masomenos

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by masomenos 17y ago
but can you build and maintain a wind turbine without using fossil fuels? Or mine and refine uranium? Total lifecycle analysis is complicated, and important in these questions.
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by masomenos 17y ago
Catastrophic for many, not for all. In particular island nations, and nations already susceptible to drought.
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by masomenos 17y ago
...until you forget to check in important changes, or neglect to add a seemingly trivial configuration file to your SCM. Whereas, a policy of automatically backing up everything except for your exclude list would have saved your bacon.
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by masomenos 17y ago
I protest! In places where folks squat for the toilet their whole lives, adults actually maintain the strength and flexibility to squat, whereas we soft types lose it.
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by masomenos 17y ago
I've been reading a bit about small houses, and one point people make over & over is that going small makes it much easier to afford doing things nicely. Sure, if you're planning on flipping the house in a few years it'll be harder to g
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by masomenos 17y ago
It used to be way complicated, but Passenger has made everything orders of magnitude easier. Tried it?
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by masomenos 17y ago
I guess using twitter for political organizing falls in the same category as DDT: fine for other nations, illegal in the US.
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by masomenos 17y ago
Pet peeve of mine: Teresa was not necessarily the greatest person to walk the earth. From her Wikipedia entry ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa ): She has been praised by many individuals, governments and organizations; however
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by masomenos 17y ago
http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/161233418/analysis-paralys... addresses this very question.
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by masomenos 17y ago
... which is relevant since Chris seems to have removed the original from his webserver
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by masomenos 17y ago
Do you live in the Alps? Assuming reasonably flat ground, it's not hard to walk a mile in well under 20 minutes. Bicycling around 15 mph ain't too hard, either -- which would get you 1.5 miles in 10 minutes.
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by masomenos 17y ago
Cool, hadn't heard that electrics were so far along. As soon as they're $65,000 cheaper, I'm signing up.
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by masomenos 17y ago
Plenty of studies suggest that organic can be as or more productive than chemical intensive. A quick google produces the following from the University of Michigan: http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=5936
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by masomenos 17y ago
I'd say that the sustainability of the practices is _the_ issue. Depleting groundwater, eroding topsoil, reducing crop genetic diversity, and changing the climate may all be reducing the long-term carrying capacity.
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by masomenos 17y ago
Way too early to evaluate the green revolution. It may have just allowed us to temporarily overshoot the earth's carrying capacity, which wouldn't be much fun on the ride down.
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by masomenos 17y ago
We didn't get ultra low sulfur diesel here until a few years ago: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/06/ultra_lowsulfur.html
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by masomenos 17y ago
That's a fallacy, addressed by the site -- in short, the benefit gained by minimizing jams more than offsets the increased space between vehicles.
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by masomenos 17y ago
I generally follow the stated driving pattern on 95, and it works just fine.
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by masomenos 17y ago
While I have not conducted any format experiments in the efficacy of the advocated driving method, I can report that it's far more relaxing than tailgating. Give it a try!
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by masomenos 17y ago
Nuclear plants were cheap in the 60s?
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by masomenos 17y ago
note to downvoters: "camping" is a brilliant and bizarre microframework for MVC web apps, courtesy of our friend why.
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by masomenos 17y ago
compared to? Subjectively, hulu's flash works much better than netflix' sliverlight.
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by masomenos 17y ago
Not the most informative URL to share for the project -- like the top of the page says, most of the action seems to be in the mailing list ( http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2009-05/t... ) and trac ( http://gnuradio.org/tr
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by masomenos 17y ago
"software hipster" -- this speaks volumes. nice.
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by masomenos 17y ago
Interestingly, the work of many highly regarded "artistic" architects fails the basic test of keeping water from leaking on the inhabitants - Wright, Gehry, etc. Maybe best not to look at contemporary architecture as a model.
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by masomenos 17y ago
not for full-time programmers, but SM's audience seems to be more designers who may dip into code now and again
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by masomenos 17y ago
Air: 13" screen, GeForce 9400M, Core 2 Duo netbook: 9-10" screen, integrated graphics, Atom processor
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by masomenos 17y ago
likewise. Now that actual crime-on-the-seas piracy is a going concern, there's even more reason to stop using the term for filesharing.
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by masomenos 18y ago
and Drupal: http://groups.drupal.org/files/DrupalUsabilityResearchReport...