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by viburnum 7y ago
This is obviously correct but HN community is in total denial about the feasibility or even usefulness of living off Earth. It would be easier to live on the bottom of the ocean or a mile underground but nobody has schoolboy fantasies about
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The Body Instrumental(logicmag.io)
1 points by viburnum 7y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 7y ago
The worry now is that we’re moving from climate denial to climate fascism (climate change is happening so we need to concentrate the suffering on the undesirables).
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by viburnum 7y ago
The hoop-jumping that most shapes society is the need to maximize profit, at the expensive of all other goals.
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by viburnum 7y ago
Sure, but CO2 emissions need to be zero, so there has to be an alternative.
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by viburnum 7y ago
Hydrogen is much lighter though. You wind up with big ugly planes that are lighter than the planes we have now. Apparently they’ll be able to use shorter runways as well.
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by viburnum 7y ago
Aviation uses so much energy, it’s gotta be this or stop flying.
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by viburnum 7y ago
I love Duolingo and think it's great. I took two languages in school and another for a job and I've learned more with Duolingo than with formal education. I think if you're a certain kind of nerd then learning from a textbook
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Do-Gooder Derogation(journals.sagepub.com)
1 points by viburnum 7y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 7y ago
That’s not an official map. This was: https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1...
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by viburnum 7y ago
Yeah, if I was my real self I would probably get punched. I can fake it most of the time but if I get run down and my real self comes out then everybody hates me.
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The Extraordinary Efficiency of Bicycles(aviewfromthecyclepath.com)
3 points by viburnum 7y ago|0 comments
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A Socialist Plan to Fix the Internet(jacobinmag.com)
22 points by viburnum 7y ago|19 comments
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by viburnum 7y ago
Companies locate their headquarters solely on where their CEO wants to live.
585.
by viburnum 7y ago
I don’t know why people can’t face the facts. Maybe someday there will be the technology but right now it’s like cave men trying to build an aircraft carrier.
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by viburnum 7y ago
Why did the author go to all the trouble to write this when within their own argument it’s obvious that it’s impossible for humans to survive and flourish without Earth?
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by viburnum 7y ago
I stopped eating anything with added sugar and my brain fog lifted after about a week. Now I get headaches if I eat sugar (Berries are good, it’s just stuff with sugar added to it that messes me up).
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by viburnum 7y ago
Gay people can get married in America, which was completely unthinkable a generation ago. 100% due to activists, many who risked their lives to make it happen.
589.
by viburnum 7y ago
It's insane how many math books are written assuming you already know what all the terms mean.
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Air pollution nanoparticles linked to brain cancer for first time(theguardian.com)
1 points by viburnum 7y ago|0 comments
591.
by viburnum 7y ago
Grumpiness is good, actually. There are worse moods.
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by viburnum 7y ago
Another vote for Burns. I think he’s way ahead the rest of the field. He’s kind of like the old extreme programming methodology: lots of automatic testing, consistent use of best practices, short iterations, and pragmatically focused. I too
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by viburnum 7y ago
This has been my experience as well.
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by viburnum 7y ago
I said most. Occasionally there are bank crises (like in 2008). This isn’t a big secret, it’s right there in FOMC meeting notes. Google Greenspan and punch bowl. Google Kalecki and politic aspects of full employment.
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by viburnum 7y ago
Most recessions are easy to predict because they’re intentionally triggered by central banks with the aim of controlling inflation by putting a lot of people out of work.
596.
by viburnum 7y ago
Darwin was also lucky to have been born very rich.
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by viburnum 7y ago
They had a dominant run in WRC for a while there.
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by viburnum 7y ago
I read about Epicurus when I was a little kid and it really resonated with me (basically, the “hang out with your friends and don’t get too worked up about things” part). Now that I’m getting old and basically wasted most of my life, I wish
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by viburnum 7y ago
Sure! Okay, so it’s not exactly a hamstring stretch, but it fixed the problem that kept me sedentary which in turn caused my hamstrings to get super tight. I’m sorry I don’t know the name of it so I’ll have to describe it (google failed me)
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by viburnum 7y ago
They tried to sell me on meniscus surgery too. I saw a PT and he fixed my knees in two weeks with a hamstring stretch (I've since learned that about half the programmers I know have tight hamstrings. It hurts your knees and makes good

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