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you'll get a free electric hummer once drafted
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a friend who studied aero engineering then medicine said to me that medicine was "easier" in some ways because you just had to remember lots of stuff, not actually like derive where the leg bone is from first principals or whatever. he's now a surgeon though which I believe I would classify as "holy poo poo" levels of difficult and responsible whereas ofc computer touching has basically zero responsibility [derails thread with the Therac example again] klafbang posted:You mean there’s no OTA update for fixing Ebola? glue your ports shut op
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PleasureKevin posted:you'll get a free electric hummer once drafted
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Porn site to pay $12.7m to women who didn't know videos would be posted (theguardian.com) 44 points by nwrk 1 hour ago | flag | hide | past | web | favorite | 15 comments No particular comment to post, but just the fact that right now all comments expressing concern for the woman are grey (downvoted)...
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Xik posted:Porn site to pay $12.7m to women who didn't know videos would be posted (theguardian.com) quote:
let's play "guess the gender of that hn poster"
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:let's play "guess the gender of that hn poster" flicking a Twister-style spinner but the quadrants are uniform and blue and labeled “dudebro”
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wruza 11 hours ago [-] We discuss porn industry and porn site’s implementation and ux details at work, both men and women. It’s 2020. Do you know I breathe air and eat food? reply
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Jose Valasquez posted:wruza 11 hours ago [-] Lol 100% this guy is the missing stair always bringing up porn at lunch.
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Jose Valasquez posted:wruza 11 hours ago [-] Reading through comments I feel like being from completely another world. While an option is to simply stay silent, I struggle to understand how that plot ends up unquestioned by everyone except lawyers. Is it self-censoring in action? Because I feel self-censored. (These comments are both on an article about how "GirlsDoPorn was sued by women who claimed they were coerced into making videos without knowing footage would be online.")
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people like to look at naked people therefore everyone is fine with looking at someone naked without their informed consent. no big deal. just own it qed sjws. you just cant handle the disruptive logical powers of a software ~engineer~
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Ask HN: Are books worth it? posted:I have read less than 50 books in my life and probably less than 5 books in the past 10 years.
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haha jfc
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:let's play "guess the gender of that hn poster" That dude is literally one of the worst posters there. Wanders in smarming about all of his considerable lack of experience in almost every topic you care to name and he's a chud to boot (and a chud who should be booted)
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Chris Knight posted:haha jfc
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jimmyvalmer 8 hours ago [-] The answer should be apparent from the signal-to-noise of OP. He merely needed to ask "Are books worth the time?" to get his point across, but instead couched it in 350 extra words. Books are similarly inefficient. Verbosity is an existential threat. reply
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a generation of technical resources that think if it can't be expressed in a tweet it's unnecessary verbosity.
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Xik posted:if it can't be a tweet it's unnecessary
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Xik posted:a generation of technical resources that think if it can't be expressed in a tweet it's unnecessary verbosity. Our documentation is a series of YouTube videos
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lancemantis posted:Our documentation is a series of YouTube videos also our short- and medium-format news articles, reviews, and recipes
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mystes posted:Your post was too long to read so I shortened it. "more than tweet: bad." Jose Valasquez posted:jimmyvalmer 8 hours ago [-] "op wordy. just ask if books good. books long. words bad."
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Achmed Jones posted:also our short- and medium-format news articles, reviews, and recipes If you're reading more than the headline, you're wasting your time with unnecessary verbosity. Not a waste of time, though: Reading and writing comments on Hacker News.
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Internet Janitor posted:"more than tweet: bad." "tweet not read not"
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tweet posted; never read
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hn: gender/race doesn't matter, only your technical contributions also hn: quote:User :Gijs (he/him) quote:deith 11 hours ago | parent | flag | favorite [flagged] | on: Firefox considering off-by-default preference for ...
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candiodari 3 hours ago [-] The main limit on plant growth is exactly that: a shortage of CO2 in the atmosphere. Yes, shortage. Will this actually make a difference with the plants starved of CO2, as opposed to a CO2-enriched atmosphere in the lab ? (obviously I mean from the perspective of a plant that wants to grow faster, what matters from a global perspective can and probably will be different) e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2012/10/25/contrary... reply (note: the link is to a blogpost titled "Contrary To What You Hear, Global Warming Has Been Good To Africa" by the president of the "spark of freedom foundation" and was formerly federalist society associated)
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lightedman 11 hours ago [-] "This is mostly due to how old the city is, rusty and lead pipes in old homes are impossible for the city to track and fix." It shouldn't be that hard to track at all with a little brainpower. When did we stop using lead and iron piping? Add another 10 years forward and start from that date back, and find every home matching the age/time range. Everything else should be copper and/or plastic. reply
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the city is the one you're thinking of btw, no the other one : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21997412
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fritz posted:candiodari 3 hours ago [-] this reminds me of matt ridley's book "the rational optimist" which handwaves climate change away with "all these disaster projections are based on the assumption that current growth continues... so if climate turns to poo poo, the growth will not continue and therefore it's not a problem" it makes sense sort of until you start thinking about what the words really mean, so ideal content for superficial reassurement that "it's ok because smart man in book says that it's ok" matt ridley is a hereditary peer who owns stock in coal
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aazaa 55 minutes ago [-] > The most undeniable evidence for climate change would be if people are making a ton of money from accurately anticipating its results. I’d invest heavily in such a fund, if it existed. Rather than shorting, another option might be to buy undeveloped land that should appreciate as climate change predictions come true. For example, the land in the Canadian territories might be an option if you believe thawing will occur. Or possibly further south in the northern US. If your model says rain patterns will change, invest in desert real estate in those areas set to get the most rain.
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Oneiros posted:aazaa 55 minutes ago [-] i mean people are almost certainly doing this but they're just not making a lot of noise about it. exxon mobil covers its fuckin bases.
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the few farmers I know here are kind of looking forwards to the longer growing season we'd get here, though they're constantly surprised by the increase in pesticides and insecticides required as milder winters make pests and insects able to come up further north, and they more and more frequently get burned by longer droughts and more violent storms compared to what used to be milder frequent rains. Storms have too much rainfall in a short period of time so that the water isn't properly absorbed by the soil and it tends to wash away part of the topsoil or its nutrients and droughts are always problematic when most farmers here never really needed any sort of irrigation and aren't ready for it. Unpredictable weather around season starts and ends have also played badly with early freezes and the inability to properly dry grain and fertilize before the first snow covers, or getting an early start on germination in spring only for a few cold nights to kill major parts of the crop. More frequent floods around spring is also forcing some farmers further south in the province to consider switching to more permanent crops that would help prevent soil erosion. They really like (or liked?) that prospect of longer growing season, but afaict they're starting to realize it's not gonna be smooth sailing at all and that their choices of crops will grow more limited with new unpredictable and rougher events.
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in 2007 lehman brothers had an internal tome detailing the investments best suited for a global warming future. i don't remember that much of it, but one of the real biggies was pharmaceuticals focused on respiratory problems, claiming that this would be a huge early class of health problems related to global warming. somehow.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:in 2007 lehman brothers had an internal tome detailing the investments best suited for a global warming future. i don't remember that much of it, but one of the real biggies was pharmaceuticals focused on respiratory problems, claiming that this would be a huge early class of health problems related to global warming. somehow. Seems like a good bet in Australia!
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MononcQc posted:the few farmers I know here are kind of looking forwards to the longer growing season we'd get here, though they're constantly surprised by the increase in pesticides and insecticides required as milder winters make pests and insects able to come up further north, and they more and more frequently get burned by longer droughts and more violent storms compared to what used to be milder frequent rains. this keeps sounding like the sheep look up by john brunner, which is not a good omen
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as far as I can tell there are lots of efforts being made towards things such as regenerative agriculture, bio crops, etc. mostly it’s a transition period towards different agricultural methods and crops that might be more familiar with what people already do down south but weren’t necessarily a concern here. I’m not necessarily worried about our ability to produce crops, it’s people down south (US and MX) who are already very dependent on irrigation from over stressed aquifers that may see the biggest hardships and shifts to crops that play better with lower water availability. For me in somewhat mid northern Quebec, that probably mostly means a lower availability of veggies and fruits in winter over the next many decades, something my grandparents had to contend with, and a return to a diet more focused on grains/beans and livestock fed with grains and beans since they keep far longer during seasons where nothing grows. i.e the bigger threat, as long as pollination remains possible, is likely the lack of adaptation in crop and culture methods that can accelerate dust bowl scenarios. But even dust bowl scenarios can be prevented if you grow the right crops that prevent soil erosion and other techniques (drip irrigation rather than more demanding forms, tree-based wind barriers, etc).
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also North Americans are generally over fed and throw away a fuckton of food (like 30% of it) with vasts amount land dedicated to producing a beef diet so I’m willing to bet that wealth distribution and accessibility to distribution (not being in a food desert) is going to be more critical than availability of arable land for a long while and would probably be a good area of focus
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Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs (mit.edu)quote:This is besides the point of the article, but the link is in HTTP (no TLS but available with a correct certificate), and the report site which has the information linked in the article is also in HTTP (but has a bad TLS certificate). U.S. alcohol-related deaths have doubled, study says (npr.org) 85 points by pseudolus 9 hours ago | hide | past | web | favorite | 96 comments quote:rjkennedy98 7 hours ago [-] quote:
quote:Shivetya 6 hours ago [-] Best Bi Geek Squid fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Jan 11, 2020 |
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you found the knower of women rjkennedy98 18 hours ago | parent [-] | on: Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor f... What about marriage? If a man makes more money and he is married is HE talking more? Isn't that income split (or in reality spent by the women)? I have never understood why data on married men is treated as if the men are single and it's their money alone. reply rjkennedy98 3 days ago | parent [-] | on: Whatever happened to the noble art of the manly we... Its not so much as zero-sum but essentially schizophrenic. On one side we have a culture of extreme sexual liberation, with the media, hookup culture, and the porn industry, and on the other side we have the yes-means-yes, firings for touching a women's back (Garrison Keillor), special legal proceedings for sexual assault accusers, ect. How is anyone supposed to navigate a culture as complex as this? reply
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Penisface posted:this keeps sounding like the sheep look up by john brunner, which is not a good omen exactly why everyone needs to read it make it part of the curriculum
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MononcQc posted:as far as I can tell there are lots of efforts being made towards things such as regenerative agriculture, bio crops, etc. mostly it’s a transition period towards different agricultural methods and crops that might be more familiar with what people already do down south but weren’t necessarily a concern here. yeah if you put it this way it is easy to see that "efforts are being made" and "scenarios can be prevented", but what i am worried about is that increasingly the cycle seems to be: 1. we know problem exists 2. we know how to solve problem 3. we do jack poo poo to actually mitigate 4. problem becomes worse, goto 1
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