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ccffph··on Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber?
The objective was to find an eco-friendly method to do so. Thus the living walls, and not just outdoor air intake (which would cost power to run the fans, similar to the energy footprint of running an AC). I can't comment on average outdoor air, but plants certainly helped.
ccffph··on Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber?
Back in college, I worked on a project whose goals were to examine the effects of closed room vs. fresh air cognition. The solution was a partnership between the Architecture and Biotech departments to develop so-called "living walls" to continuously recycle air. In accordance with this article, test subjects showed improved cognition and memory working in fresh, low co2 ppm air.

I unfortunately do not have a paper but I did find an article about it and it seems they've deployed it in real life with success: https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/breathe-in-case...

ccffph··on Protecting democratic elections through secure, verifiable voting
I agree. I never understood the notion of same-day registration, nor the constant blasting of voting reminders for months before the midterms. Do we really want people who have to be extremely convinced to vote, to vote? Do we really want people who didn't care at all, got convinced by one team the day of, and decided to vote on a whim, to vote? Thus, are the votes from people who had to be reminded on twitter and google to vote, "real" votes? Or were they gamed?
ccffph··on Ask HN: Personal Library Manager?
Hi, thanks for making a great product. I love it and use it every day for personal notes. That being said, is there any possibility of the platform having a self hosted option in the future?
ccffph··on Investing in Art
Hey Adrian, I've recently been looking into this area and stumbled upon your site only several weeks ago. I was wondering if musical instruments would fit into the "art" investment category as well, or is it a separate asset class? Stradivarius/Cremona violins, Steinway pianos, etc. Would rare musical instruments yield similar returns on average?
ccffph··on Google Will Eat Itself (2005)
same. nothing more infuriating than failing a captcha three times....somehow.
ccffph··on The Anhei tokamak is first in the world to generate 100M degrees Celsius
Wouldnt then our “green renewables” also not be green due to their production lifecycle as well? Plastics, batteries, fiberglass, rare earth metals, cobalt, etc
ccffph··on Brain Drain Across the United States
My mother, a poor immigrant, managed to provide me with education just fine in the US. Nothing to do with the funding or programs or systems - its just willpower.
ccffph··on Ask HN: Products that suck but you still use?
I have been looking for something similar and settled on using notion.so

I dont like how self host is not an option but its very clean, supports markdown, has an awesome interface as a personal wiki, and the free tier has plenty of space.

ccffph··on U.S.-Thai pair facing death for 'sea home' should fight charge, Thailand says
Its only a job if you contract them voluntarily.

What if the government forced us all to buy BigMacs every day under threat of jail time? Some people would certainly be happy that they are being fed “for free” (deducted prepay for two weeks of government bigmacs from each paycheck + convenience fee + online payment fee + tax), but you might not. Further, this is also assuming government finds the most effective solutions at the lowest cost. Usually they just do the latter to meet the absolute bare minimum. There’s no way for government services to be zero cost, so they assign their own overhead.

So now we have a Department of Burgers in every state. Everyone has to buy them every day, if you dont you go to prison, you cant see the cost breakdown of the bigmacs and the quality is inferior to private BigMacs. Some people who love bigmacs and would buy them anyways say “I am glad the government forced me to pay for them. Thats a lot of the job!”, and those who would never buy them find negative value from such a proposal.

What I’m trying to say is that even if you anecdotally agree, it does not make it right.

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