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DMT and mescaline too.

Sure, new technology does create new issues, and can make others worse, that doesn't mean, however, that technology doesn't also increase our ability to continue improving and doesn't make the world a better place.

This technology, like all technology, increases humanity's collective capacity to create solutions to problems and implement them. Faster travel means more time to solve problems. LESS planes and LESS speed make the world a worse place.

They're everywhere here. It sucks.

WE ACTUALLY DO THOUGH!! And he does slide around. That's too funny

I have a 3 year old pug. He'll run through the house searching for the right family member if you count down from 10 and say "Go find X! Where is he?!"

Because most of the great intellectual works exist in these "legacy form factors."

Why bother doing anything difficult or burdensome if one has the option to take the easy route?

This man sounds like he has a real passion for what he does. He's been doing it for quite a long time, and like you pointed out, he could've checked out and got a salary job at some company. He didn't. He gets to live his life doing something exciting that he loves.

Living your life always doing what's safe doesn't sound very intriguing.

That's a good point. Systems like this fixed onto the actual sources of these emissions would be far more effective at capturing carbon, and most likely produce far more fuel, for the same- if not, a not much worse price.

I wonder how effective this system is at producing e-kerosene, as well as how cost-effective producing fuel this way is. It's certainly a step in the right direction to offsetting carbon emissions.

I also wonder how much excess carbon we can keep in the atmosphere without causing catastrophe. A slightly warmer planet with more CO_2 for more plants to use to grow may be better for humanity and the global ecosystem in general.

I've found that small amounts of psilocybin mushrooms appear to calm me and allow me to "get in the zone" a lot better, as well as radically increase my creativity. I also found that low-dose MDMA, taken after eating, dramatically increased my focus and productivity while somewhat dulling my creativity. I've never tried LSD or Ketamine though.

How does that matter?

What happens to us is out of our control, what we have is out of our control, it's pointless for one to concern himself with what he doesn't have. It's self-evident that the most one person can do is all that person can do, and it seems reasonable that the highest ideal a person can aim for is doing all they can do. Our lives are what we do, it's everything we do. Luck doesn't control our lives, we do.

  Consider being dropped into another nation where they speak a language you have no knowledge of. Without shared language and culture, you can't hope to be understood.

  Doesn't mean you can't be surrounded by helpful, caring people (friends?), though, which is why this argument is completely flawed

Upon considering the scenario you described, my first thoughts were on how lonely an experience that would be. Also, helpful and caring people that don't understand what's wrong can't provide very effective support.

What desire does a platform like Twitter have for spam? We have laws that prevent people from uttering threats. Twitter has rules against spam.

It's their platform and they want their users to be free in their discourse, they just don't want spam.

Or `make`

Would you mind explaining why nuclear is not ideal?

Please, excuse me. But, what?! I honestly cannot make out what you're trying to reference.

The internet is not the only place to buy things. It's also not strictly necessary to buy a computer solely to access the internet. For instance, you could ask your neighbour if you could use theirs for an hour or two or go use one at the local library. Especially if it's just to book a, what seems to be, very important trip while you're dying of cancer.

EDIT: Grammar

On first glance, I see the word "unbiased" immediately followed by "based on European values". Now, I'm no expert, but to me, that seems pretty biased.

This is really cool. I'd love to see more devices like this. As I don't exactly have the resources to build one on my own, I'd also be interested in the opportunity to buy one.

YouTube one's fine in Canada. NBC doesn't work outside the US, I think.

Totally agree with you in every way except your last point. IIRC, the administrators of a Google Workspace domain have almost complete control of the accounts created under it. For example, they're able to make sure that each account comes with preset Chrome Web Store extensions or they can limit or completely disable your control over your account. So, unless the school board locked down the Chromebook itself, (which I don't think they can unless they actually own it) these restrictions and the spyware would've been automatically "installed" on OP's kid's account and shouldn't be active/installed when you're logged into a privately owned Google account. All in all, the way Chromebooks work is unconventional and sometimes very annoying.

What do you think that will accomplish?

Thanks. Nice title by the way.

That's an intriguing idea. Do you think you could go into a little bit more detail on how to do that?

I know IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate does that, not sure about any CLI tools. But it does look like you could use netcat to do that, for example:

cat myRequest.http | netcat example.com 80

This reminded me of something I believe I saw on here some time ago: https://github.com/monicahq/monica

EDIT: Yeah, I saw it here on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25270001).