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'Happiness is not just about GDP': ambitious plan or utopia?

theguardian.com
3 points·by f_allwein·last month·2 comments

Meet The Sad Wives of AI

wired.com
9 points·by f_allwein·2 months ago·0 comments

How the Vision Pro Rollout Inflamed Tensions at Apple

wired.com
16 points·by f_allwein·3 months ago·4 comments

My theories on why Apple's software quality has degraded so much

forums.macrumors.com
3 points·by f_allwein·8 months ago·1 comments

How America fell behind China in the lunar space race–and how it can catch up

arstechnica.com
4 points·by f_allwein·9 months ago·1 comments

How to Raise a Reader in an Age of Digital Distraction

lithub.com
2 points·by f_allwein·10 months ago·0 comments

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f_allwein
·last month·discuss
Realistic costs of owning a car are around 1.000€ per month - see https://assets.adac.de/Autodatenbank/Autokosten/autokostenue... (pdf, German, look for Gesamtkosten (total cost))

Wherever I tell this to people here in Germany, they are good at pointing out why their car is the exception.
f_allwein
·last month·discuss
> While critics will question the feasibility of this vision because it relies on a radical reform of global financial institutions and massive wealth taxes – both of which have long been dismissed as unthinkable by rich countries – there can be no worthwhile assessment of its value without considering the far bleaker options offered by the far right and the old left.
f_allwein
·last month·discuss
Also, who carries a Bluetooth speaker on a plane? And for what purpose?
f_allwein
·2 months ago·discuss
dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208304
f_allwein
·2 months ago·discuss
No.

Takes decades to build/ projects run over time and budget/ where would you build?/ where would you store nuclear waste (bonus points for: in your region)?/ contributes little to global energy mix atm/ uranium is limited. Where do you get it from? Etc
f_allwein
·3 months ago·discuss
I have another one:

What is lost when you put any of these in an LLM?

Yes, we can get plausible sounding answers generated algorithmically. But these are great starting points for humans to develop their own thinking.

My university, LSE, asked all students to write exam essays by hand ~10 years ago. Wonder how it is done at Oxford today.
f_allwein
·3 months ago·discuss
maybe “The Only Way to Win is Not to Play”
f_allwein
·3 months ago·discuss
> Jobs saw the Apple Store not so much as a retail outlet but as a church for evangelizing to the unconverted. He wanted the world to know that Apple’s simple but powerful tools would give people access to whatever stirred their passions—photos, songs, movies—and help them create these things on their own.
f_allwein
·3 months ago·discuss
Interesting, thanks for sharing! I really want to like the Vision Pro, but haven’t even tried it yet. Hope it will evolve into something good.
f_allwein
·4 months ago·discuss
„Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.“ Oscar Wilde
f_allwein
·5 months ago·discuss
triple submission - could they be merged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037772
f_allwein
·5 months ago·discuss
It is a global challenge. Climate change is caused by rich people in developed countries (the average Indian person causes very low co2 emissions). There are some good initiatives to mitigate climate change, but so far, it is too little, too late. The US taking a back seat does not help either.
f_allwein
·5 months ago·discuss
Here’s the science: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/possible-nort...

„Under high-emission scenarios, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a key system of ocean currents that also includes the Gulf Stream, could shut down after the year 2100.“
f_allwein
·5 months ago·discuss
I like the original title, „ Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn“. Why edit it?
f_allwein
·5 months ago·discuss
Still available in Germany („Rechenschieber“), eg https://www.wissenladen.de/products/der-rechenschieber
f_allwein
·5 months ago·discuss
Maybe it should be „forked“
f_allwein
·6 months ago·discuss
> In Apple Calendar it's not possible to see the full year, and still have some visibility into which events are happening on the individual days

It‘s weird in general how tools/ websites seem to avoid putting too much information on a screen (see also: event listings, …). Why is that? Most people have big screens nowadays, so it would be feasible to have a view like the one described here, at least for desktop calendars.
f_allwein
·6 months ago·discuss
on the other hand, WETI still seems to be up, so you could contribute there.

http://weti-institute.org/
f_allwein
·6 months ago·discuss
Don’t live like a rich person in a developed country - they’re the only ones whose co2 footprints are too high.
f_allwein
·6 months ago·discuss
Power tip: replace the Word docs with Markdown.