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by zizee 5y ago
I hear what you are saying, and it makes a certain amount of sense for projects that survive on donations (possibly hard to implement due to the fungible nature of $$, but whatever) However, Mozilla's revenue is mostly from search engi
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This is an interesting concept, and worthy of including in the discussion, but you are presenting Border Adjustment Tax as if the results are a certainty. The Wikipedia article describes this as theoretical with quite a bit of uncertainty,
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I've been thinking about this in relation to what Space X's Starship could mean for the future if it lives up to the promises. Yes, there are opportunities for putting satellites into orbit at a discount. But what comes next? Tour
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This is a pretty poor solution for trying to get people to cooperate. If people are opposing good legislation just because it is being proposed by "the opposition", then the system is broken. Better to solve the problem directly,
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I read the full post linked to by the grand-parent, and I think you are mischaracterizing things. Settling on 3 programming languages is a good compromise between "one language to rule them all", and "anything goes". Bei
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Rockets aren't inherently expensive. Air travel would also be prohibitively expensive if the aircraft was disposed of at the end of each flight. If SpaceX's Starship plans come to fruition, the $/kg to orbit cost will fall dr
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by zizee 5y ago
> smaller ones who have no power and no chance of ever getting into power. Whilst the smaller parties / independents do not have a real chance to gain majority, they can still have a voice and oftentimes hold the balance of power. T
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If you want to look at improving people's economic success, why not group people by that metric? Far better to send economic help to the poor, instead of by gender/race/religion etc.
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> Most ... doctors, lawyers ... are men. Today there are more women graduating medical and law school than men. Given the trends the current imbalance (of sheer numbers) will be a thing of the past in a decade or two. > It looks like
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by zizee 5y ago
I am no expert either, but I would expect it will take at least ten years to commercialize any new battery technology. Investments made today into li-ion production would expect to have a return on investment in under ten years, so it makes
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by zizee 5y ago
This was posted only 14 days ago, with 521 upvotes, 319 comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27287912
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> People with an agenda I guess you could generalize people that believe in the risks of climate changes as "people with an agenda". You could probably also generalize people who believe the opposite that way as well. Given the
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It's very difficult for the free market to solve a "tragedy of the commons". We need the "giant centralised hand" to stop businesses externalizing their costs to produce the market.
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This is such an unrealistically pessimistic assessment. You just need to count the number of rooftop solar installations there are in the world to get an idea of the market size. Another $2k investment to get significantly more value out of
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> And we will get there faster with more people, more people working on these issues. I thought you were arguing against forcibly shrinking the population (which I don't think anyone was advocating btw), but are you actually arguing
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by zizee 5y ago
You make some interesting points, but I don't think you can get around the logic that more people on the planet has a significant contribution to global warming (with all other things kept constant). If we if ignore population size&#x2
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Doesn't convection also require movement of the fluid? Under gravity convection works by changes in density when the fluid is heated (e.g. hot air rises). This movement of the fluid provides an extra component beyond regular conduction
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by zizee 5y ago
This will work well in countries that have laws in the books where the ISP account holder is responsible for all activities performed using said account. Note: I think such laws are rediculous, but what liabilities is Amazon inviting to the
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I guess everyone with significant investment in ruby codebases can just "choose" to rewrite everything in another language. Whilst they are doing their multiyear rewrites, it would be nice if someone could optimise the ruby runtim
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> society we need to focus on getting off earth...before we can even start dreaming about going to other stars. How about people who are interested in warp physics study warp physics, and those interested in establishing off-world coloni
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by zizee 5y ago
For those of us with many man years of investment into existing Ruby systems, any further investment into speeding up the language's runtime and general evolution is welcome.
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by zizee 5y ago
Could you not make the same argument about JavaScript? JavaScript was pretty slow for many years. Google then put some significant engineering investment into the V8 engine, resulting in a huge increase in JavaScript's performance.
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Spark joy by running fewer tests(shopify.engineering)
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Does this practice extend beyond retail? Do AWS product managers look at AWS usage data of their customers sass products to decide whether it's worth launching a competing service?
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Honest question: why do discussions about minimum wage in the U.S. never propose having teenagers having a different minimum to adults? In australia we have a $12.50/hr minimum for 15 year olds. It climbs in increments until about $25&
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by zizee 5y ago
Can we please keep gender warfare off HN? (or at least when it has nothing to do with the story/discussion)
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Just imagine the quality of the candidates you'd have applying to admin jobs if they risked going to jail everytii there was a data incident. It's hard to imagine anyone with half a brain working under such conditions. It's a
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by zizee 6y ago
The cost of recycling (soup to nuts, collection, cleaning, sorting ) should be built into the costs of using this stuff. Plastic is only used in a really wasteful/damaging way because the costs are externalized, making it the cheapest
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> commuters who drive into the city just to work and then drive out are a terrible liability, because they wear out the roads driving in and out every day Heavy trucks actually do the majority of damage to road infrastructure. From the l
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by zizee 6y ago
Yeah, I can't see it having a huge effect. Here in Queensland, Australia, where every second house has regular panels I have never heard of people thinking they confer bragging rights.

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