YossarianFrPrez

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by YossarianFrPrez 5y ago
Octavia Butler's novel The Parable of the Sower is a vividly stark portrayal of what California might be like with massive water shortages. But as the article points out, there are multiple ways to address the problem.
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Yeah, that's mentioned in the article. But in a way it's worse: > A majority of the water used by farms — and thus much of the river — goes to growing nonessential crops like alfalfa and other grasses that feed cattle for meat
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by YossarianFrPrez 5y ago
In addition, most real estate is developed by developers who raise (other people's) money to purchase the property and redevelop it. These funds come from several places, but some of ultimate sources of such funds are... public pension
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40M People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast(nytimes.com)
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I have three competing reactions to this news. The first is something much more extreme than "yikes!" The second is that this news -- as other commenters have noted -- means that there will be plenty of startup opportunities relat
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by YossarianFrPrez 5y ago
For more / additional information, check out Alex Soojung-Kim Pang's book Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less. Like Jeremy DeSilva, the author of this Lithub article, Pang discusses Darwin and others who consistently wa
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by YossarianFrPrez 5y ago
Indeed. And if you use Lilypond, check out Frescobaldi -- it makes typesetting and editing scores much easier, via things like syntax-staff co-highlighting. https://www.frescobaldi.org/
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by YossarianFrPrez 5y ago
This sort of thinking, which has been enjoyed by many great sci-fi writers over the last ~seventy years, is cool on one hand, and is the sort of thing I enjoyed in high school. But it turns out that the big problems facing us aren't e
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by YossarianFrPrez 5y ago
Exactly
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True, unless the timezone was tied to each user's accounts. The website doesn't have to "not work" it just has to return a page that says something to the effect of "we are closed for business."
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by YossarianFrPrez 5y ago
I don't disagree. The main problem I'm attempting to solve is the non-anonymous case. Even discussions on social media, where people are either "friends" or have the same shared interest, still devolve into discourse whe
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by YossarianFrPrez 5y ago
Good question. Ideally, each user's timezone would be required information. The server would check to see if the requesting user's local time meant that the website should be "open" for them.
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by YossarianFrPrez 5y ago
What a great question. One of two things: A) Establish the expectation that websites "close" in the middle of the night for ~5-6 hours, local time / for each timezone. I don't know if would best be done via cultural infl
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by YossarianFrPrez 5y ago
It's well worth implementing and testing out the Kelly Criterion. It's super simple to code up in a Jupyter Notebook so that you get to enter an amount to bet each time. When I tried it, I found my own psychology changing as the b
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by YossarianFrPrez 5y ago
My understanding is that India is on one timezone too. One researcher has suggested that introducing timezones could lead to a reduction in fuel emissions via partially offsetting when "peak demand" occurs [1]. [1] https:/&#
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There are cool bits from history showcased here, and some legitimate points: about the pressure of social schedule conformity, and potentially even being divorced from circadian rhythms. But what is really unfortunate is that the author man
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Maybe I'm missing something, but the core aspect of browser functionality that everyone uses -- like loading websites, using tabs and windows, press the back/refresh button, saving bookmarks, and maaaybe toggling ad-blockers -- do