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Is it just a state of mind? I've been perfectly happy and even proud to do menial work on nights and weekends when it was for a cool cause.

That fish sticks episode of South Park is so good. Can't wait to watch it with my grandkids and admire the puzzlement in their faces.

I was a student at Trilogy. Not sure what they mean. The course was fun. The good students leveled up in their careers. I certainly did.

Sorry but you don't get to discount wind turbines' ecological damage just because no more mining is involved post-construction.

Land AND resource use. Just because a single wind turbine takes up a small patch of land doesn't mean it's not extremely resource intensive. Case in point: https://twitter.com/extrachelle/status/986599367049179136?s=...

Yes, you need to read millions of tweets. Have a nice weekend.

Taleb dumped bitcoin because he couldn't stand seeing its community almost unanimously oppose the COVID lockdowns, while he was taking his precautionary principle to the extreme. You could see the divergence playing out on Twitter for months before Taleb actually came out against bitcoin. The only fact that changed about bitcoin during that time period was new all time highs and institutional adoption.

I thought I hit rock bottom, but then I realized there were more rock bottoms beneath the rock bottom. It's rock bottoms all the way down.

I've heard Bezos' approach with Blue Origin compared to the 'tortoise and the hare' allegory. Slow and steady may work when your talented opponent is taking naps along the racetrack, it doesn't work when they are as driven as the SpaceX team.

Every alternative to suburbs has its own serious problems.

People like living in suburbs. I like living in them. And maybe if we rebrand trailer parks as tiny home communities it will change attitudes about cheap, affordable homes.

This article's webpage displayed a few rug ads. I was shopping for rugs a month ago. The rug ads haven't stopped since. I don't care though tbh.

I majored in Finance over 10 years ago and this was common knowledge then. A recruiter even warned us about it. Graduates still applied for the program. It's just bankers larping as Navy SEALs in BUD/S training.

America is worse off after months of BLM protests. So you could argue that being broke, woke, and violent can make a difference.

I'm not seeing many bitcoin defenders here. Maybe it's because they're celebrating 61k.

Wow! Never mind!

Couldn't we just strategically position some gargantuan mirrors in outer space so that the entire planet is always sunlit?

Link to source: https://danhedl.medium.com/pow-is-efficient-aa3d442754d3

Great now do the U.S. dollar

The Slate article suggests that Radiolab sensationalized the Orson Welles version. Quite the opposite. Jad & Co told the shocking truth - that the whole event was not that eventful. Then they got into the tragic story of the Ecuadorian radio station that tried the same experiment in storytelling.

https://aldianews.com/articles/culture/social/other-war-worl...

I know this is an easy downvote and foolish statement, but I find very few pre-90s blockbuster movies to be watchable. Spielberg's movies hold up well though. There are a few others, like When Harry Met Sally, that I also still love.

And TX wind power projections are dropping to 500MW out of 24,000 MW wind system. http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/CURRENT_DAYCOP_HSL.htm...

That's an absurd argument. And as long as we're using solar and wind, we'll need backup from coal, gas and nuclear for when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. If you think increasing battery capacity will solve that, read up on the supply chain of lithium.

Interesting stats in that citation. Hydropower dominates in the renewables category and North America has the highest regional share of renewables powered mining.

Caro's anecdote about how he persuaded Lyndon's brother to open up, in the re-creation of their childhood home, has stuck with me for years and almost feels like a parable.

Worth the six minutes. Life begins at the first cell.

Wind turbine blades in many parts of the world are regularly coated in insect biomass.

The carbon maths referenced by other hn users were very interesting, but they didn't debunk anything in the article. What specifically about the article did you find misleading? I thought it was an interesting and comprehensive introduction to the challenges and opportunities in the lithium supply chain.

I would also enjoy alternative resources that aren't produced by think tanks. But it seems unfair to denigrate think tanks out of hand.

Anyone know the source of Jacob's chart in part 5 of his thread?

wtf is dang

It's a meme among bitcoin advocates to troll suckers like you. We see plenty of value in bitcoin. Enough to save the world from fiat.