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by jakewins 7y ago
Excellent comment, and indeed this seems like a much saner approach. I guess one complicating factor is the risk that an upgraded system remains vulnerable, which you'd need to account for in some manner.
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A friend of mine is an MD at a major hospital in the midwest. As I've understood it this is standard practice for them. Their computers freeze up, and the message - my friend has sent me screen shots - will say something like "Hi
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by jakewins 7y ago
Since hyphenating my last name, I can no longer check into AA flights without human intervention.. minor inconvenience I guess, but annoying. In general it seems we make bad assumptions about names - like that everyone has a "first nam
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by jakewins 7y ago
You're right, it's a poor example. I guess I was thinking of tomato pastas and tomato soups, for instance. A better one, like you mention, is rice - again a crop with substantially worse carbon impact than chicken. Fruits are even
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by jakewins 7y ago
Tomato pastas like pomodoro and putanesca were my go-to lunches before I learned about this, and tomato soups remain super popular, so I disagree that they are simply a condiment. Still, perhaps they are a bad general example. Perhaps a bet
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by jakewins 7y ago
Some plants have exceptional environmental properties; things like soy, oats (0.1g CO2e/kcal!!) and potatoes. Others are worse than eating meat; if you get your calories from fresh tomatoes (12.22g CO2e/kcal, heated greenhouse) yo
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by jakewins 7y ago
For finding where you can have the most impact here, I highly recommend Project Drawdown ; it's a data-driven roundup of proposed solutions, ranked by how effective they are actually estimated to be. It takes into account things like
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by jakewins 7y ago
We need to re-learn to pay for journalism. Well funded independent journalists is critical to a working society. If you can afford it, please consider taking the paywall as a cue to consider getting a subscription.
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by jakewins 7y ago
Yep, I think we're in agreement :)
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by jakewins 7y ago
I mostly agree with this. Though as I wrote that sentence I realized Go has somewhat softened my position on abbreviations. I think the "note" portion is useful; ultimately a test would stop you breaking that secondary use, but th
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by jakewins 7y ago
Second this; Postgres codebase is what got me out of the "good code is self documenting" nonsense. For those of us in the database space it is an incredible resource - and overall a great example of good code. sqlite is much less
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by jakewins 7y ago
As I understand it, most of the NYC subway was built by basically just closing of major chunks of streets and excavating them, sticking the subway in and then covering it back up. Compared to boring underground tunnels, you can imagine how
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by jakewins 8y ago
Very well said. I think this is a convincing argument that I'm wrong. > The best policy (IMO) is a carbon fee-and-dividend, where all of the proceeds of the tax are redistributed evenly amongst all residents of the nation. This seem
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by jakewins 8y ago
Yes, but this is irrelevant. France just threw away a political year on a gas tax they had to roll back. The political fallout, in the form of the yellow vest conservative movement, may well delay further progressive climate reform by anoth
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by jakewins 8y ago
.. but I thought the yellow vest protests directly lead to rolling back legislation meant to increase prices of CO2-polluting fuel, so that renewable fuels would be able to compete? https://www.theatlantic.com/internation
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The problem with carbon taxes is that they are regressive. Carbon taxation plays out as a consumption tax on goods people consume in roughly the same quantities independent of income. Take fuel as an example. The average american adult cons
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by jakewins 8y ago
Visiting family this Christmas, I was happy to see the ferry line that connects Sweden and Denmark has retrofitted their fleet, so they are now all-electric. The ferries are automatically recharged by a robotic system at each port while the
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by jakewins 8y ago
> it only accepts Swedish bank accounts I have a Swedish bank account, but I still can't use Swish because I have an American phone. It's infuriating.
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The NIH study I linked to tested the bacterial load after 6 months of composting in almost 100 toilets. They found 64.2% of them had dangerous levels of coliform bacteria. Jenkins study, on the other hand, does not even attempt to measure t
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by jakewins 8y ago
Composting toilets do not produce safe fertilizer. Worse, almost all the mainstream designs require handling the compost while the bacterial load is still very high, because the containers need emptying long before sufficient time to break
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by jakewins 8y ago
Since this process is optimized for food production, I'd expect processes optimized for carbon capture to be more efficient at that. I suspect the main environmental gains from this would be to offset beef production. Outside of reduci
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This is already happening with the EU cap-n-trade scheme. Because it was designed to ratchet, it initially had nearly no effect - but in two years quotas will have dropped 21% from the ones set in 2005; by 2030 they will force CO2-equivalen
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by jakewins 8y ago
Source for this? My understanding is that there is solid full-life-cycle analysis showing CO2 reduction from ethanol (35% lower on average), but a total mixed bag when it comes to hydrocarbons and various other air pollutants - some better,
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by jakewins 8y ago
All anecdotal, but I had severe kidney stone issues as well - I know the pain! I had several kidney stones while I lived in Sweden, and they did give me opiates for it - but only at the hospital. I was prescribed Diclofenac (an NSAID) as a
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by jakewins 8y ago
The article says these are apps that have asked for location permission for other purposes (like homes.com, which presumably uses location services guide you to real estate?).
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Google Clouds live migration of VMs(cloud.google.com)
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Indeed. Lightning does this to trees all the time, there's a lot of crazy videos on YouTube of lightning causing trees to explode. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_tree#Lightning
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by jakewins 8y ago
Are there any good PPT decks, workshop material or some such you all recommend to build on top of? I'd be keen to teach a few classes or run a few workshops for local campaigns, and it seems this area must be ripe with smart people hav
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by jakewins 8y ago
You can allocate a block of memory with `ByteBuffer.allocate()` or, if you want it outside the JVM heap, `ByteBuffer.allocateDirect()`. You lose all the object/memory management features, though there are some projects around to provid
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by jakewins 8y ago
Yeah, implementation is under way for value types; the project is called Valhalla - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Valhalla_(Java_languag...

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