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Any nation launching any nuke has the potential to eliminate most life on earth. Limited nuclear war is very unlikely. This is a nightmare. Please read Nuclear War: A Scenario, a b…

Reducing car dependency will increase social activity. Cars are isolating socially and geographically. Everyone should try live car-free and see how much more connected to your com…

Cars are extremely space inefficient, so when cities are built for cars it is done at the expense of more efficient transportation methods. And what you're left with in the end is …

A big perpetrator of this is the designed environment surrounding car culture. I moved somewhere where there's plenty of foot traffic, specifically so my kid will walk/bike to scho…

Of course images are not relevant to ChatGPT (I never specified ChatGPT), but to other models being trained by OpenAI. From the article: "That month, Sama began pilot work for a se…

I feel like comments here are too focused on the $2 per hour aspect and not enough on the emotional abuse that this labour entails. Sure, maybe it's an "average wage", but the peop…

American suburban culture is embarrassing. Cities should be filled with kids living their own independent lives. Look how dutch cities are built and it's clear to see why dutch you…

What other engineering field has acceptable death rates? We design roads EXPECTING people to die on them. Insane.

Cars were a mistake. Cities would be much better without them.

Hell Let Loose does something similar. Each team of 50 has one commander, and multiple squads with infantry (all human players). The squad leads communicate with the commander, the…

Building up doesn't mean building a cypherpunk environment. Building 4/5 story buildings with units for families is enough for healthy urbanization.

Do things in your regular life that help the planet: Don't drive; bike. Don't eat meat. Stop buying products you don't need. Plant trees in your city. Donate to climate action foun…

>Skepticism is good, but you should also be skeptical of the first conclusion it leads you to. As someone who is naturally skeptical, I will keep in this mind more. Thanks. It feel…

I (now) understand your intention was to simply share your opinion of the keyboard, I happened to see the post in the same format many other commodity-like product posts take: disg…

This is blatant advertising on the front-page of HN. How did a post about a generic keyboard rise so high in such a short period of time?

Are there any active attempts by any large organizations to reduce the temperature of the planet? I know there is plenty of funding from government and industry into green technolo…

Firefox's Facebook container extension and Privacy Badger extension makes this easy to do.

I loved the experience of reading this article. The flow through the images, animations, and text all controlled without thinking only using one input-device was executed perfectly…

There's an example of this happening in the 2018 book Bad Blood by John Carreyrou. A doctor gets the scoop on what Theranos is developing and files a patent loosely based on what t…

This is why I'm so excited for WASM: the tech is great, but its ability to break down barriers to entry to markets for new and upcoming players is what makes it socially meaningful…

This is what I thought as well. Mindfulness is a skill to be practiced. Similar to how your heart strengthens through running and your muscle-mass increases through weight training…

I frequently travel to non-English speaking countries and am conscious of what I ingest - the attempt to standardize nutrition labeling on an international scale is a great effort!…

Only tangentially related, but here[0] is a video of the great reforestation program that South Korea undertook after the Korean War. They effectively transformed vast arid landsca…

I thought we were under the consensus that these large scale associative studies were not accurate/effective in predicting causal effects, especially in nutrition. I can't find any…