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In addition, the massive investment may be overbuilt, but then likely will end up being useful long-term. This is just as the initial buildout of the internet to power pets.com was…

I'm getting 403s when trying to download basic census tract shapefiles. You might have the same problem / if you have regular jobs that rely on public datasets they may start faili…

There's requests for evidence / input on the Seattle subreddit if you have time - I think locally we can get some pressure on them for you if you can back it up: https://www.reddit…

Perhaps, but there's a reason that anyone in supply chain or logistics tries to standardize on the fewest SKUs as possible. Planes are a special case because weight _really_ matter…

similarly, on mac this bug is a showstopper for me, so I'm using Brave currently: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1149826 (the bug is that text replacement does not wo…

Hmm very interesting response by @somat about malicious actors, and I like your point about the disappointment of web3 here. One reason I'm not super surprised they didn't implemen…

hmm - it's not like trains were (or are) built for rugged terrain either. If anything that point would be in favor of Switzerland...

True for SF & LA, but many other cities depend on State Water Project water which gets used by Ag as well - it's not just small towns.

Promptly, sure - but there's a system that can be changed overall, we should have the power to do so. For instance, groundwater depletion from ag limits municipal water supplies, o…

Right, the computers were built for the preliminary programs which ... were stages on the way to Apollo! Yes, theoretically, but sometimes you need a big bold exciting goal or ever…

Mostly just... the British have a LOT of history and so the stacked ranking of wars over the course of just the British Empire includes over a dozen more consequential wars than th…

I've read a few of his books and can also recommend them, with a caveat: Smil asserts confidently that something is infeasible or impossible, yet what he says is impossible _has si…

> The videos are more ephemeral and imperfect than what you usually see on IG, and there's a lot more joy in what's being captured. It really is a step change in the ability to bui…

Large cargo vessels do try to avoid bad weather, even though they can sail through most of it. It's a crew happiness, risk, and loss avoidance concern (knowing these companies, pro…

I'm also curious! If anyone has ideas, please let me know...

TL:DR: Turbine blades have previously been challenging to recycle due to the chemical properties of epoxy resin, a resilient substance that was believed to be impossible to break d…

This is not very relevant to tech / hacking, but is instead just world news... Let's keep HN focused, and not let it end up like the front page of reddit, etc

This book is an easy-to-read and short reference for all of the financial jargon / skills you'll need to know: https://financialintelligencebook.com/ . Worth it to read and to be a…

This is a bit of a hyperbolic title and post, but it does seem like a real issue that the Golang devs should address. Letting the socket do its thing seems like the right way to go…

Discussed here prior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33465770 It's a great idea - transparent, able for anyone to verify, with a paper trail.

If you don't think it's a problem that land was stolen, then I'm sure you won't object to that land being stolen again from the current owner and used for it's highest society-wide…

Man, people are really negative about this, but it's a great idea. In the old days, paper ballots would also 'go missing' from districts known to be favorable to the other side (ak…

I don't want to feed the trolls, but this requires a response as it is highly misleading. Cars last 100k+ miles now, and that 13k break-even number in your link is with the current…

I took a break from tech and got a Masters of Environmental Science and Management if you are interested in that path. It helps you really have additionality rather than being a hi…