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by trymas 10y ago
One of possible and very effective, though quite radical solutions to stop climate change were discussed on another post's comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13302635
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by trymas 10y ago
> All developed countries And all non developed countries will potentially add 3-5 billion to current population [0] [0] on moderate forecast, IMHO optimistic sharp decline is not possible without very aggressive global intervention to p
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by trymas 10y ago
It's only in the well developed western world. Third world countries have the 'capacity' to almost double world population (in case of medium growth scenario, hopefully population size will plateau at around 13 billion, I do
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by trymas 10y ago
> Individual judgement? Do we imagine some couples saying to themselves "We're not up to much genetically-speaking so - we'd better not have any kids"? I think that global 1 child policy would be harsh [0], though, fo
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by trymas 10y ago
What's with this point of view when questions/solutions/hypotheses like the parent comment suggest? When I propose this idea the usual reaction is: "Are you the next Hitler? Do you want to kill everybody? Maybe you shoul
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by trymas 10y ago
This! [0] About 12 years ago I proposed during class in school, that to save the planet we must reduce number of people living on Earth significantly and relatively quickly. Well the teacher thought that I was new Hitler (at least at first)
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by trymas 10y ago
What is this? http://prismproof.org/Technical/Requirements/index.html
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by trymas 10y ago
> What helped enormously was studying the same questions that interviewers are likely to pull from. Once I studied hard on interview Q&A I went from no offers to getting three in the same week. Interesting to hear on what are the sou
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by trymas 10y ago
> I don't think macos or linux kernels expose battery info as kernel state. Bummer. > Also, thanks for using ag. :) Thank you for making it ;)
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by trymas 10y ago
> sysctl -A | ag watt Gives nothing. Why it's not shown? rMBP late 2013, macOS 10.12.2.
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by trymas 10y ago
> Side note: While I definitely applaud the idea of trying to create a language that is geared towards beginners and good for learning on, I don't know if I can get behind recommending such a language that is still under development
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by trymas 10y ago
> Why not apply for a permit and stay on the safe side? Because in our world - 'do it first and ask for mercy later' works better. It probably depends on situation if it's a unethical/bad tactics or not, though.
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by trymas 10y ago
To add to your point, also with ballot system it's very hard to change results. You can by a few votes, though it's a drop in the water compared how much you can buy and how many vote. If you want to change the outcome of the vote
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by trymas 10y ago
Estonians use a 'black box principle'. They have some voting system - a black box - and they believe it works and no one has hacked it.
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by trymas 10y ago
> And ultimately, the relevant team never responded, hoping that I would simply forget about it or give up. > However, if we want the GPL to retain its power, this is precisely what we cannot do. One of the most important things. IANA
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by trymas 10y ago
When it was created - jQuery definitely made javascript not shittier. Javascript was a mess (or browser support for it) and IMHO the most import jQuery goal was to eliminate of cross-browser incompatibilities [0]. [0] https://en.
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by trymas 10y ago
I am interested where's the profit behind this funding, if it's given away? Or the funding is just to buy the person/people/team to make some innovative products or work in some other self driving car research teams?
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Launch loop(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by trymas 10y ago|0 comments
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by trymas 10y ago
oh boy.. Take into account what will insurance be if you have kids, not to mention that even with insurance you will usually still get an invoice after visit to the doctor/hospital (correct me if I am wrong), which may be substantial a
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by trymas 10y ago
Somehow I do not think that US and European salaries are comparable.
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by trymas 10y ago
non open source, based on clang, but faster? in the perfect world I would like that everyone who uses clang would freely benefit from this improvement. should some big and good corporations just buy out those guys?
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The stability of the bicycle (2006)(scitation.aip.org)
71 points by trymas 10y ago|6 comments
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by trymas 10y ago
That's very long. Maybe a TL;DR?
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by trymas 10y ago
Exactly. It's like having having some obscure one word titles on the front page for some company/software/hardware/whatever that I have never heard of and the link content does not make it much more clear either.
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by trymas 10y ago
I would guess that he just doesn't want to update his courses. EDIT: https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ex0.html Wow - python 2.5.1. He even does not update to 2.7. Last login: Sat Apr 24 00:56:54 on ttys0
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by trymas 10y ago
If it's N-th time happening maybe there are more problems than just 'too good code'?
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by trymas 10y ago
Personally I have no problems with upgradeability as I tend to use my electronics until their last breath and I have no need and I am too cheap to upgrade. Without any upgradeability it means if something breaks - toss it to the bin. It is
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by trymas 10y ago
> Colored and extra-large iPhones, <...> being a marketing offer. I do not understand how they are stepping on the same thing like 20+ years ago - they have too many versions for the same type of device. They have different names f
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by trymas 10y ago
I would be extremely doubtful of that. IMHO next step for snapchat is somewhere in AR and I bet that they are using data from their users for testing/training their face recognition. Also pictures/videos can be one of their assets
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by trymas 10y ago
> Google is a tech company - and they had absolutely no idea how to market and position those glasses to consumers. wat. 1. G-glass != snapchat spectacles. 2. IMHO google tried to create new accessory - smart glasses, they first wanted t

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