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by yongjik 3y ago
Paraphrasing other comments I've seen: those "debaters" have leapt straight from "There isn't a climate problem" to "It's too late to do anything," bypassing the pesky "We should do somethin
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Yeah, that was phrased awkwardly. I should have said "experience at the US military." (Feel free to disagree.)
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Other comments addressed the self-driving car part, but I somehow can't get over the part where the author's experience at NORAD is used to explain why we have humans in the loop. According to Wikipedia [1], US-operated drones hav
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That's going to be at least twice as expensive as one ticket with a layover.
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The downfall of Hwang Woo-Suk, the infamous stem cell con artist, started when a whistleblower posted that two photos of stems cells that were supposed to be at different stages were actually cropped from a single photo. You could match th
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This sounds pretty familiar, minus the scheming princes part. Mega-construction projects involve so much money that I think it's the preferred method for many politicians to funnel money to themselves and their friends. And people ch
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I flagged the parent. Yes, intentionally.
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> No. It's like saying 'Boston in uncharted history as Boston breaks snowfall record since last winter'. ... And yet you take issue with me calling it a straw-man argument ... We know that this is the hottest global temper
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> People read "on record" and think it's the hottest the earth has been ever. I really don't get this kind of straw-man complaint. Do you think people care about average temperature of the world during the Paleopro
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Seems like you're basically saying "It doesn't matter because the same road can support either a bus or 20 cars." (1) This is a bad metric because it means everything is equivalent until traffic jam occurs. (Why stop at
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by yongjik 3y ago
Sorry for being off topic, but let me introduce you to the only true metric of code quality: WTF/minute. https://www.osnews.com/story/19266/wtfsm/ One wonders if profanity in the source code interferes w
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Someone once commented "HN is a reactionary site" and (while I don't 100% agree with that) I keep thinking about it from time to time.
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> > What's 3.5 gallons in ounces? > 448. That's not even hard. There's 128 fluid ounces per gallon. 3×128=384, add 64 to that for 448. I think you just unironically showed why SI is the superior system.
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by yongjik 3y ago
It could be you if you're lucky! A Korean born on, say, 2001 December 1st would have been one year old in 2001, two years old in 2002, and 23 years old today, based on the traditional counting. In Western counting, the person would be
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That's a bit like saying "I'm trapped in a theater with a fire but the sprinkler system is sabotaged because a bunch of idiots decided public water system is the work of the devil, and that's why I'm not worried abo
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Yeah, I really don't like this kind of messaging, because (in all likelihood) humanity will blast past those "points of no return," all ten of them, and after that the dialogue is going to be awkward.
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A few years ago, I bought a 3-bedroom house in East Bay area, with a nice backyard (which looks distinctly less nice now, but hey, programming is a time-consuming job), and a decent public high school in walking distance for my two kids, al
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This sounds like a random Chinese person justifying the status quo by saying "The vast majority of people are never jailed, and people are jailed only if they keep talking about things they shouldn't. We don't have a dictato
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Only if you're very lucky with Linux, or your definition of distraction does not include hours spent on fixing sleep and hibernation, finding the right input method among several that keep getting deprecated, fixing pixel scaling with
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Do you have source? What I've heard is the opposite: scientists have consistently made conservative predictions because of the hostile political landscape. Basically, if you predict bad thing X would happen by year Y, and it doesn&#
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Re: the mortgage, this will be a problem only if you cannot maintain your salary and the housing market collapses. Otherwise, if you buy a house, and later you decide you don't want to (or cannot) pay for mortgage, you can just sell
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> Oh sure, we can wave our hands at it and invoke the mass-energy relation from GR, but this doesn’t “pop out” of the Standard Model in any sense. Mass-energy equivalence, a.k.a. E=mc^2, is special relativity. It's fundamentally
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I have no love for the extravagant dumpster fire that is the sequels, but "forced, ideologically-driven tarnishing of their childhood memories" could equally (or even better) describe the bunch of loud online critics who were stra
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In addition to others' comments, I see no reason why "vs. a prediction of a 20k Gt loss" should be a good summary, when (I assume) the number was lifted from: > whereas the steady-state approach would estimate ice loss of
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They don't "prefer" climate change, they just distort every term to suit their needs. Global Warming: Look at this blizzard! So much for Global Warming! Climate Change: Climate is always changing, what's the problem? Ren
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Who knows? Maybe the edit will stay, maybe it won't, but the very fact that the flag has been staying for years doesn't bode well for my effort. There are millions of Koreans who can write passable English: if it were that easy t
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It becomes worse as you move further away from Anglosphere: according to Wikipedia the ancient Korean kingdom of Goguryeo has a forked red/yellow flag, but AFAIK that's total fabrication, based on a single mention in the record th
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by yongjik 3y ago
Does tofu count? Lots of great recipes. We frequently make Mapo tofu at home (which can be made vegan if you want, and pretty easy to cook - just buy a jar of Doubanjiang(?) at your nearest Chinese grocery). Or if you feel really lazy, sl
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Ummm South Korea is actually infamous for throwing almost all ex-presidents to prison, even if they get pardoned eventually. The pardons are always done for "political reasons" and hugely unpopular. We want our ex-presidents to
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There are Wikipedia articles for 2015 Indian heat wave (2,500 dead), 2016 heat wave, 2019 heat wave, 2022 heat wave, and the current ongoing 2023 heat wave. 2021 Henan flood killed hundreds and forced evacuation of 800k people. Imagine what

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