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by z9znz 4y ago
In much of the developed world, solar energy doesn't come from directly above, it comes from a much lower angle. Trapezoidal shaped buildings can collect a great deal of direct sunlight. And further, with reflectors it's possibl
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by z9znz 4y ago
Reducing pesticide use is a big deal. But that is a small issue compared to the bigger problem, which as you point out is nutrition. Crop densities have been increasing dramatically over the last few decades, well beyond what natural soil
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by z9znz 4y ago
Technically this is very cool. But it is ultimately trying to improve a horse and buggy rather than developing a spacecraft. The future will be something like, or at least based on, vertical self-contained (almost completely closed systems
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Yes, this seems to be what is happening. I now think that on rare occasions the side of my left hand may be brushing the opt key while I type. Until today, it has only been a very rare † instead of t. √ is a new one for me.
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by z9znz 4y ago
That's the first time I've gotten that instead of a V. I didn't bother editing it because I thought it was amusing. More often (but still rare), I'll end up with a † instead of t. As someone below mentioned, it appears
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by z9znz 4y ago
It's also suburban Waco, Texas. That's not exactly the epicenter of education in the US, much less even in Texas. Ironically, more rural Texas regions tend to ha√e more independent kids; after all, you'll see 10 year old kid
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by z9znz 4y ago
> real world business logics often does require side effects Yeah, all business logic requires side effects, else it is doing nothing :). But following some FP practices, you can push the side effects very far out to ward the edges. Ins
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I believe that his example for sanitizeMessage() was just to give an example. An actual sanitizer would be much more complex, and thus having a separate function defined to do that one thing would be more obviously reasonable. But you DO w
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by z9znz 4y ago
Following TFA example, I think there's one more step that could be done (or could have been done earlier in the processes) - shift from piped, hardcoded function calls to a data structure which describes the transformations you would l
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by z9znz 4y ago
I don't understand why the newly spawned guy is suddenly attached to cables on his nipples and penis. What is that supposed to represent? Much of the rest of it makes sense, although there is that strange mutant monkey thing on the up
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by z9znz 4y ago
I have had limited but direct experience with CFTC (because of a cryptocurrency related project I did for a client), and I was not impressed. In this case, CFTC came at us with claims that we were breaking rules and then required us to prov
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by z9znz 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand the "monsters" bit... But "if a town contributes more to human happiness as a Disneyland" I can speak to. The people who live in small towns in the mountains in Colorado do want and need w
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by z9znz 4y ago
This should be an easy concept to grasp, but it seems that unless one has lived in an environment affected by this, they cannot understand.
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by z9znz 4y ago
I don't remember where it was in the US; maybe it was Cheyanne Wyoming or elsewhere, but it was a nature/mountain area popular with tourists. But their city leaders recognized the problem of tourist vs local housing prices, and th
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by z9znz 4y ago
The venture capital investment rounds are absolutely Ponzis. Every round is for a higher valuation, and so every investory knows they are paying more for the same number of shares as a previous round. But they believe that a future scenari
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by z9znz 4y ago
Your comment adds nothing. Care to back up your comment with something of value?
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by z9znz 4y ago
Rent-seeking, profiteering people taking local resources inordinately and making a bit extra for themselves? Nobody who has ever lived in a popular (unregulated) area that has a lot of Airbnb activity would ever be ok with this. Suffice to
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by z9znz 4y ago
You aren't enriched by people coming and going all the time, making a lot of random noise, and raising your local property values???
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by z9znz 4y ago
Once in a while you can find a good Airbnb which you would not find an equal to in the many hotel apps. But over time, more and more legitimate 'homestay' rooms can be listed on real hotel apps. I'm a hotels.com or booking o
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by z9znz 4y ago
Look at Uber's funding rounds. They have had round after round, and each round increases the valuation such that previous rounds' investors make a "profit" (their stock value increases). Yet, Uber isn't making a p
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by z9znz 4y ago
Musk was a visionary, but a visionary without funding is nothing. His funding for Tesla came from the US taxpayers in the amount of $451 million. This turns out to have been a good investment for the US and Tesla and arguably the world in
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by z9znz 4y ago
In Netherlands, most (all?) Ubers are actually cabs. And many of my NL Uber rides have thankfully been in the taxi cars which are well maintained Mercedes E or S class cars rather than some dude's 1995 Toyota Corrola. What Uber did th
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by z9znz 4y ago
I know this feeling, I think. There seems to be a personality type that is willing to entertain wild ideas and ignore "reality". Sometimes that results in actual new possibilities that nobody else was crazy enough to consider bef
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by z9znz 4y ago
> bailouts In 2008, the bailouts were for the banks and institutions. They did nothing for the people who had already been screwed. Finance and wealthy interest control US policies. By a large margin, the public welfare is funneled upw
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There was a time not so long ago when you could never get an ICO to happen if you were not profitable for several years beforehand. Keep in mind that regulation has been relaxed significantly each decade for a long time. There is a politic
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ETFs investing in utterly non-profitable companies does not make it valid. The reason ETFs are putting money in riskier and riskier places is that there is too much money concentrated in a few places, and there are rules as to what % of the
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by z9znz 4y ago
There is a big distance between the unmentioned 0 and your 1. 0.1 - 0.999 - they raised round after round of VC, paying back the previous round with big profits. 1 - they sold the gullible public (which never should have happened - regulato
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by z9znz 4y ago
> worth $60 billion in public markets today In the same way that Shibu Ino coin is "worth" 4.9 billion - ie, meaningless and entirely fictional; lacking any substantive value. Uber stock is worth what it is because there are st
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With all the unspoken but obvious disdain for the ridiculous cryptocurrency schemes, I wonder if the HN crowd will recognize the elephant in the room here. TFA illustrates that the venture capital/startup tech scene is arguably the big
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by z9znz 4y ago
I do get your point related to litter, but there are times when - like with intentional misspellings or intentional wrong grammar - jokes can be made which are harmless to most but recognized as fun to a few.

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