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by diafygi 8y ago
> Your entire reply is extreme in the sense it is all absolutes. Please provide sources that we are in a 'race for your lives'. Graph: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/201
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by diafygi 8y ago
Okay, let's break your points down. > Do you refuse to fly if you are "against fossil fuels"? This is a false equivalence. Being an fossil consumer is very very different from directly working in the fossil industry. Consu
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by diafygi 8y ago
Former Houston old-energy chemical engineer here (also grew up in west Texas). I switched careers to cleantech, and I see now something I didn't see back when I was in old-energy: being neutral about fossil fuels is just as bad as bein
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by diafygi 8y ago
Before getting into software, I was originally trained as a chemical engineer. If you took this talk and replaced "code" with "chemical plant", it's pretty much exactly what instructors have been drilling into stude
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The Consequences of Your Code – Tom Scott(youtube.com)
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by diafygi 8y ago
National Security Letters (NSLs) are the things that every time they have been challenged in court the FBI drops the request, right? Since they don't want to test the constitutionality of them? Seems like the University of Pittsburgh d
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Logitech: “Options” Craft WebSocket server has no authentication(bugs.chromium.org)
6 points by diafygi 8y ago|3 comments
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by diafygi 8y ago
Your train of logic is flawed in that the rate of change is crazy fast ( https://xkcd.com/1732/ ). Also, since all the science is pointing to the fact the we are causing it, why shouldn't we think that we can fix
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by diafygi 8y ago
I'm curious about this. I get that firefox for ios has to use a webview, but why can't it allow extensions that can manipulate what's in the webview? The main reason I'm currently sticking with Android is that I can inst
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by diafygi 8y ago
Renewable generation (solar, wind, geothermal) is usually made in-country. However, fuel-based generation (coal, natural gas, nuclear, oil, etc.) has fuel that can be shipped or piped in if you don't have a source for it locally. So in
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by diafygi 8y ago
Great! Mind if I ask you to email me your resume? My email is in my HN profile.
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by diafygi 8y ago
You're totally right, but unfortunately, I think that's because the person writing these types of presentations don't have control over the content or design of the website, so removing stuff is often impossible or way more w
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by diafygi 8y ago
> Is there anything I, a normal person, can do to actually help? Absolutely. I work in cleantech, and you should, too! Solar and wind are economical, so now the biggest issue is scaling them up. That means tons and tons of problem solvin
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by diafygi 8y ago
Hmmm, I feel like your sources of information are years out of date. Care to elaborate on your sources? First, intermittency and integration costs are a huge straw man because they aren't a problem until you get well over 50% penetrati
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by diafygi 8y ago
Oh yes, stranded assets are a real threat to incumbent energy companies (the term in the energy industry is called the "Carbon Bubble")[1]. Luckily, Wall Street is starting to generally favor financing new renewable over new fossi
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by diafygi 8y ago
That is not the case here. The term everyone in the energy industry uses now is the "LCOE" (levelized cost of electricity) that does an apples-to-apples comparison (e.g. removes subsidies). For example, the investment firm Lazard
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by diafygi 8y ago
Full cost. The investment firm Lazard puts out an annual report on the LCOE (levelized cost of electricity, e.g. subsidies removed), and this past year wind was cheaper than natural gas[1]. [1]: https://www.lazard.com/media&
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by diafygi 8y ago
Presidents can wet sign bills into laws using an autopen[1]. Would it be possible to sign a form on your phone and have an autopen wet sign the form? [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/us/politics&#x
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We Found a Way to Increase Voter Turnout in Texas, but Texas Isn’t Interested(medium.com)
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CA Gov. Brown Signs 100% Clean Energy into Law(greentechmedia.com)
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by diafygi 8y ago
Not affiliated with them (other than just friends), but EV Complete[1] has seemed to tap into the whole wtf-do-i-need-an-ev-now thing. There's a joke in the cleantech space about how people in cleantech can't even understand how e
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by diafygi 8y ago
For the HN crowd, if you're looking for highest impact per unit time spent, I'd recommend reaching out to your representatives and public offices (including local city reps), and volunteering to come in for a lunch and learn with
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by diafygi 8y ago
I'll bite. Why are absentee ballots the biggest problem?
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by diafygi 8y ago
I disagree with your disagree. Say we all lived 50 years ago and worked in ergonomics engineering instead of software engineering. People were fairly comfortable doing non-stressful work, which I guess was better than being pulled into meat
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by diafygi 8y ago
dons tinfoil hat Does anyone else find the jittery multicolored icon suspicious? It seems like it's begging to be used as a fingerprint to identify from which phone a video was recorded. It basically hides surveillance in plain site,
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by diafygi 8y ago
http://example.com
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by diafygi 8y ago
On Ubuntu, for each wifi/wired connection settings, there's a checkbox and dropdown to automatically connect to one of your VPNs.
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by diafygi 8y ago
I've been telling most of my tech friends, especially the ones in tracking/adtech jobs, to start paying what I call the "Orwell Tax". You pick a number of anti-surveillance nonprofits (EFF, ACLU, RestoreTheForth, etc.),
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by diafygi 8y ago
If you're interested in what's happened since May 2017, the ACLU posts all their discovery filings on their website. https://www.aclu.org/cases/wikimedia-v-nsa-challenge-upstrea... Also, if you want to suppor
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by diafygi 8y ago
Let's Encrypt now offers wildcard certs, so you don't have to expose specific internal domains in the certificate transparency logs anymore (just the top-level one).

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