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Do you eat meat? Do you use a car and create carbon emissions? That's destroying ecosystems all around the world, and yet here we are doing nothing about it. Ticks aren't even the …

Reading a dozen comments here, the AI seems to blow peoples mind most often in domains they're less familiar with. Repairing furnaces, HVAC, towing hitches, camper van interfaces, …

Silver bulletin is like it - probably a lot of similar methods given it's also Nate Silver making the models.

Your revisionist history isn't on point for US slavery. Industrialization actually increased slavery in the South. Demand for cheap cotton came from English and then American indus…

Parent didn't mention either capacity or utilization? The article itself is mentioning generation. Not sure where you're getting what you're responding to?

The author seems more about authenticity than boring-ness. And using the label boring vs bored, it comes to a similar outcome. If I say, that guy is boring, he's inauthentic/poser/…

Boredom is actually a good thing to experience. Modern life seeks to devour every morsel of our attention. Are you able to sit motionless looking at a tree for 3 minutes? Can you r…

You said it yourself: he was primarily a professor, not an artist. His position being a "luxury" is another argument. Anyway, He taught languages to brilliant students and created …

If everyone chose to eat veggie burgers and seitan steaks instead of using beef, the climate's trajectory would immediately improve. For all the responsibility of industry, many in…

Whether or not the posts are fake on this particular project, the mere concept that we could have thousands of AI bots using climate-changing energy to have bot conversations is mi…

It's not just numbers or speed. It's the shape of the population pyramid. Around the world except Africa, populations are aging. This means less taxes will come in, less workers of…

It's actually not a good trade at all, you need a balanced population pyramid if you want a functional economy in the future. The housing stock is behind due to financial crisis in…

If someone sees the world around them getting worse, I think it's pretty logical to not bring a child into that society.

What a bizarre comment. Who cares about their genetic line? Are you evolution itself? Do you have stakes in making sure your genes make it to the future?

You're not alone, Kraig911. It's very hard to be a parent in modern society. My wife and I's friends have basically vanished from our lives, they have zero initiative or interest i…

This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Massive kudos to you. I am forwarding to all NYers I know. It gives me chills to relive specific places, though I'm far from the c…

Sorry, you think it's impossible to hurt Trump? Are you forgetting the bullet that passed an inch from his brain? A crazy person with a gun can change history in a second, and it w…

Actual healthcare programmer here. Healthcare tech is not designed to employ more people, as stated by another comment. Healthcare tech is in fact designed conservatively by its na…

Look up Cal Newport's Deep Work book, he's writing one now Deep Life that you'll probably want to get as it will deal with this very subject. The idea of working and playing at the…

Non-sequitur. You want to be crushed to death in 900 F heat on Venus? Or frozen in no atmosphere on Mars? I doubt many people reading the journal Nature would view "the wild" and "…

Let's investigate that claim. Does OF physically and emotionally abuse its creators? Does it perpetuate human trafficking? Does OF create drug addiction and use that to control its…

What does TIBCO do? Well, I know their product WebFocus, curious if anyone else here uses it. It's basically an online platform for making charts, dashboards, scheduling data extra…

What a low effort comment - as if burgers and cheese and big ole pieces of meat didn't exist before plastics? HN's comments are supposed to make the conversation more interesting a…

Plagiarizing aka Parent Comment just made an Open Source "library". What's wrong with using those??