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by Glench 5y ago
I actually just wrote my congressperson a letter about this! You can read it here: https://glench.notion.site/A-Climate-Letter-to-My-Congresspe...
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by Glench 5y ago
Here's the story about why I quit tech to become a psychotherapist: http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/
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I've been really impressed with Chialisp, a functional smart contract language that's really really cleverly designed to be auditable, safer, and more efficient than Ethereum/Solidity. There's not a lot of tooling for it
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by Glench 5y ago
> Only #IPCC AR6 Socioeconomic pathway SSP1-1.9 keeps warming at 1.5°, but assumes a flow of gigatons of CO2 into the ground as large as the current gigaton flow of all fossil fuels out of the ground. https://twitter.com/
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by Glench 5y ago
Thanks! Yeah, I wanted a way to simplify/unify the front and back-ends while retaining flexibility to implement anything I need to. And of course it needs to be fast and have a small bundle size (thanks Svelte!). It's pretty close
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by Glench 5y ago
Take payments in browser extensions: https://extensionpay.com - $5/month Digital Ocean server - HTTP server: pm2 / Node / Express - Database: SQLite (because it's fast and needs fewer resources and less confi
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by Glench 5y ago
Yeah the piece is a bit fluffy but one cool example of this is a forest garden in northwest America that was abandoned >100 years ago but still produces food and is more biodiverse than the surrounding forest: https://www.nati
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by Glench 5y ago
Maybe you should speak for yourself! :)
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by Glench 5y ago
> Even this level of very small sacrifice is unimaginable. Unimaginable to who? I can easily imagine this. The negatives you list are real, but they'll get rapidly better in the next 20 years (longer range cars, more charging stati
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by Glench 5y ago
> We all know that to combat climate change sacrifices will need to be made like fewer cars and smaller houses (for compact, accessible cities). This statement is tinged with the idea of sacrifice and loss that is unfortunately one of t
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by Glench 5y ago
> If this is the case, then why nobody came up with a clone to it? It was back in the Web 2.0 days when there were more open data sources and interchangeable data was a priority — RSS/Atom feeds and JSON APIs. I think that a lot of
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by Glench 5y ago
My favorite piece which captures some of the wonder of Yahoo Pipes was this essay called My Heart Feeds a Series of Tubes: https://medium.com/message/my-heart-feeds-a-series-of-tubes-...
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by Glench 5y ago
Is it just me or are there a lot of HN commenters defending fossil fuels on any story related to the environment?
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by Glench 5y ago
I made a way for browser extension developers to easily take payments in their extensions: https://extensionpay.com
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by Glench 5y ago
Yes, huge win! As we clean up the electric grids we as consumers also have to transition all our fossil-fuel things (cars, furnaces, driers, etc) to electric things (electric cars, heat pumps). Around 42% of energy-related carbon emissions
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by Glench 5y ago
The problem with that approach is that it's quite easy to make something you "need" that also isn't valuable to others. If the goal is to get paying customers, you also need signals that your solution is valuable enough
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A Vision for DeFi in Chia(chia.net)
3 points by Glench 5y ago|2 comments
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by Glench 5y ago
For those interested, Chia has a really awesome functional on-chain language called Chialisp. It's secure, auditable (meaning large organizations would be more interested), and the recursive nature allows colored coins released on the
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by Glench 5y ago
I made https://extensionpay.com , a service to let browser extension developers easily take payments for their extensions. But I feel like making a SaaS isn't really passive income — it's flywheel income. Takes a lot of
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by Glench 5y ago
> Some resource needs to be consumed, but we have payment systems that are currently multiple orders of magnitude more efficient than Bitcoin or Chia, so that is kind of a baseline. (Think Visa or Mastercard) Well yeah, but blockchains o
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by Glench 5y ago
Well I mean the market for hard drives is already over 1 zettabyte a year so it seems a little ridiculous to make that comparison without taking into context the whole picture. Although yes, you're right, some resource needs to be cons
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by Glench 5y ago
Haven't seen Chia mentioned in this thread and it was only briefly mentioned in the article — Proof of Space/Time seems to have the same security guarantees as Bitcoin without any of the electricity usage. It uses extra hard drive
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by Glench 5y ago
I switched all my email newsletters to RSS newsletters with https://kill-the-newsletter.com and my life has gotten so much better. I was inspired by the design of Hey email, whose designers reasoned that newsletters aren't
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by Glench 5y ago
Actually if we electrified our homes, most households in the US would save money: https://www.rewiringamerica.org/bringing-infrastructure-home & https://www.rewiringamerica.org/household-savings-report
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by Glench 5y ago
> In the 21st century, when being white is now the morally contaminated category, non-Jews at Stanford forcibly classified Jews as white. I don't know about the particular details of the Standford case, but this sentence is a real r
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by Glench 5y ago
This is a terrible and misinformed article. We don't have to rely on nascent carbon storage or "deflecting some incoming sunlight to reduce heating of the atmosphere". We mainly have to electrify everything as fast as possibl
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by Glench 5y ago
Working on ExtensionPay, a way for developers to easily take payments in browser extensions without the tedious work of making their own backend: https://extensionpay.com
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by Glench 5y ago
I find this so inspiring! Imagine if we, as individuals, could be so sustainably well-adapted to our environments as the plants in these gardens are.
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by Glench 5y ago
No, Australia already has massive rooftop solar adoption because it's the cheapest energy source there. A lot of that is soft costs of installation which Australia reduced by having easier regulations.
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by Glench 5y ago
Glad you like it! I'm continually trying to improve it. I'm personally dissatisfied with the landing page but it gets the job done for now.

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