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Definitely not true. Historically, it's been one of the ways they attract (and scout) top talent.

I guess each generation discovers a different William Gibson trilogy? I would have assumed this was more about Wintermute and the HF hack. Remember the Zurich Orbital AI registry?

Yes, this is honestly a huge problem. The US isn't even trying.

Give me balcony solar (in the U.S.) or give me death![1]

[1] Really, climate change risks already a massive liability in so many places (forst fire-caused particulate air pollution, etc.). We need far more solar and battery capacity to bend the curve.

Learning to say "no" a lot, perhaps reflexively, seems like a good practice in the age of AI.

Uncovered canals are ridiculously dumb, if you care about water conservation.

There are resovoirs in California with millions of black rubber shade balls floating on the surface to reduce evaporation. There's no reason why we shouldn't be doing this everywhere.

Yeah, it's not like the few remaining small, family-owned Indiana farms (which are either very specialized away from corn or basically lifestyle businesses at this point) are benefitting from this in a meaningful way.

It is kind of funny and sad that in the U.S. we've gone from corporations virtue-signalling to vice signalling in just a few years.

I was going to say: is this a joke?

But really, the article seems to be going out of the way to make the author's particular point... but reads to me that the original paper is often understood... it simply shows that "specialists who are very knowledgeable about a subject are more likely to accurately identify gaps in their own knoweldge, when compared to any population less knoweldgeable on the same subject."

For example, I am apparently the most knowledgeable birder in my family. I've taken graduate-level ornithology courses, identify a fair number of N. American birds by their calls, etc. However, I recognize that I know nothing about birds compared to anyone who actually works in the field with them... I don't know enough to even estimate what I don't know.

I mean, Facebook acquiring FriendFeed felt at least as bad as Google shutting down Google Reader.

There are probably some other interesting adaptations involved, like the fact that the surface of a mantis shrimp's (shell? carapace?) selectively filters out sound waves (and thus, shockwaves caused by its own "punch").

People on HN really love small-scale fission nuclear when the sun is (gestures) right there.