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Too lazy to print puzzles out, so I made an app to mail them to me
Logic puzzles are the best, but I’m trying to cut down on screen time. No more Wordle or Puzzmo for me. There are great websites to with Sudoku, Star Battle, and Futoshiki. It’s fr…
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Show HN: The Humanoid Vibe – weekly newsletter about humanoid robots
Humanoids have reached an exciting time in their development. Every week there are new breakthroughs, demos, and announcements. So I created a fun newsletter to keep track of it. T…
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Plus I believe Feynman’s baby brother died from an infected hangnail. Going off memory from Gleick’s book, so please correct if slightly off.
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Let me explain a bit more. I don't suggest raising prices for early customers who are receiving the same product they signed up for originally. They can stay at the same price, whi…
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Definitely double the prices right now. Since there is a free version that is generous, it won’t be “selling out”. I’m sure it felt right back years ago, but think of how much the …
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And while you're here, have you read Joseph Tainter's "Collapse of Complex Societies"? He is a very underrated thinker in the lack-of-progress area you've shown interest in.
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I've been using Stripe for several years and love it. Switching to payment intents this year was seamless. One thing I'd love you guys to do is create your own QuickBooks connectio…
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Methane doesn't have a half-life, but you are correct it doesn't stay around forever. In about a decade it will react to become carbon dioxide and water vapor, which both contribut…
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I see it more as a stop-gap. Reducing some of the damage transitioning to renewable energy over the next 1-3 decades. And optimistically doing my small part.
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Approval accepted and I will stay away from the kool-aid.
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I would argue being vegan is a very hard change, equivalent in my mind to asking people who care about the environment to never fly or get in a car with an internal combustion engi…
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No vig The tough part about a problem of massive scale is no solution is good enough. So you sit around debating a global carbon tax for decades while attacking any other effort th…
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Hopefully this is a more palatable solution for skeptics than a big carbon tax or even doing nothing. There is an obvious connection between cars and airplanes spewing gunk into th…
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> A Climeworks app could be installed on my smartphone, he explained. It could then be activated by my handset’s location services. “You fly over here to Europe,” he explained, “an…
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It was also fun diving into React Native for the first time, I learned a lot. I used a starter kit ( https://market.nativebase.io/view/react-native-fiber-firebas... ) I would defin…
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I started https://pledgebalance.com/ in February and just launched an iOS beta group this month. It's an app to balance the negative impact of your daily travel with tiny payment t…
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go on...
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> What if I just can’t avoid that flight, or cut down on driving? If you simply can’t make every change that’s needed, consider offsetting your emissions with a trusted green proje…