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by tejohnso 4y ago
I think that has been a reasonable possibility (on the order of large asteroid collision) since the invention of the atomic bomb. And it became much more likely after they were actually used in war. And even more likely with the insane prol
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by tejohnso 4y ago
> Rather than collapse into despair, getting real about 1.5°C should mean we are able to hold open a space of grounded, realistic optimism. So what does that realistic optimism look like? "We're never gonna make 1.5, we've
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by tejohnso 4y ago
I'm with you on the lack of physical buttons. That's a no go. For me the lack of pointing stick is also a no go. My first laptop over twenty years ago was a Toshiba with a pointing stick, and I've used Thinkpads ever since.
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by tejohnso 4y ago
> These things happen regularly, and often simultaneously. Yes, I think my assumption is common. Thanks for the list. The entire thing consists of events I would have expected to happen very infrequently . "KPIs precipitated by sch
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by tejohnso 4y ago
> plan and get ready for the next school year I don't doubt all of your points, and can imagine the frustration, but regarding the summer off being interrupted by planning work, what's to plan? If you're teaching mostly th
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by tejohnso 4y ago
> doubtful many will follow through Yeah, it's perhaps a decent way to measure sentiment but not at all likely to be reliable to predict actions. You can "consider leaving" your profession in the next year for 30 years s
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by tejohnso 4y ago
> However, the scientists say their findings are preliminary and should be taken with caution until the analysis is complete. > Tonjie has added that his team is planning to take repeat observations of the strange signals to conclusiv
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by tejohnso 4y ago
Perhaps one such decision is that matter is fundamental. There are increasingly substantial cases being made that this is now holding us back in physics, and that we need to consider that consciousness is fundamental, and matter is only a c
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by tejohnso 4y ago
> as if all animals were alike Not as if all animals are alike. As if any animal that is actually alive, with a brain sufficient to fly, reproduce, eat, digest, observe, react, etc is much more likely to be sentient than a computer progr
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by tejohnso 4y ago
> To-date, it appears that sentience arises naturally as a byproduct of increasing the number of neurons in a network. Humans are sentient; flies and mosquitoes are not. The author is arguing for the possibility that a computer program m
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by tejohnso 4y ago
I didn't mean to imply it's hovering. I'll usually have it close by on the floor. But it's where it would be even if the car were not running.
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by tejohnso 4y ago
> Given how frequently the car yells at you when you're not holding the wheel, it's hardly better than simple cruise control. I tried that in a Hyundai Sonata traveling at highway speeds. The car stayed in the lane, turning the
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by tejohnso 4y ago
Have packaged food and fast food manufacturers been sued for deliberately making their products addictive, knowing full well that the addictive substances cause physical and mental harm?
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by tejohnso 4y ago
> If they were not selected because they didn't meet the qualifications, well, that isn't the fault of the gifted program. But it could be the fault of the government, the school administration, and an entire culture of systemi
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by tejohnso 4y ago
> The idea that all departments of all western governments are secretly changing the data I don't think they have to do it secretly. They do it in the open, otherwise there wouldn't be an Investopedia article on CPI controversy
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by tejohnso 4y ago
I thought it was pretty common knowledge that inflation numbers are deceptive and easily manipulated. It's [controversial]. It's the decline of purchasing power over time based on a basket of goods / services. So it all depen
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by tejohnso 4y ago
> Every claim you make is false Every claim I made is not false. For example I said "electricity is MOST LIKELY not carbon free". If that were false, then are you suggesting that most electricity is carbon free? Are we only tal
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by tejohnso 4y ago
> It’s like saying your car’s gas gauge doesn’t tell you anything about how far you can drive, just how much gas you have in the tank. People have direct experience with the movement of their gas gauge and the distance they travel. They
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by tejohnso 4y ago
> it is NOT POSSIBLE AT ALL to derive any conclusion from looking at it, other than we are heating the planet fast. No. You're coming to a conclusion based on some internalized facts that may not be internalized by the people you&#x
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by tejohnso 4y ago
Producing the battery takes a LOT more energy, and the electricity is MOST LIKELY not carbon free, so total creation and operation CO2 output EXCEEDS the CO2 output from the gasoline truck over most of its lifetime. Maybe we should provide
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by tejohnso 4y ago
Why assume bad faith? You said "past few months" and so I quickly pulled up a 3 month history which is a dropdown option in the UI I was looking at. I replied with what I saw.
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by tejohnso 4y ago
On a 3 month chart FB is down 10% from start to now. That's hardly "epic". And the NASDAQ composite is down 13% in the same time frame.
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Ishango Bone(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by tejohnso 4y ago|0 comments
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by tejohnso 4y ago
> Clearly not, with slow settlement and high transaction costs The secondary and tertiary layers are still not worked out yet. I don't follow lightning closely and I'll take your word that it is in a miserable state, however I
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by tejohnso 4y ago
> However, unfortunately, some of you will be informed that we cannot offer you a role in the new organization What new organization? They're laying off ~10%, not restructuring the whole business, or creating a wholly owned subsidia
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by tejohnso 4y ago
> What does being "behind" even mean? Or matter? Is extending parental dependency the problem? If someone starts college at 20 instead of 18 they are likely at home longer. But a lot of people aren't leaving home for colle
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by tejohnso 4y ago
From [the tweet], "People that are taking risks that are sufficient that they feel they need to wear helmets are not welcome to work for us" [the tweet]: https://twitter.com/pedalmeapp/status/148959469285
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Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safety reasons(bikebiz.com)
318 points by tejohnso 4y ago|765 comments
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by tejohnso 4y ago
> startups today can renegotiate their AWS costs by ~50% if they push. This is bold claim. Can anyone else back this up? Does it apply to other major cloud providers? Does it only apply to startups?
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by tejohnso 4y ago
Counter example: "what is an iris" when wondering about anatomy brings up Wikipedia as the first link. Perfect. With the .edu trick the first link is about the flower, and there's nothing about the human eye anywhere on the f

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