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We need to think that there is two oil prices. one the producer gets and another the consumer pays. High producer price is the worst thing that can happen from climate change persp…

I'm not sure coding has ever been the hard part. Hard part (to me) has always been to be smart enough to know what, exactly, I (or somebody else) want. Or has someone heard of a ca…

> The two-party system is fine. Is it? Many western countries are having more or less prominent populist right wing movements, and the two countries I can think of where that movem…

> Is that the extent of your requirements (for now, at least) ? Well, if you ask my other wishes, once Europe has gotten its act straight and decides to tax/tariff/regulate/whateve…

Yep. I don't know if anyone is interested in anecdotes, but looking from Europe, I will do my best to avoid any kind of US dependency until US has a) overhauled the legal system st…

I'm too lazy, but I hope someone is less lazy and would set up a Kickstarter and collect funds to be given to every resident of US Virgin Islands once they rejoined[1] Denmark. Wou…

I think a decent middle ground would be to allow contextual advertising and ban personalized advertising. That is, it would be fine to show you ads based on where you are, what you…

Don't forget Germany. If you look at the amount of PV built in Germany early this century and make some admittedly strong assumptions about learning curve, one could argue the Ener…

I wonder if one could write a skill called something like "Ask the damn user" that the model could use when e.g. all needed files are not in the context.

The whole of trumps first stint? For this year's numbers there are two possible stories that come to my mind: 1. The jobs are going ~constantly downhill and any new, revised number…

> People will have less or no motivation to create them Not sure if we surf the same internets... In the web I am surfing, the more "motivation" (trying to get ad revenue) the auth…

> Is this situation in any way realistic one? No, it's much worse than that. In real life you talk about pages and pages of documents and power points and meetings after meetings i…

I think it's finally time to lock version 0.2 of my 4d side project. (Since previous Show HN a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37100760 I scrapped lots of…

> We know that universal solutions can’t exist and that all practical solutions require exotic high-dimensionality computational constructs that human brains will struggle to reaso…

If you can identify blocks of code you need to write that are easy to define reasonably well, easy to review/verify that it is written correctly but still burdensome to actually wr…

Rent-seeking is a pretty well-known term that has not much to do with rents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

"Paying" is a bit too ambiguous term. Let's say we go to have a lunch, but I forgot my wallet at the office. You pay my lunch and once we are back at the office, I pay you back. Wh…

I think you can work around that messaging restriction by requesting desktop site from the mobile browser. Not saying it is not irritating, though.

Is there a way to know beforehand if the e-book from Kobo is DRM or not? I thought they were all DRM free, but the last book I bought suddenly was DRM and haven't yet bothered to r…

Interesting. Could you provide a better alternative? Preferably even remotely as user friendly as signal/whatsapp?

Oh, that video brought memories. I wonder if there is any good content about low code fallacy or cloud?

What would you recommend instead for the ones that would be interested to start learning robotics stuff? (Not trying to be snarky but actually curious)

My low, low priority side project has been to make a VR app that lets you (create and) move around 4d environments. I'm pretty sure that navigating even moderately complex 4d envir…

Won't help on dirt and rain (and limited help on upwind and uphill) but using a low enough gear you should be able to stroll around with similar strain as walking. And you need to …

There is also a somewhat amusing argument that cycling does not waste your time. you get every hour cycled back as hour added to your expected lifetime: https://www.huffingtonpost.…