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by kisamoto 5y ago
I have an issue about performance I have often wondered. Discussions like these encourage me to put more work into the DB layer however only recently have SQL databases like PostgreSQL become horizontally scalable (I know read replicas are
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by kisamoto 5y ago
Trees definitely do capture CO₂ and sequester it away - that's why we also support them. However planting trees does not make up the majority of offsetting projects. Offsetting can and does include things like "not cutting down th
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by kisamoto 5y ago
Kelp forests are also being worked on and are really interesting. As with all of these methods we have to make sure that creating an extraordinary amount of kelp and sinking it to the bottom of the ocean doesn't have any adverse side e
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by kisamoto 5y ago
Thanks for your feedback and great news that you are already taking responsibility for your footprint. A key difference between us and Wren (and other offset based services) is that we focus on carbon removal - actively undoing a carbon foo
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by kisamoto 5y ago
Lucky for some! We're not on AirMiners - will check it out tomorrow. Have to sign off shortly unfortunately but will check back tomorrow for replies. Enjoy that pool!
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by kisamoto 5y ago
Underrated comment.
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by kisamoto 5y ago
Hopefully one century or less? But this depends on global willingness to do so by choosing (more expensive) sustainable products and voting for politicians who want to enforce/encourage carbon reductions
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by kisamoto 5y ago
I choose to help people support a portfolio of carbon removal at https://carbonremoved.com If you're working on carbon removal or want to support carbon removal please feel free to email me directly: ewan (at) above website
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by kisamoto 5y ago
I totally agree and I'm sorry if I gave the impression that trees should not be part of a solution. Trees (and other nature based methods) should definitely not be neglected. I merely wanted to try and raise some awareness to those who
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by kisamoto 5y ago
If you find a way please consider me for your team :-) My current attempt to support projects like these is to make them as accesible as possible on https://carbonremoved.com You get your $1M and I will include your removal meth
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by kisamoto 5y ago
Olivine has great potential (although it takes a while - up to 1000 years - to reach maximum sequestration). Project vesta tries to use the sea and waves to accelerate this process. It's a bit of an unproven experiment however it defin
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by kisamoto 5y ago
Solar can be used to a certain extent. And geo-thermal - that is currently being used in Iceland by Carbfix + Climeworks. Also worth noting that a lot of these technologies do thorough lifecycle analysis to make sure that despite the energy
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by kisamoto 5y ago
Yes thank you - trees are part of the solution, not _the_ solution.
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by kisamoto 5y ago
Actually yes, planting trees (especially the wrong trees) is not always a good thing. Darker leaves will attract more heat (imagine if it was possible to turn the polar regions into trees - this would have a very negative effect). Also mono
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by kisamoto 5y ago
Are there any sources of this? As I understand it the air carrying the CO₂ is constantly moving and will not create any deficit regions? Besides, with the large over concentration of carbon dioxide we have at the moment I think increasing t
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by kisamoto 5y ago
Agreed. Removal and reductions are not mutually exclusive. One huge positive I see from the creation of this prize is the publicity and interest in carbon removal. From my experience more people are learning about the requirement for carbon
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by kisamoto 5y ago
I don't think this prize disqualifies those right? It's looking for any scalable carbon removal technology
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by kisamoto 5y ago
True although I wasn't referring just to the competition - it would be good to come up with sustainable solutions in general.
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by kisamoto 5y ago
Naturally (without human influence) a combination of biosphere (decades) and geosphere (millenia) would keep CO₂ levels in check. We (humans) have accelerated emissions (by burning, thus reversing, geosphere capture via oil) and destroyed t
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by kisamoto 5y ago
That's really cool. As long as we don't end up with monocultures (also bad for the environment) they should be part of the solution! We could plant fast growing bamboo and turn it into biochar/bio-oil? Or use it for sustainab
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by kisamoto 5y ago
There is no silver bullet. It has to be a combination of: 1) Reduce emissions to zero (will take some time). 2) Use more natural solutions (trees, algae, kelp etc. - will also take time). 3) Enhance natural solutions with tech (enhanced wea
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by kisamoto 5y ago
There's a few "plant trees" or "terraform the sahara" comments in here. For some context, if we planted trees wherever we could around the world we can only undo a decades worth of emissions[0]. Not only that but it
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by kisamoto 5y ago
Actually what would be really good is instead of looking at carbon capture you could use that invention brain to find solutions to reduce our emissions. Carbon neutral or negative alternatives to energy production, concrete production, trav
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by kisamoto 5y ago
Trees definitely need to be part of the solution but unfortunately global potential only revereses a decade of emissions. I wrote a short piece about it (with sources)[0] [0] https://carbonremoved.com/blog/trees-are-not
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Fuel for Thought – Hydrogen for marine propulsion(tradeonlytoday.com)
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by kisamoto 5y ago
I agree but also these things take time and removal and reductions are not mutually exclusive. Personally I think that development of both in parallel is what can bring the most success. We covert to an emissionless society in the future an
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Ask HN: What do you use to draw out systems/architectures before building?
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by kisamoto 5y ago
For those also looking I found it in the FAQ[0]: ------------------------------------------ How can I donate to ripgrep or its maintainers? As of now, you can't. While I believe the various efforts that are being undertaken to help fun
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by kisamoto 5y ago
I unconsciously reach for ripgrep on a daily basis. Finding references just is incredibly easy without cluttering it with stuff listed in .gitignore (I'm looking at you node_modules..) This has reminded and motivated me to submit a don
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by kisamoto 5y ago
Agreed - companies realise they have a lack of engineering and want to hire. They look to see are good at engineering (FAANG etc.) and copy procedure. A colleague of mine has been sharing their hiring experience recently (frontend engineeri

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