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by spodek 9y ago
Here's the original June 2012 Hacker News thread that started the process: " I Just Gave Up $4000 Per Month to Keep My Freedom of Speech (mrmoneymustache.com) " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4144621 An
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I declined nearly $10k to teach for an Ivy League school for a week in Shanghai(joshuaspodek.com)
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by spodek 9y ago
Capturing carbon is a valuable step, but only as part of a process that net removes it from the atmosphere. This project doesn't seem to have that goal. > " China's new CCS project will remove CO2 from two coal gasificatio
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by spodek 9y ago
This community is so fast to say Mars is possible. Mention any problem and it will start with the belief it's solvable and figure out how: "We can do it!" Mention the idea of lowering the population on Earth to allow more res
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by spodek 9y ago
> OK allows us to view a situation in simplest terms, just OK or not. I disagree. I find that OK implies some consent or agreement. In Chinese there's a word I don't know how to write but sounds something like "uh"
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by spodek 9y ago
> The question of how such a device would turn was the subject of an intense and remarkably long-lived debate. Long-lived debate about an experiment easily performed seems the opposite of the point of an observational science like phys
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by spodek 9y ago
On Rolling Stone at 50 -- trust being something you can develop over decades and lose in an instant, do others feel like "A Rape on Campus" did in the magazine? To put on the front page something so sensational yet not fact-checke
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by spodek 9y ago
We make machines that people use to do those jobs. We've designed them for men. If we designed trash trucks and other tools for women, women could use them. The Americans with Disabilities Act led the nation to redesign many things for
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by spodek 9y ago
What about trash collectors, construction workers, miners, loggers, Alaskan fishers, fire fighters, and other dangerous jobs? Are people seeking equality with them? I heard medicine became much safer when women entered it in greater numbers
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by spodek 9y ago
People hurt the planet with cars, I can see it being a fad when people realize it's a relatively dangerous way of traveling.
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by spodek 9y ago
Low-tech magazine has an article on how useful ceiling fans are: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/09/circulating-fans-air-... . They don't pollute nearly as much and work remarkably well. I live in Manhatta
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by spodek 9y ago
As an adjunct professor who also teaches online independently, I find project-based learning more effective for my classes in leadership, entrepreneurship, and sales. The students seem to agree, sometimes after a transition when they realiz
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by spodek 9y ago
One of the more thought-provoking articles I've read in a long time. If you think they're dreaming, I suggest reading it nor for engineering detail, but to try out their perspective. Most people would answer 'no,' leave
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by spodek 9y ago
We can't change the past, but as an American, my question is what will my government do to protect its citizens and how will it obtain justice for them. Will it even try? Let's hope the fourth estate holds the first three accounta
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by spodek 9y ago
> Faster browsing and less memory use is the only reason I've ever heard anyone switch browsers outside of privacy issues. Stability. License, at least for me. I would only use a free as in speech browser. Add-ons and success bloc
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by spodek 9y ago
Growth also contributes to global warming. And the many people who think it could now or eventually decrease it compound the problem.
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by spodek 9y ago
Ultimately all the advice in the world leads to one simple starting point: You have to act, practice, and rehearse new skills to get their benefit and those first acts, as with any new skill, will be clumsy, embarrassing, and full of other
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by spodek 9y ago
or male?
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by spodek 10y ago
Like in this article: http://www.inc.com/joshua-spodek/how-donald-trump-can-make-h... If he did reverse his stand, everyone else opposed to acting on global warming could too. Plus the U.S. could invest and act more on
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by spodek 10y ago
Saying that exercise keeps the mind sharp normalizes not exercising. I prefer to think of exercise as normal and sitting around as the mind-dulling deviation. I would say: Not exercising can dull the mind. or A sedentary lifestyle instea
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by spodek 10y ago
> These type of solutions seem like the only reasonable ones to address climate change Equally important: - Reducing consumption (which, in my experience, increases happiness) - Having fewer babies
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by spodek 10y ago
The book is Sustainable Energy Without The Hot Air, a free download from http://withouthotair.com . An excellent resource. I agree with avoiding packaging and more. Since I started avoiding food with packaging, I've reduced
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by spodek 10y ago
Let's talk personal responsibility and what we can change. What percent of readers of this site drank water from a plastic bottle in the past, say, 24 hours? ... in places with potable tap water making bottles unnecessary... Or nalgene
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by spodek 10y ago
It's not the fastest clothes dryer, but I often use one that runs on fusion in outer space.
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by spodek 10y ago
Saying that cycling lowers disease normalizes not exercising. I prefer to think of exercise as normal and sitting around as the disease-causing deviation. I would say: Not cycling to work can increase cancer and heart disease or Sitting
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by spodek 10y ago
At a low level: - Have fewer children - Burn fewer fossil fuels (less driving, flying, heating, cooling, more wearing sweaters at home in winter, etc) - Eat less meat - Develop technologies to create energy without fossil fuels At a higher
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by spodek 10y ago
> I don't know how it is possible within the current system to back down en-masse in the way you suggest. The system will change. It's already changing. The question is whether we design and follow the change or nature does i
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by spodek 10y ago
Many posts here about how sad and disgusted people are. Not much about people taking personal responsibility. What do people think the carrying capacity of the planet means? Sustaining more humans means sacrificing other life that competes
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by spodek 10y ago
No they won't. These are the views every tourist gets shown. Some are nearly the same as pictures I took on my visits. These are the parts of the country for show.
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by spodek 10y ago
I've wondered if cell phones have led to fewer altercations on subways as people spend more time focused on them, giving them less reason or chance to argue and fight with others.

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