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by mchannon 8y ago
There are a few cautionary tales: Around the turn of the century, Southern Company (Alabama Power) decided to be forward-thinking and put forward one of the first large-scale solar farms using unproven thin film technology, and took a huge
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by mchannon 8y ago
Not quite my circus, not quite my monkeys, but I wonder if it's possible to fight fire with fire. Could a committed group of individuals report the most pernicious EU politicians' homepages and facebook pages as similarly banned c
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I wonder why it isn't "Do librarians lose more ethics books?" After all, we don't know if it's ethicists stealing the books, or punk kids stealing the books, or books getting disproportionately misplaced, or library
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by mchannon 8y ago
Here are a few tips: Stay away from _everything_ carbonated. Evian, Perrier, Alka-seltzer, those foofy sodas with fruit flavors, and especially Diet Coke. These will spike your Ghrelin levels and make you hangry two hours after, way worse t
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by mchannon 8y ago
Regarding "thrive or die", the usual case is neither. The usual case is "zombie", continuing along, surviving, but failing to really get ahead. In many ways it's worse than thriving or dying, since at least dying fr
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by mchannon 8y ago
Have given this a fair amount of thought and it comes down to a few things: Cycle lifetime of lead is good as long as you don't deep-discharge it, but then if you don't deep-discharge it you need a lot more material. Eventually th
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by mchannon 8y ago
This doesn't sound like the sort of story that actually includes a lawsuit. A final paycheck on a final day of work is not unusual. Might not be legal, but not unusual. Most people who threaten to sue you intend it as an empty threat.
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by mchannon 8y ago
Am in the process of ramping up a similar-sized board. If you are worried about IP leakage, it's best to take more of the project on yourself. If you're US-based, there are a number of boutique PCB manufacturers you can call on st
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by mchannon 8y ago
Nature is wrong. Accelerated weathering is our first best hope of lowering CO2 in the atmosphere. Weathering is the conversion of carbonates and CO2 to form bicarbonates. Grinding and aerosolizing limestone and other similar minerals hasn
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by mchannon 8y ago
Set and follow a schedule that offers/requires breaks and minimizes external interruptions. Pair programming is substantially more enjoyable and brings everybody up to speed faster when they're co-located. All-remote pairing can i
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by mchannon 8y ago
Try to see how hard it would be to make it true, even if it's for some tangential accessory use. Add some elementary AI function to add a line to a log in your build scheme if that's something you have control over. Then, if you j
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by mchannon 8y ago
I have filed a 2255 habeas petition that’s available on PACER. It’s not simple enough to convey in the space available. There are a number of people who don’t know the facts but are happy to spend 2 minutes googling my name then present a
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by mchannon 8y ago
Kind-of, not really. Prosecutors are supposed to divulge redacted transcripts under the Jencks act in case a witness for the grand jury contradicts himself in front of the real jury. Prosecutors thumb their nose at this obligation all the
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by mchannon 8y ago
Office Depot blackmailed me, with the help of corrupt U.S. government agents, and sentenced me to prison. It wasn’t good enough that we proved they made money on my dealings with them, or that the terms and conditions I was convicted of vio
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by mchannon 8y ago
github.com/mchannon/hashsite
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Consider from the cofounder's perspective: Say he does sign the vesting agreement. Things are going well, but you've taken on more investment, and those investors insist you drop the cofounder hours before his vesting begins, even
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by mchannon 8y ago
>So why would you tell me that? Either include the city, or use a longer plus code that includes the city. Or I could just use a system that doesn't have that drawback. Plus codes aren't awful. I just find room for improvement.
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by mchannon 8y ago
I have a real problem with people giving dishonest opinions, so good on you. But seriously, you haven't seen it yet. Ever read Green Eggs and Ham?
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by mchannon 8y ago
Not base64, but similar. I think "IJASDO" would be way easier to memorize than person.guards.gangs (I will definitely give W3W credit for picking unintentioned yet humorous word combos), particularly if English wasn't my firs
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by mchannon 8y ago
Plus Codes have little application outside building addressing. If I tell you I'm at 4CFM+JW, come get me, you're going to be pretty helpless, because I didn't include the city. Want to shift a little to the east? 4CFM+JX wo
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by mchannon 8y ago
The "Z" dimension is something I've been planning on having as part of the system as well. Since people appreciate height from street level differently than raw altitude, both will be accommodated in my system.
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by mchannon 8y ago
Not OOTB, but I would imagine that any geocoding system could include a suffix, like "(1987)", to know which dataset to use, so as long as there was a server providing accurate geocoding for a particular point in time. This is a s
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by mchannon 8y ago
Geohash is easily the best system currently out there. Worse might be a little harsh, but my system: •Packs slightly more bits into the string (naturally there's a tradeoff with data fidelity) for shorter strings •Follows a completely
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by mchannon 8y ago
Not sure how you got that from what I typed. The fact is the 4 coordinates (two numeric, two with the stupid "N/S/E/W" corresponding with traditional), decimal points, and reverse order from an X,Y coordinate system
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W3W suffers horribly from "call for price". You won't catch Google or Amazon making you call and talk to a human being (on GMT time no less) before figuring out if you can afford their service. I'm preparing my own versi
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by mchannon 8y ago
(1) Since you're limiting yourself to the gulf region, it'd probably be responsible to disclose your CO2 injection costs, including the cost of compressing the CO2 to the necessary pressures. It'd also be responsible to eithe
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by mchannon 8y ago
California had best take heed: The Geysers and Salton Trough have taken way more heat out of the Earth, and I would argue delayed, shifted, and intensified the big one the Hayward Fault is overdue for. There's been a great deal of ridi
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by mchannon 8y ago
It was on a 3-hour "United Express" flight and about 20 minutes in, she poured an entire cup of water on the open laptop. It wasn't bumpy, and she was very apologetic, but I needed that laptop working to make a deadline, and
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by mchannon 8y ago
Seems a little paranoid, but I've learned to rule nothing out since one interviewer later testified against me (about the <1hr remote interview, which had nothing to do with the charges). If you've got a bully or "griefer&
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Ask HN: Would buying dead YC companies be possible and worth it?
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