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by hkt 3y ago
> If you want to save the planet, leaving it to American voters isn't going to work Well, I didn't expect HN to give tacit approval to enlightened dictatorship today! I didn't expect the case to be so persuasive, either..
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by hkt 3y ago
LoRa is actually a technology built by a massive consortium of vendkrs. Enthusiasts use it creatively in ways like this, and much of the rest of the time this technology is deployed for anything from silly IoT chicken coop controllers to di
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by hkt 3y ago
The post describes quite clearly that there are means to message over these links. It wouldn't be a perfect solution, but a lot of good often comes from things that aren't perfect.
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by hkt 3y ago
The pinephone has a lora add-on: https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-pinephone-pro-pindio-lo... Given that they're still not daily drivers due to patchy support for calls (last I checked) this would actually be a
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by hkt 3y ago
Such a hideously dystopian idea. Yeah, let's allow (probably the US) government or some billionaires to start blotting out the sun instead of scaling back our dependence on fuels that were always pretty dreadful environmentally, social
636.
by hkt 3y ago
[citation needed]
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by hkt 3y ago
One of the first things journalism students learn is that news, by its nature, is significant or it isn't news. The "significance score" is deeply subjective and clearly defaults to an american worldview. So if I were a subed
638.
by hkt 3y ago
I was referring to the sub-minimum-wage hourly wages from the establishment to the waiter
639.
by hkt 3y ago
I'd wager yes, for that very reason. Years ago I was in hospital and a registrar told me that guts are smelly but they're the next big frontier of medicine. I didn't immediately know what she meant, but having thought about i
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by hkt 3y ago
If your business can't pay its bills without forgoing its legal and moral responsibilities, it has failed.
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by hkt 3y ago
The (american) thing of paying pittance to waiters because they get tips is weird. Why do people think this is OK? (Apart from the obvious justifications of people who pay virtually nothing for labour)
642.
by hkt 3y ago
Zero stars: landlord expected me to pay to live somewhere they did nothing to maintain or add any value to, but at the end I discovered I had not accrued a capital share in the property. Complete scam, avoid.
643.
by hkt 3y ago
Surely it isn't pharmaceuticals companies doing blood tests in the US? In the UK people's bloods get done in hospital labs (phlebotomy doesn't always occur in hospital though)
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by hkt 4y ago
There's something you've missed there: forests - not just trees but the forest's understory, the animals living in it, the microbes in the soil etc - sequester carbon constantly. It isn't just "how much does the tre
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by hkt 4y ago
RISC-V isn't the answer. The state's lawmaking and law enforcing powers are the answer.
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by hkt 4y ago
Well,I'm going to send them a subject access request every thirty days for life. I suggest everyone else do the same, and make this expensive. GDPR is almost certainly engaged here too, as the article states. I'm angry enough abou
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by hkt 4y ago
You should probably do your part, which may well involve campaigning for such an outcome. Plus recycling and ditching your car, obviously.
648.
by hkt 4y ago
Carbon sequestration is trivial: we rewild destroyed ecosystems. We don't need to die waiting for Elon. I await my downvotes.
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by hkt 4y ago
> Just because you don't have the issue doesn't mean it's non-existent. Indeed! Knowing this is why I asked! Having only worked on small projects I've never had an issue with flake8 as a precommit hook, but what you d
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by hkt 4y ago
That's a great point. The GWP of computation is hugely underappreciated. (Also, nice work!)
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by hkt 4y ago
Methane - CH4 - degrades to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. A quick clip, however, it is not: it can take 20 years, during which that single carbon atom yields 20x the global warming potential as part of a methane molecule than it does as
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by hkt 4y ago
If we're seeking to halt climate change, it seems quite reasonable to look at effective measures for that. If decreasing methane emissions from landfill or farming might contribute, it seems odd to write those things off. This is partl
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by hkt 4y ago
Fortunately, there are other means of fertilising. Green manures - generally annual legumes - are a good option. The difficulty is that this, and other organic approaches to fertilising and structuring soil, require a proportion of land to
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by hkt 4y ago
I recommend consent-o-matic on desktop. It'll be good to see it appear on mobile, though I have my doubts that it'll appear soon since the entire ecosystem of plugins seems to have been hobbled on mobile. Regarding EU users not be
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by hkt 4y ago
This sounds nice, but um, what's the benefit to faster linting? Is it being slow really a problem people have? I've no experience of this.
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by hkt 4y ago
That last part reminds me of this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel tl;dr steel (except for low background steel from sunk battleships) has been pretty much forever contaminated by nuclear weapons.
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by hkt 4y ago
Probably good, but again, heat reclamation vs free cooling vs AC also matters. In terms of environmental impact, where the heat goes is of enormous consequence. If Google are using AC, they're raising energy demand and therefore length
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by hkt 4y ago
This kind of thing is less fun, but more efficient and environmentally friendly: https://cleantechnica.com/2022/12/29/waste-heat-from-data-ce...
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by hkt 4y ago
In all likelihood, I'd say their claims are right-ish. The caveats are: * has their PV cell been made in such a way as to ever reclaim its embodied energy? Smaller panels tend not to achieve this over their lifetimes, larger ones do. *
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by hkt 4y ago
Not aesthetics, but we will probably have to ditch the multi megabyte SPAs. That'd be lovely, actually.

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