I think you are vastly over estimating the size of 80K USD in $100 bills. Each bundle of $10K is about 1/2” thick. You can easily carry 80K in 100’s without looking out of place.
I still play Threes regularly. It’s super accessible but still remains challenging after years of play. I even occasionally still set a new high score.
> Except it can't, a 100 acre wind farm can produce energy indefinitely while an oil well will eventually run dry.
Perhaps more true in that the wind (as far as we know) won’t run out but wind turbines do have a limited lifespan. After 20-30 years they usually need to be replaced. Some of the components are recycled but a significant portion - including the blades - are either not recyclable or not economically recyclable. Work is being done on this but there’s no guarantee it’ll produce dividends.
It depends entirely on what scope one considers for impact. Do we count maintenance roads? Total land area disturbed? Windmill foundation pads? Global co2 levels? Abandoned equipment in general? Noise levels over how much area?
What is ‘leftover’ from an abandoned well can be as simple as a buried 6” ground level plug, or as messy as an acre of abandoned equipment and a giant oil spill/hazmat area. Plus a billion tons of atmospheric co2 - which is invisible.
Oil is so widely used because it is incredibly cheap and easy to use at large scale, with minimal obviously visible consequence.
Because co2 is invisible. And as long as we don’t spill large quantities of it, it doesn’t seem to cause any visible problems.
The effect of the low density from wind, solar, etc. isn’t visible until you go to areas it is widely deployed and then do the math on how much energy they are actually producing, which is a small fraction of what would be produced if the same area was impacted to produce oil or nuclear.
For this to be a valid pedagogical technique it has to be applied properly for the intended student. As described in the linked article for middle elementary aged students it seems effective. I can easily imagine my own middle elementary aged child responding well to it.
Your experience however seems to be either in secondary or collegiate classrooms and I can easily see where this approach there would often be problematic. That said if an instructor is trying to get students to engage in critical thinking about why something works then an intentional mistake could be educational. You can copy code from stack overflow all day long but it’s going to work a lot better if you can actually analyze it and understand what’s happening.
Exactly. A fundamental question for any platform is, "How much harm do we want to enable?" The answer can't in practice be "none". But "well fuck it" isn't a tenable answer either, because reasonable users don't want to be around the awful stuff and they'll migrate away, leaving you with an ever-increasing proportion of terrible users. One can't think effectively about free speech without thinking about freedom of association.
That is a common novice take on the problem, but it only makes sense if the only way harm happens in the world is by people accidentally seeing things they didn't want to see and that can be easily filtered out.
I think we just don't agree on what the problem is. I don't want a discussion platform protecting me from "dangerous" content that I am choosing to engage with.
Yes, I think most people feel the same way as you. The question then is what to do about the societal harms enabled by the platform.
I think that's a question for society, but also for the people working at the platform. For example, if you read interviews with 4chan founder Christopher "Moot" Poole, you'll see that he started out with a similar ethos to yours. He ended up reining in things some over time, still grew miserable with what he created, and eventually quit.
The problem is much larger for a platform that aims to be larger and not generally despised. If you look through the big platform rules, it's worth thinking about each item from a perspective of, "Am I happy devoting my life to enabling that?" E.g., the people who are into CSAM don't want protection from content their are choosing to engage with, just like you. But how many people want to go to work each day and say, "Yay, another day of supporting machinery to distribute child porn across the globe?"
A business needs to have the freedom to kick out shitheads so as to protect itself from becoming a place that non-shitheads don't want to do business with.
A grocery store doesn't let people walk around in their store saying just anything to their customers. They're (rightfully) not bound by as high of a standard for what they allow to be said in their store as the government's standard for how much they'll let you say before they imprison you.
You could say the same thing about a telephone company or a postal service. After all, they are just like a grocery store, so no need for them to uphold free speech.
I've volunteered in crisis intervention and mental health coaching for a decade or so and this is a major part of certain communities.
When ED issues come up, especially in teens, concerning topics are usually (not limited to)
-How to hide it better from your parents/friends
-how to be more efficient at it
-selfies of teens showing dangerously low body fat as "goals"
-shaming of people for eating (at all)
-coaching people who are vulnerable from other conditions into ED as a way to feel better.
Bear in mind in some cases were talking about people who will be trying to hide that all they consume is (relatively common amount) half a small orange and 1 egg white a day and as little water as possible.
It's not 'dieting'. It's a mental health condition that, untreated, leads to death.
To be clear, this is specifically about glorification of anorexia and bulimia. Are you familiar with these disorders?
No one is saying they are not permitted to speak. But if you want to post on a platform, you will also have to adhere with the rules and guidelines of that platform. When you don’t, your posts will be removed.
And if your platform of choice says to not glorify these disorders, don’t be surprised when posts glorifying the disorders get removed from the platform.
Of course, I’m intimately familiar with particular individuals that society has decided is ok to constantly berate and tell them they know what’s best for them and that they’re too thin and they aren’t eating enough and etc etc etc. Keep in mind none of these folks are medical doctors, they haven’t seen any blood tests, they have no idea how much this individual actually eats, they really have no reason to speak about any bit of their medical status whatsoever. They have absolutely zero context, they are as a child who walks into a movie in the middle and immediately starts criticizing it.
But somehow society has decided thin folks are an acceptable target for baseless harassment, and she has to deal with being a pariah anywhere except LA.
Do you think there is no ability to form a consensus on what is harmful content, or that the community has no right to discourage or remove content they have decided is harmful?
It's pretty ironic reading through your link that's trying to make a case for "junk science" in forensics, when the biases and fallacies in the article itself just scream out at you.
You can note all the weasel words they use, as well as weaseling and interpreting other's words to mean what they want them to mean.
How they say junk science has "limited evidence" to justify it, but then later on link to studies with limited evidence that are supposed to justify their claims.
How they explicitly link to some evidence that supposedly justifies their claims but for other claims they just say "studies exist" but don't bother to provide names, dates, or any details about the studies.
Going to just stop reading there and mark that notch down as propublica being a source of "junk journalism".
Except that a person who is literally blind found it disrespectful.
People say all sorts of stupid stuff that they don’t intend to be disrespectful but which is. When it’s pointed out by someone the appropriate response is to change your behavior, not double down and make excuses.
Here’s another example: In my state (MN) it’s not uncommon for (largely) women to refer to themselves as hunting widows when their spouses go away for the weekend to hunt during the season. They say it as a joke but it’s disrespectful and diminishing to actual widows. How do I know? I’ve been widowed.
I've personally tested my ability to "drive by feel" on a road i travel at least once a day on average for the past 12 years. Like, new moon, no headlights or parking lights. It's all farmland and fences and curves, with no foglines or detents to let you know when you're straying out of the lane.
I couldn't do it in an emergency unless somehow i was in 100% beta brainwave mode (i think), but it isn't really hyperbole. Obviously if a deer or a tree or a brick or something was in the road i'd run straight into it, but that happens tops (TOPS!) two, maybe three times a week.
ETA: also if you've ever seen military vehicles with their no-show lights, it's not hard to fathom that some people can drive with next to no visual clues.
> When it’s pointed out by someone the appropriate response is to change your behavior, not double down and make excuses.
Actually, the HN response is to reflexively hit downvote to silence the blind guy, to keep the world of the offender clean and nice. I kind of expected better from the "Hacker Community", however, I continue to learn that I am pretty fuckin naiv.
Saw a falcon launch at SLC-40 from banana creek last February. Unlike what the article said there was no fee beyond entrance to KSC. Had no problem finding a good seating spot in the bleachers for my 7 person group about 45 minutes prior to launch.
It was loud, louder than I expected, but not painfully cover your ears loud.
My experience may be atypical. A week prior to our visit there were no scheduled launches. I just did a random check as we were driving up that morning and saw it was going on.
100% glad we prioritized the launch over spending time at the other attractions. My 7yo would agree. We still hit other things but the launch was far and away the highlight. Just wish I could have seen a shuttle launch 40 years ago when I was 7.
Don’t miss the chance to see a launch if you get it.
I had a similar experience to you - was in the US for a couple of weeks in May so made the trip to the cape to try and see Starliner (bought the fancy tickets and everything). On the way there, we realised there was also going to be a Falcon 9 launch (they're doing multiple a week at the moment for Starlink) and we were able to watch it from Banana Creek without buying any extra ticket! Would recommend to anyone who gets a chance.
Anyway, they scrubbed the Starliner launch until after my visit so I'm even more glad I got that opportunity.
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