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by drusenko 5y ago
Agreed that we can’t wait. The large majority of the technology we need already exists, we just need to accelerate the adoption that would happen naturally. A focus on this “punitive” side of things - that we need to pay for our transgressi
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by drusenko 5y ago
Let’s not get defeatist and give up. Europe is implementing a carbon border adjustment, and the U.S. is discussing this as well. If implemented correctly this should reduce the financial incentive to offshore emissions and create one for ot
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by drusenko 5y ago
Can you tell me more about why you are equating the mining of metals for solar/batteries with climate changing GHGs - eg why are they both equally as bad? I’m not disagreeing with you, I am genuinely curious to hear your perspective. I
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by drusenko 5y ago
This might be accurate today, but it ignores our ability to make technological progress to make our current activities low or no impact. Further, this line of thinking - that you need to sacrifice your lifestyle in order to save the planet
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by drusenko 5y ago
Comments so far are missing a major reason travel is likely enjoyable. One of my favorite theories on why time feels like it accelerates as you get older is that your brain tends to only store unique memories. Like that daily commute you do
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by drusenko 5y ago
Burning as usual is clearly not sustainable. If you think massive degrowth is the only way out then I’m afraid we’re totally fucked. Massive emissions reductions can also be paired with CDR to have even more impact since reductions alone —
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by drusenko 5y ago
That’s not really true. New high efficiency heat pump water heaters - as one example - often have a 1-2 year ROI, which is pretty dramatic. HVAC is actually often the most expensive from an ROI standpoint because of larger upfront costs. Ma
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by drusenko 5y ago
The reason is not due to renewables, actually. In PG&E territory (which I am most familiar with) more than 2/3rds of your bill typically goes to transmission and distribution costs and 1/3 towards generation. Check out your ne
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by drusenko 5y ago
Electric cars will help tremendously with load shifting once we get bidirectional charging in 1-2 years. A Tesla Model 3 can fully power an average 3000 sq-ft home for 2-3 days. What will be most powerful though is helping the grid with pea
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by drusenko 5y ago
A fully electrified home actually reduces overall system cost through 1- higher efficiency of electric appliances and heat pumps than their gas counterparts, and 2- a significantly reduced infrastructure cost to no longer having to maintain
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by drusenko 5y ago
That’s a big misconception. Latest generation heat pumps can work well even in very cold climates eg Lake Tahoe. The “fixes” needed to make that work aren’t that dramatic eg a bit of pre-heating of some parts with regular electric heating e
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by drusenko 5y ago
Yes, electrifying everything will result in more peak demand which will require upgrading many house’s main panels. It’s not an insurmountable challenge though, especially relative to dealing with the effects of 2+ degrees of warming.
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by drusenko 5y ago
Legacy code (aka the American legal system) is routinely despised by those new to the problem space. Most experienced programmers will know that the (new to them) code isn’t all flaws, despite its initial appearance - there are a myriad of
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by drusenko 5y ago
This is a pretty well known effect in the Marketing/Comms/PR world though it is generally attributed to a narrative effect rather than detection of deceit. The way the thinking goes is that humans are wired to tell stories and the
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by drusenko 6y ago
One thing people don’t understand very well is that charging time is not linear - it takes a LOT longer to charge the last 1% than the first 1%. This is important during road trips. On a typical trip from SF to LA in our Model 3 with 300 mi
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by drusenko 7y ago
> If you keep compounding growth, like growing GDP at 1-2% a year, within some few thousand years you've grown bigger than all the resources within a sphere the same number of light years in radius. Would be super interested to see
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by drusenko 10y ago
Hey there, I'd love to hear a bit more about your negative experience a couple years ago and how we could make things better. Didn't see an email in your profile -- could you email me at david@weebly.com? Would really appreciate y
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by drusenko 10y ago
I think it's a bit more nuanced. If you have a high title, you get people's attention immediately, but it takes time to earn their respect , and the two are quite different.
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by drusenko 10y ago
Can you email me at david@weebly.com? We looked into this shortly after you posted this comment and can't replicate (also not receiving other complaints)... If you can email me we'll get to the bottom of it -- thanks for letting u
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by drusenko 10y ago
In terms of appsec, we run quarterly black box pen tests and annual comprehensive white box pen tests with well regarded firms, and have been rotating vendors on a regular basis for diversity. We also do a lot of stuff internally, like regu
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by drusenko 10y ago
Obviously, this is a very disappointing situation for us -- we've always taken security very seriously since day 1, it's something that's been core to who we are from the beginning. That said, how you respond in this situatio
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by drusenko 10y ago
We learned a lot, and things have been completely different this time around. We were much more careful about managing timelines & deliverables much further upstream, delivering features in more of a phased approach to prevent on big la
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by drusenko 10y ago
we're working on it, thanks!
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by drusenko 10y ago
Interesting. I experienced it differently myself (while I was traveling, both Google and Facebook would show me local language, regional sites), as have others we've tested with. We've done a bit of research into how others do it
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by drusenko 10y ago
hah, hey Joe! how are things? :) not too many of us still around from the W07 bach ;)
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by drusenko 10y ago
You can use a number of merchant payment providers, currently Stripe, Square, Paypal and Authorize.net, so you have lots of options.
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by drusenko 10y ago
Yes! Can you email me at david@weebly.com? Thanks!
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by drusenko 10y ago
This one is really tricky. You'll see this same behavior by Google, Facebook, and most other major providers. We spent a lot of time looking into this, it's unfortunately a very complex situation: 1- In theory browser language sho
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by drusenko 10y ago
If you scroll down at the bottom of the page in the lower right, there is an option to switch to English!
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by drusenko 10y ago
1. Wordpress is probably better if you really want a platform to build something very custom off of, so in that sense it would be an alternative to a Django/Rails/Node solution. The downside is that it's a lot of work to both

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