IvyMike

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by IvyMike 3y ago
It was a bit confusing, but when I said "amount of that type of material which is actually recycled", think I'm agreeing with @surement: look at the amount of material in the actual landfill stream vs the recycle stream. If
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by IvyMike 3y ago
I think all packaging material should be taxed by weight, but with a multiplier that corresponds to the amount of that type of material which is actually recycled. Glass is heavy, but the data shows that 90% of it is recycled? The tax is
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by IvyMike 4y ago
Usually the phrase "honor killing" would involve someone killing their own family member. For example, here's a definition from Human Rights Watch: "Honor crimes are acts of violence, usually murder, committed by male f
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by IvyMike 4y ago
Reminds me of Greg Egan's "A Kidnapping" from "Axiomatic". (I'd like to describe it, but it would spoil it. Just go read Axiomatic, it's got some of the most mind-blowing stories I've read.)
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by IvyMike 4y ago
If you've got stomach issues, NSAIDs can exacerbate those. And NSAIDs are definitely a no-no if you're bleeding, or have any other condition which could be worsened by blood thinners.
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by IvyMike 4y ago
California is adopting NEM 3.0 for new installs: "Customers using solar panels can receive an average rate of 30 cents per kilowatt-hour under NEM 2.0, but under NEM 3.0, this rate would be reduced to only 8 cents per kilowatt-hour.&qu
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by IvyMike 4y ago
I know this is about the Amazon Go stores, but there's a "Just Walk Out Shopping" Amazon Fresh store near me. Before I went it sounded like something I would like. But no. I could give a list of different features I dislike
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by IvyMike 4y ago
The original report from Graphika (pdf): https://public-assets.graphika.com/reports/graphika-report-d... I didn't find the "Wolf News" segments, but other video using the same Synthesia avatars is availa
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by IvyMike 4y ago
I've eaten many of the dishes on this list, including their #1 (hákarl), but none of the things on this list compare to the worst thing I've ever eaten: mopane worm. https://lodges.safari.co.za/African_Travel_Artic
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by IvyMike 4y ago
Noncommercial seems like a non-starter for the bitcoin use case, which is what the original article is talking about.
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by IvyMike 4y ago
For a plant to pull CO2 out of the air, it has to do something with that carbon. For a plant, this usually means "growing". Unless your indoor plants grow very quickly, they are not doing much to reduce CO2. Edit: Found some dud
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by IvyMike 4y ago
While we're ripping on them, let's not forget that Netflix's strategy has left it with a vast library of half-complete series. Imagine if they had finished, say, The OA, 1899, Glow, Sense8, and a couple of more of the series
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by IvyMike 4y ago
I expected the article to be about Showbiz Pizza.
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by IvyMike 4y ago
The Cray-3 was GaAs, and apparently Cray shipped one of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-3
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by IvyMike 4y ago
This is a little strange... the notice on his website says "November 1, 2022", but here's an article (and discussion) from two years ago stating the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24833683
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by IvyMike 4y ago
I feel like we need to give a hat tip to Philip K. Dick's Scramble Suit from "A Scanner Darkly". http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=997
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by IvyMike 4y ago
I mean "holy cow, not again" is a pretty low value comment, but what else is there to say at this point? I'm lazy enough that I haven't moved off of them yet, but last time I promised myself "fool me one more time..
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by IvyMike 4y ago
A couple of decades and several jobs ago I wrote some file transfer code that displayed human readable sizes, and as a joke to myself, I included prefixes up to yottabytes. Careful readers of the code should have flagged this as impossible
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by IvyMike 4y ago
His tweet said "let that sink in", so it was a visual pun.
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by IvyMike 4y ago
Last time this was posted, I asked for an example of any real-world incident which would have been prevented by DNSSEC. I have never seen one, but it would be interesting. P.S. Lots of hypothetical examples were given, but I'd like to
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by IvyMike 4y ago
Not specific to the proton, but "why are all particles of type X seemingly identical" is a question that physicists have asked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identical_particles Sometimes with not-so-serious
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by IvyMike 4y ago
Not the original author, but my blog post from last year sounds like it might be along the lines of what your looking for. It includes some specific recommendations for different use cases. https://ivymike.dev/vpn-advice-no
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by IvyMike 4y ago
Not in my experience dealing with an oxygen concentrator. The backup was a couple of tanks of O2, which can be used up pretty quick. And the O2 cannister supply chain isn't geared to meet widespread need, as we saw during the first w
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by IvyMike 4y ago
DIY: https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/fart-detector
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An upside-down backup strategy(ivymike.dev)
104 points by IvyMike 4y ago|44 comments
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by IvyMike 4y ago
The movie "A Point in Time: The Corona Story" about the Corona spy satellite program. So many failures before success, and the program paved the way for so many better known later space launches. > The CORONA[1] program was a
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The Curious Case of the Clicking Battery(ivymike.dev)
3 points by IvyMike 4y ago|0 comments
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by IvyMike 4y ago
I've always wanted to see my reddit (and I guess HN) karma evaluated as my pagerank of comments. (Yes, lots of downsides--people with high karma have more "power". Yes it would be instantly gamed. I still want to see it.) I
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by IvyMike 4y ago
In the past, there have always been people new to bitcoin joining in. But my god, this year we had a crypto superbowl; it's hard to imagine that there is a large untapped population remaining.
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by IvyMike 4y ago
There was a follow-up in 2022. https://www.askamanager.org/2022/02/update-my-best-employee-...

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