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What I want to say is: atmospheric carbon capture is not the deus ex machina that one might be tempted to believe it is after seeing news of startups like Climeworks doing it. I re…

I think your perception of the ease of/effort required for atmospheric carbon capture is off by a few orders of magnitude.

And iOS Safari shows it as a mostly green mess. After tapping the image to get to the real .j2, in the page itself it’s a png.

Hi Jeff Did you get 750-800 out of the box with a Pi4 and USB ethernet? Asking because mine was around 300 and needed some manual tweaking (see also https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

For those who get poor performance out of this, I recommend https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/scaling.ht... I had 300-400Mbit/s out of the box and got it up to ~900…

> Does paper cash printed by government make more sense? Than energy wasting cash computed by chinese miners and (in the early days) a select group of early adopters? Yes, it makes…

Would you mind linking the law you're talking about?

I think it's really just more of the ruthless pragmatism that makes this place so efficient and a consequence of land scarcity. Housing is limited and leaving it up to the free mar…

> Also criticizing the government is a crime and saying the wrong thing on facebook can land you in prison. Would you mind linking the specific law(s) you talk about here?

> There is no better way that a developer can earn outsized riches than blockchain and cryptocurrency. You are solving tough problems in difficult, constrained environments and are…

A /16 has ~65k unique IPs.

For people who are of the opinion that expensive preparation for low probability events is untenable for elected governments because it would be seen as wasteful: My home country (…

Yes, that wasn't my point. I find the term "synonymous" when used for unambiguous numerical values that are off by 1% strange. But i'm not a native english speaker. Roughly 1% of p…

Yes, I was aware that years not being zero-indexed can create confusion, but I never noticed this particular consequence of that.

I get your point, but would you say "a 99 year period" is synonymous with "a century"?

Wow. A linguistical off-by-one bug. I have never noticed that before. Interestingly, Wikipedia contradicts itself here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1600s > The period from 1600 t…

I've met quite a few libertarians in Singapore but i continue to be puzzled by why someone with libertarian leanings would choose to live here. Can you explain why it appeals to yo…

pro: * Many overseas educated locals helping with cultural cross pollination * Locals often live with their parents until their late twenties (when they get married), so there are …

Ironically, i come across quite a lot of outrageous health claims in Singapore. Cancer-curing smoothies for example.

> Having a bunch of people paid 5 times what you are coming to your area is never fun. It's probably a net positive overall though, especially if the money these people are paid (a…

> Tofu is _never_ mixed with meat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapo_doufu

But unless you use server push, it still is an additional roundtrip.

I have a bachelor’s degree but i know people without a degree making 130-140k USD anually in software related roles. Not quite SF/Valley rates but it goes a long way here with the …