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8581.
by api 7y ago
They didn't, and if we go there we definitely have enough carbon to go back to the Pleistocene epoch. Antarctica is believed to contain large coal and oil fields but they have not been thoroughly mapped as they are not economic to re
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by api 7y ago
We shouldn't not do other things if we can. I was just arguing that coal is more than 50% of the problem and that getting rid of it is do-able. If we can phase out coal we're halfway there. Electrification of transport is happen
8583.
by api 7y ago
I think there is/was validity to the concept of EROEI: energy return on energy invested. The EROEI of oil has decreased over time. What they got wrong was the overall estimate of how much of this stuff there is to be extracted. The ea
8584.
by api 7y ago
So we are in debt to ourselves. Better than being in debt to someone else. Yes the Fed is private but congress can change that tomorrow.
8585.
by api 7y ago
You'd get Rust or maybe something in between Rust and Go. We have Rust and Go, so there's no point.
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by api 7y ago
The climate problem isn't entirely a coal problem, but coal is by far the single largest contributor. It's also quite replaceable. Phasing out coal remains the simplest, most straightforward mitigation. Once we do that we can tack
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by api 7y ago
That's much lower than it was even 20 years ago, and the renewable number is far higher. California is a bit unique but its not rare for the state to be getting up to 40% of its power from solar at midday. We are moving in the right di
8588.
by api 7y ago
I worked in a place some time ago where someone was hired with the unofficial (but generally known) job description of defeating IT restrictions and security policies so people could actually get something done. It's very very hard t
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by api 7y ago
I also doesn't max out all four cores of my laptop and run my fans like a hair dryer like all the web based ones I've tried.
8590.
by api 7y ago
The few customers we've had that ask are large, so yes. I am speaking of the majority of individuals and small businesses.
8591.
by api 7y ago
The unfortunate wisdom in business is "nobody cares about privacy or security," and in my experience it's true. Outside a small number of people nobody even asks these questions. With our own product ZeroTier we get maybe 1-2
8592.
by api 7y ago
A lot of times people who do this are self-deluded. They "know" they are right and just fudge it a bit to get that across.
8593.
by api 7y ago
I've never had a problem with C++ on musl/Alpine. ZeroTier ports fine to that target. In fact we use Alpine/musl images to build static binaries for ancient Linux distributions that lack new enough distro-native compilers.
8594.
by api 7y ago
Alpine Linux is by far my favorite distro and I wish it had more support. Not only is musl nice, but it lacks a huge amount of obsolete cruft and the package manager is nice and simple and not over-engineered. It also lacks systemd. It prob
8595.
by api 7y ago
Yes and no. There is one benefit to huge winners: they have the cash to invest in R&D. I doubt Google would be building quantum chips if they didn't have a massive cash cow or two to feed that. Generally only governments and massiv
8596.
by api 7y ago
To understand why, think about the exponential function. Small differences early on can have ludicrously large effects later.
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by api 7y ago
Your peers were being rational, but it's a drop in the bucket. I've come to the conclusion that privacy can only be protected with legislation. There is too much surface area to protect for the average person to police their own d
8598.
by api 7y ago
Things like responding to a pandemic are precisely where authoritarian regimes excel. Authoritarian structures generally excel when you need a lot of people to do a lot of the same thing: responding to disasters in simple but effective ways
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by api 7y ago
ZeroTier is searching for someone on a one-time consulting basis (with possible ongoing support) to create a macOS Catalina (and future) DriverKit based Ethernet "tap" driver for use with our ZeroTier network virtualization produc
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by api 7y ago
It's not possible now. I'd say a good 80% of the work I do requires at least a year of intensive study and/or hands-on learning to even be capable of attempting and another 5-10 years to master. Nowadays someone needs a min
8601.
by api 7y ago
I realized after I had kids that a huge amount of "new urbanist" thought is driven by the young and childless and does not incorporate the needs of people with children or of children themselves. This falls under the same category
8602.
by api 7y ago
It will be written in 5 different languages including Oracle stored procedures, J2EE, and ASP.NET, the web site will only work on Chrome (with popups enabled), and the mobile app will take ten seconds to start and then crash. The cloud back
8603.
by api 7y ago
This is the same license as CockroachDB and a bunch of other projects. It's used in cases where a company wants to avoid their product being put behind someone else's paywall ("SaaSification"). The AGPL isn't quite
8604.
by api 7y ago
Desktop GUI development definitely peaked in the late 1990s / early 2000s in terms of lightweight but capable tooling and good design tools. Today it's a damn mess, though I see signs of some movement toward improvement driven by
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by api 7y ago
A major change that's gone at least partly unreported: since 2008 we have made the final steps toward a fully backstopped market. The market before was always somewhat backstopped, but now I think it's safe to say that everything
8606.
by api 7y ago
I agree about being better at learning. Maybe they (we?) tend to sometimes vastly underestimate the difficulty of learning in certain highly complex areas (like medicine) due to past successes learning difficult (but not as difficult) thing
8607.
by api 7y ago
Works just as well on any sufficiently powerful old laptop. I find that any damaged laptop or one with a battery that doesn't hold a charge converts nicely into a home or lab server.
8608.
by api 7y ago
That assumes vast reductions in emissions from every other sector except air travel, for physical energy density reasons. Air travel alone is not sufficient to affect climate much... if we were to get rid of fossil fuels on the ground.
8609.
by api 7y ago
Jordan was a horrible basketball player. Just look at that time he missed an easy shot. Nobody gets a perfect score at anything, but on balance Musk is quite an engineer. As for business: I consider success to be measured as product of valu
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by api 7y ago
Musk is definitely by all accounts a genius, at least in certain domains. See my other comment about non-transferrability of expertise. I think the reason there are so many genius morons is that people assume their expertise magically trans

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