Slimbo

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by Slimbo 7y ago
I really dislike cars and they way they dominate our lives and environments. I've talked to local government reps about schemes like this, and the challenge that's always thrown back at me is without pricing, how do you regulate d
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by Slimbo 7y ago
I cycle a lot, but bikes are a pain in that you need somewhere to park them, something to secure them to prevent them getting robbed, they're horrid in the rain and you have to ride on the road or a bike path. I can see the attraction
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by Slimbo 7y ago
Some countries really don't want you automating SMS's to their local users, countries like UAE for example are very restrictive. Other issues, number porting often brakes cross carrier SMS and roaming in general often breaks SMS d
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by Slimbo 7y ago
Isn't the best solution for "last mile" for all of us is to walk it?
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by Slimbo 7y ago
With all of these, you're often kicking the vulnerability down to the enrollment step. You've still got to find a way of assigning the authentication device/key generator to the users account in a secure way and dealing with
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by Slimbo 7y ago
What's the universally accepted alternative?
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by Slimbo 7y ago
The difference between chat and facebook is that with a team in chat, you can move it to anywhere (teams, irc, mattermost, zulip, whatsapp). With facebook, you can't move your friends, so you're stuck.
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by Slimbo 7y ago
Teams is absolutely taking share from Slack. As chat permeates organisations, it needs policies, single sign on, oversight and standards that are harder to implement in slack than Teams/Office 365. I know of many organisations who&#x27
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by Slimbo 7y ago
I find the feeling of hunger goes away quite quickly when you're fasting, provided you haven't eaten anything already. Things that help: - Drinking water - Drinking Coffee - Gentle exercise (something like a walk)
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by Slimbo 7y ago
I've also had weight loss success with IF. I do 16/8 mostly with the occastional 24 hour fast. I get a lot of pushback that it's 'bro science', and a lot of claims around improving insulin resistance isn't prov
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by Slimbo 7y ago
> Why would I pay for a car and then have to rent another car? Because it makes sense to do it this way financially. I live very close to work, and commute about 10 miles a day. Once or twice a year I want to drive a few hundred miles,
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by Slimbo 7y ago
You'd think that Australians would be very focused given they probably are one of the worst impacted by changes in climate? Is that not the case?
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by Slimbo 7y ago
Yes we do. You do not have to holiday half way around the globe twice a year.
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by Slimbo 7y ago
I disagree. They're both essential and individuals doing nothing and insisting that political/government intervention is the only solution isn't going to get anywhere. Corporations and governments will take notice when indivi
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by Slimbo 7y ago
I'd like a bigger emphasis on efficiency. Space heating/cooling in particular, your first big win is to increase efficiency before you even start to think about renewable. If you spend money to cool, increase ventilation, shade, f
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by Slimbo 7y ago
How is this any different from artificially putting nitrates into soil for crop fertilization?
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by Slimbo 7y ago
Doesn't everyone get this sensation?
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by Slimbo 7y ago
Lifting is good advice. Try to stop caring as much. Books like 'the subtle art of not giving a f ck' may help. If you find something start to bother you, remind yourself that ultimately it doesn't really matter and that while
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by Slimbo 7y ago
Disagree. The reason fuel is so cheap to permit the cars burning gas is because it's priced artificially low. If you were to charge based on replacement value (it's almost priceless given the production time), the cost of fuel wou
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by Slimbo 7y ago
3.5% for a single activity is actually quite a big deal, particularly for something that in the main is non essential.
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by Slimbo 7y ago
To me, air travel is one of those things that's artificially cheap. It's zero rated for tax and largely encouraged for economic growth reasons. It's direct impacts are perhaps not as bad, but indirectly someone going from the
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by Slimbo 7y ago
That only works if you wear the clothes you buy until they're worn out. Most don't, most buy clothes and have them sit in a drawer until they make up their mind they really don't like them and send them to landfill or the cha
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by Slimbo 7y ago
Isn't the flaw in just treating this like an energy source problem? It isn't. Switching to Nuclear or renewable doesn't reduce the massive contribution from beef farming for example. Another huge contributor is deforestation
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by Slimbo 7y ago
The big hitters in terms of CO2 are Transportation, Industrial production, Power Generation and Food production. For each of those, some big wins: - Travel less, particularly long haul and travel more sustainable, share a train, avoid air t
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by Slimbo 7y ago
You know why. Most of the world has market economies that rely on growth. The measure of growth is GDP and put simply GDP doesn't measure how much you're wasting, just how productive you are. Short term political aims are in confl
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by Slimbo 8y ago
The odds need adjusting giving it's not quite mv3 but just separation agreement. I don't think we're at 80% hard, 20% cancel a50? Even though it didn't get an indicative majority, there's still a chance MV3 fails an
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by Slimbo 8y ago
I think it's potentially the same thing. I noticed some years ago that I exhibited some of the symptoms of low testosterone but blood tests showed that I was low but still 'normal' so no TRT required. I made an effort to impr
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by Slimbo 8y ago
Scratch is good from around age 8 to 14 or so, depending on their ability. Most kids don't even know they're learning, scratch is really fun. Coder Dojo has some great lessons, eg this one to make your own version of plants v zomb
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by Slimbo 8y ago
Depending on their age, for young kids best results I've had are Pi's (or old/cheap pc's) that boot straight into scratch. Far better results than an intimidating command prompt. https://scratch.mit.edu/
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by Slimbo 8y ago
No google music on the graph, is it just not reported in terms of subscribers or is it significantly less than even pandora?

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