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> 10lb of muscle (easily gained by a "newbie" who is eating well) will add about 1,500 calories per day to your baseline metabolic rate Per month? https://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Art…

Wow, “can’t work”. That might be the strongest signs of cognitive dissonance I’ve ever seen. Trivial logic disproves your statement and in 10-20 years it will be proven empirically…

If you saw, for example, how deals that lock up fabrication resources (and the surrounding global politics) work to prevent competition, you’d see one small example out of many tha…

I am actually spending a good chunk of time on the process of extracting myself from the ecosystem, I’m about 50% there. Two problems make your solution a non-solution: 1. Apple is…

I have the same problem, and also often people show up twice but only one bubble works (invariably the second one I try). I tried to get stuff like that fixed, impossible when ther…

> The M1's and Airpods lineup are absolutely magical. Read again, I said as much & agree so much that it’s actually a fundamental part of my characterization of Apple. > I think Ap…

I worked for an SVP at Apple as an “entrepreneur in residence” from 2016-2019. Apple’s best-of-the-worst products now suck in a million subtle ways; and they’ve become so complex t…

Disclaimer: I left Apple in June. Processing on local devices is slightly better but ultimately it’s cold comfort when those devices are locked down, closed source, and opaque to a…

Land is not scarce. I know this because I've both surveyed a large part of the world from the air myself, and from data. Please cite data. PG&E's failure is because of poor capital…

If you are advocating for capitalism with externalities priced in using fair (by democratic vote) and absolute/equal valuation methods, that is what I am arguing for as well. SF do…

No the incentives are not there, not when you can vote yourself richer by freezing property taxes and preventing building up or out. Citation needed on cities being fundamentally m…

I'm not counting paving farmland, friend. Also, go look up aeroponics and 3D farming. We don't need PG&E. The sun gives us free energy, and batteries + thermal energy storage can c…

The first part of the response is to the parent comment, not the article. That said, intelligent legislation to encourage all types of housing and development (with externalities l…

No offense, but your thinking here is actually a bigger part of the problem. There is nothing fundamentally unsustainable about suburbs, single family homes, low density, or cars. …

Anytime!

Erasmus also said “What is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?” “With all due respect”, which part are you playing right now? My comments we…

This is exactly right, and way better than my reply. Your polish can improve as you scale and get more resources. That doesn't mean there isn't a min-bar of basic security practice…

I'll try when I get a moment. I think it might actually be better and easier to open-source SW and HW modules that do the right things.

That's not a very generous interpretation of what I wrote, and honestly hints at an immature understanding of good engineering and security. Dropcam v1 was one of the most secure i…

Being capable of changing one's mind is a great thing. Thanks for the honest conversation – that's what's great about HN these days! We competed head-on every single day with compa…

Thanks, I appreciate that! I feel you about the lights. Ultimately, I have grown to think that users should have ultimate control over the software running on their devices. If I w…

I think I understand where you are coming from, and I've thought similarly before. But billion-dollar companies have been made almost purely on "NAT punching". I've written the cod…

Every rung you climb between client-server towards fully distributed increases software difficulty non-linearly. It seems simple at the outset, but once you actually try to build a…

I know what you mean. Product engineering gets weird when you remove all constraints, and you actually end up hobbled instead of empowered by the "resources". I think if they made …

I've got a table of a zillion different methods with myriad categories of benefits and drawbacks. And a weighted scoring system. And ... I may be slightly obsessive about this topi…