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by diafygi 8y ago
For everyone saying this ruins impression tracking, couldn't an ad-network just act as a "CDN" (e.g. client <-- Ad-CDN <-- server). They'd basically man-in-the-middle the server response and inject the ads into whe
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by diafygi 8y ago
I work in energy, and there's a big debate raging now about the externalities of fossil fuels. People working for the fossil industry make substantial salaries because their industry is not adequately taxed for the externalities their
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by diafygi 8y ago
Yes, I use it all the time. We didn't require it at work, until one employee started signing their commits, and everyone else thought the "verified" badge for the commit on github looked cool, so everyone else started doing i
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by diafygi 8y ago
Correct. Relying on keybase's service to keep the PKI running is the definition of centralized architecture, no matter if it's publicly verifiable or not. Also, I'm not sure how easy it is to run a private keybase PKI (anyone
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Keybase is centralized. The GPG keyserver pool is a decentralized gossip network of volunteer servers (I run one). https://sks-keyservers.net/status/
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So like with most ML/AI technologies, it's usually not the specific use case that is the most troubling. The most troubling is that everyone scanned are put into the database for later use or as training data. So even if I'
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by diafygi 8y ago
128 bit AES (assuming that's what you meant) can certainly be good enough. https://security.stackexchange.com/a/19762
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Yes, there is just that much solar being installed. The grid demand curve used to look like a bell curve (peaks mid-day, goes down in the evening). Nowadays, in California there's so much solar that it basically decapitates the curve h
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by diafygi 8y ago
Not trying to discredit or de-emphasize the conclusion, but the ironic thing here is that the utility cost escalation rates that Sunrun had initially calculated were likely based off of pre-solar boom tariff increases. As renewables have st
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by diafygi 8y ago
Since this is HN, I'd like to emphasize that this industry is not just in strip malls. It's very prominent in apps and websites now, too. Many VCs fund "short term" loan apps who's bread and butter are repeat custom
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by diafygi 8y ago
We've had great success with the bootstrap-native fork (same css, different vanilla javascript). It's super lightweight, fast and the css is just as customizable (since it's unchanged from normal bootstrap). I look forward to
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I wonder what the median amount is. Is the distribution of revenue heavily lopsided to the whales?
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Does anyone know a good polyfill for IE for the <details> element? Using the hidden checkbox/label css hack to make non-js collapsers is something I'd love to get away from since it can confusing for accessibility.
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by diafygi 8y ago
> Malenfant says that five to ten years from now, CAPTCHA challenges likely won’t be viable at all. Instead, much of the web will have a constant, secret Turing test running in the background. I wonder how tracking-based captchas can be
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by diafygi 8y ago
As much as I'd love to see us as a civilization control the atom, I'm not seeing the financial case for why we should be focusing on nuclear right now. NuScale said their tech was targeting $90/MWh, and trying to get a first
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by diafygi 8y ago
I think the parent comment is pointing out that the government is supposed to be prohibited from collecting information unless it needs to (e.g. reasonable suspicion), no matter if it's public or not. Specifically, in the U.S., the S
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by diafygi 8y ago
Hawaii just signed some solar + storage contracts for $0.11/kwh. That's well below any current or even projected next-gen nuclear price points for at least 20 years. And storage is on target to half its costs or more in the next f
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by diafygi 8y ago
Howdy! I work in cleantech, and I guess it's that time again for a what-can-you-do-about-it post :) To start, here's my favorite climate change joke: "They say we won't act until it's too late... Luckily, it's
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by diafygi 8y ago
Sure! Check out this post (and posts like in my comment history). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15127154 Also, if you're in the bay area, start coming to events on my bayareaenergyevents.com calendar. Software e
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I agree with this. When I had to look for work last, I asked myself what was the biggest problem I wanted to contribute to fixing (for me it was climate change). Then, I started researching and networking with people who worked for companie
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by diafygi 8y ago
There are often legal, contract, or regulatory restrictions on outsourcing software development to other countries. For example, most grants from the Department of Energy require that funds be spent in the United States.
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Solar plus batteries aim to retire natural gas plants in 2019(qz.com)
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Isn't zero knowledge crypto relatively new? Seems like we're going through the normal decades long growing pains of any new type of crypto. If so, how did other types of crypto in the early adoption years deal with these types of
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Because it's the compassionate thing to do? Also because it's much cheaper.
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For state-sponsored privacy, sure. But for ad-tracking privacy, I don't think you can do comprehensive ad-blocking in browsers on iPhones, right? It's still either VPN-based or the capped blocklist api, right? I would love to swit
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by diafygi 8y ago
Is there an hobby equivalent for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)? Wifi tends to be power hungry for battery-operated devices. With BLE, you can get months of lifespan while still being able to connect to it with your phone. I was looking at the
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by diafygi 8y ago
The thing that has always impressed me the most about Let's Encrypt has been Boulder (their CA server). Not for its code quality, but the fact that they have been able to create a fully transparent, open-source CA server that meets the
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by diafygi 8y ago
Absolutely! Most distributed battery storage (Stem, Advanced Microgrid, etc.) and building energy management companies (Carbon Lighthouse, Siemens, etc.) have software divisions that focus on data analysis tools for their customers (think e
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Hmmm, for non-scientific discussions, I tend to like the XKCD scale for global temperature averages. https://xkcd.com/1379/ Going above Paris gets into the "there be dragons" realm of human survival. The Pent
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by diafygi 8y ago
This article is likely to get heavily down-weighted on HN, so before that happens, I guess it's that time again for a what-can-you-do-about-it post :) To start, here's my favorite climate change joke: "They say we won't

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