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by igor47 3y ago
IMHO, companies should work directly to limit their scope-1 and most of their scope-2 emissions. they should buy carbon credits to offset their scope-3 (and maybe some of their scope-2) emissions. the scope-3 emissions of one company are th
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by igor47 3y ago
The industry is rife with abuse (the Guardian is doing important work highlighting low-additionality offsets [1][2]) but carbon credits are still important. For instance, I work at Recoolit ( https://www.recoolit.com/our-work
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by igor47 3y ago
They are. Once purchased, they're retired and not sold again
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by igor47 3y ago
Carbon credits are an important way to pay for things there's no other way to pay for. I work with Recoolit to prevent refrigerant emissions (more at https://www.recoolit.com/our-work ) and there's literally no oth
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by igor47 3y ago
Did an llm write this? I can imagine the prompt. "write a snappy sounding article about how a tech mystery got solved" In reality, nothing is solved. > Why were routers affected even when they had been configured to not automa
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by igor47 3y ago
Your customers might love you for making a better website, and this is hard to do without feedback, of which analytics is one kind.
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by igor47 3y ago
The coldness comes from space, which is very very cold. We tend to lose most of our heat to space via radiation, rather than convection. The difference is between one of those infrared dish heaters, and a heater that blows warm air. CO2, be
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by igor47 3y ago
I would love a job getting paid to write pro-climate blog posts all day. Can you link me to a job posting?
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by igor47 4y ago
I'm running this self-hosted, using docker compose and traefik. Modern tools make self hosting SO much easier!
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by igor47 4y ago
Usually true for resistance electric heating, but much less often true for heat pumps.
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by igor47 4y ago
I wrote a thing about this: https://igor.moomers.org/minimal-viable-air-quality I still have a few of those pms7003s, if you're in the bay let me know and you can come grab some
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by igor47 4y ago
what are exclusion puzzles? the underline changes to be an outline, but i'm really not sure what to do. some help on the game would be helpful!
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by igor47 4y ago
Re read Project Hail Mary, great book when you just want something fun. Almost done with Status and Culture by David Marx, it's a fascinating look at how groups work and how much the hunt for status explains about our lives.
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by igor47 4y ago
I'm also curious about the reverse direction -- can I generate an openAPI spec from my typescript Api? I'd rather write code than schemas.
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by igor47 4y ago
Writing this on a Zenfone 8 running lineage, it works pretty well!
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by igor47 4y ago
> explains why sputnik the vaccine from Russia was developed so quickly and was effective FYI Sputnik clinical trial results were based on clearly faked data, and that vaccines effectiveness is highly uncertain.
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by igor47 4y ago
Same, I re read that section and still didn't grok it. Re: fees, I have some family members with millions of TikTok followers -- they're not making much money.
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by igor47 4y ago
It's not cheating, it's minimizing harm. In fact, becoming an ascetic would probably be counter-productive. I think a large benefit of publicly caring about the environment is the signaling. You show that (a) it matters (b) it&#x2
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by igor47 5y ago
Or to insist on open source for any hardware implanted in my body. Of course, this is often easier said than done. https://www.thearticle.com/what-happens-when-software-become...
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by igor47 5y ago
this seems false from my reading of TFA, though I didn't read the paper: > Identification is facilitated by variations across municipalities in the age distribution of teachers at the time of quota removal, coupled with mandatory re
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by igor47 5y ago
why is this on HN? it's some random people's letters to a newspaper, what does that tell you? the objections raised here are FUD, probably sourced from the fossil gas industry lobby. heat pumps are one of the most no-brainer ways
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by igor47 5y ago
extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
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by igor47 5y ago
man, i really want to like them. i was having problems with my thinkpad, and wanted to get a linux-first vs. linux-afterthought laptop. in the end, i'm still using my thinkpad, and am planning on selling the lemur pro on CL. the system
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by igor47 5y ago
This is neither fun nor true. Kids do not decline, they grow , and that's only the most blatantly obvious example.
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by igor47 5y ago
Thank you. I really relate to the original post. Like the author, I am spending way too much time getting lineage to work on my phone while trying to run an ecosystem of self hosted services for my community that fewer and fewer folks seem
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by igor47 5y ago
Plug for my write-up on an even simpler system: https://igor.moomers.org/minimal-viable-air-quality
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by igor47 6y ago
> its construction could cost $55b. dollars and it would pay for itself in 10 years ... it could do some of the things the Suez can’t, like support oil tankers that exceed the Suez’s depth and width. yup. lets spend $55b + the time it ta
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by igor47 6y ago
hey, thanks for this comment. i'm inclined to disagree, but i'm genuinely curious about your point of view. one question i have is -- are there any topics you believe deserve to be censored by social media? or maybe i should say
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by igor47 6y ago
When I last looked, Argo was nicer to run on k8s, though I still ended up writing my own system https://igor.moomers.org/building-etl-kubernetes
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by igor47 6y ago
i am also a "fan" of the home-made air purifier. we had a bunch of them around our house over the fire season this summer. it's helpful to compare the numbers: https://igor.moomers.org/minimal-viable-air-quali

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