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by barathr 3y ago
The lifecycle cost of nuclear is still higher than solar PV even with storage and we have low-risk, low-tech solar-with-storage options such as molten-salt concentrated solar, which, while not as efficient as solar PV, is very simple tech
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by barathr 3y ago
My sense is that this is in its early stages as this was the first gathering of that group of folks. I imagine some good dialogue and collaborations are coming out of it, and we might see the results of that in a year or two.
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by barathr 3y ago
For those who are looking for more in-depth material, I'd recommend looking at Bruce Schneier's post about a workshop he organized on this topic a few months ago. The comments include notes on the presentations: https:/&#x2F
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by barathr 3y ago
This is from the news section of his site, not his main blog. It is just a recitation of interviews he does, of which there are many. Someone posted it here.
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by barathr 3y ago
I think I've had a couple of my posts from https://ioc.exchange/@invisv end up on the front page, though I don't think #1.
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by barathr 3y ago
Check out elk.zone: https://elk.zone/mstdn.social/@Devilstower/11029957646932618... It's a Mastodon frontend that's super simple/clean.
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by barathr 3y ago
Chapman wrote a nice piece on what a hypothetical "meta-rational" workplace, one with a lot of interdisciplinarity and generalists -- would be like: https://metarationality.com/meta-rational-workplace
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by barathr 3y ago
Agreed, and that was the sentiment I had in mind (among many other contexts) in writing the thread. Monocultures can be "productive" in a narrow sense but then are less adaptable and do not cope with unknown unknowns particularly
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The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event and security practice(ioc.exchange)
46 points by barathr 3y ago|7 comments
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by barathr 3y ago
Unless I'm misreading this, it doesn't include passive fire mitigation approaches. For example, for low-frost areas of California -- which is about half the state currently (expanding all the time), we developed models for plantin
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by barathr 3y ago
Carnegie called libraries "palaces for the people" and that investment in libraries across the country created Third Places for people that in some communities are the only ones left. (This is something Klinenberg explored in his
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by barathr 3y ago
Ben @AI6YR who is a legend in the disaster response space has been doing amazing work on his own Mastodon server, creating tons of bots and feeds many of which are independent of Twitter sources (and when a Twitter source dies, he finds a r
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by barathr 4y ago
There are some startups doing similar things in production facilities: https://recycleye.com/
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by barathr 4y ago
And another called "Hang the DJ"
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by barathr 4y ago
The Land Institute has been doing amazing work for decades, and it's great to see they've done it for a common grain. Their work on Kernza was fascinating but seemed unlikely to catch on. The question will always come back to yiel
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by barathr 4y ago
My favorite example of a classic super dangerous and fun park: Dennis the Menace park in Monterey, CA: https://playgroundology.wordpress.com/category/dennis-the-me... There was a full size real steam locomotive that ki
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by barathr 4y ago
Correct, we developed Oblivious DNS (first as a research paper and then as a service) to do this. Here's a quick writeup we did about our alpha service that we're planning to roll out globally: https://invisv.com/a
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by barathr 4y ago
Chapman had a good, very detailed essay on this topic: https://metarationality.com/maps-and-territory
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by barathr 4y ago
This American Life had an episode on the process some time ago: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/377/scenes-from-a-recession... This is proceeding as it should, and despite the terrible circumstances we should be proud
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by barathr 4y ago
In this case the ecosystem in question has even less in the way of native plants and animals (to my understanding) than the semi-arid American Southwest landscapes usually examined in research papers on the topic. But yes the general point
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by barathr 4y ago
Another interesting thing about Guarana is that it's a relative of Lychee, Rambutan, Longan, Quenepa, etc. -- you can see it by the fruit and the black seed in the middle. And many seeds in this family can be used to produce a soap, th
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Today’s startups should terrify you(techcrunch.com)
6 points by barathr 4y ago|2 comments
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by barathr 4y ago
Gardening, especially of fruit trees. Can be done anywhere, even if you live in an apartment (cities have tons of streetside space that's unplanted -- I've done lots of streetside planting and never had a problem).
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by barathr 4y ago
This isn't unique to TikTok -- far from it. Tons of apps written by US-based developers and companies use SDKs that send data to China, as do lots of IoT devices. Plenty of American companies have engineering teams in China or countrie
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by barathr 4y ago
The three main things people seem to need with Mastodon are: 1. A server to join. Try techhub.social or hachyderm.io or infosec.exchange or ioc.exchange or sfba.social or even one of the official servers like mastodon.online -- any of those
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by barathr 4y ago
Iowa is losing that status this coming cycle, so things may begin to shift.
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He covers these topics from time to time and the comments there are a wealth of information about what's going on in every pocket of the state.
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The headline will always be technically true but it's not interesting. The state has dramatically, both at a state level and at a county level, put into place better plans for infiltration, reuse, agricultural groundwater recharge, and
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by barathr 4y ago
Fediverse interoperability.
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by barathr 4y ago
It's something we wrote about in the post I linked.

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