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I'm skeptical a counterexample is good evidence of creative intuition.

I hadn't heard any of these claims before. Without a source, I decided to ask chatgpt. Its assessment is that essentially every claim in this comment is false. If you think chatgpt…

How is it irrelevant? It establishes the base rate under specific regulatory regimes. Most of the nuclear plants that make up that base rate were built when nuclear regulations wer…

Most of the nuclear power that makes up that chart was built when there was significantly less regulation on reactors than there is today. Even if deregulation increased nuclear de…

I think you're seriously misunderstanding the statistic I posted. I didn't post aggregate deaths from different power sources, I posted deaths per terawatt-hour of energy produced!…

https://www.nuscalepower.com/press-releases/2020/nuscale-pow... "NuScale spent over $500 million, with the backing of Fluor, and over 2 million labor hours to develop the informati…

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p... People die from the operation & externalities of every energy source, it's just that Nuclear power has orders of mag…

The harms of radiation are massively overhyped. Nobody from the Fukushima accident died from radiation sickness or radiation syndrome, and so far there's been no evidence of long t…

The cost of your proposed policies to consumers, to the Americans who can create because of cheap great Chinese printers and wouldn't be able to create under your policy... is much…

If you struggle with Yabai I'll reccomend Aerospace, which I think is more performant & reliable.

Another alternative for writing Bash is Babashka, which is a Clojure dialect.

I think it's less that politicians think short term, and more that voters think short term. Politicians are just responding to the incentives created by willfully ignorant voters.

It's amazing that California has so many horrible problems with housing shortages, poverty, and basic governance... and yet this is what representatives choose to concoct.

I think the author is selecting good gifs and structuring arguments, but the prose is painfully AI generated.

Isn't that a consequence of Zurich housing & zoning policy?

AirBnBs are not responsible for the housing crisis. Voters that vote to block development at the municipal level are responsible for the housing crisis.

Has hacker news lost it? Maps & Gmail & Search all have plenty of accumulating flaws... but they also completely defined their product category and today are among the most popular…

If you're a materialist and you think there is no afterlife then I don't believe there would be a void. There's no mechanism for "you" to perceive a void or perceive time. Its the …

I mean the goal is that the money invested increases the value of the company so that the founder's reduced stake is worth considerably more than the founder's full stake of the co…

Because LLMs are not humans, and the code they produce will have a different distribution of failure modes than human written code, so attribution is useful info while reviewing?

Clojure programmers tend to be some of the highest paid[1] on average of any language, so I'd lean more towards a lack of appeal. [1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2019#technolog…

It's fascinating that Clojure has consistently the best performing solutions and yet at the same time such a low success rate. Do you have an idea as to why that is? If I had to gu…

As someone who loves Clojure, I wonder about the real portability across host languages. Do you have experience with any of these other dialects? (beyond the obvious CLJS & Babashk…

Absolutely agree. Recently learning emacs with vertico/consult/orderless/embark has had me thinking constantly about how needlessly crippled most OS windowing system workflows are.…