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I never thought of it like that before. I absolutely agree!

I'm glad to see this. I don't want to live in the mental straight jacket that these "activists" want to create.

What's the round trip efficiency of something like this, and what's the rate of loss to the environment? There's been a couple of these posted in the last few days and I have no fe…

This is an article by ourworldindata, who aggregate a bunch of (mostly economic) metrics from countries around the world. It is common for energy use to be reported in that way on …

It looks like they're venture capitalists, so I won't hold it against them!

Ha, aren't you describing wall street right now? We're already living this!

This looks extremely cool. I'm doing a masters right now and would definitely use it! My one question though would be how are the notes stored? Is it possible to download them as l…

Cool Infographics

You can get watering timers in home depot, you could try hacking one of those? The hard piece to get is probably the electronic valve.

Layoffs seem to be up, but that's a questionable chart if ever I saw one. I doubt they have had representative coverage of the market for that whole period. With those numbers, loo…

Oh man, that's literally the only thing holding me back from thunderbird. I used it years ago and would love to go back!

That's kind of funny, our problem with Google calendar is that it keeps adding that when we don't want it!

Without megaprojects, we'd all probably still be living a subsistance agrarian lifestyle. It's hard to tag specific dollars to a specific public project, they often work as multipl…

Suing contractors for the bureaucratic nightmare you create means that every future bid will now have a buffer to cover the expense of that.

I think you can technically mitigate some concerns for the people who understand that, but practically it's going to be a very different story. People will believe who/what they be…

I don't like them myself, but some people think it helps the edges of windows and buttons stand out better.

That sounds great on paper, but you would almost definitely get people squeezing around the letter of the law. I mean, take noise. It seems easy to regulate because you just put a …

The solution seems to be a Goldilocks zone between popularity and death, too popular and it devolves, too unpopular and it dies. HN manages to keep itself tucked neatly into that z…

Tunnels are also significantly more expensive, which is why they're so rare. With a tunnel, you generally have significant earthworks, possibly a permanent groundwater issue (you m…

It's like that smart home post from a few days ago. The dream is that lights, heating and entertainment automatically turn on and off and adjust throughout the day. The reality is …

Where I grew up, they used the number of cranes visible on the skyline as an indicator of the strength of the economy.

There is balance in all things. Engineers shouldn't be ignored, but we are also not omniscient. As an engineer myself, having worked on product and having been a client of engineer…

Ha, I did the exact same thing. I guess the fed has it all wrong! Edit: I guess it's not as fair to the player, but maybe there should be more randomness in there, or perhaps some …

If you want to improve your writing, even technical writing, I'd recommend reading more books. Classics, sci-fi, whatever floats your boat. Blog posts and news are meant for consum…

Global crypto is a small compared to public markets, and financial institutions essentially can't incorporate them in any way that would pose any real risk. This collapse is a symp…