 1800 h
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
I never said a good job, I said a minimally correct job. You can't evaluate whether someone can trim around the ears safely if their haircut is so bad they don't trim around the ears at all. I'm not sure how else to say it. I
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
If you can't give a haircut then you can't give a safe haircut. Specific example: most people expect a basic haircut for a man to trim around the ears. If I never trim around the ears then maybe I'm being safe, but you can&#x
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Every state has similar requirements: https://beautyschoolprograms.com/cosmetology-licensing-requi... . Anyway no one is going to die or go to the ER from lice or getting their ears nicked or a mild chemical burn. We still d
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
To check that someone can give a haircut safely you have to check that they can give a haircut at all, which means the haircut needs to be at some minimal level of quality.
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
You still need some licensing to ensure people understand the basics, like hygiene, since everyone has an interest in making sure hairdressers won't spread lice or accidentally cut their customers with dirty tools. Most of the money in
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
A lot of barber/cosmetologist training is hands-on with customers while an instructor watches. Also keep in mind that a lot of work on hair can be complicated using dangerous chemicals. If you're a guy who just gets a trim or buzz
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
You might like to consider Noam Chomsky's take on the Financial Times in https://www.ft.com/content/bcdefd38-3beb-3506-b24c-82285ac87... from 2013: > [T]he business press has a different incentive to get the fa
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
> Advocating for higher wages to fight inflation is non-sensical. It just exacerbates inflation and requires even further wage gains to keep even. By exacerbate I suppose you're imagining a cycle where higher wages result in higher
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
In practice in the U.S. the early part of a PhD program can be very similar to a master's. It's relatively common for people who leave PhD programs to walk away with a master's degree they didn't intend to get. It's
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
It looks like Ubuntu Core lets you disable automatic updates for snaps: https://ubuntu.com/core/docs/refresh-control .
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Farming as a necessity didn't happen until late prehistory and early history. Before that people hunted, fished or foraged for their daily food. They had nothing worth stealing or killing for or that couldn't be rebuilt quickly af
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
There is plenty of meat available that is almost cruelty-free. A factory farmed broiler chicken lives its entire 60,480 minutes (six weeks) in agony, while a hunted deer or pastured cow might only suffer a few minutes, and for the deer you
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
I'm vegetarian and not vegan partly because the full purity and ingredient checking and all that is not good for my mental health. So maybe I understand where you are coming from, sort of, in a secular way. That said I think it's
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Do you really need 200g protein at 2500 calories? Those numbers seem off to me, 200g protein is what a big guy trying to gain a lot of muscle might eat to make absolutely sure he's getting enough, but 2500 calories is what a big guy wo
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
I'm skeptical of evolutionary psychology in general but if we think about prehistory a lot of work was doing stuff that had deadlines but you could easily understand what needed to be done. You have to go out and collect a bunch of nut
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Zero unemployment causes wages to go up fast as employers must constantly outbid each other for workers. This is bad in a theoretically efficient market because each employer is already running at maximum efficiency and every job is necessa
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
As the article and your quote say, the issue is "comparatively." Other apps are doing checks: > According to a Meta spokesperson, WhatsApp has implemented numerous features to proactively detect and prevent the spread of child
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
You should have the freedom to reject trivial, opinionated PR comments with a simple "no thanks," no explanation needed. Your team should err on the site of supporting the PR as originally written. If you reject a ton of comments
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
What business sense do you have in mind? Thunderbird is funded by donations and governed by volunteers. Even if this were some kind of money grab, who's grabbing what money?
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Walking in heat and humidity is unpleasant but the climate and population are what they are so you work with what you have. I can't speak for all environmentalists but I'd like people to live pleasantly wherever they like if they
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
> I think we'll see in our lifetimes see prices start to escalate rapidly due to the fundamentals baked in. I agree. One of the big risks to future political stability and, honestly, avoiding violent conflict is that these price inc
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
You could ride an electric scooter between two climate controlled garages for ten minutes or a couple miles without getting disgusting. In many U.S. urban areas the garages and scooters already exist, it's "just" a matter of
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Would people in Dhaka prefer cars or just a better walking and public transit experience? Are cars even conceivable with a population density of 76,080 per square mile? If cars are impossible in such a city then it doesn't matter wheth
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
I recently commented about synthetic jet fuel in another thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31704829 : > A problem with biofuel is scaling it up, see: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/749
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
This is a good point, thanks for making it. I thought of "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash as a counterexample since in that song the victim is a man, but then thought of "Cocaine Blues" by Cash which has a female vic
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Interview with a VIM Enthusiast 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n1dtmzqnCU "You don't really need a career once you know Vim. Vim is your career now. What's a career anyway?"

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