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42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Wind turbines in Wyoming could help California's climate change fight
Panels on your roof are no more ugly than a composite shingle roof, meanwhile I actually do see windmills and they mare the landscape. Windmills will become NIMBY once enough people have tired of their novelty. They're NIMBY for me now. There may be vaste spaces, but they're not unloved wastelands. Whoever finds themselves there will have their view mared by windmills. It seems selfish when CA has the sun and roofspace to get the job done themselves.
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Wind turbines in Wyoming could help California's climate change fight
But... California has sun. Why shouldn't they put solar panels on their land and roofs? Also, the turbines are indeed ugly. I live near some and they are much worse than the rolling, unmolested hills we have elsewhere.
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Why women receive less CPR from bystanders (2018)
Do you disagree? There is no "innocent until proven guilty" with sexual harassment claims-- it's mostly "off with their head!" and no ability to defend oneself or present or argue evidence. You're tainted for life, regardless of the truth of some situation. Why shouldn't sexual harassment claims be feared?
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Are there some serial downvoters on Stack Overflow?
Do your best to ask a good question with all the relevant details and what you tried and ignore the haters and fake internet points. Lots of times you can get a good answer and who cares if you're down voted into oblivion. You have a real outcome -- progress on your project.
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Ask HN: Anyone using Rust for server side application development?
https://mayhem4api.forallsecure.com is using actix web with diesel for backend.
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Tough times on the road to Starcraft (2012)
"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less" — Rick Warren

You can be a central and large contributor on a project and know it. If you lord over other people with that knowledge and position and flex to stroke your ego, that's pride and arrogance.

42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Israel bans use of cash for purchases larger than NIS 6k (~1700 USD/EUR)
>"Why even print cash at that point?"

That is the point. The governments of the world hate any privacy you have. They're just turning the screws until they can get rid of cash.

42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Ask HN: How to deal with children's online habits?
Every child is different, but surely there are patterns and broad commonalities. Surely you should guard your children from heroin and meth and there are some nasty and destructive content on the internet that couldn't possibly be a good choice for any child to consume. When should your kindergartener start consuming snuff pornography? Answer: they a shouldn't, lest we wish a million serialer killers to bloom.
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Ask HN: How to deal with children's online habits?
I grew up without access to computers at all until I was 12. I thought I would break my uncle's computer by moving the mouse.

I've had a career ranging from telecom and supercomputer chips to mobile, desktop, and web dev. I do not think my lack of exposure to the internet at a young age has limited me.

42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on If You’re Scared You’re Winning (2019)
Why would we brainwash people into thinking they amount to something just because they make moaaaar widgets?
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on The Lightning Network: Turning Bitcoin into Money
See also "public ledger". PUBLIC LEDGER. Craziness. No wonder the US government is getting interested in it. Visibility into every single transaction. And they won't be the only one able to see everything.
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on DuckDuckGo, others warn Big Tech will attempt to weasel out of fair play rules
If you like DDG, you might also like Bing..
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Ask HN: Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life?
Works of GK Chesterton.
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on The new wave of React state management
I believe the worst part is redux. React is mostly reasonable. Redux is massive boilerplate.
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stopping you?
You should take the time to enumerate the topics you think a kid should know. I know that once I did this, I found many of the topics in public schooling to be BS. Some have said "the three R's-- reading, writing, and arithmetic" If you cover those extremely well, you can't ask for much more. There should be more, but you decide.
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Whatever happened to the bee apocalypse?
Down vote to -infinity. I don't care about your internet points.
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Flu vaccination linked to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease
Does this study account for "healthy user bias"?
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Whatever happened to the bee apocalypse?
The word "demonization" is an apt description of the rhetoric being applied to this topic.
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on 4 in 5 Americans who need insulin have taken on credit card debt to cover cost
Anecdotally, a colleague needed back surgery in the US and was able to get scheduled within 2 weeks. Our Canadian colleagues marveled at that speed.
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Whatever happened to the bee apocalypse?
You're mistaken. only big ag can pivot. The smaller your are, the harder it is to keep up with all the regulation. Notice also the phenomenon of regulatory capture.
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Whatever happened to the bee apocalypse?
I don't understand how you can parse my sentence and think that the object being demonized is either me or farmers. Yes, neonics are being demonized.
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Whatever happened to the bee apocalypse?
Demonization of neonics is misplaced. You can spray at night when bees aren't active. You can spray when your plants aren't in bloom and attracting bees. Oh well, the 2 minutes hate have emerged against neonics and farmers pivot like they ways do.
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Ask HN: How do you monitor your young kids' computer usage?
My kids don't get the password/pin to any machine that has internet access. When we log them in, they must be within view of others at all times. They don't use computers recreationaly most days a week.

Kids don't need computers. The internet is a cesspool filled with dysentary. They'll have to learn to navigate the cesspool someday, just like they need to learn to avoid heroin, but you don't need to teach your 4 year old not to seek out good fruit of the opium poppy. Some lessons can and should be delayed.

42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Rust advocacy at a medium-sized startup
Yes, all languages we're using are Turing complete. Yes, you can fashion a foot-gun out of every language. Also, some languages make speed easily accessible.
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Rust advocacy at a medium-sized startup
Do you want 5 API instances sitting in front of your DB or one? Do you want to optimize your code when your GC'd code isn't fast enough or not? Do you want every request to the backend to take 50ms less time?

As Jeff Atwood wrote, "Performance is a Feature" https://blog.codinghorror.com/performance-is-a-feature/

So, if your answer to the question, "Do you want speed, trivially?" is "No, I do not." Ok.

42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Rust advocacy at a medium-sized startup
Rust is trivial speed. Blinding speed, out of the box.
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Ask HN: Why are Git submodules so bad?
That's the entirety of git. Extremely fast. Bummer UI. It's status quo and no changing. Despite using git for 10+ years, I frequently have to look up commands and then I end up scratching my head as to why the CLI UI is like that.
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Tell HN: Triplebyte is, yet again, making user profiles public without consent?
I had a silly interview sequence with Toptal. Aced first interview. Was told "that's a record for solving that".. so, got to do a live, not take-home test for the second interview. Was clearly within 3 minutes of finishing up the last bits on the test suite on the solution for a 2 hour long test when the buzzer rang. Nope, no grace -- you clearly haven't proved yourself. You have to do the take-home ( A 4 day window for a take-home test ... which means, you need put in 40 hours!) I told them "no thanks".
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go
I think you're looking for https://www.areweguiyet.com/ click "webrenderer"
42e6e8c8-f7b8-4··on Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab
Nope. Source: multiple friends who work in Intel fabs. These fabs aren't turnkey.
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