wildmanx

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by wildmanx 4y ago
As long as the price tag on water does not reflect its actual cost on environment and society, they couldn't care less. Similar to carbon emissions and any other pollution. Once you put an accurate price tag on it, simultaneously avoid
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by wildmanx 4y ago
You may need to check the orders of magnitude we are talking about here and then re-evaluate your statement. This is not about a few stretches of CA coastline. This is about all of the continental US. A few desal plants won't cut it.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> Well, what are the alternatives? The same as with any resource that you are overusing: Use less. You don't need golf courses in the middle of the desert. You don't need broken water access rights regulation that encourages wa
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Which is exactly my point.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Oh the typical techie solution to environmental problems. We can solve this with tech! Wait until the aquifers under North America run dry. That's where most irrigation pump up their ground water from. A few dry rivers and smaller lake
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Doesn't your API have a problem if it can be misused that way? In other words, shouldn't your backend by default distrust the client using its API, no matter whether it's the official one or anything else? Even the official c
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> If you take more than a few minutes to think out how it works (I know, not popular for the typical HN poster) Such a condescending remark. This kind of thing is not good PR for your company, product or workplace. Would I want to work w
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> such a phenomena The singular is "phenomenon".
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Make sure to create a cheatsheet for how to use your cheatsheet manager.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> I don't think we'll have the ability to handle this kind of tech responsibly. Makes you also think whether anybody from the Hacker News crowd working on any contributing tech is acting ethically responsibly. For myself, I hav
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Thanks, Alina. A well-balanced point of view.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Absolutely! But that's not what I was replying to. That was, roughly, about depriving you of certain joys today in order to increase potential for future joy. Which is what the "Life is not short" article is arguing against.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> I’d take it one step further and say life also has compounding returns. What you invest today yields returns tomorrow. [...] > [...] Now I engage with hobbies that yield compounding returns because tomorrow’s happiness is just as im
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> 1. Are Chan and Ridley selling a book? Hej Alina! Thanks for being open with having an economic interest in this topic being dragged out into the open again. > It is very surprising to me that these feasible routes of inquiry have n
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Mind you, A was "If you love Tolkien, or if you love the Amazon series," That's not "absurd". And, given time, it's not "generally considered impossible" either, once the series is out and people have
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by wildmanx 4y ago
"If A, then B." This statement does not claim that A is true. Basic logics, guys.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> I learn a tremendous amount from Twitter and vastly prefer it to needing to buy a book Is this "learning"? You sure get entertained, quick-and-easy-to-digest facts, good for short attention spans, and 5-10 minutes later you g
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by wildmanx 4y ago
If you find out why conflicts and wars have broken out in the past, that could enable you to devise strategies to avoid them in the future. Just like post-mortems in other areas. A plane crashed? Investigators go find out why, amend protoco
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by wildmanx 4y ago
If you look around in the discussions around here, it's not a surprise. Sadly. The "best thing against bad guy with a gun is good guy with a gun" mentality runs deep.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
You seem to have missed the "investment into peace research and conflict prevention" part of my post. Ironically, that's the part that you quoted.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
It's clear that this is an exciting topic for techies. But keep in mind what this all is made for: Destroying and killing. We are talking about war machinery, and technical discussions about those tend to romanticize all that technolog
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Alright, the actual figure is $1,2M for the 90-percentile household net worth. For the individual that's to be divided by 3 (since there are about 120M households in the U.S.). We are at the 96-percentile for $3M household net wort
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> mono-millionaires Ah right, moving it from 0.1%-ers to 1%-ers is really going to make a big difference.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> Suddenly five thousand voices of open source zealots appear from nowhere The image that presented itself to me was: An article about an open source project was linked and the two top HN comments were 1. complaints that proxy use doesn&
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> When you put something out there, you should strive to do right by your users. We clearly disagree here. I also like when some open source author is responsive after they put something out there. And I myself try to be helpful as well.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
I'm not saying it's an invalid complaint. But it's not particularly helpful or meaningful. It's not like the maintainers are not aware of the issue. It's just that they've so far had other priorities in life. T
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Sure it's correct. It's raining outside right now and I don't like it. That's also a correct statement. Just because it comes from the sky doesn't make it "somehow immune from criticism". But that's n
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by wildmanx 4y ago
What keeps things open source / free software in practice is not a philosophical desire for freedom but the very practical desire to be able to get things done. That's why the Linux kernel is so popular and there is an open source
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> Deluge still hasn't had an official Windows release for 2.x, and it's been that way since 2019. This is GPL software made by people in their free time, for free. Apparently, the intersection of "people who want a Windows
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> It's about a project that silently ignores a privacy-related setting, which then exposes the fact that people download something. Which means that everybody who either doesn't use a proxy or does not care whether it's ex

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