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by zug_zug 9mo ago
I think you're missing the point -- the point is that gasoline companies KNEW ABOUT alternative lead-free substitutes for anti-knock (such as ethanol) and chose lead because they perceived it was less profitable. [1] Specifically becau
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by zug_zug 9mo ago
Yeah, if you're going to spend 100 million building a datacenter you should be required to add equivalent grid production in the area. It has drastically increased our electricity prices where I live.
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by zug_zug 9mo ago
I don't think that's true. I think that just shows how disconnected we are. We tell ourselves that we must have "better lives" than say a native american in the year 1000AD, but there's no reason to think that. I th
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by zug_zug 9mo ago
I think the talk was significant inflation, because everything will cost more. And it does.
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by zug_zug 9mo ago
Wow, this is crazy. How is this not frontpage? Must have been flagged by some embarrassed individuals.
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by zug_zug 9mo ago
I don't think I agree with this article. I thought "drive the car" was a metaphor for writing software, but no it's not. It's a metaphor for politics/visibility stuff. And truth be told, you don't have t
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by zug_zug 9mo ago
Honestly this actually seems like a pretty smart hedge
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by zug_zug 9mo ago
Such a weird argument. I've never met anybody with a sledgehammer threatening votes. Feels like a willfully absurd excuse to avoid having an audit trail in elections.
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by zug_zug 9mo ago
On the one hand he does some things that seem very smart, on the other he does many that are very stupid (cave divers ordeal). So it’s a bit more nuanced than that.
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by zug_zug 9mo ago
Absolutely, when I worked at (semi-well-known unicorn) a half-dozen years ago on the data-engineering team the manager told me "Hey we want to use spark next quarter, that's a huge initiative." And I immediately asked, "
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by zug_zug 9mo ago
"I think the entire DevOps movement was a mighty, ... it failed." I'm so sick of this nonsense. "Devops" isn't failing, isn't an issue, you can rename it whatever you want, but throughout my career the dev
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by zug_zug 9mo ago
I've spent 20+ years in the industry seeking to understand first, and my conclusions have pretty consistently been that the systems are broken and inefficient as people already talk about. The caveat I'd add is that the critics th
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by zug_zug 9mo ago
Just having visited Japan, another thing that's immediately apparent though is that there are other well-intentioned laws that prevent this from happening. My favorite breakfast was like $8 (which was better than American breakfast by
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by zug_zug 9mo ago
In my opinion, it's entirely possible to build a social network or social media that doesn't incentivize rage but one that leads to actual friendships. I don't think internet itself is the issue, I think that the existing opt
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by zug_zug 9mo ago
https://think-twice.me/
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by zug_zug 9mo ago
Sure, but the fact that he's willing to do create false/inappropriate charges against the FED chairman is itself a signal to foreign investors how far the US is willing to go to increase the money supply (whereby decreasing the wo
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by zug_zug 10mo ago
> Altshuler’s complaint said that he was concerned the chemicals caused two women in the customer support office to have miscarriages and another man to have a liver transplant. It seems multiple generations have really downplaying the r
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by zug_zug 10mo ago
A bit of a messy situation, since there is both documented precedent for undisclosed chemical use to cause severe population illness (e.g. numerous times in "cancer alley"), however there is also precedent for charismatic doctors
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by zug_zug 10mo ago
I don't think this article provides any evidence of anything to be scared of. That said, based on what we know already, there is no reason to take everything is this article at face value necessarily. Firstly, if anybody isn't awa
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by zug_zug 10mo ago
@dang I don’t know if this is a bug… but how is this not on the front pages? (I checked 2. 74 upvotes / 34 comments 2h old) This is the type of thing that I sort of rely on HN to inform me about. Then other articles are seemingly kille
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by zug_zug 10mo ago
This is just the time that we caught. Who knows how many more times it happened and wasn't caught? > I guess the thing that I most don't get is it's now been 10 years since then, and I haven't seen any news about the
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by zug_zug 10mo ago
Trump comes up over 1,500 times in the Epstein files in what's currently unredacted. [1] Given that birthday note I'm sure there are more records somewhere. 1 - https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+times+does+t
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by zug_zug 10mo ago
Crazy how far down I had to scroll to see this. Yeah, the timing of it is an Epstein thing. He knows he's gonna get impeached again and files will be released in 2026 when he loses midterms, and needs to concoct an emergency. Here&#x27
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by zug_zug 10mo ago
If it wasn't a man suspected of being impeached over a looming child-sex trafficking scheme so deep that it makes watergate look like a game then maybe we'd pretend drugs has anything to do with it.
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by zug_zug 10mo ago
I hate to attack HN and especially any particular moderator. But I agree in the abstract that this is an unacceptable performance. When you have Larry Ellison's son appoint a political figure over a news organization and start axing th
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by zug_zug 10mo ago
Seems shocking and appalling to me. In sure an AI could explain how corrupt this is to you if you feed it the article.
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by zug_zug 10mo ago
So if you have a billion in the bank, you can collect 5% return and never touch the money. So you get $50m a year to pay enough engineers to make a browser. That's plenty of money if they recognize they need a super lean company with 0
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by zug_zug 10mo ago
Because of its high toxicity, the European Union withdrew paraquat from its market in July 2007 [1] So it's clearly poisonous to humans in high doses, I guess the argument is that perhaps the smaller doses exposed to farmers may not le
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by zug_zug 10mo ago
Maybe there's a 3rd option... like encrypt the footage in a way that it can't be accessed en-masse without passwords? Like imagine if the US government gave a warrant to apple and said "Give us all iphone pictures from this a
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by zug_zug 10mo ago
So assessments of safety of a chemical aren't hard science. They are statistical judgment calls (often based on things like giving a much, much higher dose to a rodent and looking for short-term effects). And the reason that is is beca

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