memen

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by memen 8mo ago
Micro plastics pollution is a relatively new problem and thus many direct and indirect effects are not yet fully understood. Moving emissions from CO2 (gas) to micro particles (solid), means emissions will be deposited more local to roads.
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by memen 8mo ago
Is that true? EV have much higher emissions of micro plastics and pfas (or variations thereof) due to increased tier degradation. EVs are typically way heavier than similar ICE due to the batteries and combined with the higher torques, tire
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by memen 8mo ago
Modern ICE cars have auto start/stop systems, so on a traffic light it has as much exhaust as an EV.
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by memen 9mo ago
I think finding and transporting 170 million migrants in 2 weeks to replace the bottom 50% would be quite the engineering challenge if at all possible.
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by memen 9mo ago
0% productivity improvement. Rephrasing the question: By what percentage has AI changed your input quality? Answer would be around -50%. This is attributed mostly to the vast amount of search results that are AI generated and provide very
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by memen 10mo ago
The chemical dependence is quite a factor in the psychological process you refer to. It nudges and reinforces this psychological behaviour. You can broaden the definition to include addiction without chemical dependence, but it does not mea
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by memen 1y ago
> why use a SQLite abstraction library when I can use LLMs to interact directly with the C source code? Because of the accumulated knowledge in these abstraction layers and because of the abstraction itself resulting in readable and main
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by memen 2y ago
This implies that you need to have a lot in common in order to be friends. Maybe alcohol shows that you actually do not need to have a lot in common, just having fun together is the common. You might need alcohol once in your life to realiz
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by memen 2y ago
> (b) HN commenters who consistently dismiss any and all criticism of "AI" I do not really get the same vibe from 'HN commenters'. The way I repeatedly see it presented is, it is a language model (very good at that) a
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by memen 2y ago
There are problems where understanding one level below the abstractions indeed leads to better solutions. However, I would argue that for a large set of problems, this is not the case. I think being aware of the abstraction (at multiple lev
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by memen 2y ago
I'd rather cross at a roundabout than at a crosswalk somewhere along a straight road. Actually, last week I got almost run over in such a situation. A bus stopped for the crosswalk, blinked lights to indicate he'd seen me. I start
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by memen 2y ago
In the Netherlands it is very common to have both crosswalks and bike priority lanes on the roundabout, especially in busy city environments. This actually improves safety, as the 'vulnerable' road users cross when drivers are dri
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by memen 2y ago
It's funny how the Run Coaching is placed in the middle of the roundabout!
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by memen 2y ago
Avoidant behaviour does not solve the actual problem. To each their own, but I think trying to address the issue and learn from it to better deal with these situations in the future is much more constructive than to abandon or limit all fut
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by memen 2y ago
Very nice! Note for the creator: 2nd and 3rd Guides result in 404 [0,1]. [0]: https://hi.events/docs/guides/customizing-event-homepages [1]: https://hi.events/docs/guides/registering-an-a
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by memen 2y ago
It's precisely the other way around. Cost of bureaucracy is easy to measure, abuse is not measurable (only caught abuse). Nevertheless, the point is that it is difficult to compare a known cost to an unknown cost, so that still stands.
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by memen 2y ago
Interesting! Do you have sources/studies that show this?
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by memen 2y ago
It may differ in your country, but here in the Netherlands there is just a shortage of supply, not a shortage of demand. All these services have massive waiting lists, so there will be ten others for each person 'leaving the system&#x2
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by memen 2y ago
Misleading title. Original title: "The rise in reported maternal mortality rates in the US is largely due to a change in measurement" The original title may be too long, but it is very misleading to leave the "reported"
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by memen 2y ago
Yes, that was what I understood as their point. My point is that it isn't that big of an effect, and also partially discrediting the people involved by saying they only think about money.
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by memen 2y ago
You say none of your activities got you a job offer, but did you get anyone else a job offer or did you create/pointed out opportunities for others? Maybe trying to do that helps in finding ways to be on the receiving end of such oppor
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by memen 2y ago
> There's of course money involved too: the elder care home she's in gets a hefty rent each month. And so does the doctor. Leaving this out might make your argument stronger. At least in Europe, there is no shortage of elder pe
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by memen 2y ago
There is no guarantee the cure will be cheap or even cheaper compared to the current situation. Not to mention the increase in other medical conditions that are bound to occur in the added years of life and add to the total medical bill. Al
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by memen 2y ago
Is there older data somewhere too? Would be interesting to see from 1950s upwards!
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by memen 2y ago
I never really understood this line of thought. Corporate interests _are_ citizen interests right? Those corporations are made up of (a lot) of people, and if those corporate systems thrive in a certain condition, then the people within the
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by memen 2y ago
Warranty is not the same as reasonable expected lifetime. Under warranty, the burden of proof is at the manufacturers side. The 2 years is typical for electric appliances, but it is from jurisprudence only. The law actually states that it s
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by memen 2y ago
Proof that it does not work is still an interesting result! However, I think you meant to say that if you failed to show that it works, it often also means you cannot proof that it doesn't work. And then you indeed have nothing worth p
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by memen 2y ago
> Have you run a model on how many mutations are required for sustained transfer? (I have). Interesting! Can you share some reads on that?
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by memen 2y ago
I think it is the same as with cars. Introducing cars improves the access times of a lot of things, but as a result, supermarkets, hospitals etc. are now more sparsely distributed than ever. Everyone has a car anyways, so it makes sense to
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by memen 2y ago
I see you do woodworking as well, ever tried to make cases for electronics from (ply)wood?

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