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by jaltekruse 4y ago
Getting people to use more efficient appliances and insulating their homes should help reach these targets. We don't need to generate today levels of energy if we can drop usage by some percentage and just generate all of that with ren
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by jaltekruse 4y ago
I tried getting an app called BlockSite to work for the last 2 years, but it must have relied on a very unstable API for tracking webpage visits and displaying the overlay to block them, because it was always breaking. I feel pretty dumb fo
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by jaltekruse 4y ago
Fair enough, I haven't looked at contributing myself so I was not aware of the policy. I do think it might still be worth trying to reach out to their team to see what their thoughts are about the issue you experienced. I'm sure i
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by jaltekruse 4y ago
Have you tried to open a PR on the main project? No idea how welcoming they are to outside contributors, but feedback from an instructor, complete with code to fix a pedigogical problem, I would be surprised if they didn't at least giv
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by jaltekruse 4y ago
One thing that the article gets wrong is accusing mathjax of being abandoned. Development has moved to a new repo for the next version. https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax-src/graphs/contributors
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
Social media has it's drawbacks, but large hosted services exist for good reasons and have spawned entire new industries. An independent artist couldn't host a server to share their work (especially if they want to share content l
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
I think we're seeing pretty clear evidence of it right now. Americans in sprawling cities that get used to low gas prices buy giant gas guzzling cars and then freak out like none other when prices go up. The subsidies are almost certai
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
I think it is important to remember that anti-renewables messaging has been around for a very long time. The panels might have needed to come off for repairs but definitely could have been put back up. Casually discarding even a public rela
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20220317003600/https://accidhack...
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
I've been trying to build a consumer side rationing movement for these exact reasons. It won't solve all of the problems but every bit helps, the grid and natural gas system operators can only do so much prep, the increasing purch
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Should the west be doing more to prepare for a possible gas shutoff by Putin?
5 points by jaltekruse 5y ago|1 comments
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
It got 30 upvotes and many comments in the first 30 minutes, briefly was on the front page but now it isn't listed at all, I can only find it with search or a direct link.
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
Hello @dang this appears to be shadow banned and I don't understand why, it got a lot of interest and I think this discussion is useful for more people to see. Did I violate any HN rule by posting this?
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
This impacts me too, the US does export liquid natural gas that could help some. I'm also trying to encourage everyone to reduce consumption, even in the US, because it could enable some resource re-balancing if it comes to that. Russi
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
For the record, while its clear you think I'm not with you, I totally agree with this statement. Increasing demand for electricity is absolutely essential to convince politicians to back the scale up of the grid that will be needed as
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
In the short term the two are interchangeable, we cannot build enough solar panels and batteries to help the people being killed in Ukraine today.
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
But obviously people aren't doing this on a massive scale. Despite appliances getting more efficient, energy consumption continues to rise faster than population increases. I'm trying to mobilize a wartime effort of massive reduct
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
Yo! I encourage you to read down to the "what NOT to do" section. This type of bickering is exactly what I'm trying to convince people to avoid. I think we should take this moment to acknowledge what lots of people agree on,
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
Yup, my exact point is that tons of people will riot if the government tells them "we need to cut back to fight the Russians". I'm trying to get people to accept ahead of a sudden need to change our behavior or fold to Russia
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
I can assure you I am not pro-Russia. I'm happy to take suggestions on edits for the website. I do support green energy targets, but I believe this situation proves the world did some math wrong. Russia is much more aggressive than we
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
Absolutely, but this is more possible if we can start a giant rationing movement. Biden already had to talk about how he was going to keep prices low at the pump while we impose sanctions. This is what we can do as individuals to help with
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
Unfortunately this is about the level of discourse I'm seeing everywhere. Mocking green energy targets. Right now I think this is profoundly unproductive. Ukraine should not have been invaded, Russia violated international law and is c
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
I don't expect this to be a complete solution, but I am also very fearful that things will get shut off. People are talking about this threat, but mostly to express despair. I'm trying to rally support and action ahead of the chao
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Putin holds a major soft power weapon, help weaken it with gas and oil rationing(boycott-russian-gas.com)
41 points by jaltekruse 5y ago|54 comments
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
For those that read the note the blog is gone but I searched HN for the author and found the discussion the day this was posted. He did end up making it because people called the police. This isn't to undercut the message of this comme
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
I'm working on solving the problem of allowing non-technical people communicate about math without needing to learn Latex. There is also an element of classroom organization/grading optimization along the lines of gradescope. All
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
HN might bean outrage machine some days, but like every Voip thing ever says you can't call emergency services with them. I always believed it to be a SLA deficiency in consumer internet? I'm guessing a strong preference for the r
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
Looks like there is a similar one that has more things on it too. https://github.com/aviaryan/awesome-no-login-web-apps
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by jaltekruse 5y ago
Fine, your decisions will impact the value of the stock. Prevent insider trading by requiring them to commit to a long term trading strategy. Make them commit a long period in advance if they want to make any trades. I understand there are
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by jaltekruse 6y ago
Yeah there definitely feels like having a "maximum compensation" for any individual involved with a non-profit should be considered. Lots of horror stories around about people abusing the system. That being said I'm pretty su

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