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Tell truth at all times. Start at $25 an hour doing freelancing and work your way up. After a couple of years your rate would be > $75 then transition into full time tech job.

Let's do an exercise as presented in the article and accept CO2 level increases are irreversible:

The Jurassic had 5 times more CO2 than today. [1]

Modern climate change is slower than the K-T mass extinction event, when photosynthesis was halted. [2]

[1] https://www.livescience.com/44330-jurassic-dinosaur-carbon-d...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous–Paleogene_extinctio...

In every civilisation there’s founding myths, Romulus and Remus from Rome, Yellow Emperor from China, Abraham from Israel, the Dreaming for indigenous Australians. I wonder how much those myths might actually be telling us about those otherwise undocumented times.

If they just graduated high school they’d remember their science classes. The coal burns, it generates steam which rotates some magnets and produces a current. If they’re fresh high school grads they might even have the textbook at home still.

We don't need mining - The metal in junk yards and recycling centres are a lot easier to access than building a mine in the middle of nowhere going underground 50 to 100 metres. The only reason we do mine and need new metal is because metal from junkyards and recycling centres are needed as well, and all existing metal is already being used. If most humans die off then the existing metal are available for reuse. And it's as easy as heating it up past melting point and molding it into the right shape; There might be ways to do that optimally but in the case where plentiful resources are available compared to human capital, it should suffice.

The oil is gone, but coal is still easy to access. We can bootstrap off a second coal industrial revolution. And every person who've been through high school knows the principles involved in generating power from coal, though might be lacking in the actual techniques.

> but only to sell, not to use

You've proved there's buyers who would find a use for it.

Or the subconscious memories could have been transferred through other methods, e.g. socialising with people who knew the donor.

Oh I thought stock implied ownership. Maybe it doesn’t mean that in this case.

Federal reserve bank isn’t owned by the government. The federal reserve is owned by commercial banks who receive dividends. It does report to the government and pays the treasury excess earnings.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm

I’ve read quite a few Chinese articles about a trend of Chinese expats working in Siberia marrying with local Russian women. I don’t know how accurate they are so I won’t post them here. It was interesting read though.

I don’t think that chart means what you think it means. In any case can you clarify your comment? 550 females per male?

In life people make mistakes. Picking the wrong finance option for the first car is a relatively small one. :)

By poor I mean lower GDP rather than poverty. The countries up top have lower cost of living and the bottom ones higher, the countries at the top of the table have less parents working, and the bottom, more. Therefore the countries at the top can afford to spend time with children, and the countries at the bottom, can’t afford it.

“Rich countries” are time poor that’s why they produce time related articles like these. :)

What does your FYI line mean - very cryptic.

By poorer I mean less income counted in GDP. The lower cost of living make it more viable for parents spend more time with children. I could also argue India is rich compared to, say, Japan, who don’t have much resources to spend on having children.

Two parents working have more income counted in GDP than one parent. Higher GDP is thus correlated with more parents working. More parents working means less parent hours available. In the table the bottom countries have highest number of parents working and the top countries, lowest.

National income is correlated with percent of population in workforce. Poorer countries are correlated with lower levels of total employment. Assuming all else being equal then parents with less time involved in employment will have more time for other activities, including spending time with children. Is this right?

I suppose non-physical phenomena is currently studied by mathematicians, computer scientists, IT security researchers, psychologists and monks.

Civil engineers also use same common brands of cement and standard steel girders. They also often re-use the same blueprint for multiple buildings. The creativity isn’t in the form but the ordering and process in which a given form is constructed over a particular piece of land - this one.

The same applies for software engineers. The method of using the common tools is identical across many web applications - the creativity is in which of these tools, for which set of subtasks are selected for this set of requirements.

The best way to unleash it in our system without doing harm to the ecosystem is to be patient. There is energy content in the plastic and over 100-200 million years the chance is extremely high Earth’s ecosystem will adapt to the abundance of plastic.

One quarter as many deaths as World War 2, all of it in southern China.

I tend to think of it as classical versus Vulgar Latin. I can write Cantonese phrases word for word (with a few Cantonese only characters) and mandarin only speakers won’t be able to understand it, or I can rephrase it into a “classical” way so that any literate Chinese person from any dialect can read it.

Could be used for VR phone calls between long distance couples.

Her livelihood was destroyed by a YouTube algorithm change and she couldn't handle it emotionally, and attacked YouTube headquarters, as a result YouTube takes down her remaining home exercise and vegan videos.

It doesn't need to be said that she is in the wrong, there's no excuse, no defence that can be offered - but I said it anyway in case you misunderstand me in my next statement:

Tech companies and employees and the people who use their products live in the same world. Even if there is no legal or financial responsibility between ourselves and others, it doesn't mean we can forget about the fact that we all live on the same planet. Whenever we are thinking about making a change in the code, we have a responsibility to be empathetic and also think about its effects on other members of the same society we all belong to.

> By Tuesday night, YouTube, as well as Instagram and Facebook, had taken down her pages and videos.

Her videos seemed quite harmless - home exercise, veganism, animals.

I don't understand the motive for YouTube to take down her remaining videos.

We've always been at war with IRA.

He can try fix it by giving an apology, having thought over it and missed the value his colleagues contributed, etc.

Getting asked for opinions in order to read an article about someone getting fired for showing an opinion about people showing an opinion about a form asking for an opinion.

There’s life beneath deep oceans that thrive on geothermal - I think it’s possible some life can survive.

Refusing to engage in whataboutism makes you vulnerable to propaganda from your own country - it allows your government to redirect negative attention towards it's own behaviour to other countries by influencing media organisations to publish certain articles. Of course, some people inevitably says "what about our own government", and this behaviour can be countered by labelling it as "whataboutism".

You are a foreigner. Even your children may be foreigners. But their children and generations after them, if they all have children with non-foreigners, won’t be.

    In the early stage of the information revolution, it was fashionable to 
    argue that new technologies would eliminate distance. People could do 
    creative work in rural Colorado and communicate their ideas anywhere on
    earth with the flick of a finger.

I think that effect is true to a limited extent. People could do creative work in countries such as Vietnam, India, Thailand and communicate their ideas to anywhere on Earth;

The equalisation of Geography didn't apply between rural vs urban. It applied between developed and developing countries.

I can speculate several reasons why, but without deep enough research or sources I'll leave them as an exercise for the reader. (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bsder is an interesting comment)