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> ... it takes incredible levels of incompetence to be lost in sinay for 40 years. That 40 years wandering in the wilderness was "lost" only in a poetic or opportunity cost sense. More l…

No mention of the New York Times, or its practices?

Understandable, with how many there are to pick from, and the wiggle room in the longest ones - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/As...…

Fair enough. FWIW, I live near the Univ. of Michigan. I've talked to a well-to-do stockbroker, who graduated from U-M a couple decades ago - but can't believe just how opulent U-M's la…

The article seems rather focused on political/ideological issues. Practical issues include where tens or hundreds of millions of new A/C units could be obtained, who would install them, and …

81 points and 31 comments back in 2021 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28281523

Old geezer question: Are you thinking to make education free? Or to give everyone 4+ years at the upscale-lifestyle-resorts-with-classes which the US's major universities have evolved into ov…

133 points and 151 comments yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838611

I was thinking about the senior leadership, not the junior enlisted on the firing line. For KSU, Wikipedia notes - > The shootings caused an immediate closure of the campus with students and facult…

> A 2021 state law allows campus police to own military equipment for civilian safety – students fear it may be used to quash dissent <sigh/> Maybe they should ask their History Dept&#x…

Just popped up, about pledge+unveil - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48851765

> Volkswagen says this is one of Europe’s most advanced industrial agrivoltaics projects because it also includes a major scientific research program. > “Today, the photovoltaic farm delivers mu…

Not saying that spraying would be the best solution to the problem - but the article seems rather obsessed with the possibility that glyphosate might be carcinogenic. Vs. I've heard that fire and…

> A homegrown catnip lotion has proven “just as effective as Deet” as a mosquito repellant in trials carried out in Uganda. While this is good news...a quick realty check, for those unfamiliar: Mal…

For a more sober take on the B-24, and disadvantages of the Davis Wing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-24_bomber …

> ... when you don't have access to ... These days, "don't have access" is a micro-market. Everywhere else, indoor growing has to compete with the cost & delay of importi…

Over the years, many firms have poured many $millions into vertical farms. If you're growing extreme -value crops - marijuana, or maybe exotic salad greens for Michelin-starred restaurants - tha…

Buried minor detail: > For us humans, the finding offers academic comfort rather than practical salvation. Most scientists agree that as the sun ages, it will steadily grow hotter, boiling Earth&#x…

>> The odds of this happening go way up the larger your individual drives are. > This is a common claim, but honestly, citation needed. FWIW, here's the quick & dirty argument for th…

> The odds of this happening go way up the larger your individual drives are. Technically true. Practically? There are several other major factors - such as the quality of your drives, whether y…

In theory. But real defenses are generally multi-layered. And in that context, a Swiss cheese slice with only one hole is still extremely valuable.

Don't overlook this part: > ... workers prize flexibility despite the significant trade-offs — like lower pay and almost no benefits.

Whether or not people are reading long or complex works for pleasure - what does this trend do to hiring for jobs which require serious comprehension of long, complex documents? Will we see in-person-…

Yes, but notice the scale - 20 students, in a nation of 40+ million people. We might call that a moral or poetic victory - but practically speaking, it's like an endangered human language which &…

> It's gotten to the point where I've now lost faith in democracy. Things aren't getting better... "it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all th…

> ...the roots of the case are the 1998 alliance between IBM and a company called the Santa Cruz Operation which sold a version of UNIX... > Big Blue decided Linux was the future and bailed from…

> If your web app crashes one out of every fifty times I launch it, If you're using a different, random browser every time you access our web app, you're in a minority far smaller than 2%…

Various combinations of "they didn't know", "still better than the place they left", "their experience wasn't that bad", and "needed for their resume"…

Not to speak well of air pollution, but the article seems far too eager to implicate it in reducing male fertility. Alternate theory: The pollution-induced epigenetic changes are mostly to adapt any …

"Sovereign" might not have been the best word choice - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement (Yes, I can see lots of ways for the idea of turning t…