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occitanon Flight risk: can we take the carbon out of air travel?

I live in SF and can get door-to-door to a friend's house in San Diego in 3 hours.

Assuming both you and your friend live in the actual, respective airport terminals.

Otherwise, your numbers just don't jibe with the reality of typical fight and check-in times (let alone the time cost of, you know, actually getting to and from the airport).

occitanon Flight risk: can we take the carbon out of air travel?

If climate change is truly the harbinger of the apocalypse,

If you start your argument with an extremified and overly emotional premise, then sure, you can make just about any point you want.

occitanon Is e Normal?

Doesn't mean it's a good idea.

occitanon Is e Normal?

Actually there are no guidelines about voting whatsoever.

However arguably it's a bit rude to ding people simply for being (mildly) misinformed.

And the guidelines do ask us not to be rude.

occitanon Is e Normal?

The above comment is misinformed, but in no way obnoxious.

There was no reason to downvote it.

occitanon Ask HN: Looking back, what have you wasted lots of time on?

It seems what they really forget to tell you was "if you don't like Math - you don't have to study it."

occitanon 3 days fasting experiment

"The most surprising thing, indeed -- despite always -- being repulsed by articles with click-baity titles, in the past -- suddenly I found myself overcome by an irresistible urge to start posting with titles as gimmicky and catchy as my imagination could come up with!

occitanon Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked

Actually, there's plenty of information to inform such a decision:

While the other students were allowed to leave, Ajjawi alleges an immigration officer continued to question him about his religion and religious practices in Lebanon.

So it looks like they deported him because, first, he was a raghead...

“After the 5 hours ended, she called me into a room , and she started screaming at me. She said that she found people posting political points of view that oppose the US on my friend[s] list.”

and second because he has friends (or random associates) who disagree with U.S. foreign policy.

occitanon I got fired from Facebook (for having a YouTube channel)

What was the conflict of interest?

Dunno - whatever was running through the HR people's heads.

The whole point is - it wasn't simply for "having a YouTube channel".

occitanon I got fired from Facebook (for having a YouTube channel)

Wow, his wife left him too.

Might have had something to do with the 80-hour work weeks.

occitanon I got fired from Facebook (for having a YouTube channel)

No - not for having a YT channel (per se) but for engaging in communications that FB considered to be a conflict of interest. And probably (as with most firings), a whole whole bunch of other stuff (besides the nominal "reason").

Nonethelsss - my heart goes out to anyone dragged into a "friendly chat with HR" under any circumstances.