millettjon

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by millettjon 8y ago
This reminds me of when I learned programming with no internet and minimal docs. Everything was an experiment!
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by millettjon 8y ago
The podcast Meet The Composer is also excellent. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/528124256/meet-the-composer
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by millettjon 8y ago
In Chile mortgages are denominated in a separate currency UF which is inflation adjusted. So the wealth transfer goes the loan holder.
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by millettjon 8y ago
See also clojure shell https://github.com/dundalek/closh
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by millettjon 9y ago
Good to see them pushing the boundaries. The payoff will be huge if they can achieve faster velocity of iterative improvements.
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by millettjon 9y ago
In fact they are in at least some cases. https://twitter.com/aantonop/status/979489136439693313
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by millettjon 9y ago
They could easily route riskier traffic over a separate set of ips and domains without affecting delivery of other domains. This is standard practice in the industry.
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by millettjon 9y ago
Not sure in his case, but I keep my dns configuration in git and deploy over ssh git pull followed by a dns server restart. I prefer ssh as I know better how to secure that and it seems like less attack surface.
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by millettjon 9y ago
I would be happy to donate if that would support open sourcing enough to bootstrap this in other locations.
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by millettjon 9y ago
There are moonquakes so not completely dead. https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/home/15mar_moonquakes.html
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by millettjon 9y ago
I orded a librem5 for this among other reasons. https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
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by millettjon 9y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Belyayev_(zoologist) Several generations of selective breeding was enough to produce tame foxes.
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by millettjon 9y ago
If you live under the influence of a failing government, the liquidity of bitcoin may well be higher that the local failin currency as you can move value to/from the outside world.
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by millettjon 9y ago
Old joke from engineering school: How did the economist cross the river? He assumed a boat.
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by millettjon 9y ago
I think it has high utility anywhere outside of the US and EU. There are billions of people that don't have access to stable currencies or reasonable banking.
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by millettjon 9y ago
I and my children are big fans of your work. THANK YOU! I show much of your work to kids in our 18 student community home school we run in rural Chile. I wish there was more financial support for your team. I would definitely support via pa
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by millettjon 9y ago
There are many currencies that do swing as wildly as bitcoin and we do not refer to those as pryamid schemes.
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by millettjon 10y ago
Functional package management like nix or guix.
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by millettjon 10y ago
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ss574 Also Google Soil Carbon Cowboys. There used to be many tens of millions of bison living on North American grasslands.
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by millettjon 10y ago
This completely ignores the fact that grain fed factory cows are a problem but pastured cows actually store carbon in the grass roots and also reduce emissions by not tilling, and using less fossil fuels, fertilizers, and herbicides. Protei
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by millettjon 10y ago
Does anyone have a by country breakdown of snapchat users and growth? In Chile in my kids circle of friends, they used it a bit last year but have all deleted it now in favor of musically. Everyone here (kids and adults) also have whatsapp
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by millettjon 10y ago
Chris Masterjohn just releases a podcast on managing copper status. https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/2017/02/03/manage-copper-stat... I haven't listened to this one yet but typically his stuff is top notch
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by millettjon 10y ago
Does your source account for number of miles driven per capita?
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German research institutions boycott Elsevier(sub.uni-goettingen.de)
764 points by millettjon 10y ago|121 comments
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by millettjon 10y ago
What are the privacy implications of this? Is there a duck duck go version?
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by millettjon 10y ago
I use borg for laptops and servers. I use syncthing for (android) phones and tablets to sync photos/videos to home server where they are then backed up by borg. In the past, I have used rdiff-backup and tarsnap.
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by millettjon 10y ago
Just an anecdote but my kids (2 10 year olds in Chile) use Instagram and Snapchat about the same. They use Whatsapp and Musically several times more frequently.
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by millettjon 10y ago
If a large portion of the population does not value or understand science, how can you have a rational debate on values?
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by millettjon 10y ago
I deleted my Facebook account and suggest others do the same.
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by millettjon 10y ago
Mars is just the first step. The more environments we habitate (ceres, europa, titan, venus etc), the less the probability that they would all be affected by a disaster.

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