BrandonMarc

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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Yes, the OpenSSL dustup led to this amusing article: The Internet Is Being Protected By Two Guys Named Steve [1] ... the more serious point being, at the time, massive pieces of the internet owed their security to two unpaid/underpaid
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
People hate hypocrisy. Greta may be innocent, but her helpers buy far, far more plane tickets than us - her target audience. Scratch most environmentalist attention-seekers, and you'll find hypocrisy. Look at Prince Harry.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
It's a shame Greta Thunberg's advisors, assistants, helpers, etc all fly around getting supplies & setting up meetings. Instead of, you know, the more carbon-efficient method of traveling the ocean via maritime ships. Great Th
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Discuss climate change without discussing politics? Um ... how?
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
From the article: How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? With a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn’t use the internet. That’s exactly what Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are doing now, thanks
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Hong Kongers avoid China's internet censorship with peer-to-peer mesh network(legalinsurrection.com)
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2020 Democrat field wants to expand union power in Silicon Valley (except Biden)(abcnews.go.com)
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Sadly, coal power plants release more radiation directly into the atmosphere than nuclear, due to naturally occurring isotopes embedded in the coal ore. So because they were so scared of potential radiation, they ended up ... getting defini
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Ghislaine Maxwell found living with tech CEO at secluded $3M mansion near Boston(dailymail.co.uk)
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
I liked how in Freakonomics (I think), they interviewed someone who worked at a hospital, and would regularly and randomly take culture samples of nurses' and doctors' and administrators' hands. The results of the culture wer
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
I liked how in Freakonomics (I think), they interviewed someone who worked at a hospital, and would regularly and randomly take culture samples of nurses' and doctors' and administrators' hands. The results of the culture wer
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Scott Alexander: Now r/SubSimulatorGPT2 has gotten to r/totallynotrobots, which means we get to see a robot pretending to be a human pretending to be a robot pretending to be a human.
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If only Turing was alive to see this(slatestarcodex.com)
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Another side effect of the cold war - apathy. If the human race is going to nuke itself soon, anyway, what's the point doing things the right way, especially if that may make gas or food x% more expensive. The fear of Armageddon is les
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Yes ... so they have experience in crashing planes, which is relevant. /s
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
That's me, too. I've read the essay many times, and I'm always scratching my head either at how the pieces fit into the big picture, or what various components or jargon means. Like, what's a penstock? What is "head
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
My sister's pet rabbit was killed by a neighbor's Dalmatian. I figure every dog is different.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
We track our spending based on budget categories. Grocery stores are the toughest, as items bought there might fall into the category of "food" or "personal care" or "household items" or "pets" or oth
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
We track our spending based on budget categories. Grocery stores are the toughest, as items bought there might fall into the category of "food" or "personal care" or "household items" or "pets" or ot
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
I prefer single-use paper. I put my recycleable materials into the paper bags, then toss that into the (single-stream) recycling dumpster - the paper is recycleable after all (and is often made of recycled paper). Back when we went to the r
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
If fossil fuels are the detritus of extinct plants, then plastic is just as "natural" as coal and oil ... in either case, it's a waste/byproduct of a life form/ecosystem that no longer exists.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Au contraire, a Marinara Trench sounds delightful!
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Indeed, and China didn't always keep un-use-able plastic out of their river systems (therefore leading to the oceans). Now that China stopped accepting recycled plastic, it's going to countries like Vietnam, Malaysia, etc that not
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Is it certain the stroke came before the fall? It may have caused the fall.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
He's used to overpromising and then delivering far later than expected - it's worked so well for SpaceX. Maybe he inherited Jobs' reality distortion field?
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
I just re-read this skit yesterday! Ha ha. "Rule number six: there is NO rule number six..."
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
What is SV?
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She's a great writer and clearly a great pilot. Is this natural for cherries? To be so vulnerable to a little water that they split/rot within a few hours? Seems odd, for a plant that lives outdoors. Have cherries always been this
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
I'm thinking: a fan the size of the ones they have on air boats - the flat-bottom boats with the giant powerful fan on the back? That kind.
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by BrandonMarc 7y ago
Reminds me of what I hear over and over and over about the "crisis" shortage of truck drivers in America, and because of this "crisis" they just have to spend billions developing automated trucks that will put millions o

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