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This is mostly as a reply to Eliezer Yudkowsky- I've been in the rationalist community for quite a while, this is the first time I've noticed you here on HN. It is really funny to …

I agree that you are immature. Your political opponents have nuanced opinions. Spend some effort understanding what those nuances are and you might learn something.

I think that even long-term the approach as described in TFA will always require many hours of work for an hour of time saved. The saner way to do it is probably have direct person…

The expected steady-state outcome of this situation is that all website-owning educational companies will be targeted for lawsuits, many of which are valid, and many of which are n…

I see a screaming face in the article's top picture. A gaping maw of horror!

You state that there is nothing cultural about birth rates and then list several cultural factors influencing birth rates. And then you state that there is nothing we can reasonabl…

no Excel as an alternative to google sheets? aww.

Congratulations, you have disproven statistical evidence by providing an anecdote.

I would argue that the primary mechanism is cultural changes effecting the fertility rate. Japan suffers a declining population not because of its technology, but because of its cu…

More like: The guy that designed the flight control surfaces of the F-22 did so using an elaborate Excel spreadsheet powered by 4,000 lines of uncommented VBA filled with aerodynam…

You didn't make an effort to charitably interpret my question. My question is essentially about whether transient response to changes in albedo occur primarily over the course of d…

Interesting, thanks. The mechanisms that cause such a delayed temperature response are still opaque though, figure I gotta read more in-depth technical stuff to really understand.

Because China is emotionally distant enough from most HN commenters that it does not trigger a flame war.

>Even if we completely stop emitting CO2 right now (which we can't), there would still be too much CO2 in the atmosphere for some time, leading to further heating and longer meltin…

I hate it when I find traces of environmental group in my cereal.

The act of decomposing a piece based on the values of the artist and the values of other viewpoints ultimately leads to a spooky place where truth is defined by narrative. This is …

I would think that it can still short out and overheat, but the material the battery is made of does not combust or have any exothermic chemical reaction. The energetic failure mod…

Look up the 4% rule and firecalc.com to learn how this 100x multiple is a lot less, more like 25x realistically. A lot of people are irrationally intolerant of risk. Try not to let…

I imagine there's boiler room full of guys somewhere tagging videos as "Borderline content", creating data which then feeds into a machine learning algorithm which decides which vi…

I wish the people downvoting this guy would actually research this claim. Seems reasonable to me. Seeing for a scatterplot of consumer good MSRP's vs. energy of production would be…

pull yerself together, man! :)

If you have issues with fine cuts (like fishing line or tissue paper) the scissors on a victorinox swiss army knife work very well. Get a 91mm size knife for scissors that aren't l…

>Women are enculturated to be uncomfortable most of the time. And to ignore their discomfort. >The real problem isn't that we — as a culture — don't sufficiently consider men's bio…

I follow your example. Thanks for the wisdom.