bcaulfield

Yes, absolutely. But the species that inhabit the earth come and go, and climate seems to be one driver.

Looking through the comments, I'm really glad I posted the paper itself to HN, rather than the various writeups of it.

Or maybe think like a corporate raider: buy a substantial piece of a company and demand it move to your city?

Take this to an extreme, and for the right price I can eat a lot of broccoli.

Italian village? Where you from? Romania?

When will it make sense for a practical, skinflint commuter to make the switch?

+1 for straight up honesty. I'm the same way, wish I were more on top of stuff like this, but don't have time.

Yeah, this is a little odd. But in the writer's defense, I read a lot more than I speak, and I often comically mispronounce a useful word when I have to use it in speech, so while I'm familiar with this particular word, I do wish writers would do this with words a little more often than they do.

Love any science article that provides a clear, scientifically accurate answer to any question my 6 year old asks me.

That's a lot of salt, though: "if the salt in the ocean could be removed and spread evenly over the Earth’s land surface it would form a layer more than 500 feet thick."

Great reality check. I'll remember this point every time I read an article spouting the "there MUST be life out there because there are SO many planets" line.

We've made good looking people obsolete.

I mount my Sony from the ceiling I'll break the ceiling.

Yeah, my 27-inch tube is very, very heavy.

I own and use a Sony FD Trinitron Flat Screen CRT every day. Works great. I need a special adapter to connect it to my SHIELD. But it's outlasted several DVD players and game consoles. It's my family's only TV. Hadn't thought about how long I've owned it, but now realize it's been at least 12-15 years. I'd thought about chucking it for a flat screen, but was waiting for prices to come down. Then waited for HD prices to come down. Lately been waiting for 4k prices to come down. Now, why wait? They're so damn cheap. But after all these years, feels like I just... can't, and I just want to discourage too much TV watching (rationalization). Should I hang on to this thing?

Love the comments on here. I posted this article not because I agree with the article's take, but because I wanted to see what the HN community thinks of the article (and the topic). I haven't been disappointed!

Yes, and the clothes. Okay, I know by many statistical measures we're wealthier now. But those clothes would cost a fortune now. Do they have fewer outfits? Are we only seeing the elite?

Once these are working well will factory workers be able to attach a third and fourth arm for extra productivity?

Lots of people in arts moving there, something which used to give the Bay Area an edge.

What do you like better?

Thoughts on LastPass? Good? Bad? Cromulent?

What password managers do HN readers recommend?

Space junk would be very cool.

Weaponised paywall may be behind alleged comment attacks in Hacker News

That'll be the name of my next metal band.

A joke that I think Rolling Stone readers will get.

So the saying 'fucked up people make great art,' applies to engineers, too?

Are you sure that Earth is not just Tropical Hoth?

Can't top the comment in that story about that comment.

For a moment there, I thought he wanted Steam, the PC gaming service.