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by deftnerd 7y ago
Already ahead of you. Moved my children (all under 10) from Austin, TX to Ithaca, NY (above 42 latitude) based on long-term climate change forecast models and detailed regional models that I ran based on what data I could gather, as well as
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Can you give us more information on the "Rubbish Beam", pictures, tech details, and why it's so expensive? You say on a request form that you're hoping to make it cheaper, but what's the biggest block to making that
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by deftnerd 7y ago
The IPCC has historically released "worst case scenarios" that line up with the worst case that all of the people in the room can agree with. Because of this, "worst case" often ends up being "likely outcome" w
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by deftnerd 7y ago
At the end of the page, there is a list of exhibits. The only exhibit marked as not being previously included is Exhibit 23.1 - Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm [1] It's just a few lines from KPMG saying "W
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Many areas around the world have storm shelters or bomb shelters. Perhaps laws requiring community centers also function as temperature extreme shelters could be instated. The laws would have to also provide funding to install and maintain
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by deftnerd 7y ago
With Facebook's embracing of machine learning and their very deep dataset of personal information about users, this could be quite an amazing user experience and quite a terrifying prospect for privacy. Facebook has a wealth of informa
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* See what you look like in a certain outfit being put through its paces. A stock video of a bride walking down the aisle or dancing in a dress could have the real bride's face put in place so the bride can visualize how she'll lo
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by deftnerd 7y ago
I agree, but I think this highlights a structural problem with our economic system, specifically when it comes to population growth. There are plausible reasons to decrease populations in regions or entire countries. With climate change get
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Even if your expertise in your fields results in you making 30% more than your peers, collective bargaining raises the base level. It sets a regional wage for a category of work that makes up the baseline pay for all other workers in that c
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Not only recognition, but also video quality adjustments. A bank surveillance system often has to archive months of video so police can go back to try to find out if the robbers had been there before to plan their crime. A smart AI surveill
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by deftnerd 7y ago
I would go one step further. Nationalize the company. There is always talk about "if companies are people, how do we punish them when they break the law?". Well, what about nationalizing them for the public good for a certain numb
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by deftnerd 7y ago
I think you have those reversed. Meat is incredibly packed with proteins and the calorie density is very high.
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There were a lot of very interesting comments on a previous link "What if Consciousness Came First" [1] that I think shoehorn into this discussion pretty well. Someone brought up the question of if there was a formal "program
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The global disaster in that movie was a plausible plot concept. Humanity is already talking about geo-engineering concepts based on aerosols to reflect sunlight. The Snowpiercer universe just kinda took the 'Ice 9' from Vonnegut&#
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Oh, we've certainly lost as a society, but we'll likely survive as a species for a few hundred or thousand years, albeit at vastly reduced population levels. We're scrappy as a species. We kicked in a climate shift that'
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by deftnerd 7y ago
I've actually been slightly interested in buying some cheap land outside of town and slowly planting trees to forest it over the next decade. The goal would be to plant enough trees to cover the carbon footprint of me and my entire fam
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by deftnerd 7y ago
I've also been wondering if there is something similar to Content Aware Fill that can help process old 4:3 cartoons to 16:9. A lot of the really old cartoons would use a background art image and would pan over it with the characters do
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Bollards and concrete planters are excellent for stopping a lot of mass going very fast, this is true. One thing to keep in mind about the threat of "flying car attacks" is that weight requirements of staying in the air generally
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by deftnerd 7y ago
I know this might seem controversial, but I feel that dictatorships and monarchies give the possibility of multi-decade or even multi-generation projects that would otherwise be impossible. Modern government gets replaced every few years,
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I'm in agreement. I moved my kids, all under 10, to a part of upstate New York that's slightly more "buffered" against climate change. It'll come here, but my best modeling shows that it'll be a bit more stable
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Personally, I do just clear cookies, but I've found a good Firefox extension that does it well for me. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-cookie... It has a convenient button that clea
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Consider using low quality images initially, buy then using JavaScript to replace those placeholders with higher quality images after the page has loaded. It's a common technique that seems to satisfy both the crowd wanting near instan
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by deftnerd 7y ago
It's a valid critism. They decided to use Google Captcha and it often blocks 'advanced' users. ReCAPTCHA often has problems with Linux, non-chrome, VPN users, and users that use ad or javascript blockers. That's the kind
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Ask HN: HN-like site for climate change discussion?
14 points by deftnerd 7y ago|3 comments
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Gold star for Firefox! That's an excellent feature.
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Ideally, it would be nice to enable phishing links to be identified before they are clicked. This could prevent the remote server from logging any metadata about the browser accessing the link (date/time, browser type, ip address, et
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I wish that there was some movement on that feature as well, but with time new possible implementations have become available on desktop environments that I would like see extended to mobile. Application Streaming [1] is getting pretty soli
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Are you allergic to mosquito bites? I have an allergy to their anti-coagulant or their local anesthetic. When a mosquito latches on, it starts burning, and afterwards, the swelling is as big as a US quarter coin. I have similar reactions to
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Google requires all apps that are on Google Play to use Firebase, which is baked into the OS, for notifications. Developers might make apps available on F-Droid or through individual download, but most of the time, those are just the same v
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by deftnerd 7y ago
This is a good basic overview of the basic headers, but I suggest spending some time on Scott Helme's blog. He runs securityheaders.io, a free service that scans your site, and assigns it a letter grade based on what headers and config

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