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by cagenut 7y ago
Look as a geek i'm interested in and irrationally optimistic despite the odds about air-to-fuel stuff like prometheus. But as a grownup. As a responsible adult. As someone who passed high-school math. You have to look at the challen
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by cagenut 7y ago
Individual marginal efficiency arbitrage is the wrong mental framework for analysis of the problem at hand. We are not trying to burn carbon more efficiently, we are trying to stop burning carbon. We are not optimizing, we are solving for
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by cagenut 7y ago
Your first two points are great. Your third is a wickedly pernicious lie. I'm assuming from the context of your first two points that was not your deliberate intention. Imagine for a moment that coal, oil, gas, metals, rare earth elem
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by cagenut 7y ago
half of "petrochemical" demand (vs 'energy') is my guess at how to read that quote, based on the two paragraphs above it.
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by cagenut 7y ago
Keep in mind plastic is ~4% of oil consumption and burning it is 87%. Meaning it really doesn't matter if they get strong growth in their plastics or even the entire petrochem division, the overall companies need to be bankrupted, nat
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by cagenut 7y ago
I've been thinking about putting together something like a "global warming for devops" or a "climate capacity planning" talk for velocity where the final slide is: cancel velocity. That is, of course, over-simplifyi
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by cagenut 7y ago
My vive's 3rd and 4th controllers are broken right now, so I'm just going VRless for a few months until the Index ships, and man do I miss Rec Room. More specifically, the people. Both a handful of vr friends I made and the great
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by cagenut 7y ago
based on most of the links to it my understanding is that medium.com is such a blog
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by cagenut 7y ago
it is a weird western media quirk that the first symptom people talk about is sea level rise. I think its an accidental product of all the news reports about melting ice caps and polar bears, so people have scoped the problem as ice meltin
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by cagenut 7y ago
this guy made an excellent youtube video modeling and visualizing the satellite orbits, the network routing paths across them, and the resulting latencies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEIUdMiColU&t=4m NYC to London
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by cagenut 7y ago
I would put like four figures into a kickstarter if somebody would make some kind of solar-panel+webcam+18650+microphones+arduino kit that can be strapped to every telephone pole and traffic light that just feeds back data on what license p
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by cagenut 7y ago
I live, and am sitting, less than 500 feet from several trains right now. I can hear one rolling on the tracks. I can hear the ding-dong noise they play before they close the doors on another. It is noooothing compared to the honking of
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by cagenut 7y ago
ah but it just so happens that the cause of most air pollution, carbon in the atmosphere, and noise pollution in cities is the same thing: cars & trucks
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by cagenut 7y ago
hi rob, would you rather be jonas salk or john d. rockefeller?
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by cagenut 7y ago
I used to specialize in 2 - 10 rack build outs, but its been nearly a decade since those gigs evaporated. I wonder if k8s creates a new niche for it.
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by cagenut 8y ago
hi rob, thanks for responding. unfortunately i sat through that 20 minute podcast and the only thing i learned was $3/gal is your estimate and that the machine has not yet worked. nothing about nanotubes or any attempt at a claim at w
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by cagenut 8y ago
this is a great article, both in content and in form. keep in mind though managing your carbon budget is like managing any other budget, which in turn is like optimizing any other queue. meaning: don't over-optimize the 5th most impor
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by cagenut 8y ago
that entire article can be reduced to "nanotubes" since its a YC company though maybe we could get the underlying story?
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by cagenut 8y ago
check out irccloud
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by cagenut 8y ago
Yes but its not enough and its not soon enough. Tesla needs to stoke demand this quarter . Humanity needs to be driving toward zero emissions yesterday . IMHO privately owned electric vehicles will only ever have been a historical oddit
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by cagenut 8y ago
I agree with your points on a longer time horizon, but elon needs to solve for model3 demand now (this year). EVs will not drive the kind of oil distribution market retraction you're describing until they're at least 10% of cars
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by cagenut 8y ago
there is a line of reasoning, rarely articulated, that EVs will never reach the price points it would take to fully 100% replace ICE cars in the private/personal market. li-ion batteries have done an excellent job walking down the le
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by cagenut 8y ago
fwiw, separate from the topic at hand, your experience of shockingly large road/sewer bills coming due is rapidly going to become normal. for a walk through of the math check out about three minutes of this video: https://w
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by cagenut 8y ago
This is great. RECs are not enough but they are damn sure directionally correct. However they have only covered the energy generation related footprints of the PoPs and offices. My bet is they have a small army of sales reps that fly one o
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by cagenut 8y ago
Your numbers are wrong but your line of reasoning is actually the basis of how Fastly's network was designed to be different from Akamai's. There's a graph about it at the 2:40 mark in this video: https://vimeo.c
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by cagenut 8y ago
I'm sorry but what are you talking about? Fastly has about 60 PoPs (physical locations). No one is talking about hundreds of thousands of sites. Even akamai, who made it one of their primary marketing metrics, only ever got into the
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by cagenut 8y ago
Fastly has 4 PoPs in Australia and two in New Zealand, you can see their reach in the map on their site: https://www.fastly.com/network-map Also, if you're a big enough deal (thousands/month+) you'd be surpri
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by cagenut 8y ago
this criticism, while accurate, is just utterly pointless sophistry. yes news articles are not infographic packed reports, nor are they academic research papers. your overdeveloped contrarian reflex is an impedance mis-match here. it is w
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by cagenut 8y ago
my general read at this point is that the ipcc numbers have been dead on, the "pause" was ocean warming, and now the pause is over, so things are gonna escalate quickly. like popcorn in a microwave (over the next few decades).
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by cagenut 8y ago
can your running container instances mount a filestore nfs endpoint?

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