danielharan

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by danielharan 2y ago
It's not clear that shipping the sugar to where the cacao is, then shipping refrigerated chocolate is any better than shipping unrefrigerated cacao mass to the North where it's milled with sugar. Especially if you look at grid emi
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by danielharan 2y ago
The chocolate has to be shipped cool, requiring more energy. That said: more and more producing countries are doing initial processing (roasting and grinding into liquor), and derivatives (powder and butter). Processing cacao in North Ameri
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by danielharan 3y ago
I live in Québec. We never had mass tracking - this was FUD about the app, which did NOT share data... and that level of privacy protection is also why it was difficult to prove its positive impact. What we did have was public health which
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by danielharan 3y ago
For a lot of executives and business travelers, the alternative is flying in the night before and getting a hotel room. A night train is a much, much better option.
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by danielharan 5y ago
I learned about AI by participating in the challenge, and ended up co-founding an AI company as a result. Netflix got more than 1 million dollar in free advertising from it, and are still getting brand value out of it today. They implemen
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by danielharan 5y ago
There's a genetic component - as there is for Openness, which is higher on the West than the East Coast of the US. So, maybe ADHD types were the first to leave Europe for the Americas?
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by danielharan 6y ago
You are far wiser at 19 than most founders I've met in their 40's. Some of the best business advice I got was from pitching VCs. Even if pitching is not what you want to do now, it might be useful to open lines of communication an
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by danielharan 6y ago
If there's a board, it may be worth it to let some members know. Should those board members do nothing, you now know to avoid their companies in the future :)
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by danielharan 6y ago
The Braille example really establishes the importance of that context for me. Thank you!
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by danielharan 6y ago
I'd use a snowball, to convey the growing nature.
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by danielharan 6y ago
The NY study is preliminary, not peer reviewed. The sampling strategy used over-represents people going out, and we have no information on which test was used or its accuracy. Given antibody testing done in places like Vô, the NY results se
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by danielharan 6y ago
Many of those people testing positive were presymptomatic (some even developed symptoms during the follow-up period). It typically takes several days to develop symptoms. Also worth considering is the period mentioned in the correspondence
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by danielharan 6y ago
Solar's gone down in price 80% in a decade, and is still continuing that downward trend. Wind, both on and offshore, is also getting cheaper. By 2030, new solar will certainly be cheaper in China than it is to operate existing coal pla
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by danielharan 6y ago
We shouldn't let him anchor to those numbers. More than 10k is already a catastrophe, and difficult to justify given the advance warning. Everything in excess of that is a shocking mix of incompetence, hubris and malice - including ref
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by danielharan 6y ago
Some of the things they did initially were counterproductive; isolating carriers is actually much better than sending them home to infect family. I saw figure of 75% of cases being transmitted by close contacts. All that said, the math is b
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by danielharan 6y ago
They're getting flack from other epidemiologists for doing just that. Curve-fitting the AIDS epidemic suggested it would peter out in 1995. We only have the same curves if we put in the same restrictions as Wuhan, or get R down as much
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by danielharan 6y ago
That really doesn't answer the question. That methodology looks extremely dodgy, and merely having funding from the Gates foundation doesn't make it right.
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by danielharan 6y ago
So, you're just assuming other jurisdictions are going to have a curve that looks like Wuhan's? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Farr#Law_of_epidemics
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by danielharan 7y ago
Combining outputs would be awesome. Given comments on the Good Judgement Project, a lot of people are using the wrong reference class, so have bad base rates. The work could easily be split, defining the right reference class, while having
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by danielharan 7y ago
By that logic, no country's emissions matter, even China. Meanwhile, if you want to convince other countries to reduce their emissions, it's much easier when you're part of the solution.
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by danielharan 7y ago
It's 7% of emissions caused by fossil fuels, not 7% of the fuels: coal is the worst of them. Australia's emissions are smaller, however they enable much larger emissions elsewhere. Without that coal, India and China would be accel
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by danielharan 7y ago
That is a completely relevant article, and anyone downvoting this is just willfully ignorant.
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by danielharan 7y ago
Thunderstorms and fire tornadoes say your theory is correct: https://qz.com/1779572/how-australias-massive-bushfires-are-...
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by danielharan 7y ago
How do you reckon the impact of climate change is marginal?
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by danielharan 7y ago
Australia exports more like 7% of total fossil fuels by CO2, according to this: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-08-19/australia-co2...
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by danielharan 7y ago
"France completed construction on 76% of its current 58 reactors at an inflation-adjusted cost of $330 billion (€290 billion). The complete buildout of the 58 reactors was less €400 billion." Whoever managed to build plants in the
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by danielharan 7y ago
You could have parking with rental cars on the periphery of the city or its car-free zone.
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by danielharan 7y ago
Unless we have costs breakthroughs in nuclear, solar is going to stay cheaper.
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by danielharan 7y ago
Sorry, that's just ludicrous. Putting plastic in a dump is much better than letting it kill animal after animal, decomposing into smaller pieces and getting into the food chain. Ideally we design most plastics out, but barring that rec
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by danielharan 7y ago
"that implies there's some natural balance we've disrupted" There's a whole history of colonialism to contend with. What was once nearly a quarter of world GDP in 1700 dropped to less than 5% in 250 years. The whole

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