not_jd_salinger

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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
edit: this comment initially made claims that it looked like HN was removing climate change related content from the front page. I still believe this to be the case, but don't really have strong enough evidence to back it up. I'll
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> it’s not going to automatically mean more coal will be used. Natural gas, wind, and solar have all increased in absolute terms in the last two decades in the US while coal burning has halved in absolute terms, reducing overall absolute
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> I'm in the US, and have one child who repeatedly could not complete math work during school, and would bawl and protest how stupid they were when given math homework at home. My experience in the US is that the vast majority of ma
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> It assumes that pre-industrial agricultural output is the maximum that our planet can sustain. Which is completely off for a multitude of reasons I agree it's off because we've done significant damage to the biosphere since i
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
1 billion is a rough estimate based populations prior to the massive boom in the industrial revolution that saw massive changes in the way agriculture is done. It could easily be 2 billion or so, but definitely not 7.8 billion. You can see
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
We're currently undergoing the largest mass extinction event that will easily rank in the top 6 of life on this planet and could possibly compete with the end-permian. What makes you think we could possibly survive? Because we're
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> the fact that humans beings are doing better than they've ever done in our history by almost every imaginable metric. That's because we have had ready access to insanely abundant high-energy density source of energy. The non-
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> humans are extremely adaptable This is a strange claim I see repeated over and over, but it has very little evidence to justify it. The only piece of evidence people present is: > people had colonized the whole planet, except for An
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
Can you please list some of this "far worse situations" than nuclear war and climate change as we are currently facing? "Societal cohesion" doesn't do too much to help us survive crop failures and wet bulb temperatu
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
Why is this being downvoted? I've notice a disturbing trend on HN where bad news is downvoted. It's unquestionably too late to prevent global warming, and mitigation is only possible if we seriously consider organized economic dow
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> Our ecosystems out here in the west won't withstand another couple of decades of this. Which is unfortunate because even if we dropped emissions to zero tomorrow, we would still be in for a few more decades of escalating climat
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
While I love XKCD and am not a fan of Trump, limiting the philosophical idea of "Free Speech" to explicitly being about the Federal Government is a fairly dangerous idea. When this country was founded Government was by far the mos
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> Having a saving account teaches kids a lot. Growing up I always had this belief that wealth was about building a big savings account, and that rich people where like Scrooge McDuck swimming in big pools of money. This is, imho, a fanta
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> The world is not ending - Its going to get by just fine This entire school of thinking that has derived from a George Carlin bit never ceases to annoy me. For starters the "world" as some abstract ideal that we find comfortin
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> than store bought Just for clarification do you mean "store bought tortillas" or "store bought" masa mix (the dehydrated kind), or "store bought" masa meaning you went to your local Mexican supermarket and
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> I work for a company that uses this data to match terminally ill patients with niche treatments and clinical trials, and the work literally saves and prolongs lives. Talked with a company that made similar claims about what they are do
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> GBDTs are still unbeatable. You'd be surprised how many times I've replaced a GBDT with logistic regression and had negligible drop off in model performance with a dramatic improvement in both training time as well as debuggi
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> you've both ossified into separate individuals with rigid expectations and assumptions about life This is the real issue, not the dating pool. The obvious evidence against the dating pool is that a fairly large number of divorced
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
Both. I personally find the fact that having these later and later rounds of funding considered normal a huge indicator that something is very wrong with the current industry. It means there's a lot of capital being dumped into trying
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
Have any of them figured out how to generate a profit or have they just switched from extracting money from VCs to extracting it from the public?
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
I've worked in Ad Tech for awhile now at many different places. While the data and privacy issues that abound are mind blowing, this process: > sift through vast piles of data, find previously unknown patterns, and then exploit them
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> nice to be rich You don't have to be rich at all to have a nice office, you just need the flexibility to not have to be required to live in one of a handful a major metro areas where work is located. That's why we're in
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> Do employees hold firm on these demands or just return to the office grumbling? My career long experience has been that with any major hits to quality of life at a company: not every employee follows through, only the good ones. While
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> until they're undeniably upon us We're undeniably impacted by climate change right this very second. You can take a drive along the Eastern coast of the United States and see water flooding the yards of homes that are all for
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> Then again real life has been scaring me for years. Especially with the extremely high THC content of modern strains people often fail to recognize that weed is still a psychedelic in its own right. Alcohol, for most people, will simpl
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
I've done a reasonable amount of both psychedelics and long distance running (finished full and half marathons + the training required to do that) and they're completely different things. Both are great, both can be great tools fo
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
> One essay by an academic, and the other by a creator It's a bit unfair to paint PG as just an "academic". Sure he basically rushed from academia straight into the business world, but he's created things as well. I m
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
The "data economy" is just an extension of the "Advertising Economy". Of course the idea of an "Advertising Economy" should cause people to pause a bit since advertising, by its nature, can only help maximize p
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
People have been making this threat for decades now but here is the thing: you always get what you pay for. High quality developers from these countries can get paid surprisingly well. The ones that are insanely cheap tend to also do poor w
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by not_jd_salinger 5y ago
In tech there have always been a relatively large number of remote friendly companies. I worked for the better part of a decade fully remote, in full time, reasonably well paying positions at a wide range of companies. I only returned to an

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