durkie

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   by durkie 8y ago

   Have you picked berries for hours on end? It's terrible work.
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   by durkie 8y ago

   Valhalla is an open-source routing engine, like for from traveling from point A to point B. I think Tesla uses it as the basis for their in-car navigation system. It produces routes very quickly and has a pretty robust costing model (cars c
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   by durkie 9y ago

   better thermal and energy transfer properties too.
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   by durkie 9y ago

   this seems like it's only relating to people wishing to contribute to prototool. also, it's uber, so it's nice/expected that they would have this sort of thing. also the code is basically about not being a jerk to other
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   by durkie 9y ago

   Neat tangent: the article refers to polarization of light being "practically indiscernible to the human eye." You can in fact see the polarization of light, and can train yourself to notice it in various situations. The phenomenon
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   by durkie 9y ago

   Really? Didn't the CEO kick stormfront off Cloudflare because they thought they were assholes?
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   by durkie 9y ago

   one should consider saudi arabia's case in particular: they are one of the few places that derives a tremendous amount of their electricity generation from the direct burning of crude oil (almost 1 million barrels per day). each barrel
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   by durkie 9y ago

   For sure, fossil fuels will still be around for a while. But renewable sources are absolutely going to replace existing fossil-fuel consumption. The economics of it make it an inevitability. Aside from a few niche applications (industrial h
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   by durkie 9y ago

   I think your points are important separately, but the crucial missing part is that electric energy production is rapidly becoming decoupled from greenhouse gas production. It is no longer an either/or situation.
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    by durkie 9y ago

    can you share your source? that statista link just wants me to sign up before it will show me anything.
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    by durkie 9y ago

    From your [1] study: "The largest part of the energy use in the production of lithium-ion batteries comes from electricity use." Converting ships to batteries allows them to become cleaner as the grid becomes cleaner.
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    by durkie 9y ago

    any idea if they do this for the 13" version? how did you even find this? i was just looking for the older models and couldn't find them anywhere on apple's site.
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    by durkie 9y ago

    also, a book just came out about Elizebeth Friedman and how a lot of her contributions to cryptology and the birth of sigint in general have been erased from histroy: https://www.amazon.com/Woman-Who-Smashed-Codes-Outwitted-
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    by durkie 9y ago

    Thanks for your great work Maciej! I'm impressed with how well you're able to mobilize people and dollars.
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    by durkie 9y ago

    I think the transition to near 100% renewable technologies is a foregone conclusion at this point: the economics of carbon-based fuels basically don't make sense any more, and it's just a matter of transitioning away. Natural gas
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    by durkie 9y ago

    Oh man I would love to be involved in this. Have you had people apply to YC already with ideas in these areas? I'm not familiar with any in the YC portfolio, so they must not have made it. Can you speak to any technical shortcomings of
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    by durkie 9y ago

    Agreed! We found a great lawyer through eff for our own patent troll case.
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    by durkie 9y ago

    i don't understand the point of this comment.
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    by durkie 9y ago

    Because Suniva went out of business and complained about low foreign solar panel prices to the International Trade Commission.
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    by durkie 9y ago

    Thanks! Mind if I send you a few suggestions/feature requests? Doing these weird routes has brought up some small things...
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    by durkie 9y ago

    Oh cool! Thanks for the tip -- will do!
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    by durkie 9y ago

    Hey Brian! It's all good...graphing bikers unite!
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    by durkie 9y ago

    Me too! There's all kinds of weird tiny neighborhoods around that I've never heard of until I started this
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    by durkie 9y ago

    Not yet! I just made the route in December
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    Show HN: Making a bike route of every road in Atlanta(highcube.org)

    57 points by durkie 9y ago|20 comments
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    by durkie 9y ago

    it also seems like it could be easily technically circumvented: put an email address to which you have access on your phishing lists. see if it gets the mail as expected.
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    by durkie 9y ago

    do you think this could be useful for detecting changes in songs? like if i'm listing to a big mix of songs and they don't have timestamps of when the song changes, but that is info i would like to have...
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    by durkie 9y ago

    SPYX and SPXE are both s&p 500 ETFs that exclude oil. Check the holdings of each, because I know one of them does actually still have some Petro companies.
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    by durkie 9y ago

    Hey this is exactly what I do! Answer and then mute immediately. Any real person will just say "hello?" and the bots get confused and just hang up (and don't call back). I get 1 spam call every 2 months maybe.
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    by durkie 9y ago

    I think it depends on how much you want to believe the blue zone folks: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone There are many such long lifespan places on Earth, and they have several common characteristics, which w