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by drtz 4y ago
I asked my question because I doubted the assertion being made without any math to back it up. It seems unlikely that 1) this could ever be a significant enough amount of Bitcoin mining energy to make Bitcoin "carbon neutral", and
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by drtz 4y ago
Genuinely curious: how does burning methane to generate electricity make an organization carbon negative? Do you have a reference for this? I understand that methane is orders of magnitude more significant from a greenhouse effect point of
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by drtz 4y ago
My pessimistic view: making it too easy to report spam may highlight how much spam there actually is on Twitter. Something the company definitely does not want to do at the moment.
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by drtz 4y ago
There's plenty of nuance you're missing still: - Baseline cholesterol levels - Inflammation - Genetic predisposition to heart disease / diabetes - Types of fat and quantities consumed - What else does your diet consist of Edi
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by drtz 4y ago
High-palmitic acid diets and dry, high-sugar diets are hardly the only two options.
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by drtz 4y ago
I suspect the author hasn't even read Meditations. A couple quotes from Aurelius that would indicate as much: > "Whenever you have trouble getting up in the morning, remind yourself that you've been made by nature for the
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by drtz 4y ago
Things like iMessage and Google Messages for Web mean SMS doesn't really fit the bill, either.
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by drtz 5y ago
No bcrypt?
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by drtz 5y ago
There's a chance that a push toward enterprise may even result in a feature a lot of us more savvy individual customers would love to see as well: self-hosting.
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by drtz 5y ago
As a regular user of Android, Windows, and Linux systems Keychain is almost worthless.
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by drtz 5y ago
Long-term 1Password customer here, no affiliation with 1Password or AgileBits. > They have been doing some pretty unfriendly moves towards their long-term customers From my point of view this was not hostile at all: I used 1Password with
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by drtz 5y ago
Even more analogous, what if the resident wants the same temperature as his neighbors, but just because of the position of his unit relative to the others it takes less energy to heat. Is that immoral?
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by drtz 5y ago
Social Security is on its way to insolvency thanks to slowing population growth and increases in longevity. It has to increase faster than inflation to keep up.
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by drtz 5y ago
I got one of these for my kids around 2014 and was also hugely disappointed. I realized very quickly that it was just a gimmick to lure the Gen-Xers and Millenials who remember these from their childhood. I, too, was disgusted that it took
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by drtz 5y ago
> It started off about as common as humans having green eyes. Elephant poaching has been around since long before the Mozambique civil war. The number of tuskless elephants may have been at 2-4% prior to the war, but that doesn't me
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by drtz 5y ago
This is a fair point. Treating things like Social Security and Medicare obligations as unfunded debt is akin to me declaring that I have a large amount of debt because I have to pay for food and clothe myself from now until I die. It's
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The Danger of Big Trucks(consumerreports.org)
5 points by drtz 5y ago|8 comments
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by drtz 5y ago
As a former driver of a full-size pickup, "hidden" is an overstatement. The safety difference really is quite obvious. The physics of a larger mass and stiffer frame are already unsafe, but the poor near-vehicle visibility and man
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by drtz 5y ago
> When you squash merge a feature branch that has thousands of lines of code, and 6 months later you have a bug introduced by this feature branch, it becomes extremely hard to find which line introduced the bug. The article makes an argu
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by drtz 5y ago
I don't think this article makes the argument the author thinks it does. If I take the author at his word that more people are creating large new fortunes at a higher rate, and I assume that the large fortunes of 1982 have not become s
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by drtz 6y ago
My anecdotal experience: My wife and I both had LG phones, Nexus 5x, for about 9 months before they stopped being usable. Dealing with poorly made equipment and terrible warranty service was more than enough to ensure I wouldn't be buy
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by drtz 6y ago
I'm sure it's more complex than I grasp as a layperson, but I'm utterly amazed at how simple this _appears_. I get the feeling that this is something I have a better chance of understanding than the average SaaS Terms and Con
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by drtz 6y ago
Adding adequate street lighting near bus stops really isn't that hard.
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by drtz 6y ago
A good business model will always have a hard time competing with a fraudulent business model.
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by drtz 6y ago
Maybe I'm just being pessimistic, but seeing this in the light of their upcoming IPO and yesterday's Robinhood debacle makes me feel like this is an attempt to be seen as "legitimate" in they eyes of Wall Street.
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Coinbase Freezes USD Purchases(twitter.com)
19 points by drtz 6y ago|9 comments
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by drtz 6y ago
The Play Store also seems to be having problems downloading APKs. CDN issues sounds pretty likely.
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by drtz 6y ago
Wouldn't you want power to stay with elected officials who can be removed from office by the public rather than a private business that's primarily motivated by profit and only answers to shareholders.
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by drtz 6y ago
I'm not aware of any languages so simple that renaming an identifier and its usages isn't a useful feature.
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by drtz 6y ago
I can confirm it's not straightforward to get a refund from Apple for an App Store purchase, it was for me at least. In the most recent case I tried to request a refund immediately after buying an app, only to get a vague and unhelpful

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