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by igor47 8y ago
why should everyone agree with this? i respectfully disagree. first, project drawdown considers nuclear[1] a "regret" solution, because we have no story for dealing with nuclear waste. in the US specifically, until i see some move
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by igor47 8y ago
I started working at Aclima a few months ago, after spending almost 6 months searching for a job with real positive world impact. I'd be happy to do a casual chat with you about what we're working on, why I think it's importa
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by igor47 8y ago
plug for json-e i found it much less painful-looking than jsonnet
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by igor47 8y ago
I've been using invoke [1] which has allowed me to give my projects nice UIs while remaining in the primary language. If I were working on Ruby I would stick with Rake, even though I think invoke is better. [1] http://www.py
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by igor47 8y ago
I've been running my own mail and other services since 2005. We had one severe outage in 2008, caused by a bug in reiserfs. In 2013 I migrated to a different server, with minimal downtime but some work involved. Last year, one of the d
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by igor47 8y ago
> at a minimum it's possibl to know what will destroy growth. can you name a few of the things we definitely know will destroy growth? i'm asking because i hear "this will destroy growth" as an argument against polici
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by igor47 8y ago
you'd probably consider me a dogmatic liberal, but i actually watched this video. even beforehand, i agreed with the moral premise -- yes, totally, our use of fossil fuels has been a boon to society, has lifted many people out of pover
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by igor47 8y ago
reference on monckton for others: https://www.skepticalscience.com/Monckton_Myths_arg.htm
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by igor47 8y ago
another [citation needed] for @deialtrous. existing research, such as here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2951451/ says: > Bivalves grown under near preindustrial CO2 levels displayed thicke
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by igor47 8y ago
[citation needed]
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by igor47 8y ago
I am still using my Nexus 5 for this reason. I bought a Huawei phone last week, and discovered that they stopped releasing bootloader unlock codes a month prior. So I returned it and got a Sony XA2 ! Sony is surprisingly good in this domain
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by igor47 8y ago
nobody's ever sued me for leaving flaming bags of dog poop on your front porch before ringing your doorbell and making a getaway by segway while cackling madly. yet, every day, i resist the overriding temptation to do exactly that. why
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by igor47 8y ago
Thank you so much for saying what needs to be said! People read too many economists. "Money is the only measure of value and I didn't pay my own mother, so motherhood must be worthless!"
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by igor47 8y ago
Thanks, great question. It's one thing to challenge institutions to be better, and another to write them off as bad. For instance, I want NASA's missions to succeed, and I want them to be more bold and think bigger and be more eff
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by igor47 8y ago
Is this an argument for believing conspiracy theories on no evidence today ? What's the point? There's plenty of real stuff you can legitimately believe and be concerned about today, based on evidence. If you go around spreading
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by igor47 8y ago
The secret to WaPo articles: google for the headline and follow the google link.
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by igor47 8y ago
Conspiracy theorists are not people who believe people conspire. They're people who believe conspiracies without any evidence. Or worse, evidence against their preferred conspiracy only serves to re-enforce their beliefs. AKA, irration
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by igor47 8y ago
> Conspiracy theories also supply a seductive ego boost. Believers often consider themselves part of a select in-group that — unlike the deluded masses — has figured out what's really going on. > When such theories become entrenc
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by igor47 8y ago
running more threads than CPUs is useful whenever your workload is not 100% CPU-bound. a DB workload is likely IO-bound, so many threads will just be sittin' there waiting to be woken up a lot of the time
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by igor47 8y ago
You will absolutely use more gas because of this article. Just the headline out there will have an effect (since people tend to remember mostly the headlines). When your local enviro-hippie comes and starts asking you to fly less, drive les
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by igor47 9y ago
i assumed it would be literal holes in literal pots...
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by igor47 9y ago
man, i'm actually a huge fan of barbara ehrenreich (especially nickel-and-dimed), but i feel like i could write an article like this about any subject. for instance, here the subject is some people who are trying to be more healthy a
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by igor47 9y ago
ah, the knife cuts both ways. do you perchance enjoy a feeling of superiority when you use the term "sportsball"? how much more cerebral and refined you must be than those sweaty grunts! i find people who spend their days "co
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by igor47 9y ago
from TFA, it seems all of the increase is explained by the dud maunder maximum of the past few years. the magnetosphere and atmosphere are unaffected, but more rays are getting through the weakened solar wind. they anticipate a record-setti
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by igor47 9y ago
this happened to me too, and I wrote up how I recovered from it, here: https://igor.moomers.org/recovering-openid it's fairly painless
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by igor47 9y ago
tl;dr their registrar, 101domains.com, failed to pay their registrar fees to the .sm TLD so all .sm domains registered through them got suspended dns outages are always a nightmare because of ttls, but bringing a registrar and a nontraditio
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by igor47 9y ago
thanks for the podcast recommendation! surprised I'd never heard of it. are there others among your favorites?
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by igor47 9y ago
I'm "excited" about the day that I'll be forced to choose between getting a life-saving medical device implanted, or instead throwing a hissy fit about getting the source code to something that's going in my body. I
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by igor47 9y ago
basically, this still looks hard. also, i wonder how other applications suffer after all the hoops the OP jumped through, especially networking. looks like i'm going to continue adding a little real-time microcontroller (like a blue pi
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by igor47 9y ago
<citation needed>

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