turnersauce
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Comment · 7 years ago
I agree, such a positive tone encourages complacency. And the reality is that we could do so much better:
https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2018/8/30/the-moral-egregio...
"We shouldn’t be looking at the cost of ending poverty as a percentage of total world income, but rather as a percentage of the income of all the people who are not poor; say, those who live on more than double the poverty line. In 1990, it would have cost 12.9% of their total income to end poverty. In 2013, it would have cost only 3.9%. According to this measure, our capacity to end poverty has improved by a factor of 3.31."
Comment · 15 years ago
Grad students: (not that our salaries are all that secret...)
http://salaryshare.me/be795b5770029320591ac9a1730a9932
Comment · 15 years ago
It's funny that this is coming up now - just this week, there was a pre-print on arxiv.org that explored the possibility of a planet being heated (possibly enough to become habitable) by dark matter annihilation in its core: http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.5086
Comment · 15 years ago
You could change the settings to a location at the equator, and maybe one or two timezones to your west. (I understand that having more customizable settings would be a better alternative, but I thought I would offer up my hack).
Comment · 15 years ago
This has been posted before, and there was much interesting discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2041675
Comment · 16 years ago
In response to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1945340
Comment · 16 years ago
Unfortunately, it still asks for a login.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law