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Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by defrost »

uoaei wrote: post #265

Groundwater. The issues, the proposed policy solutions, the technologies to support study and engineering, and potentially overlooked avenues to get a lot of freshwater otherwise destined for the ocean into the ground instead.

Topically:

Global land subsidence mapping reveals widespread loss of aquifer storage capacity (October 2023)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41933-z

Scientists map loss of groundwater storage around the world

https://phys.org/news/2023-11-scientists-loss-groundwater-st...

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Post by motohagiography »

scrapcode wrote: post #64

Waterfowl hunting and training my Labrador to hunt with me and retrieve my harvested game. The bond my pup and I have created in the past ~9mo training multiple times a day is incredible. I used to absolutely despise winters and now I can't wait for it to get cold, windy, and wet. I have been captivated by all aspects of waterfowl, dog training, being in nature, finding public lands accessible to me and preparing the…

Can you recommend any books or resources on training flushing? Seems a lot like herding, and it's an interest of mine.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by Obergruppen »

sjmulder wrote: post #204

Small city council politics :( there's a lot of resistance against a new temporary housing project for Ukrainian refugees with many legit concerns, and some NIMBY, but also xenophobia and racism. It's tough but we've been able to start a YIMBY group and encouraging people and organisations to make public comments or send letters of support. A good few didn't dare because they feared reactions, and rightfully so, beca…

Is there a country closer to their homeland where they can be housed? It is unfortunate they have to be so far from home. Or better yet, can we just push for peace talks so they can stay home?

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Post by hotnfresh »

plasticchris wrote: post #242
unixhero wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes that game is STUNNING and absolutely pulled me in

Try it as the insane vampire, it’s great.

Malkavian (the crazy ones) and Nosferatu (masquerade violation if anyone sees you) are both very-different spins on the game compared with the rest of the clans.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by globalnode »

immranderson wrote: post #103

Compiling and editing together my travel footage for my YouTube vlog. I've had the fortune to have traveled to 96 countries in my life so far, and have been posting a vlog for every country that I've visited (I'm making an attempt to go to every country) I got hung up around country 55, feeling that I hadn't found my "editing voice" and have had difficulty finding the motivation over the last year to edit and post my…

maybe try releasing some first goes and get feedback so you can modify later ones? rather than release all at once?

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Post by thatwasunusual »

Obergruppen wrote: post #273
sjmulder wrote: post #204

Small city council politics :( there's a lot of resistance against a new temporary housing project for Ukrainian refugees with many legit concerns, and some NIMBY, but also xenophobia and racism. It's tough but we've been able to start a YIMBY group and encouraging people and organisations to make public comments or send letters of support. A good few didn't dare because they feared reactions, and rightfully so, beca…

Is there a country closer to their homeland where they can be housed? It is unfortunate they have to be so far from home. Or better yet, can we just push for peace talks so they can stay home?

> Or better yet, can we just push for peace talks so they can stay home?

"Stay home" as in "stay in a country occupied by an enemy country who wants to get rid of you"?

Sure. That sounds like a brilliant solution.

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thatwasunusual wrote: post #276
Obergruppen wrote: post #273

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a country closer to their homeland where they can be housed? It is unfortunate they have to be so far from home. Or better yet, can we just push for peace talks so they can stay home?

> Or better yet, can we just push for peace talks so they can stay home? "Stay home" as in "stay in a country occupied by an enemy country who wants to get rid of you"? Sure. That sounds like a brilliant solution.

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Post by davidw »

ipaddr wrote: post #255
sjmulder wrote: post #204

Small city council politics :( there's a lot of resistance against a new temporary housing project for Ukrainian refugees with many legit concerns, and some NIMBY, but also xenophobia and racism. It's tough but we've been able to start a YIMBY group and encouraging people and organisations to make public comments or send letters of support. A good few didn't dare because they feared reactions, and rightfully so, beca…

How does racism play into your situation? Small towns and Ukrainians have one thing in common: they are both white. I would think their race wouldn't be the deciding factor.

Italians weren't "white" when they first came to the US, either.

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Post by capableweb »

Obergruppen wrote: post #273
sjmulder wrote: post #204

Small city council politics :( there's a lot of resistance against a new temporary housing project for Ukrainian refugees with many legit concerns, and some NIMBY, but also xenophobia and racism. It's tough but we've been able to start a YIMBY group and encouraging people and organisations to make public comments or send letters of support. A good few didn't dare because they feared reactions, and rightfully so, beca…

Is there a country closer to their homeland where they can be housed? It is unfortunate they have to be so far from home. Or better yet, can we just push for peace talks so they can stay home?

> Or better yet, can we just push for peace talks so they can stay home?

Some of these people don't have any homes anymore, literally. Some places have been pretty so extensively damaged that you're not able to live there anymore.

We need both, help for refugees that have nowhere else to go, and more dialog to end the conflict.

This applies to all conflicts.

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Post by woliveirajr »

costco wrote: post #254

I'm reading a book about electricity markets. Modeling electricity prices using a mean-reverting model with "jumps", exotic derivatives, etc. Pretty exciting stuff. Though you need a million dollars in liquid net worth to trade with any ISO so it's a bit out of my league. Really interesting author too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Mack Am working on some large scale authorship attribution stuff on the side and…

- "authorship attribution stuff"

Can you tell more about it? I've done something about it in my master's and PhD, but I'm away from this area for some time and don't know the actual state of the art...

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