metalon | 2 years ago | on: Stop telling kids they’ll die from climate change (2021)
The current IPCC report is readable and pretty comprehensive: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...
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metalon | 4 years ago | on: Experience: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)
Spending two weeks in a hotel room with all the amenities you can imagine (Contact to your beloved ones, television, internet access) is in no way comparable to solitary confinement, especially given the short time and the fact that you know when it will end. The gp comment is incredibly tone deaf.
metalon | 5 years ago | on: In 2019, there were only 13 PhDs in CS granted to African Americans in the U.S. [pdf]
Groundbreaking idea there. Why has noone ever before thought of just giving everybody the same opportunities?
metalon | 8 years ago | on: A pessimistic vision of India’s looming environmental and economic collapse
You could consider going to Laos, the air is definitely better here
metalon | 8 years ago | on: 'No longer kill animals': Bill Gates, Richard Branson back 'clean meat' startup
What do you mean by victim culture in this context?
metalon | 8 years ago | on: Infosys accused of racism
This still has nothing to do with the point they were making, that black people in the U.S. are still disadvantaged due to historical reasons.
metalon | 8 years ago | on: Infosys accused of racism
I think it's pretty clear they were talking about the U.S., which IS a white majority country where white people DO have an advantage
metalon | 9 years ago | on: A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system
More like strangers taking pictures of you without your consent (and often knowledge) with the intent to increase their profits and not sharing any of that with you.
metalon | 9 years ago | on: Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips
Maybe the Heaviside step function would be fitting :-)
metalon | 9 years ago | on: Pakistan airline admits taking extra passengers in aisle
In 1991, Israel evacuated 14325 Ethiopian Jews in 36 hours using 35 aircraft, with up to 1122 passengers on a plane [1]. It's such an impressive feat, those must have been some of the best pilots, to be able to fly such an overcrowded plane (even though they stripped the seats from the planes it was probably still overloaded)
metalon | 9 years ago | on: Writing an Interpreter in Go: The Paperback Edition
That is what is well-done in the Haskell book imho, the combination of someone just learning everything and an experienced programmer
metalon | 9 years ago | on: Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign
They did not say that blacks don't kill blacks, just that the reason for those killings is not the victim's skin color.
metalon | 9 years ago | on: Make America Hate Again
They are not simply banning new foreigners from entering the country (which alone would be bad enough, imho), but also many green card holders who were legal residents and now face an uncertain future.
Also, does "In addition, the United States should not admit those [...] who would oppress Americans of any race, gender, or sexual orientation" apply to everyone? That would mean bad news for Mike Pence, among others
metalon | 9 years ago | on: Rust sucks because
I thought the same, e.g. this:
> There's actually a special Haskell search engine to search for anything related to Haskell, because of the funky syntax not playing nice with Google.
Hoogle is so extremely convenient, it's a big plus imho
metalon | 9 years ago | on: Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine
I think LFE is at least not unheard of, but anyway, that's not really the point here probably ;)
metalon | 9 years ago | on: Dragons' Den winner has £100,000 funding withdrawn
I think what it means that they got the idea for the tracker after losing the laptop, they didn't lose it after securing their funding
metalon | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are your favourite computer programming quotes
A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?
metalon | 9 years ago | on: FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed from Consumer Soaps
Chlorophyll does actually help against bad breath, since it absorbs gases. You can still buy dragees in pharmacies
metalon | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Transpiling a dynamically typed language to a statically typed language
Ok.
metalon | 9 years ago | on: The Lost Sign Language of Sawmill Workers
Maybe if you think about the local environment (rainforest) as the medium in which the population is dispersed, like colloids :-)
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