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Only if you define local interest as purely financially motivated. I am not even talking about the ethics, but even social status is not only dependent on wealth. We are much more than a bank account number, thinking that we are is more or less a pathological disease, because rationally it makes no sense.

I think it's pretty funny that people seem to miss some central rules of the internet. The more connected something becomes the more centralized it becomes. So having more remote work will shift the best people even more to the GAFAM job opportunities and that's the main reason why they are doing this.

No in 1996 we did everything with frames, I once worked with a team that designed a website consisting of 200 frames.

It might just be anxiety and not something related to your choices - I recommend seeing a therapist and thinking about treatment options. I was in the same situation and looking back it had less to do with my external stressors and more with me.

The US is such a weird place.

Since you will never have any way to seriously lern if that question works you can just as well ask in an interview if the candidate ever wanted to be a panda. I think people who wanted to be pandas are lazy and shouldn‘t be trusted.

From a public health perspective ... this could be a brilliant solution.

Yes we tried to switch to Teams from Slack ... but everyone hated it with passion. Hate is not good for productivity...

There’s an interesting statistical observation that the kind of therapy seems to matter less than the relationship between therapist and patient. We are social animals a neutral experienced observer helping us identifying current problems and behaviors is much more impactful on an emotional level than a book. Narcissism is not an intellectual construct it is an emotional construct.

Evolution was no longer a factor as soon as we developed a complex society. So depression as an illness of the highly developed brain that has several layers of consciousness should probably not be compared with something like that and even if you do compare it, cancer has a clear cut evolutionary case why it’s happening. Do you want cancer? The evolutionary outcome is not really helpful from an individual perspective.

Would that be a bad outcome? Wouldn’t the market become more active because more shares of highly relevant companies would be available?

Most OEMs know that and redefined their dealer relationships in the last years https://www.cbtnews.com/what-does-vws-new-european-dealer-ag...

Well that’s what most people in the pile and gas industry probably thought https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/23/us/oil-and-gas-aid-bush-b...

Not meaningfully no - most influencer campaigns have a part for ads to support the content so I think in the Balance it probably builds more ad business.

Why is there so much hero worship in technology? Compared to other business areas we have myriads of heroes and fallen angels. If you think about it, it just doesn’t make a lot of sense, yes there are a lot of people that move technology forward by several years... and without those people some developments would have taken longer. But there is nearly no example where I would be willing to say without hero x - y would never have happened. Is this something psychological? Is this about us having a feeling of agency and not just being simple players on the field of Moore’s Law?

“Would”

The problem with nuclear fission will always be the moments when somebody “should” have done a safety test or should have thought about it.

I often think about the reaction Angela Merkel had to the Fukushima incident. Before the Tsunami she had just scrapped the plan to end nuclear in Germany. She is a trained research physicists so that is the position you would expect from her. After Fukushima she immediately started to work on the complete shutdown.

Of course there might a lot of political calculation and the general mood shifted, but in Interviews she said that there was one thing that really got her. Fukushima was in Japan, and after Tschernobyl she always thought that this was an expected problem in a country like the Soviet Union, but in general nuclear should be safe. But after Fukushima, after the obviously bad planning and the mistakes that were done again and again, how can we expect that any country can manage the safety processes better, when Japan can’t do it. It’s not so much a technological question it’s a human and process question.

They might just be the core reason why America didn’t react on climate change and without the US there can be no relevant global reaction. So at the end... they could well be the reason if we walk off that cliff...

So yes I think they are on a different level especially for a university, a university that accepts money from people that are actively trying to fight science to harm everybody...

You are totally right and totally wrong at the same time. Yes - the solution must be in large parts a technological and scientific solution, there are so many things we have to change. No - only engineers and scientists will not make a difference, engineers work for the government or companies and both need policies to shape markets for their products or investments. We need the public at the same time to shape the markets and give the engineers something to work with. Addressing climate change means changing the incentives and the direction of our technological development... and in a democracy we all get to decide on that, that politics.

We are currently at the moment where every aerospace manufacturer in the world is building some kind of autonomous sky taxi... seems like every idea has its time and specific technical requirements.

An overlooked problem in these kinds of articles is that fires are not a yearly problem. If you have 10 hectares of forest and in the first year 4 hectares burn down and afterwards every year one hectar ... there is no forest after 10 years. So it’s not a “win” that only one hectar got burned. There are several studies that point to possible tipping points where the Amazon as a weather/rain/cloud producing ecological system breaks down if you burn enough of it. Wherever that point may be at the end, we sure as hell are getting there step by step.

What exactly is an urban farm?

Does it have to be on buildings? This is an area near my hometown, it has good public transport (the next Metro stop is a bit of a walk but you could take the light rail) https://www.google.de/maps/@49.4845803,11.0337896,15z/data=!...

These are all greenhouses and vegetable gardens.

This is Westland “Food Valley” it’s between Den Haag and Rotterdam ... https://www.google.de/maps/place/Westland,+Niederlande/@51.9...

Is this an urban farm? Is there any advantage to growing vegetables on a roof instead of next door?

There are different reasons to try things, this is worth trying because we have so many roads and using even a part of them for energy production would have an enormous impact.

Both have opening times and entry tickets, they have very easy solutions. Venice doesn’t...

The article is about Somalia, this thread is about Ethiopia both are at very very different stages at this moment.

That’s not realistic, messengers are much more ubiquitous than any other kind of software and are mostly used in a family/friends network. We had our local digital festival last week an we had school classes teaching seniors WhatsApp.

In general yes - Outside my co2 sensor shows an accurate enough current planetary co2 level. Watching it is frightening.

I quoted this years ago to somebody in BMW management and his reaction was hilarious.

The car industry has seen EVs only as compliance vehicles, sell 10% electric and you just reduced your total fleet emissions by 10%. So you might be able to stay in the business of heavy ICE luxury cars. That’s why their marketing and sales sucked there was a defined number of these to be sold and not more. Now the game is changing and the wind is turning but it’s not Tesla driving the change, it’s good old regulation. And it has always been regulation, the actors are California, China and the EU. Several countries have now decided on a defined year when the last ICE is going to be sold so the future market is already shrinking and other countries will follow. There will be no market left. Regulation.

I think the article shows how ridiculous it is when they talk about Tim Cook seeing products for the first time on the exhibition floor in photos.

Really? So the CEO of a technology company has never seen the products they release and this is not just a pretty dorky PR shooting ?

I think this is one of the few edge cases where gifs could improve the comments on HN

https://tenor.com/view/walle-humans-lazy-eve-disney-gif-5471...