millettjon

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by millettjon 10y ago
I learned to drive a small manual shift tractor at 7 and mowed a 4 acre lawn with lots of trees and bushes. Also snowmobile and motor boat.
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by millettjon 10y ago
freedom
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by millettjon 10y ago
I agree. They should start by deploying local solar in the huge and already impacted active mining areas.
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by millettjon 10y ago
They are starting to ramp up solar only in the last year or two. Endesa, the main hydro company, recently gave up fighting to construct 5 dams in the south due to persistent opposition over the last several years. Hopefully this will accele
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by millettjon 10y ago
In Chile, the mining companies in the North use a disproportionate amount of energy. They are located in one of the driest deserts in the world and could easily supply their power needs from solar with minimal impact. Instead they continual
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by millettjon 10y ago
Unreliability of wind power generate can be largely mitigated by interconnecting disparate wind farms spread over a large area.
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by millettjon 10y ago
you jest but this is actually a valid point.
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by millettjon 11y ago
Radiolab did a story about this. http://www.radiolab.org/story/cathedral/
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by millettjon 11y ago
There is a related Radiolab episode: http://www.radiolab.org/story/shrink/
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by millettjon 12y ago
This might be useful for password recovery in some scenarios.
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by millettjon 12y ago
The fact that some governments don't do it is precisely the point. This project would allow identities to exist outside the control of the local government. The identities would be accessible by local communities, competing local gover
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by millettjon 12y ago
And what would happen if we took those same actions today? Cultural notions about what is acceptable behavior have also evolved. Microsoft's behavior may have been accepted 100 years ago, but not today when there is more freedom of cho
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by millettjon 12y ago
It is not hatred, decades more of experience. Throughout the 90's and early 2000's Microsoft abused their monopoly position to the detriment of many. Open source options were much more limited then than now. The only reason Micros
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by millettjon 12y ago
That's true. However, being on Mars would allows us to re colonize Earth N years after a cataclysmic event.
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by millettjon 12y ago
There are plenty of people that do use ssh for the bulk of their work. In that scenario, these sorts of optimizations are quite useful.
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by millettjon 12y ago
I build a similar library that does exactly this and have used it internally for a couple of years. The approach complements ansible quite nicely. For simple setups it is easier to read and modify. It is also less learning curve for the oth
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by millettjon 12y ago
Scratch is great for making animated comics. It appeals to girls as well as boys. I taught kids from 6 to 12 years last year. Kids older than that got bored with it. Highly recommended.
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by millettjon 16y ago
I've lived in Chile 8 years and haven't seen any racism first hand. I see it all the time in Michigan even within my own family. The racism that does exist is concentrated towards Peruvian immigrants and Mapuche. The much larger problems ar
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by millettjon 16y ago
It works well for me. I've been in Puerto Varas, Chile for the last 8 years and quite happy.
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by millettjon 16y ago
This article is disingenuous. Does capitalism get credit for all the miners that have died in the past as well? A few points: 1) The rescue was financed by the government as the company couldn't afford it. 2) The rescue operation would not
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by millettjon 16y ago
I run a script every 15 minutes from cron that updates my iptables rules based on a whitelist of dynamic dns entries. That lets me logon from my laptop wherever I happen to be.
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by millettjon 16y ago
If it is just one task, why do you even need cron? Just use a simple daemon process that sleeps for a bit and then checks for work?
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by millettjon 16y ago
I had this same though recently after thinking about how much shrub/tree/grass growth I have pruned out of my yard over the last 4 years ;-). Keeping a compost pile of all trimmings keeps this in perspective. Conversely, the amount of mass
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by millettjon 16y ago
The fact that people respond with knee jerk reactions applies across all facets of society and is an orthogonal problem that should be independently addressed. In these cases, more evidence is both beneficial and necessary. The police will
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by millettjon 17y ago
Chile
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by millettjon 17y ago
I would have liked to have seen marketing dollars per units sold. How long will it take for TMobile to get back the 100M they spent on marketing? This is Google's first offering in a new market and the limited marketing will buy them time t