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961.
by tomp 5y ago
Persistent data structures are very hard. It's basically impossible to cleanly combine them. E.g. if you have an immutable hashtable that contains immutable lists, and you want to modify a list - how do you know if the inner list chang
962.
by tomp 5y ago
um are we looking at the same graphs? the second best performing company on "technical" and "problem solving" was Bloomberg, literally the opposite of Silicon Valley
963.
by tomp 5y ago
But what happens to the wood you use? e.g. in buildings (1) building burns (2) building is torn down and wood rots (3) building eventually collapses and wood rots i.e. if you don't bury it, it eventually returns into the carbon cycle
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by tomp 5y ago
"Planting trees" is an ESG scam. You cannot "offset carbon" by just planting trees. You also need to wait until they grow, chop them down, and not burn them but burry them underground instead.
965.
by tomp 5y ago
> You want an induction cooktop: safe, efficient, beautiful, and more importantly, more responsive than burners. and loud I prefer non-induction electric.
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by tomp 5y ago
This right here is the biggest issue with "anti-climate-change agenda". Mainstream climate change activists employ a "motte-and-bailey" technique where the motte is "saving the planet" and bailey is "regre
967.
by tomp 5y ago
You should use threads for that.
968.
by tomp 5y ago
Sounds like a good plan for the rest of the world to adapt, instead of subsidising coal, Saudi Arabia's dictatorship, and Russian tanks.
969.
by tomp 5y ago
I agree, “mental health issues” are much more similar to obesity than to cancer. Societal reactions reflect that, both dismissive (“just exercise more”, “don’t be lazy”) and constructive (“we should find the cause - is it endocrine disrupto
970.
by tomp 5y ago
> it’s easy to downplay it or believe that the person struggling can change just by thinking hard enough. The reason some of us downplay mental health issues is because we hear stats like "97% kids are ADHD" or "74% of
971.
by tomp 5y ago
Why not, after Slack (trivial, not deep tech) - main feature of business model is make something corporations want .
972.
by tomp 5y ago
“up to” isn’t serious “at least” would be serious But that would require for politicians to actually want to do something to benefit the people, not just themselves and their bribers/lobbyists.
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by tomp 5y ago
"animal testing" and "healing animals" are two diametrically opposite things
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by tomp 5y ago
But also keep in mind that you'd be funding an organisation that supports censorship.
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by tomp 5y ago
I wonder this as well. Unless it's the CEO/CTO going to jail, it's not actual responsibility... it's just "we'll pay you some tiny amount if we kill someone" YOLO
976.
by tomp 5y ago
Ownership incentivises longtermism. When noone owns the land, this happens: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_...
977.
by tomp 5y ago
0. Incorporate a company called "WeSearch"
978.
by tomp 5y ago
I read this more as an indication that "liberal" philosophy is at best hypocritical (liberals "want things" (e.g. free education/housing) as long as they don't have to pay/work for it themselves) and at
979.
by tomp 5y ago
Do business owners labor? As someone who's moved around a lot (to London, then to Zürich) I definitely appreciate being able to rent, and hence landowners. Without them, I'd have to live 2-3 year homeless until I saved enough for
980.
by tomp 5y ago
A lot of places (e.g. UK) have superior options for subscriptions - e.g. direct debit where it's automatic, but you have a fairly long period afterwards to dispute the payment. But still, I wouldn't be opposed to that being us
981.
by tomp 5y ago
No it doesn't. Only a few banks have phone-app based pre-transaction 2FA. TransferWise is my favourite, but even they only check for the first transaction, not subsequent ones (e.g. for "recurring" one-off purchases e.g. Ub
982.
by tomp 5y ago
Yes. Worst offenders: - Companies that deliberately offer a subpar webapp experience (including, not keeping you logged in and spamming you with 2FA) to push you to download their mobile app - every fucking company that saves your credit
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Unmasking the Campaign Against “White Supremacy Culture” in Science(mindingthecampus.org)
7 points by tomp 5y ago|3 comments
984.
by tomp 5y ago
Literature has been widely available for a while, but there’s still great works produced (well, probably great… needs some historical distance still) disproving your hypothesis.
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by tomp 5y ago
No, my point is, that is a false dichotomy.
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by tomp 5y ago
> I don't think a willingness to accept less energy for a decade or two, constitutes an anti-civilization agenda. Sounds like "two weeks to flatten the curve" . Very slippery slope. Expect a lot of people to oppose it (me
987.
by tomp 5y ago
Practical experience. Products advertised as "energy saving" are almost invariably worse. E.g. modern dishwashers use much less energy, but also take much longer (4 hours instead of 1 hour). If there are products that are equivale
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by tomp 5y ago
Indeed. "Fighting Climate Change" is all sunshine and rainbows and photovoltaics until you realise that the messaging has been thoroughly usurped by an anti-civilisation regressive agenda. They don't want people using clea
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by tomp 5y ago
> hack your body This seems a bit of a straw-man. Almost nobody who's telling you to be more healthy will tell you to eat better without also telling you to exercise more. Also, it's not "hack your body " it's
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by tomp 5y ago
You don't get it. The sanctions aren't about punishing Russians, nor about getting Russians to reject Putin. It's all just virtue signalling. It's literally irrelevant what impact it has, if any.

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