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Micro plastics pollution is a relatively new problem and thus many direct and indirect effects are not yet fully understood. Moving emissions from CO2 (gas) to micro particles (sol…

Is that true? EV have much higher emissions of micro plastics and pfas (or variations thereof) due to increased tier degradation. EVs are typically way heavier than similar ICE due…

Modern ICE cars have auto start/stop systems, so on a traffic light it has as much exhaust as an EV.

I think finding and transporting 170 million migrants in 2 weeks to replace the bottom 50% would be quite the engineering challenge if at all possible.

0% productivity improvement. Rephrasing the question: By what percentage has AI changed your input quality? Answer would be around -50%. This is attributed mostly to the vast amoun…

The chemical dependence is quite a factor in the psychological process you refer to. It nudges and reinforces this psychological behaviour. You can broaden the definition to includ…

> why use a SQLite abstraction library when I can use LLMs to interact directly with the C source code? Because of the accumulated knowledge in these abstraction layers and because…

This implies that you need to have a lot in common in order to be friends. Maybe alcohol shows that you actually do not need to have a lot in common, just having fun together is th…

> (b) HN commenters who consistently dismiss any and all criticism of "AI" I do not really get the same vibe from 'HN commenters'. The way I repeatedly see it presented is, it is a…

There are problems where understanding one level below the abstractions indeed leads to better solutions. However, I would argue that for a large set of problems, this is not the c…

I'd rather cross at a roundabout than at a crosswalk somewhere along a straight road. Actually, last week I got almost run over in such a situation. A bus stopped for the crosswalk…

In the Netherlands it is very common to have both crosswalks and bike priority lanes on the roundabout, especially in busy city environments. This actually improves safety, as the …

It's funny how the Run Coaching is placed in the middle of the roundabout!

Avoidant behaviour does not solve the actual problem. To each their own, but I think trying to address the issue and learn from it to better deal with these situations in the futur…

Very nice! Note for the creator: 2nd and 3rd Guides result in 404 [0,1]. [0]: https://hi.events/docs/guides/customizing-event-homepages [1]: https://hi.events/docs/guides/registeri…

It's precisely the other way around. Cost of bureaucracy is easy to measure, abuse is not measurable (only caught abuse). Nevertheless, the point is that it is difficult to compare…

Interesting! Do you have sources/studies that show this?

It may differ in your country, but here in the Netherlands there is just a shortage of supply, not a shortage of demand. All these services have massive waiting lists, so there wil…

Misleading title. Original title: "The rise in reported maternal mortality rates in the US is largely due to a change in measurement" The original title may be too long, but it is …

Yes, that was what I understood as their point. My point is that it isn't that big of an effect, and also partially discrediting the people involved by saying they only think about…

You say none of your activities got you a job offer, but did you get anyone else a job offer or did you create/pointed out opportunities for others? Maybe trying to do that helps i…

> There's of course money involved too: the elder care home she's in gets a hefty rent each month. And so does the doctor. Leaving this out might make your argument stronger. At le…

There is no guarantee the cure will be cheap or even cheaper compared to the current situation. Not to mention the increase in other medical conditions that are bound to occur in t…

Is there older data somewhere too? Would be interesting to see from 1950s upwards!

I never really understood this line of thought. Corporate interests _are_ citizen interests right? Those corporations are made up of (a lot) of people, and if those corporate syste…